SEAN NOONAN: DWELLERS: A solo exhibition at 8 Holland Street's Kensington Gallery

19 February - 18 April 2026 
Overview

8 Holland Street is pleased to present SEAN NOONAN: DWELLERS. An exhibition of oil paintings at 8 Holland Street’s Kensington Gallery.

 

DWELLERS brings together a series of works from New York based painter Sean Noonan. The works are painted directly onto found and aged wood. Each piece is full of Noonan’s poetic mark-making and vivid, resonant colour palettes creating interventions to interrupt, obscure, and reanimate the surfaces.

 

“Dwelling” operates here as both a noun and a verb: a place of residence, and the act of inhabiting, physically and cerebrally. The word implies a settled state of body or of mind, a condition that can feel increasingly elusive in the contemporary world. Noonan positions these works at the intersection of both meanings, holding space for presence, stillness, and interiority.

 

This collection of paintings originated within the artist’s own dwelling (his home studio and personal memory) with the hope that these works might carry those origins forward, continuing their existence within new dwellings of someone and someplace else.


Exhibition Dates: 19 February – 18 April 2026

Location: 8 Holland Street Kensington Gallery, 8 Holland Street, London W8 4LT

 
Artist Biography: 
 

Sean Noonan (b. 1986) is a Hudson Valley based artist and a graduate of Pratt Institute. He creates paintings that interpret moments from the outside world through an immediate, tactile presence. His loose, intuitive mark-making draws on crude, early forms charged with feeling and personality, developed over time into a visual language uniquely his own, much like a handwriting shaped through years of use and grounded in the traditions of historical painting.

 

Noonan has exhibited internationally. His recent exhibitions include: Sears-Peyton Gallery (New York),  MARC STRAUS (New York), Devening Projects (Chicago), LKIF Gallery (Seoul), Resort (Baltimore), Galleri Kai (Copenhagen), Poker Flats (Williamstown), and SOHO Review (London). 

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