BIO SEAN KERR

Sean Kerr is a Lecturer in Timebased Arts at the School of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, and practices as a Professional Visual Artist and Freelance Curator.

Sean has strong interests in sound and its relationship to image, pop culture and visual art. He explores these themes in various mediums from installation to live performance to painting to web.

His installation work has been included in numerous national and international shows such as the trans-Tasman touring exhibition Close Quarters; the minimalist massacre part 2, Physics Room, Christchurch; abstractor II, Southern Exposure Art Gallery, San Francisco; STACKER Artspace, Sydney; and Telecom Prospect 2001, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand.

Sean Kerr was the curator of Rapid, an exhibition of speed art at Artspace, Auckland and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery; and re_WORKED, a show of industrial films from the New Zealand Film Archives manipulated and re-constructed by seven new media artists.

Sean’s web work has been published on various gallery sites and publication / new media sites. His project site http://seankerr.net presents current projects as well as an archive of previous works.