BIO

Sean Holleran is an American artist concerned with observing repositories of memory sustained by the painting process. His practice centers on a meditation between intention and materiality. Through restrained compositions, narrow chromatic ranges, and a disciplined economy of form, he replicates fields of interiority within oil painting as a material process. His subject emphasizes the lingering weight of memory, labor, and time embedded within painterly apparatuses. Holleran’s work seeks to assume the burden and subsequent transfiguration of the art-making process.

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Born in 1996 in Brick Township, New Jersey.
Lives and works in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Education:

2014-2020: BA in Philosophy, Montclair State University, New Jersey. 

Exhibitions:

2026, O.S.D. 2, Rutherford New Jersey [upcoming]
2025, O.S.D. 1, Rutherford, New Jersey

Press:

“The Obvious Answer” in Downtown Critic, #5, 2025.

Collections:

Sean Holleran features in various private collections.