Sean Higgins
- “Endless” series
- Ceramics
- Explosions, clouds, darkness, rocks
- Collages
- Plexiglas™ works
- Dark days, bright lights
- Exhibition photos
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Sean Higgins
Born: White Haven, PA
Lives and works: Fort Collins, CO and Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1998
MFA: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1996
BA, with honors: Fine Art, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Brand 54: 54th Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper
Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA, Jun 6 - Aug 28
2025
Inaugural exhibition
Center for Theoretical Research, Columbus, OH, Dec 19 - Apr 10
2022
Sean Higgins, a Rogue Wave project (solo)
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 27 Jul - 2 Sep
2021
BioScienceLA launch exhibition
Curated by Debra Scacco, Oct - Nov, biosciencela.org
2017
Transporter
Curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins. Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 29 - Jun 17
2016
Hydroponic Forms
Curated by Josh Callaghan and Bas Louter. Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany, Sep 3 - Oct 1
2015
Obfuscation
Curated by Jenny Hager. Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA, Jan 9 – 30
Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal
Curated by James MacDevitt. South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA, Sep 3 - Oct 10
2014
Deviled Eggs: New Photographic Strategies, Curated by Jeff McLane. photoLA | Jan 16 - 19
2013
Empty Distances
Curated by Caryn Coleman. Mark Moore gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Jun 15 – Jul 20
2012
Tomorrowland
Curated by Samantha Fields. California State University, Northridge, Oct 27 - Dec 8
New Times Roman (3 person show)
Texan Equities, Los Angeles, CA, Sep 15 - Oct 20
Transient Apocalypse
Curated by Chris Pate. Part of Curatorial Exchange. Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, Sep 8 - Oct 20
2011
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Curated by Sylvia Wolf. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Jul 9 - Sep 25
Marine Salon No. 8
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Apr 23
2010
ALPTRAUM!,
Curated by Jay Stuckey, traveled to the following venues:
Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C., Dec 11, 2010 – Jan 15, 2011
Cell Project Space in London, Jan 28 – Feb 27, 2011
The Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin, Mar 11 – Apr 15, 2011
The Company in Los Angeles, May 1, 2011 – May 30, 2011
blank projects in Cape Town, Aug 2011
Marine Salon No. 7
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Nov
2009
Marine Salon No. 3
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Nov
Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel (solo)
Collette Blanchard gallery, New York, NY, Jun 24 – Jul 31
Shut Up and Keep Swimming
Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Jan 25 - Feb 26
2008
Apocrypha (solo)
OKOK Gallery (now Ambach & Rice), Seattle, WA, Opened Sep
2007
Show
Curated by Heather Cantrell. Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Opened Jul 14
Sean Higgins - Island of Relative Stability (solo)
sixspace, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 3 – Apr 7
2006
Milieu
Pulse (art fair)/IMPULSE section, sixspace, New York, NY, Mar 10-13
Back Room
Kinkead Contemporary (inaugural exhibition), Los Angeles, CA, Opened Sep
artLA
sixspace booth, Santa Monica, CA, Jan 26-29
2005
There Goes the Neighborhood
sixspace, Culver City, CA, Dec 10 - Jan 14
Rogue Wave ’05, 19 Artists from Los Angeles
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, Jun 30 - Sep 3
2004
(solo) Sean Higgins - Recent Works, VertexList, New York, NY
Viewfinder
Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
filesharing.001, Art Front Studios, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Sean Higgins and Lorraine Walsh
Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Pennart II
Kohn Pederson Fox Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Prints
Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibition
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Artbytes, Art by Numbers
Walt Whitman Cultural Center, Camden, NJ
1997
East Meets West: Visions in Between
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL / CURATORIAL
2017
Transporter
curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Guest lecturer, MFA program, California State University, Long Beach
1998 - Present
Freelance Interactive Designer, Internet, Multimedia
2001
California State University, Long Beach, CA, Professor, Interactive Design and Introduction to Computer Art
1998
Skidmore College, Summer Six, Saratoga Springs, NY, Professor, Computer for the Artist
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Assistantship, Computer Based Art
1995 - 1997
Skidmore College, Summer Six Art Program, Saratoga Springs, NY, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Figure Drawing
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Redman, Bridgette M. “Imaginary Landscapes.” The Argonaut. Aug 18, 2022.
argonautnews.com
Feinstein, Jon. "New Exhibition Uses a Science Fiction Failure as a Lens to an Optimistic Future." Jun, 2017.
hafny.org
MacDonnell, Allan. “5 Questions 15 Images: Sean Higgins Pictures Places You'll Never Be” The Kind. May 3, 2016.
Campbell, Sara. "One to Watch: LA Artist Sean Higgins Suspends Reality" lacanvas.com, Nov 2015.
Coleman, Caryn. “Blackness. The Void. Empty Distances.“ Jun 28, 2013.
thegirlwhoknewtoomuch.com
Featured Articles, Previews. Empty Distances. artweek.la. Jun 11, 2013
Fitzpatrick, Kyle. “Stark Lanscapes: An Interview With Sean Higgins.”
Los Angeles, I'm Yours. Dec 3, 2012.
Tucker, Annie. “Disney’s Tomorrowland Inspires an Art Show.” LA Weekly, Nov 29, 2012.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “whitehot | Marine Art Salon No. 7: Works 222-247.” Whitehot Magazine. Jan 2011.
“The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age” exhibition catalog.
Syvia Wolf, publised by Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 2010.
Anderson, Claressinka. "At Home With Dystopia: Salon No. 7 at Marine Art Salon."
The Huffington Post. Nov 10, 2010.
“Marine, A Contemporary Art Salon, Works 001 – 185.” Year One, 2010
“Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel.” Goings On About Town. The New Yorker. 3 Aug, 2009.
Spaziani, Rose. “Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel”. The Copenhagen Voice. 26 Jun 2009.
Beil, Kim. “Blurred Visions: Three Photographers” art ltd. Jan, 2009. p52
Maine, Stephen. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Art in America, Oct 2007, p221
Beil, Kim. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Artweek, Volume 38, May 2007, p19
Coleman, Caryn, "Sean Higgins Interview", Mar 28, 2007
Pagel, David. “Summer sampler has a dark side” Los Angeles Times, 8 Jul, 2005, E26
“Rogue Wave ’05 / Rogue Wave ’01,” Exhibition catalogue, LA Louver, Venice, CA, 2005
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Bunker Artspace, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
Cerritos College, installed: Earth Sciences department
Born: White Haven, PA
Lives and works: Fort Collins, CO and Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1998
MFA: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1996
BA, with honors: Fine Art, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Brand 54: 54th Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper
Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA, Jun 6 - Aug 28
2025
Inaugural exhibition
Center for Theoretical Research, Columbus, OH, Dec 19 - Apr 10
2022
Sean Higgins, a Rogue Wave project (solo)
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 27 Jul - 2 Sep
2021
BioScienceLA launch exhibition
Curated by Debra Scacco, Oct - Nov, biosciencela.org
2017
Transporter
Curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins. Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 29 - Jun 17
2016
Hydroponic Forms
Curated by Josh Callaghan and Bas Louter. Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany, Sep 3 - Oct 1
2015
Obfuscation
Curated by Jenny Hager. Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA, Jan 9 – 30
Via Negativa: The Transcendence of the unReal
Curated by James MacDevitt. South Bay Contemporary, San Pedro, CA, Sep 3 - Oct 10
2014
Deviled Eggs: New Photographic Strategies, Curated by Jeff McLane. photoLA | Jan 16 - 19
2013
Empty Distances
Curated by Caryn Coleman. Mark Moore gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Jun 15 – Jul 20
2012
Tomorrowland
Curated by Samantha Fields. California State University, Northridge, Oct 27 - Dec 8
New Times Roman (3 person show)
Texan Equities, Los Angeles, CA, Sep 15 - Oct 20
Transient Apocalypse
Curated by Chris Pate. Part of Curatorial Exchange. Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, Sep 8 - Oct 20
2011
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age
Curated by Sylvia Wolf. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Jul 9 - Sep 25
Marine Salon No. 8
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Apr 23
2010
ALPTRAUM!,
Curated by Jay Stuckey, traveled to the following venues:
Transformer Gallery in Washington, D.C., Dec 11, 2010 – Jan 15, 2011
Cell Project Space in London, Jan 28 – Feb 27, 2011
The Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin, Mar 11 – Apr 15, 2011
The Company in Los Angeles, May 1, 2011 – May 30, 2011
blank projects in Cape Town, Aug 2011
Marine Salon No. 7
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Nov
2009
Marine Salon No. 3
Marine Salon, Santa Monica, CA, Opened Nov
Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel (solo)
Collette Blanchard gallery, New York, NY, Jun 24 – Jul 31
Shut Up and Keep Swimming
Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Jan 25 - Feb 26
2008
Apocrypha (solo)
OKOK Gallery (now Ambach & Rice), Seattle, WA, Opened Sep
2007
Show
Curated by Heather Cantrell. Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Opened Jul 14
Sean Higgins - Island of Relative Stability (solo)
sixspace, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 3 – Apr 7
2006
Milieu
Pulse (art fair)/IMPULSE section, sixspace, New York, NY, Mar 10-13
Back Room
Kinkead Contemporary (inaugural exhibition), Los Angeles, CA, Opened Sep
artLA
sixspace booth, Santa Monica, CA, Jan 26-29
2005
There Goes the Neighborhood
sixspace, Culver City, CA, Dec 10 - Jan 14
Rogue Wave ’05, 19 Artists from Los Angeles
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, Jun 30 - Sep 3
2004
(solo) Sean Higgins - Recent Works, VertexList, New York, NY
Viewfinder
Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
filesharing.001, Art Front Studios, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Sean Higgins and Lorraine Walsh
Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Pennart II
Kohn Pederson Fox Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Prints
Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Faculty Exhibition
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Artbytes, Art by Numbers
Walt Whitman Cultural Center, Camden, NJ
1997
East Meets West: Visions in Between
Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL / CURATORIAL
2017
Transporter
curated by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Guest lecturer, MFA program, California State University, Long Beach
1998 - Present
Freelance Interactive Designer, Internet, Multimedia
2001
California State University, Long Beach, CA, Professor, Interactive Design and Introduction to Computer Art
1998
Skidmore College, Summer Six, Saratoga Springs, NY, Professor, Computer for the Artist
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Assistantship, Computer Based Art
1995 - 1997
Skidmore College, Summer Six Art Program, Saratoga Springs, NY, Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Figure Drawing
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Redman, Bridgette M. “Imaginary Landscapes.” The Argonaut. Aug 18, 2022.
argonautnews.com
Feinstein, Jon. "New Exhibition Uses a Science Fiction Failure as a Lens to an Optimistic Future." Jun, 2017.
hafny.org
MacDonnell, Allan. “5 Questions 15 Images: Sean Higgins Pictures Places You'll Never Be” The Kind. May 3, 2016.
Campbell, Sara. "One to Watch: LA Artist Sean Higgins Suspends Reality" lacanvas.com, Nov 2015.
Coleman, Caryn. “Blackness. The Void. Empty Distances.“ Jun 28, 2013.
thegirlwhoknewtoomuch.com
Featured Articles, Previews. Empty Distances. artweek.la. Jun 11, 2013
Fitzpatrick, Kyle. “Stark Lanscapes: An Interview With Sean Higgins.”
Los Angeles, I'm Yours. Dec 3, 2012.
Tucker, Annie. “Disney’s Tomorrowland Inspires an Art Show.” LA Weekly, Nov 29, 2012.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “whitehot | Marine Art Salon No. 7: Works 222-247.” Whitehot Magazine. Jan 2011.
“The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age” exhibition catalog.
Syvia Wolf, publised by Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 2010.
Anderson, Claressinka. "At Home With Dystopia: Salon No. 7 at Marine Art Salon."
The Huffington Post. Nov 10, 2010.
“Marine, A Contemporary Art Salon, Works 001 – 185.” Year One, 2010
“Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel.” Goings On About Town. The New Yorker. 3 Aug, 2009.
Spaziani, Rose. “Review of Difficulties with Interplanetary Travel”. The Copenhagen Voice. 26 Jun 2009.
Beil, Kim. “Blurred Visions: Three Photographers” art ltd. Jan, 2009. p52
Maine, Stephen. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Art in America, Oct 2007, p221
Beil, Kim. “Sean Higgins at sixspace” Artweek, Volume 38, May 2007, p19
Coleman, Caryn, "Sean Higgins Interview", Mar 28, 2007
Pagel, David. “Summer sampler has a dark side” Los Angeles Times, 8 Jul, 2005, E26
“Rogue Wave ’05 / Rogue Wave ’01,” Exhibition catalogue, LA Louver, Venice, CA, 2005
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Bunker Artspace, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
Cerritos College, installed: Earth Sciences department