About
Sean Smuda is an artist, curator, photographer, and writer, currently without a home due to its loss in a fire on May 27, 2018. He works in a variety of mediums including collage, video, and performance. Recent projects have taken place in Antarctica, Iraq, Wall Street, and the MN State Capitol. In 2011 he was appointed Cultural Liaison to Tours, France by the Minneapolis/Tours Sister City Association. His work is in the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center.
Reviews
Decoding: “Dreams and Allegories”
by Camille LeFevre
Mnartists.org, 3.26.2007
Box Populi: an article about the Shoebox Gallery
Mnartists.org, 4.29.2010
Education
2018 Saas-Fee Summer Institute, Berlin, Germany
2001-2003 MCTC, Mpls, MN
1981-1982 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1980-1981 St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1979-1980 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Uccle Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Grants/Awards
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, NY, NY
2016 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2011 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2010 Minneapolis Arts Commission Award for Public Art
2009 Minneapolis MOSAIC Photography Commission
2007 Xcel Energy/Jerome Foundation Project Grant with Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Selected Exhibitions (*solo show)
2018
*Universal Capital, Treignac Projet, France
TOPO Gallery, Mpls, MN
On and On, Beard and Weil Gallery, Norton, MA
Journeys Here, Minnesota State Arts Board, St Paul, MN
Open Letter to the Invisible Committee, Magasin Général, Tarnac, France
2017
Culture as Weapon, Studio 369, St Paul, MN
*Universal Capital, Traffic Zone Gallery, Mpls, MN
*Deep State, Pirsig Projects, Mpls, MN
2016
*Universal Capital, Traffic Zone Gallery, Mpls, MN
The Floating Library, Mpls, MN
Fifteen Year Anniversary Show, SOO Visual Arts Center, Mpls, MN
2015
On & On, Mark Miller Gallery, NYC
Art On Air, Instinct Gallery, Mpls, MN
*Brunswick Box, Jersey City, New Jersey
Austerity, Cowles Center, Mpls, MN
Made Here INTERSECTIONS, Mpls, MN
Kino Holly*ood, Northern Spark Festival, Mpls, MN
2014
SGC International Print Conference, San Francisco, CA
We Are Water, the Kinship of Rivers Project, The Soap Factory, Mpls, MN
Francesca Anderson Gallery, Lexington, MA
*The Minneapolis Club, Mpls, MN.
2013
North American Print Biennial, Boston University, Massachusetts, juried by Dennis Michael Jon, Associate Curator: Prints and Drawings, Mia, MN
Collect Call, SOO Visual Arts Center, Mpls, MN. Collection of Herman Milligan.
North of the 45th Parallel, DeVos Museum, Northern Michigan University, juried by Mason Riddle
*The Disappearance of Mr. Frost, Smart Set Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2012
*OZ’Arts Galerie, Tours, France. Curated by Joris Drylewicz
*Onladejavu Galerie, Nîmes, France
It’s A Small, Small World, Family Business Gallery, NY, NY
The Critics' Show, Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN
Speedboat Gallery: A Punker’s Revenge, CO Exhibitions, Mpls, MN
2011
Governor’s Island Art Fair, NY, NY
Nuclear Unfair, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
Navigating the Aftermath, curated by Tricia Khouterestsky, MN
Kinship of Rivers Project, The Soap Factory, Mpls, MN
801 Lofts, 4 Artists, Mpls, MN
Get Lucky!, SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Collaborative Projects
2018
Capital Funeral, Treignac, France with Davu Seru and No Territory Band.
2009-2011
Blown Derivatives: an international exchange project organized in collaboration with the Iraqi American Reconciliation Project and artists: Fatin Al Jumaily, Ghalib Al Mansoori, Margaret Coughlin, Seth Dauphin, James Gladman, Jonathan Field, Ibraheem Hussein, Daniel Kaniess, Janet Lobberecht, Abraham Renko, Anna-Marie Shogren, Ping Wang, and Luke Wilcox.
2006 – 2007
Segrelicious, with Obsidian Arts, Mpls, MN
Commissions
2009
Minneapolis MOSAIC Photography Commission: Hopes and Dreams, twenty 36” x 24” photographs, City Center, Mayor's Office, Minneapolis, MN
Collections
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Le Mairie, Tours, France
Inhotim, Brazil
Related Experience
2011 - 2014 Cultural Liaison to Tours, France. Mpls/Tours Sister City Association, United States and France
Curatorial Projects
2017 – . . . Pirsig Projects, Mpls, MN > Berlin Germany
2003 - 2014 Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN