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seangarrison
Minneapolis, Minnesota
sg@seangarrisonartist.com
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Minnesota Museum of American Art
She Broke My Heart So I Decided to Paint
Hennepin History Museum
Heaven or Hell No. 6
Best & Flanagan Law Firm Collection
Heaven or Hell No. 4
AWARDS + RECOGNITION
2025
Minnesota Museum of American Art Award, Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition,
for She Broke My Heart So I Decided to Paint
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Stop Me When I’m Lyin’, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Nov/Dec
2024
A Room Full of Overcaffeinated Kindergarten Children, Pablo Center at the Confluence
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, She Broke My Heart So I Decided to Paint, Minnesota Museum of American Art Award
Peter Williams: Homegoing – A Call and Response, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
One Good Human: In This Art Together, NKB Gallery 332, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Technicolor Truth: Revolutionary Beauty, Grace Trinity Community Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Kickernick Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2017–2024
Art is My Weapon, annual exhibition series, eight consecutive years, Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
Selected venues include Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, Gamut Gallery, Homewood Studios,
Cargill Gallery at Hennepin County Library, and others.
2024
Blak Grit, NKB Gallery 332, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Technicolor Truth: Art for the Anti-Antagonist, Grace Trinity Community Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2023
Beauty From Ashes, 9 Mile Gallery, Edina, Minnesota
Art is My Weapon, Cargill Gallery, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Evolving Expressions, NKB Gallery 332, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Renaissance Fire, A-Mill Artist Lofts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Technicolor Truth, Grace Trinity Community Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2021
Art is My Weapon, Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Curious Entanglements, The Bridgewater
2019
No Boundaries: An Experience of Social Justice, Empowerment and Equality, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, St. Paul, Minnesota
Grace: A Visual History of the African American Church Hat, Hennepin Theatre Trust Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2018
Art is My Weapon, Homewood Studios, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Melanin Content, North Regional Acceleration Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2017
Art is My Weapon, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2013
The Culture of Balance, Rhythm, and Texture, Pope John XXIII Gallery, Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, Minnesota
LIVE PAINTING + PERFORMANCE
2024
Layers of Joy, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
2022
The Darkness in My Skin, Historic Mounds Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota
Poetry, Paint, and Peace, Minneapolis North High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2021
Heaven or Hell, presented by Hennepin History Museum and Best & Flanagan, Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lights on Brooklyn Center, presented by the 2nd Chance Project, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
For the Love of Us: A Live Painting Experience, Minneapolis North High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
ARTIST RESIDENCIES + ENGAGEMENTS
2026
Artist Mindset Week, University of Minnesota Rochester + Rochester ALC
Imagination Studios, University of Minnesota Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
2025
Imagination Central + Creativity Camp, University of Minnesota Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
2024
COMPAS, St. Paul, Minnesota
2023
Imagination Central + Creativity Camp, University of Minnesota Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
Minneapolis North High School, Minneapolis Public Schools
Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Pillars Senior Living, St. Paul, Minnesota
2022
Art is My Weapon, Richfield ALC, Richfield, Minnesota
Art is My Weapon, Patrick Henry High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2026
Artist Mindset Week, University of Minnesota Rochester + Rochester ALC
Imagination Studios, University of Minnesota Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
PUBLIC ART
2021
Soulitude, mural, Cub Foods Northside Community Room, Minneapolis, Minnesota
SELECTED LECTURES + PUBLIC PROGRAMS
2023
Reframe: Artist and Healer Community Dialogue, George Floyd Global Memorial
2025
Art and Social Justice, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota
2026
Artist Mindset Week, University of Minnesota Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota
Art and Social Justice, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Technicolor Root Digging: Getting to Truth Through Color, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota
2022
Technicolor Root Digging: Getting to Truth Through Color, Overcoming Racism Conference, Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative,
Metropolitan State University
2019
Dare to Be Real, Perpich Center for Arts Education
2018
Race to Justice: Utilizing Art for Social Change, Perpich Center for Arts Education
SELECTED MEDIA + PRESS
MSNBC / All In with Chris Hayes
Walking on Air, live coverage during the Derek Chauvin verdict
KARE 11
Feature on Walking on Air