https://seanwconnelly.com SEAN CONNELLY HOME Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:16:18 +0000 https://seanwconnelly.com en https://seanwconnelly.com/HOME Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:19:59 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/HOME <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27d40a209f06e1ec8d9a09f85d898427e4ba75cb029d613196ee44db9a3d5cd8/SeanConnellyAction-web.jpg" data-mid="244670796" border="0" data-rotation="-2.5" alt="Still image, kekahi wahi (2024)" data-caption="Still image, kekahi wahi (2024)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27d40a209f06e1ec8d9a09f85d898427e4ba75cb029d613196ee44db9a3d5cd8/SeanConnellyAction-web.jpg" /> I create at the intersection of contemporary art, spatial practice, and civic engagement, producing meaningul work that reshapes architectural, ecological, and cultural systems. PracticeLibraryNews AboutContact https://seanwconnelly.com/Practice-Heading Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:19:59 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/Practice-Heading PRACTICE News ︎︎︎ Library ︎︎︎ Artworks Exhibitions, installations, sculptural works, and moving image presented in galleries, museums, and public contexts, expanding upon artist’s conceptual and material foundations. Environments Real world, land-based and site-specific projects that engage material systems, ecology, and place with landscape and architecture, demonstrating artist’s impact beyond the gallery or studio. Fieldwork Civic engagement; nonprofit leadership, advocacy, and artist-led, place-based initiatives foregrounding artist’s capacity to advance deep systems change. https://seanwconnelly.com/Practice-Hero Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:34:58 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/Practice-Hero <img width="3024" height="1698" width_o="3024" height_o="1698" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb4508f9519fe308a4f324dfffc03abbe75a41a706c864bd69636c3b522b9b08/CONNELLY-ASAOL-DIRT.png" data-mid="244789699" border="0" alt="Still image, Vincent Ricafort (2013)" data-caption="Still image, Vincent Ricafort (2013)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb4508f9519fe308a4f324dfffc03abbe75a41a706c864bd69636c3b522b9b08/CONNELLY-ASAOL-DIRT.png" /> https://seanwconnelly.com/Artworks-Gallery Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:20:00 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/Artworks-Gallery Selected Artworks <img width="1200" height="1598" width_o="1200" height_o="1598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a668758b0d364456e8e8c7635ececd3e41689e683a2876113c8affdb9dfa28c/Sean_Connelly_01-Helix-web.jpg" data-mid="244783055" border="0" alt="Helix &mdash; Cord, CNC milled hardwood (Walnut) 14&rdquo; x 11&rdquo; x 80&rdquo; From the exhibition &ldquo;Hawai&lsquo;i is not the United States, but it is your Future&rdquo; (2025)" data-caption="Helix — Cord, CNC milled hardwood (Walnut) 14” x 11” x 80” From the exhibition “Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future” (2025)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a668758b0d364456e8e8c7635ececd3e41689e683a2876113c8affdb9dfa28c/Sean_Connelly_01-Helix-web.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75f7e4eaeedc879120e181c9d622272d68a0131650e12aa251b1cff1654d25cb/WaterwaySeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" data-mid="244670810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75f7e4eaeedc879120e181c9d622272d68a0131650e12aa251b1cff1654d25cb/WaterwaySeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" /> <img width="4096" height="2731" width_o="4096" height_o="2731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96fa9724cc09c57b9470dc6fe5ecaa02e330e9b434a28a2d5a7c2496425092de/220908_16CT_IMG_1210.jpeg" data-mid="244806558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96fa9724cc09c57b9470dc6fe5ecaa02e330e9b434a28a2d5a7c2496425092de/220908_16CT_IMG_1210.jpeg" /> <img width="1200" height="1598" width_o="1200" height_o="1598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d90c4113b4264544637b1586c814ecfc6690a856bc685d8a2819f60d5602c1e8/Sean_Connelly_02-Cube-web.jpg" data-mid="244783051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d90c4113b4264544637b1586c814ecfc6690a856bc685d8a2819f60d5602c1e8/Sean_Connelly_02-Cube-web.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1598" width_o="1200" height_o="1598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5416fd818637232af3be416b350f352117eb7b1bd1494bf33300131729bb0f7a/Sean_Connelly_03-Frame-web.jpg" data-mid="244783054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5416fd818637232af3be416b350f352117eb7b1bd1494bf33300131729bb0f7a/Sean_Connelly_03-Frame-web.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1af590b2251bff3b3f451874c1f7870b82578458f8ff0e3647f520d002950013/SeanConnellyASAOL.jpg" data-mid="244670824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1af590b2251bff3b3f451874c1f7870b82578458f8ff0e3647f520d002950013/SeanConnellyASAOL.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/993dc00d91d8b68d4c625de1b1a2b5329bcf4bb27e5ab80681a406feb9251918/TAWR-01-copy.jpg" data-mid="244806548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/993dc00d91d8b68d4c625de1b1a2b5329bcf4bb27e5ab80681a406feb9251918/TAWR-01-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1598" width_o="1200" height_o="1598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/035f62c6627e4a3bffd158bbd0db5371882f57ac77b6c249f06635016a9f7f6a/Sean_Connelly_04-Spear-web.jpg" data-mid="244783053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/035f62c6627e4a3bffd158bbd0db5371882f57ac77b6c249f06635016a9f7f6a/Sean_Connelly_04-Spear-web.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1598" width_o="1200" height_o="1598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b20bedf5dcfa94baf2c26111e7304230803819114927fcdd22f1f907225c779e/Sean_Connelly_05-Block-web.jpg" data-mid="244783052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b20bedf5dcfa94baf2c26111e7304230803819114927fcdd22f1f907225c779e/Sean_Connelly_05-Block-web.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4410d49c2c83f31a80be641b67e39c1a0994495333b8ce5b23225c5227c01405/SeanConnellyLD.jpeg" data-mid="244670823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4410d49c2c83f31a80be641b67e39c1a0994495333b8ce5b23225c5227c01405/SeanConnellyLD.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e39f6e273b3b7f8bb554b13b5a33f0eefdcd252eecddd569b254169b28435c79/AAAB-hnl-2021-reg.jpeg" data-mid="244806554" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e39f6e273b3b7f8bb554b13b5a33f0eefdcd252eecddd569b254169b28435c79/AAAB-hnl-2021-reg.jpeg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c22a99a845cd882babfcdaea0f888babd00a01a1821541d7030c3b4e417e3cde/2022_LFL_04_IMG_1327.jpeg" data-mid="244806587" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9a57caf377ad9a8ffb1b7f620e854f5ed1620f46372d5aab678e75ff55336b1/webTH-Field-04-connelly.jpg" data-mid="244806581" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9a57caf377ad9a8ffb1b7f620e854f5ed1620f46372d5aab678e75ff55336b1/webTH-Field-04-connelly.jpg" /> <img width="4996" height="3330" width_o="4996" height_o="3330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3e00c740f68cd515efb38d2e3d64551f181004fd33416afb5cbbb108127faef/2022_LFL_10_HNL_LFL_KG_21-ZOOM_.png" data-mid="244806585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3e00c740f68cd515efb38d2e3d64551f181004fd33416afb5cbbb108127faef/2022_LFL_10_HNL_LFL_KG_21-ZOOM_.png" /> <img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b797feee56ced303830e04436b27f11c6e07ea2a60947fc532b65d9eaf393824/SeanConnellyTechnologyAhupuaa.jpeg" data-mid="244670820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b797feee56ced303830e04436b27f11c6e07ea2a60947fc532b65d9eaf393824/SeanConnellyTechnologyAhupuaa.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="1126" width_o="3024" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8e6a7a4701f1db6eda0d2e32c952e75e7369b5c4c8d46a4caae8c694065ceae/SeanConnellyLavaLobster.jpeg" data-mid="244670821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8e6a7a4701f1db6eda0d2e32c952e75e7369b5c4c8d46a4caae8c694065ceae/SeanConnellyLavaLobster.jpeg" /> <img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1633546346503422aac1494951a3403539309603c83114b0bc301e452403d129/SeanConnellyHOTSPOT.jpeg" data-mid="244670822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1633546346503422aac1494951a3403539309603c83114b0bc301e452403d129/SeanConnellyHOTSPOT.jpeg" /> <img width="2516" height="1302" width_o="2516" height_o="1302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d86133066377413386e18afaa18a3965e9cd0d0bb03dcde1551ec66fd1e9200/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-1.33.28-PM.png" data-mid="244872152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d86133066377413386e18afaa18a3965e9cd0d0bb03dcde1551ec66fd1e9200/Screen-Shot-2022-01-20-at-1.33.28-PM.png" /> https://seanwconnelly.com/Artworks-Index Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:27:10 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/Artworks-Index Index <img width="2664" height="2000" width_o="2664" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8847baacf9fe059a9176fbc10514fafceabf4282048bdec6113cda00b56bd5dd/003-Connelly-APA-Post-1.jpeg" data-mid="244782776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8847baacf9fe059a9176fbc10514fafceabf4282048bdec6113cda00b56bd5dd/003-Connelly-APA-Post-1.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Hawai‘i is not the United States, but it is your Future. 2025. Solo Exhibition; Sculpture; Mapping 20 Cooper Square Gallery, APA Institute NYU Manhattan, New York A solo exhibition presenting sculptural assemblies, cartographic reorientation, and a full-scale outrigger canoe as an indoor public artwork. Using ahupuaʻa logic and mauka-to-makai orientation, the work reframes urban space as an island system governed by reciprocity. The exhibition situates Hawai‘i as precedent rather than periphery within Connelly’s ongoing inquiry into land, governance, and collective responsibility. <img width="1280" height="962" width_o="1280" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e4c2be0562eed5951c7e36b91af4d49cb7b455dd4d3bae739760239049709b1/SeanConnellyCooperHewitt.jpeg" data-mid="244782779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e4c2be0562eed5951c7e36b91af4d49cb7b455dd4d3bae739760239049709b1/SeanConnellyCooperHewitt.jpeg" />Image by Christian Delfino Hālau Kūkulu Hawai‘i (Structure) 2024. Group Exhibition; Building; Mapping Cooper Hewitt Design Museum — Manhattan, New York A full-scale installation proposing Native Hawaiian building knowledge as contemporary architectural practice. Developed through collaboration with cultural practitioners, architects, and engineers, the project adapts traditional hale and waʻa lashing techniques—cordage in place of metal fasteners—to build a scalable structure that frames construction as collective care for ʻāina. Designed in collaboration with Leong Leong. Curated by&nbsp;Alexandra Cunningham Cameron. <img width="1138" height="853" width_o="1138" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3a50e00e90a59b49979c8025e3b946400b87a5209154d6389d17bdcac10b675/LearningFromLeahiSeanConnelly.jpeg" data-mid="244782783" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3a50e00e90a59b49979c8025e3b946400b87a5209154d6389d17bdcac10b675/LearningFromLeahiSeanConnelly.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Learning from Lē‘ahi 2021. Solo Exhibition; Sculpture; Mapping; Film Koa Gallery — Honolulu, Hawai‘i An exhibition examining Lē‘ahi (Diamond Head) as a site shaped by geology, militarization, and tourism. Sculptural studies, cartographic analysis, and moving image trace how landforms become symbols and infrastructure. The work treats learning from place as method, positioning sculpture and media as tools for reading layered histories and contested futures across land and water systems. read more <img width="1138" height="853" width_o="1138" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2111c1f9e65d493c30b32977ed8a6ddcadc7a3b6666d8f885c59f681ba6f7917/SeanConnellySixteenCubeTruss.jpeg" data-mid="244782784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2111c1f9e65d493c30b32977ed8a6ddcadc7a3b6666d8f885c59f681ba6f7917/SeanConnellySixteenCubeTruss.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Sixteen Cube Truss About Building Systems 2020. Public Art; Sculpture Thomas Square — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A sculptural and spatial study of modular building systems using a sixteen-cube truss as a generative structure. Repetition, load, and assembly operate as architectural and cultural logics, treating structure as a thinking tool. The work extends Connelly’s practice of translating spatial systems into visual form, bridging material intelligence, mapping, and institutional critique.&nbsp;Installed in collaboration with Aniku Romero Kupihea and Ian Eichelberger. read more <img width="1280" height="853" width_o="1280" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75f7e4eaeedc879120e181c9d622272d68a0131650e12aa251b1cff1654d25cb/WaterwaySeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" data-mid="244782785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/75f7e4eaeedc879120e181c9d622272d68a0131650e12aa251b1cff1654d25cb/WaterwaySeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Waterway 2018. Group Exhibition; Sculpture. Luggage Store Gallery — San Francisco, California A sculptural work addressing water as material, infrastructure, and organizing force. The piece considers how waterways shape movement, labor, and settlement, treating water as an active agent within built and social environments. It extends Connelly’s recurring emphasis on hydrology and land use, using sculpture to make systems of flow and constraint physically legible. Curated by Trisha Lagaso Goldberg. read more <img width="1620" height="1494" width_o="1620" height_o="1494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05cfd0dba0d5f2cb281dae1d76ded1060b02f5bc44dc9562d6ff119749a5ddf2/SeanConnellyThreeHouses.jpg" data-mid="244782786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05cfd0dba0d5f2cb281dae1d76ded1060b02f5bc44dc9562d6ff119749a5ddf2/SeanConnellyThreeHouses.jpg" />Image by Artist. Three Houses (Hawai‘i in a Thousand Years) 2017. Group Exhibition; Sculpture Honolulu Academy of Art School — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A sculptural proposal imagining future domestic forms in Hawai‘i across deep time. The work treats housing, climate, and cultural continuity as interconnected design problems, grounding speculation in place-based knowledge. It positions sculpture as architectural thought experiment—linking built form to ecological time, governance, and the pressures shaping island futures. Curated by Paradise Cove. read more <img width="1136" height="757" width_o="1136" height_o="757" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/896fd49c9198149b1c3b31faab242699e4f248406423bfba36a91fad8deb4612/SeanConnellyThatchAssemblyWithRocks.jpg" data-mid="244782787" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/896fd49c9198149b1c3b31faab242699e4f248406423bfba36a91fad8deb4612/SeanConnellyThatchAssemblyWithRocks.jpg" />Image by Artist. Thatch Assembly with Rocks 2017. Group Exhibition; Sculpture Foster Botanical Gardens — Honolulu, Hawai‘i An outdoor sculptural assembly combining thatch and stone to engage Indigenous building logics. Weight, balance, and assembly are treated as cultural techniques rather than stylistic gestures, with the garden acting as site and collaborator. The work extends Connelly’s interest in material systems and land-based making, where construction becomes a way to think with place. Curated by&nbsp;Fumio Nanjo and&nbsp;Ngahiraka Mason. read more <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4410d49c2c83f31a80be641b67e39c1a0994495333b8ce5b23225c5227c01405/SeanConnellyLD.jpeg" data-mid="244782798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4410d49c2c83f31a80be641b67e39c1a0994495333b8ce5b23225c5227c01405/SeanConnellyLD.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Land Division 2014. Solo Exhibition; Sculpture Honolulu Museum of Art — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A sculptural exhibition examining land division as a system of governance and responsibility. Drawing on ahupua‘a logic, the work considers how boundaries organize access, care, and resource flow, translating spatial policy into material form. It advances Connelly’s long-term inquiry into ʻāina as an interdependent system—ecological, cultural, and infrastructural. read more <img width="1080" height="720" width_o="1080" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1af590b2251bff3b3f451874c1f7870b82578458f8ff0e3647f520d002950013/SeanConnellyASAOL.jpg" data-mid="244782799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1af590b2251bff3b3f451874c1f7870b82578458f8ff0e3647f520d002950013/SeanConnellyASAOL.jpg" />Image by Artist. A Small Area of Land 2013. Solo Exhibition; Sculpture ii Gallery — Honolulu, Hawai‘i An exhibition investigating land ownership, scale, and enclosure through sculptural form. By focusing on small parcels, the work makes visible how territory is abstracted and controlled. Sculpture operates as a method for reading property as a political technology—linking spatial measurement to power, dispossession, and the lived consequences of land governance. Curated by Trisha Lagaso Goldberg. read more <img width="4498" height="3213" width_o="4498" height_o="3213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2bd4629581b7c818a19ddcfd34cc40b01acb2601a3bff90456333563290ef84/SeanConnellyMET_SphericOceania.jpg" data-mid="244782777" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2bd4629581b7c818a19ddcfd34cc40b01acb2601a3bff90456333563290ef84/SeanConnellyMET_SphericOceania.jpg" />Image by Artist. Spheric Oceania 2025. Video Installation; Mapping The MET, Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and OceaniaManhattan, New York A moving-image cartography presenting Oceania as a relational geography shaped by water, movement, and scale rather than fixed continental frames. Using mapping logic that foregrounds circulation and connection, the installation reorients perspective to treat islands as part of a continuous system. The work extends Connelly’s use of cartography as spatial and cultural critique. Curated by Maia Nuku. read More <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12666c68c0769c6a71b416d71f7904bdd1b4b148b209fad80df11e4f4f26f2c8/SeanConnellyCooperHewitt2-Large.jpeg" data-mid="244782780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12666c68c0769c6a71b416d71f7904bdd1b4b148b209fad80df11e4f4f26f2c8/SeanConnellyCooperHewitt2-Large.jpeg" />Image by Christian Delfino Hālau Kūkulu Hawai‘i (Film) 2024. Group Exhibition; Documentary Film Cooper Hewitt Design Museum — Manhattan, New York A documentary work extending the Hālau Kūkulu Hawai‘i project through moving image. The film traces collaborative knowledge exchange—builders, cultural practitioners, architects, and engineers—foregrounding labor, pedagogy, and shared responsibility as architectural method. Presented alongside the installation, it positions documentation as a civic tool rather than an afterimage. Videography in collaboration with kekahi wahi. <img width="1280" height="959" width_o="1280" height_o="959" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf27dbfeec300fbd30a9d4dcb9e00213ae4c3150ed793cde99096392b6068f89/HalaStudiesSeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" data-mid="244782778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf27dbfeec300fbd30a9d4dcb9e00213ae4c3150ed793cde99096392b6068f89/HalaStudiesSeanConnelly-Large.jpeg" /> Image by Alec Singer. Hala Studies 2025. Video Installation Waiola Arts Center — Hilo, Hawai‘i Two video cartographies integrating geospatial data on wind, water, soil, sun, and ground to link ocean, canoe, and land through hala. GIS and architectural modeling traverse thresholds between land, sea, and sky, accompanied by hala weaving sound and pule (prayer). The works position hala as both material intelligence and ecological connector across Pae ʻĀina Hawai‘i. <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9cc766e0e3f3bb6922f0beb4e5c76dce7982b1faa0ecc2976f8eb24306545c9/SeanConnellyAfricaPacificOsagePatrickFlores.jpg" data-mid="244782781" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9cc766e0e3f3bb6922f0beb4e5c76dce7982b1faa0ecc2976f8eb24306545c9/SeanConnellyAfricaPacificOsagePatrickFlores.jpg" />Image by Jay Due. Africa-Pacific 2024. Group Exhibition; Video Installation; Mapping Osage Art Foundation — Hong Kong, China A cartographic and moving-image work examining Africa–Pacific linkages across oceanic routes shaped by labor, extraction, militarization, and migration. Layered mapping and installation logic situate Hawai‘i within a broader planetary geography, using cartography to surface historical continuities and present-day infrastructural forces that connect distant regions through the sea. Curated by&nbsp;Patrick Flores and Reuben Keehan. <img width="2776" height="2081" width_o="2776" height_o="2081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a946293c0b0ffe5df5b897b060e208cca5c88ea09c7b4f382eb2422d2abd00e4/SeanConnellyHydraulicIslandsOMA.jpeg" data-mid="244782782" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a946293c0b0ffe5df5b897b060e208cca5c88ea09c7b4f382eb2422d2abd00e4/SeanConnellyHydraulicIslandsOMA.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Gut Technics / Hydraulic Islands 2024. Group Exhibition; Film; Mapping Oceanside Museum of Art — San Diego, California An experimental film and mapping project examining islands as hydraulic and technological systems. Using digital cartography, archival imagery, and field recordings, the work traces navigation technologies—from early radio to GPS—as tools of imperial observation that accelerate ecological collapse. Framed through “gut technics,” it proposes embodied, ethical relation between human and oceanic systems. Curated by&nbsp;Cassandra Coblentz, Aaron Katzeman, and Ziying Duan. <img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b797feee56ced303830e04436b27f11c6e07ea2a60947fc532b65d9eaf393824/SeanConnellyTechnologyAhupuaa.jpeg" data-mid="244782795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b797feee56ced303830e04436b27f11c6e07ea2a60947fc532b65d9eaf393824/SeanConnellyTechnologyAhupuaa.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Technology of Ahupua‘a in the Production of Food and Surfing 2024. Film; Group Screening Hawai‘i Art Summit — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A video set within a speculative future architecture seminar taught entirely in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. The work animates a digital ahupuaʻa model with real geospatial datasets—rainfall, wind, soil permeability, nutrient capacity—paired with sensory sound and archival memory. It situates design theory inside Native ecological governance and food systems, treating film as spatial pedagogy. Presented in collaboration with kekahi wahi. <img width="3024" height="1704" width_o="3024" height_o="1704" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1633546346503422aac1494951a3403539309603c83114b0bc301e452403d129/SeanConnellyHOTSPOT.jpeg" data-mid="244782797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1633546346503422aac1494951a3403539309603c83114b0bc301e452403d129/SeanConnellyHOTSPOT.jpeg" />Image by Artist. HOTSPOT 2023. Film; Group Screening MoMA — Manhattan, New York A geological sound bath moving through tomographic visualization of the volcanic hotspot that forms the Hawaiian Islands. Traveling from Earth’s core to surface, the film layers visualized and sonified data with architectural modeling and memory, treating geology as lived system. The work extends Connelly’s method of using data-driven media to articulate deep time and place.&nbsp;Presented in collaboration with kekahi wahi. <img width="3024" height="1126" width_o="3024" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8e6a7a4701f1db6eda0d2e32c952e75e7369b5c4c8d46a4caae8c694065ceae/SeanConnellyLavaLobster.jpeg" data-mid="244782796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8e6a7a4701f1db6eda0d2e32c952e75e7369b5c4c8d46a4caae8c694065ceae/SeanConnellyLavaLobster.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Lava, Lobster 2023. Film; Group Screening MoMA — Manhattan, New York Two synchronized videos—a lobster molting and a seafloor lava eruption—unfold side by side on a shared timeline. For a brief moment, biological transformation and geological formation move at the same pace. The film collapses scale and time to consider how radical change across different systems can occur faster than expected, foregrounding urgency and possibility.&nbsp;Presented in collaboration with kekahi wahi. <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/517878e6dbf9cdd08c22e82bd4d6163fca9a289a37ce7705836700536e5446e2/SeanConnellyOahuMilitaryAtlas_kunsthal_charlottenborg-Large.jpeg" data-mid="244782788" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/517878e6dbf9cdd08c22e82bd4d6163fca9a289a37ce7705836700536e5446e2/SeanConnellyOahuMilitaryAtlas_kunsthal_charlottenborg-Large.jpeg" />Image by Artist. O‘ahu is a Giant Military Base 2022. Group Exhibition; Film; Mapping Kunsthal Charlottenborg — Copenhagen, Denmark An experimental cartographic film visualizing U.S. military occupation across Oʻahu from 1898 to the present. Layering bases, fences, fuel storage, and live-fire ranges onto a perspective island view, the work makes militarization legible within everyday geography. It advances Connelly’s ongoing inquiry into land, infrastructure, and governance through spatial visualization. Curated by N.R.O. (Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, and Jackson Polys) <img width="1280" height="800" width_o="1280" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81b33bf22ce00227db49298998e3f98da4b9342e65d9cdddc7785fed60bef508/SeanConnellyJusticeAdvancingArchitectureTour.jpeg" data-mid="244782790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81b33bf22ce00227db49298998e3f98da4b9342e65d9cdddc7785fed60bef508/SeanConnellyJusticeAdvancingArchitectureTour.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Justice Advancing Architecture Tour 2021. Experimental Documentary Aupuni Space — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A virtual tour confronting how modern architecture obscures the illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai‘i. Centering the Hawai‘i State Capitol and ʻIolani Palace, the film reframes ʻIolani as an overlooked example of Indigenous Hawaiian modernity and challenges architectural pedagogy to confront the politics embedded in form. The work positions design as non-neutral, bound to survival. <img width="3001" height="1876" width_o="3001" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeb902847382898dafb27eb27f0a03dd8fb0d74cdf72e09a45dcc99093f7c05f/horizontal.svg" data-mid="244782775" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aeb902847382898dafb27eb27f0a03dd8fb0d74cdf72e09a45dcc99093f7c05f/horizontal.svg" /> Notes on Empire and Time (Revisiting Capitain Cook Monument) 2020. Group Exhibition; Sculpture; Performance Various — Kealakekua, Hawai‘i A site-responsive project engaging the Captain Cook monument through sculpture and performance. The work examines transportation, time, and colonial memory embedded in commemorative landscapes, reframing monuments as active sites of negotiation rather than fixed historical statements. It situates bodily action and material intervention as methods for re-reading contested sites and their afterlives. <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/441a005bf8a4de99c856011181f1b7b2402fe54b3726488cc5410b8dcf9f356c/Connelly-Oahu-Military-Atlas.jpeg" data-mid="244782791" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/441a005bf8a4de99c856011181f1b7b2402fe54b3726488cc5410b8dcf9f356c/Connelly-Oahu-Military-Atlas.jpeg" />Image by Artist. O‘ahu Military Atlas 2019. Experimental Documentary; Mapping Waiwai Collective — Honolulu, Hawai‘i An experimental documentary and mapping project surveying Oʻahu’s military landscape through spatial analysis. Built from archival U.S. military maps, environmental reports, and community testimony, the atlas visualizes how operations since 1898 have reshaped land, water systems, and infrastructure. The work treats cartography as a civic tool for making occupation legible at island scale. <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/920c945930aa79ba2eed4d22b4f7724b6a2e01b26e23f8744364d9c2f094ae98/SeanConnellySOS808.jpeg" data-mid="244782789" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/920c945930aa79ba2eed4d22b4f7724b6a2e01b26e23f8744364d9c2f094ae98/SeanConnellySOS808.jpeg" />Image by Artist. SOS State / System 808 2018. Group Exhibition; Video Art Brooklyn Academy of Music / Surfjack Hotel — New York, New York / Honolulu, Hawai‘i A video work examining Hawai‘i’s relationship to statehood, emergency, and systemic vulnerability. Through moving image, the project reflects on governance, infrastructure, and identity under conditions of crisis. Positioned within Connelly’s broader inquiry into occupation and futurity, the work treats the state as a system of signals—legal, ecological, and cultural—rather than a stable category. <img width="2048" height="806" width_o="2048" height_o="806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/269b2fa7f58826a6d5bb0fe3fed1094ce5e4f20a908396c72aea1acb6c23f607/LOGO-Ala-Wai-Centennial-Connelly.gif" data-mid="244782793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/269b2fa7f58826a6d5bb0fe3fed1094ce5e4f20a908396c72aea1acb6c23f607/LOGO-Ala-Wai-Centennial-Connelly.gif" />Image by Artist. Ala Wai Centennial Memorial Project 2018. New Media; Mapping Various — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A public-facing mapping project marking the centennial of the Ala Wai Canal. The work reframes the canal as watershed infrastructure shaped by engineering, ecology, and colonial planning, using visualization to connect water, urban form, and responsibility. It extends Connelly’s sustained focus on hydrology and governance, positioning mapping as memorial, critique, and public pedagogy. read more <img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8904d27bf6b5f1a53117862b826c181ce404f7747e06717381322c9eb7fab199/SeanConnellyAhupuaaHolodeck.jpeg" data-mid="244782792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8904d27bf6b5f1a53117862b826c181ce404f7747e06717381322c9eb7fab199/SeanConnellyAhupuaaHolodeck.jpeg" />Image by Artist. Holodeck Ahupua‘a 2018. Mobile Installation; Projection; Mapping Various — Honolulu, Hawai‘i A mobile projection environment applying ahupua‘a land-division logic to contemporary space. Animated mapping and moving image reimagine land, water, and resource flow as integrated system rather than parcel and boundary. Presented across sites, the installation functions as a temporary spatial classroom, translating Indigenous governance frameworks into public-facing, time-based experience. <img width="3810" height="1958" width_o="3810" height_o="1958" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4647abd68d67e54c1b877a30c082f59a3b0f5d8e38eb0e0a08bf6c85284927c9/HF2.jpg" data-mid="244782794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4647abd68d67e54c1b877a30c082f59a3b0f5d8e38eb0e0a08bf6c85284927c9/HF2.jpg" />Image by Artist. Hawai‘i Futures 2010. New Media (Project platform / multi-site; ongoing framework) An early research project introducing an ocean–earth–island–cosmos framework for living in place. Using digital media and mapping, the project reimagined Hawai‘i’s land and water systems as interconnected and future-oriented. Hawai‘i Futures established conceptual foundations for later work across sculpture, film, cartography, and civic practice, grounding futurity in ecological responsibility and place-based knowledge. read more https://seanwconnelly.com/Library-Heading Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:53:58 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/Library-Heading LIBRARY News ︎︎︎ Practice ︎︎︎ Writing Essays by, about, or in collaboration; the artist. Video/Audio Lectures and conversations on film or wave. 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Perspectives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 20, 2025 — 13 min. read. Online essay on alternative cartographies and Indigenous Pacific spatial imaginaries. 2024 “Hālau Kūkulu Hawaiʻi: A Home that Builds Multitudes.” Co-authored with Dominic Leong. In Making Home, edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Joan Wilkinson, 262–266. New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum with The MIT Press, 2025. Softcover, 304 pp. ISBN 9780262549790. 2023 "Uko'a Loko Ea Fishpond: Digital Mapping and Spatial Analysis of O'ahu and American Infrastructure Projects Since 1898." Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 56. 2020 “Our City as Ahupua‘a.” in Value of Hawai‘i 3: The Turning. Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 2020 “Ahupua‘a for Peace” in Inundation Exhibition Catalog. Ed. Jaimey Hamilton Faris 2017 Sean Connelly, “Waterway,” www.alawaicentennial.org 2014 “Urbanism as Island Living.” in The Value of Hawai‘i: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions. Ed. Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘opua. 2010 Connelly, Sean. HAWAI‘I-FUTURES Interventions for Island Urbanism. New Media, After Oceanic. www.hawaii-futures.com. 2009 “Alternative Postcards, Views from Waikiki, Ignored.” Vice-Versa Magazine. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i. Web. 2009 Density x Dispersal: Typological Transformations for a Future Ahupua‘a. Honolulu: Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i. Print. Writings about Artist 2022 Wander, Maggie. “Making New History: Contemporary Art and the Temporal Orientations of Climate Change in Oceania.” Journal of New Zealand &amp; Pacific Studies 9 (Special Issue: New Scholarship in New Zealand and Pacific Studies Part 2) (December 2021): 155–178. https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00072_1. 2022 Moses, Kelema Lee. "US Urbanism and Its Pacific Histories." American Quarterly, vol. 75 no. 2023, p. 419-432. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2023.a898171. 2021 Aaron Katzeman, Making Room for Earth in Hawaiʻi: Sean Connelly’s A Small Area of Land. Pacific Arts: The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, 20(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/PC220153305 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b79w9v6 2021 Sara Jensen Carr, “Water Is Wealth: Occupation and Erasure in Honolulu’s Urban Landscape and Its Ecological Future,” Places Journal (forthcoming 2021) 2020 Kelema Lee Moses, “Indigeneity, Contingency, and Cognitive Shifts”, Ardeth [Online], 6 | 2020, Online since 01 November 2020, connection on 15 April 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1171 2020 Carr, Sara Jensen. “Alien Landscapes: NASA, Hawai’i, and Interplanetary Occupation” The Avery Review. URL: https://averyreview.com/issues/50/alien-landscapes 2019 Schuler, Timothy A. “Why Some Hawaiians Are Fighting a Massive Flood-Control Project.” CityLab URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/the-battle-over-honolulu-s-ala-wai-canal 2018 Tolentino, Blaine. “The Oceanic Urbanite” in Lei Magazine URL: https://leiculture.com/the-oceanic-urbanite/ 2018 Connelly, Sean and Alexandra R. Toland, “Island Urbanism: City As Soil System” in Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. A Toland, JS Noller, G Wessolek. CRC Press. URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/b22355-61/island-urbanism-sean-connelly-alexandra-toland?context=ubx&amp;refId=66602a3d-24f6-4553-942e-9286e5790385 2017 “Restructuring Place in Hawai ‘i: Jaimey Hamilton Faris and Margo Machida in Conversation with Sean Connelly and Lynne Yamamoto.” Art Journal Open URL: http://artjournal.collegeart.org/?p=8766 2017 Katzeman, Aaron. “Three houses our descendants might one day live in.” Summit 2017 Eshraghi, Leuli. “Welina mai ke aupuni o Hawai‘i: Greetings from the Hawaiian Kingdom.” Art Monthly Australasia 2016 Schuler, Timothy A. “Uncovering the Potential of Honolulu’s Hidden Streams.” Next City 2015 Cultures of Copyright. Peter Lang Publishing Ledbetter, Lehua.&nbsp; “Hawai‘i’s ‘Remix’ Culture: Engaging Postcolonialism and Settler Colonialism in Discussions of Copyright and Intellectual Property.” in Cultures of Copyright. Ed. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Martine Courant Rife.&nbsp; New York: Peter Lang. 2015 Grandinetti, Tina. “Re-scape the City.” Summit Magazine Hawai‘i 2015 Goldberg, David. “Datahupua‘a.” Hawai‘i Independent 2017 “Futures Maps” in Our Ocean Guide. Ed. MAP OFFICE 2015 “World Sensors” (Cover Image) in Pamphlet Architecture #35 Ed. Pierre Belanger 2014 Goldberg, David.&nbsp; “Visions of Divisions.”&nbsp; Honolulu Star Advertiser. 2014 Amos, Kelsey. “Sustainable Machine.”&nbsp; Summit Magazine Hawai‘i. 2013 Yamada, Lisa. “A Small Area of Land: Sean Connelly.” Flux Hawai‘i. 2013 Manaugh, Geoff. “Earth Prism.” BLDGBLOG. https://seanwconnelly.com/About-Heading Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:16:18 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/About-Heading ABOUT Practice ︎︎︎ Library ︎︎︎ Biography Essays by, about, or in collaboration; the artist. Artist Statement Lectures and conversations on film or wave. News Overarching literature baseline for practice. https://seanwconnelly.com/ABOUT-Biography Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:20:03 +0000 SEAN CONNELLY HOME https://seanwconnelly.com/ABOUT-Biography ︎︎︎ <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f66eaf223434a3b7a87d23724c6eb6b6fe14caaf0109863168c6bcacf8ad58cf/SeanC_ArtistPortrait_FINAL-15.jpg" data-mid="244670831" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f66eaf223434a3b7a87d23724c6eb6b6fe14caaf0109863168c6bcacf8ad58cf/SeanC_ArtistPortrait_FINAL-15.jpg" />Artist Portrait by Ricardo Pinnock BiographySean is an artist and spatial practitioner working across contemporary art, spatial practice, and civic engagement. His practice integrates sculpture, moving image, cartography, and site-based intervention to examine relationships between land, water, architecture, and power. Grounded in archipelagic and oceanic ways of knowing, the work approaches place as an interconnected familial, ecological, cultural, and political system rather than a fixed site. Sean’s projects are realized through exhibitions, installations, public artworks, film and video, and long-term spatial and civic initiatives. Situated within the expanded field of sculpture and in dialogue with land art, cartographic practices, and institutional critique, the work treats form, site, and research as inseparable. Sculptural and moving-image works often function as spatial propositions—testing how materials, maps, and architectures can register historical erasure, environmental transformation, and alternative futures. A defining aspect of Sean’s practice is the extension of artistic inquiry beyond the exhibition context and into the place-based conditions it addresses. Through their civic practice After Oceanic and the grassroots nonprofit Hawaiʻi Nonlinear, projects are developed as applied, durational works that embed artistic methods within real sites, communities, and governance frameworks. These platforms are not just ancillary professional roles but primary structures through which the work’s spatial, ecological, and political questions are enacted and sustained over time—where the transformations proposed by the artwork become materially and socially operative. Sean’s work engages sites shaped by settler colonialism, militarization, and extractive development, often focusing on infrastructures of water, land division, and urbanization in Hawaiʻi and across the Pacific. Imagination operates in the practice as a practical tool, supporting forms of repair, stewardship, and collective responsibility at human and regional scales rather than functioning solely as symbolic representation. Sean has presented work in solo and group exhibitions, public commissions, and biennials in the United States and internationally, including major museum contexts and triennials. The practice has been supported by artist residencies and fellowships and has been written about extensively by art historians, architects, and cultural critics. Sean has also designed and taught courses in leading university and public forums and serves in cultural leadership roles in Hawaiʻi. Writing and research by and about the work appear in scholarly journals, exhibition catalogs, and public platforms. Informed by intergenerational, familial, and matriarchal relationships to Hawaiʻi, Sean’s practice understands art as cultural infrastructure—capable of holding historical complexity while contributing to long-term ecological, social, and spatial futures.