Born: 1976, California
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

 

EDUCATION

  • 2004
  • MFA California College of the Arts
  • 2002
  • BFA, Humboldt State University

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2011
  • Viewshed, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010
  • Untitled Landscapes (California), curated by Katie Hood Morgan, Adobe Books Backroom
  • Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
  • 2009
  • Sean McFarland - 2009 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, SF Camerawork,
  • San Francisco, CA (catalog)
  • 2008
  • Landscape Photographs, San Francisco International Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005
  • White Rooms, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, NY
  • 2004
  • Photographs Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2002
  • Untitled, Foyer Gallery, Arcata, CA

 

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

  • 2010
  • The Sea All Around Us - James Sterling Pitt and Sean McFarland, Sight School, Oakland, CA
  • 2009
  • John Chiara || Sean McFarland curated by Karsten Lund, Swimming Pool Projects, Chicago, IL

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2011
  • Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (forthcoming)
  • The 707 Show, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2010
  • There’s a Way In Which…, Playspace, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • It’s My World, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
  • Paper Awesome, curated by Brion Nuda Rosch, Baer Ridgway, San Francisco, CA
  • Do I Have to Paint You a Picture?, Morgon Arcade, Cardiff, Wales
  • Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
  • Sonny Smith – 100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
  • Smokebath, curated by Peter Sutherland, www.smokbath.com (book)
  • 2009
  • Passport, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
  • Hyperspaces, Park Life, San Francisco, CA
  • One to Many, Partisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Lay of the Land, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata , CA
  • Ersatz, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
  • 2008
  • Let Us Now Praise San Francisco, curated by Robert Mailer Anderson, Marx and Zavattero
  • Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Eighteen Months San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
  • The Secret Life of Plants, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
  • From the Vault - Works from the Permanent Collection, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
  • 2007
  • Albedo, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • Never Been to Houston, curated by Jon Rubin, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
  • Facts and Figures (catalog), Artwalk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Pause, curated by Rebecca Miller, Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
  • 2006
  • It's a Small World, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  • Pause, Art Miami/Basel, curated by Rebecca Miller, Miami, FL
  • West Coast Windows, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  • Joint Venture (catalog), co-curated by Renny Pritikin and Matthias Geiger, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
  • WHERE WE HAVE BEEN WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING, Backroom Gallery, Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
  • 2005
  • Altered Spaces, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
  • Phelan Award Exhibition, juried by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, SFMOMA and Catherine Edelman, Director, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
  • Holiday Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • New Found Land, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY
  • THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT, curated by Renny Pritikin, Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, Davis, CA
  • Sprawl, Haley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004
  • Urban Echoes, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
  • Subject to Oneself, PlaySpace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • National Photography Institute Fellows' Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Big Picture Show, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
  • Fluid Exchange, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • Group Show, curated by Eleanor Harwood, Adobe Bookshop, San Francisco, CA
  • From Whom I've Studied, From Whom I've Learned, First Street Gallery, Eureka, CA

 

AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

  • 2011
  • The Eureka Fellowship, The Fleishhacker Foundation, CA
  • Headlands Center For The Arts, Artist In Residence, Headlands, CA
  • 2010
  • Finalist, SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • 2009
  • John Gutmann Photography Fellowship
  • Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers
  • Kala Art Institute Fellowship and Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
  • 2005
  • Phelan Art Award in Photography, San Francisco Foundation and SF Camerawork
  • 2004
  • Fellowship, National Photography Institute, Columbia University
  • Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship, California College of the Arts
  • 2002
  • Van Duzer Scholarship for the Arts, Humboldt State University
  • Presidential Purchase Award, Humboldt State University
  • Tom Knight Photography Award, Humboldt State Universtiy

 

RESIDENCIES

  • 2011
  • Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
  • 2010
  • Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • 2011
  • YBCA, Video Profile: Sean McFarland's Pictures of the Earth
  • Pritikin, Renny, SFMOMA Open Space, ‘NOCTURNE’, August 1
  • 2010
  • Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Tiny photos offer a bigger vision of landscapes’, August 28, P. E1
  • Cataloge for Joint Venture, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis, P.16
  • 2005
  • Leaverton, Michael, and Swanhuyser, Hiya, SFWeekly, 'Night & Day', October 26 November 1, P.22-23
  • Orden, Abraham, Flash Art, 'Aperto San Francisco', July - September
  • Instant City, Issue 2, Fall Cover, P.76, 83
  • Nataraj, Nirmala, Artweek, 'Sprawl at Haley Martin Gallery', September, P. 17-18
  • Justine Sharrock, San Francisco Magazine, 'Best Eye for Talent', July, P. 92-93
  • 1111 Journal of Literature and Art, 'Untitled Works Portfolio', Volume 2, P. 58-61
  • 2004
  • Helfand, Glen, Artforum, 'Glen Helfand on Sean McFarland', December, P. 201-202
  • Ansite, Katie, Kitchen Sink, 'Seeing Things: Closely from a Rooftop', issue 9, P.71-72
  • Bing, Alison, SFGate, September 23
  • Orden, Abraham, ArtNet, 'San Francisco Days'
  • Gagnon, Adrienne, SFWeekly, September 22, 28, P.37
  • Whiteside, Amber, Artweek, 'Urban Echoes: Wind, River, Trees, Clouds, Chickens and Orange' at Galerade la Raza', September, P. 15-16
  • Knobel, Kyle, Record/Play, 'Interviews with four Bay Area Artists', Spring

 

COLLECTIONS

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Whitney Museum of American Art Library
  • Oakland Museum
  • Humboldt State University
  • University of California Davis
  • Genentech