Sean McCarthy

Sean McCarthy received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally at venues such as Fredericks & Freiser Gallery and Marlborough Contemporary in New York, One in the Other in London, and VOLTA show in Basel, Switzerland. Professor McCarthy was one of twelve artists featured at the Desert Island Comic Zine Party at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which produced a limited-edition screen printed publication for the event. His handmade artist's books and zines have also appeared at curated events such as the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and a global survey of zine culture called "Publish and Be Damned" at Cubitt Artists Gallery in London.

Professor McCarthy has given lectures and critiques as a visiting artist at Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Fordham University, and the University of South Florida. He teaches an honors seminar on the grotesque in art and culture for the Lehman Scholars Program, and has also taught studio art at Pratt Institute and the New York Institute of Technology. He has curated exhibitions at Essex Flowers, the Lehman College Art Gallery, NYIT Manhattan and No Globe Exhibition Space in Brooklyn. He is a member of the editorial board of Glossator: Theory and Practice of the Commentary, an academic journal published by the Open Humanities Press.

Professor McCarthy has taught a wide range of courses in design, drawing, painting and printmaking in the Lehman College Art Department since 2006.

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