Untitled, 2012
Spencer Sweeney, born in 1973, Philadelphia, United States of America. He lives and works in New York City.
Spencer Sweeney is New York Downtown's cultural mogul. As an artist, he defies categorization, although the core of his practice revolves around painting, which often shimmers with color through mystical pop themes.
In addition to paintings, drawings and collages characterized by an infectious exuberance and raw materiality, Spencer Sweeney produces immersive multimedia environments that transform galleries into open studios and performance stages, exposing the traditionally private realm of the artist's studio to public scrutiny.
The notion of community, experimentation and the presence of music as a source of creation that breathes life into New York is therefore particularly present in Spencer Sweeney's practice. His practice could be described as post-fluxus in the invitation it extends to its viewer.
Spencer Sweeney has exhibited at MoMA PS1 in New York, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and is represented by Gagosian Gallery, Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, the Modern Institute in Glasgow and Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin.