BIOGRAPHY
1945
Born in Dublin, Ireland on January 3rd 
1946
Family moved to London
1965 -1968
Croydon College of Art, London
1968 - 1972
Newcastle University, UK
1972 - 1973
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1973 - 1975

Taught at Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths School of Art, London, UK
1975

Moved to the United States

1977 - 1983

Taught at Princeton University  
1983

Received Guggenheim Fellowship  
Became American Citizen
Received Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

1990

Monograph published by Hudson Hills Press, New York
1992

Revisited Morocco in December to make a film on Matisse for the BBC
1993

First exhibition of the Catherine Paintings in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

1994 Made first paintings in new studio in Barcelona in the summer
Participated in the Joseph Beuys Lectures, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, UK
Participates in a colloquium held in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Pousette, Dart (1916, 1992) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moved into a new studio in Chelsea, New York City
Made an honorary member of the London Institute
2002

Starts working as a part-time professor of painting at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany
2003

Massachusetts College of Art, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
National University of Ireland, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree
2006

Sean Scully Room, A room dedicated to Sean Scullys’ work, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland, opened on May 5th


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