CV

Publications

Don’t Go Outside: Tokyo Street Photos – Surprise Attack, 2017 (solo artist, photography)
The New Oklahoma – Surprise Attack, 2016 (co-author)
Outside The Lines, Too – TarcherPerigee, 2015 (contributing artist, digital)
Covert to Overt: The Under/Overground Art of Shepard Fairey – Rizzoli, 2015 (author, forward)
The Devil’s Reign – Howl Books, 2015 (contributing artist, photography)
Leica Myself – Leica Publications, 2014 (contributing artist, photography)
Brunch Of The Dead – Surprise Attack, 2013 (co-author)

Selected Exhibitions/Works
2021
Tales Of the Unwritten, Exhibit Around, Trieste - Italy
(group, as artist) Photography

The high Cost of Free Speech (Collaboration with Shepard Fairey)

2015
Devil’s Reign – Howl Gallery, Ft Myers
(group, as artist) Photography

Quarterly Editions, Online
(solo, as artist) Drawing on paper

2014
Vita E Morte – Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles – July 26 – August 23
(solo, as artist collective CMHHTD) Photography, Digital Manipulations, Sculptural & Audio works.

Cross My Heart Hope To Die (discography)

2010
Post-It, Giant Robot, Los Angeles
(as artist) Drawings on paper

2008
Curator in Residence / Museumsquartier / Vienna, Austria
(as curator) Various curatorial projects and speaking engagements, including an exhibition by US Artist Scott Blake exploring Bar Codes and computer/visual identification.

2003-2006
sixspace / Gallery Co-Owner
(all exhibitions as co-curator)

Recognize – Glen E. Friedman (2006, Culver City)
The Idealist – Glen E. Friedman (2005, Los Angeles)
Rubixcubism – Space Invader (2005, Los Angeles)
This Is Your God  – Shepard Fairey (2004, Los Angeles)
Fuck You All – Glen E. Friedman (2003, Los Angeles)
The Medium Is The Message  – Shepard Fairey (1999, Chicago)
Fuck You All – Glen E. Friedman (1998, Chicago)

2003
SENT: America’s First Cameraphone Art Show / Los Angeles
(as co-curator) exhibition exploring photography and technology, and the influence these two things would have on people once they were merged and always in people’s pockets.

2002
Burning Brush Art Auctions
Organized a series of auctions in Los Angeles where a curated group of artists were invited to sell works directly to collectors without the influence of a gallery or the art world at large. Auctions included works by Tim Biskup, Seonna Hong, Mark Ryden, Josh “Shag” Agle, Glenn Barr, Camille Rose Garcia, The Clayton Brothers, Gary Baseman, Paul Frank, Lynn Naylor and others.

2000
Ellian-Wassup / Co-Creator
Created one of the first viral internet memes that spawned hundred of variations of the meme. Though clearly fair use and political satire, the Associated Press claimed the images within this video work were infringing on their rights and a short lived legal stand off ensued. The video won Yahoo!’s best of the web award for the year and is part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum Of The Moving Picture.

Selected Design
(As a professional designer Sean Bonner has credits on over 100 albums, these are only a few noteworthy examples)
2008 – Die Antwoord – $O$ – Interscope Records (design, creative direction, illustration)
1997 – Bad Brains – Omega Sessions – Victory Records (design, creative direction, illustration)
1997 – Hatebreed – Satisfaction Is the Death Of Desire – Victory Records (design, creative direction, illustration)
1997 – Hot Water Music – Fuel For The Hate Game – Toybox Records (design, creative direction, illustration)