Sean Caulfield
Centennial Professor, Fine Arts
Coordinator, Printmaking
Office: 3-91 Fine Arts Building
(780) 492-7855
stc@ualberta.ca
Areas of Teaching and Research
Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking, Drawing, Artist's Books, and Intermedia
Biography
MFA Printmaking, University of Alberta, 1995
Sean Caulfield was named a Canada Research Chair in Fine Arts (Tier 2) from 2001 – 2011, Centennial Professor from 2011 – 2021, and is currently a Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, living and working in Treaty Six territory, Amiskwaciy Waskahikan, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has exhibited his prints, drawings, installations and artist’s books extensively throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include: Found Anatomies, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (2022); The Flood, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (2016); The Body in Question(s), UQAM Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (2012); Perceptions of Promise, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA/Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta (2011).
Caulfield has received numerous grants and awards for his work including: The Special Award of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Krakow Triennial, 2015; SSHRC Dissemination Grant: Canadian Stem Cell Network Impact Grant; SSHRC Fine Arts Creation Grant; Canada Council Travel Grant; and a Visual Arts Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois, USA. Caulfield’s work is in various public and private collections including: Houghton Library, Harvard University, USA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA. In 2017 Caulfield was elected to the Arts Division of the Academy of the Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada.
For further information about Sean Caulfield's projects, please visit www.seancaulfield.ca.
Recent Research
A Tragedy of the Commons, is an exhibition project made up of eight large-scale text and image linocut and inkjet prints, created in collaboration with Professors Susan Colberg (typography) and Steven Hoffman (text), York University. The text in A Tragedy of the Commons was initiated by Hoffman in response to Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning work on design principles for sustainably managing common-pool resources. One of the key goals of the exhibition is to investigate how visual art, with an emphasis on utilizing the traditions of printmaking as a dissemination and communication tool, can foster discussion across broad communities about environmental change, as well as ways to sustain an engaged liberal democracy in which respectful political discourse can occur.