Sean Hogan - Biography

The Art practice of Sean Hogan spans painting, print and sculpture. Hogan creates system based works by developing sets of rules that utilise formal aesthetics – geometry, colour theory, proportion, material – to reciprocate algorithmic thinking and as a result, highlight ideas relating to human engagement with both tangible and digital spaces. In 2022-2023 Hogan was included in the NGVs survey of Contemporary Art Melbourne Now with his large scale work Volume I (2022).

In addition to that major institutional presentation Hogan’s work was shown at Spring 1883 at the Windsor Hotel in August this year & early in 2024 he will be shown in a Solo presentation at the Melbourne Art Fair, both Premiere Art Fair forums in Australia.

Data Fields is Hogan’s third Solo Exhibition with Jacob Hoerner Galleries. Hogan has also exhibited at LaTrobe Art Institute in 2018 and was a part of Spring 1883 & Sydney Contemporary in 2021. Significantly, in the last 12 months the NGV & Artbank have acquired works for their permanent Institutional Collections & currently Hogan has a new work Commissioned by Video Game Developer Tantalus that is on Public display in Inner Melbourne.

In addition to Hogan’s Visual Art practice he has been the recipient of five major awards in recent years; the 2021 Australian Book Design Award, Royal Australian Institute of Architecture Award in 2020, & 2021 as well as the Australian Graphic Design Association Award in 2020 & 2021. Hogan has also worked with Wired Magazine, Apple Music & the New York Times as well as having given industry lectures at National Gallery of Victoria, Victorian College of the Arts, Typographics 2021, Swinburne University, RMIT University & the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.