Sean McFarland,
Sean McFarland, "Untitled (photographic failure, photographic success)," Archival pigment print 30x40" 2016

Sean McFarland

Sean McFarland’s work explores history and the representation of landscape. He earned his MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2004. He has exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, White Columns, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Aperture Foundation. He has received the 2005 Phelan Art Award in Photography, 2009 Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer, 2009 John Guttmann Photography Fellowship and a 2011 Eureka Fellowship.

McFarland's work is in the collections at SFMOMA, Milwaukee Art Museum, Oakland Museum, Berkeley Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art Library. He teaches art at San Francisco State University and is represented by Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco. 

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