Sean Paul was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his BFA from MICA and his MFA from Columbia Univeristy in New York. He lives and works in NY. His solo echibitions include Adversaries, Inc at David Lewis Gallery, Communication of the Present Noise at Thomas Duncan in Los Angeles, as well as shows at Campoli Press in Paris, Front Desk Apparatus in NYC,COMA in Berlin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery and Sutton Lane Gallery. He’s had group shows at TCNJ Gallery in New Jersey, Laurel Gitlen, New York, JTT Gallery, New York, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, Massimo De Carlo in Milan, Le Confort Moderne/Contemporary Art Center in France, John ConnellyPresents in New York amongst many others. His work has been written about in the NY Times, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Flash Art, ARTslant, Artnet, Artforum, ArtInfo, and the Miami Herald to name just a few. He’s in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts since 2009. Brian met up with Sean at David Lewis Gallery at his solo show to talk about his youth in Salt Lake City, his path from the west coast to the east coast, elections, doomsdays and a lot more.