Carleen sheehan

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Carleen Sheehan’s work explores the intensity of contemporary space and the accelerated temporal shifts that shape our experience of the world. Her practice spans drawing, painting and photography, often combining these media to construct densely layered surfaces embedded with image fragments and material shifts in color and light. Sheehan creates images that reflect the layered nature of time, where memory and immediate perception coexist.

Recent photographic projects developed in remote Arctic regions document the natural environment from an intimate and immersive perspective. Created over multiple visits to the High Arctic, these projects focus on fleeting moments of natural ephemera and atmospheric transformation. Years of creating photographic archives and drawing along the waterways of the Hudson Valley have been significant to developing this work.

Sheehan’s work has been exhibited at the NY Public Library as part of The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History, curated by Elizabeth Cronin; the Harvard University Center for the Environment; The Endurance Project, a National Geographic traveling Polar exhibition; and at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY. She has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay Arts, The Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, Bali, Indonesia, and The Arctic Circle Residency. She has received fellowships from the NY Foundation for the Arts, The Elizabeth Foundation, The Massachusetts Council on the Arts, as well as multiple grants from the Mellon Foundation Challenge Grants program for research and curatorial practice. She has participated in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentorship Program, and as an advisor and panelist for the U.S. Fulbright Grants Program.

Sheehan is an Associate Clinical Professor at Fordham University in New York, and since 2023 has owned Mark Giglio Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The studio has recently completed large scale, site-specific artworks for Tiffany & Co in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, Taipei, Taiwan, and Los Angeles.

Sheehan lives and works in Brooklyn and Ghent, New York.