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Sean Slemon, is a South African artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

His drawing, sculpture and installation is drawn from the debate around social equality through an emphasis on natural resources as a scapegoat in urban spaces and how they are distributed politically. A winner of the Sasol New Signatures award in 2005 after solo shows at the Premises, and subsequently moved to the US to obtain an MFA from Pratt Institute, he received funding toward the degree from the National Arts Council of South Africa. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007 and held a solo show at MagnanMetz Gallery in 2008. At this time he was participating in a Chashama Studio residency. He has exhibited on numerous group exhibitions, both in the USA, South Africa and Siena, Italy. He received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art for his recent show at BrodieStevenson gallery in Johannesburg in South Africa. He recently held his second solo exhibition at MagnanMetz gallery entitled The Sun Stands Still, accompanied by a catalog and funded through USA Artists.

In 2012 he will be attending a residency at the Nirox Foundation outside Johannesburg, South Africa and will be producing new prints, drawings and artwork toward an exhibition in July of 2012.