ABOUT
"Seth’s layered compositions seem to ebb towards something darker than the sea, shifting and flexing with figurative familiarities hauntingly appearing through their abstract veils and upon thought after viewing such things, one might ponder that the chaos which surrounds us is not unlike the beauty in Scantlen’s paintings."
Living and Working:
Brooklyn, New York
Born:
Warsaw, IN, 1979.
Education:
Columbia University, MFA (2008)
Columbus College of Art and Design BFA, Painting and Printmaking (2002)
Solo Exhibitions:
2016 “Fluid Life” – Chashama - New York, NY
2015 "Mutations and Mutilations" – Heller Gallery - New York, NY
2013 “Bringing It All Back Home” – General Public Collective – Indianapolis, IN
2010 “Dissolving Dimension” – Chashama - New York, NY
2006 “Circular Reasoning” - Neo-V Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 “Something Wicked this Way Comes” - The Sky Lab Gallery, Columbus, OH
2002 “Spectacular Ego on Display” - Beaton Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
2000 “Recent Works” - Addition 13, Columbus, OH
Group Exhibitions:
2015 “Select Fair” - Select Fair, New York, NY
“Brooklyn Biennial Sumissional” – The Cotton Candy Machine, Brooklyn, NY
“Hop” – 934 Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Last Dance” - the Old Gem, Brooklyn, NY
2013“LIC Block Party” - Sculpture Center, Queens, New York
“In the Box; a Mobile Experience” - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
“This Red Door” REH Kunst, Berlin, Germany
“Personal Desires Propaganda” - 111 Front street galleries, Brooklyn, NY
“Personal Desires Propaganda” - Counterpath Gallery, Denver, CO
“Auralingus” - This Red Door - Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
2012 “End of Days” – Mixed Greens, New York, NY
“Its a Small, Small World” – Family Business Gallery, New York, NY
“Published by the Artist” – IPCNY, New York, NY
2011 “Brutal Doodle” – Lufthansa Studios, Boston, MA
“Brutal Doodle” – The Fountain, Brooklyn, NY
“Hanns Eisler Nail Salon” – H.E.N.S. Brooklyn, NY
2010 “Song of the United Front with the Nail Workers Chorus. Performance for the
exhibiton: Don’t Fetishize our Postfordism.” Scaramouche Gallery, New York, NY
“4 Heads, Governors Island Art Fair” New York, NY
“The Young Associates” Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
“Half a Self, a Cave-dweller” The Former Convent at St. Cecilia's Parish, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by David Everitt Howe
2009 Barefoot in the Head. Bruce High Quality Foundation. Performa 09.
The Audio Show. Friederich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Art on Record Vol.2” - APW Gallery, New York, NY
“No Rest For The Wicked” - RVCA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Practice of Joy Before Death; It just would not be a party without you"
Scaramouche, New York, NY
2008 “The New Academy” - Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA
"Mobilize 08" - Chop Chop Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition” - Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, NY
“Intellectual Property” - Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC
“Face Forward” - Curator - LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, New York, NY
“Visual Awakenings” - Artonomy Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
“Affordable Art Fair” - The Altman Building, New York, NY
“Art Student Exhibition 2008" - ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
- Andrew Ginzel Award
“A Friend Indeed” - Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2007 “The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe” - Apexart, New York, NY
"The Wrong Gallery" - The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Art Student Exhibition 2007" - ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
"Contemporarty Media" - Terra Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Columbia First Year MFA Show" - Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
"Springtide" - Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2006 “Untitled” – Street Level, Portland, OR
”Vinyl Killers Four” – Goodfoot, Portland, OR
”Inside the Artist Studio” - Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Open” - the Fish Gallery, Syracuse, IN
“Sharing Hearts” - Neo-V Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 “Random Drawing” - Neo-V Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Surrealist Pop Art" - The Daily Planet Gallery, Chicago, IL
Untitled - T. Brausch Studio, Lithopolis, OH
2004 "Group Painting Show" - Publico, Cincinnati, OH
"Silent" - BLD Gallery, Columbus, OH
"Real Simple" - Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2003 "Best of Senior Thesis" – CCAD Acock Gallery, Columbus, OH
2001 "Ohio Art League" – Fort Hayes Gallery, Columbus, OH
Publications:
2012 “Mt Duum” – issue 01 – 4 page spread
2008 “Face Forward: Portraiture in Contemporary Art” - 2 page spread
2006 “Faesthetic #4” (yearly artist publication) - 2 page spread
2003 “My Silver 25th Anniversary...” – a 40 page limited edition book of My Sketch Book
works from 2002-2003 on display at the Wexner Center for the Arts
Teaching Experience:
2016 Professor, Silk screening II, PRATT, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Professor, Intro to Printmaking, Columbia University, New York, NY
2010 Professor, Silk screening, Columbia University, New York, NY
2008 Professor, Silk screening, Columbia University, New York, NY
2006-2008 Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, NY
Residencies and Grants:
2010 National Endowment for the Arts. Grants
2009 Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists’ Residency
2008 Columbia University Arts Council Project Grant
The Arts Initiative at Columbia University (CUarts)