Milestone 2017
Sesow’s own year-end assessment: “2017 was my best year yet with art sales and shows, new studio, museum solo…
Sesow's own year-end assessment: "2017 was my best year yet with art sales and shows, new studio, museum solo show" — the year spanned the close of the AVAM exhibition, the Squire Foundation residency, two gallery solos, and a new studio
Where this record comes from
- history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Sesow’s own year-end assessment: ‘2017 was my best year yet with art sales and shows, new studio, museum solo….” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2017. history.sesow.com/e/2017-own-year-end-assessment-my.html. Accessed [date].
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Also in 2017
- Milestone American Visionary Art Museum selects 26 Sesow paintings for its permanent collection
- Exhibition Galerie Une Vision Singulière, Lamballe, France
- Exhibition Matt Sesow paintings shown alongside Meaghan Busch’s “Scratching the Surface”
- Exhibition “Sesow in the Zone,” Silo118 Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
- Milestone Painted 100 small works in a single day while preparing for the Santa Barbara solo
- Press Santa Barbara Magazine — writeup of the Silo118 solo exhibition and Squire Foundation residency
- Press Noozhawk.com — article previewing the Silo118 solo exhibition
- Milestone Three-week artist residency with The Squire Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
- Exhibition Paintings at Sideshow at AVAM gift shop
- Media Slovenian TV — Channel 1 documentary featuring Galerija Trebnje and interview with Sesow
- Press Santa Barbara Independent — review of Drink & Draw live painting event
- Press Featured in German book about the Pied Piper
- Press AVAM “Museum Gift Swap” — painting gifted to Phillips Museum
- Press Bologna, Italy — continued catalog inclusion and museum representation
- Exhibition “Art and the City,” Hill Center Galleries, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- Exhibition “Freedom Square” painting created for the architect of the monument at Freedom Square in Tehran, Iran
- Milestone Launched Patreon patron program
- Exhibition “Hair of the Dog,” Jeanine Taylor Folk Art Gallery, Sanford, FL
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn
- Exhibition “Matt Sesow: Politicized 2 — Inauguration Day Open House,” The Pub & The People, Washington, DC
- Press David J. Smith — “Baltimore’s Unofficial Museum of Social Justice: AVAM,” with a mention of “Shock and Awe”
- Milestone Studio move — leaves the Adams Morgan apartment studio
- Exhibition “Co_works” with Norbert Guthier, at the studio of Edouard Duval-Carrié, Miami, FL
- Exhibition “80 Years — Guernica Revisited,” VSA Colorado / Access Gallery, Denver, CO
- Media Artist visit and talk at AVAM
- Press Artborne Magazine — “Hair of the Dog: New Works by Matt Sesow”
- Exhibition “Déjà Vu,” Hill Center Galleries, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
- Media “Join Hands” added to the Los Angeles Public Library collection
- Exhibition “Shock and Awe” members-only closing reception, American Visionary Art Museum
- Press Cape Gazette — Delaware
- Milestone Paintings returned from the AVAM show are offered to collectors through a waiting list at avam.sesow.com…
- Exhibition “Outsider or Insider Art,” Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
- Exhibition Summer group show, Gallery 1515, Vancouver, BC
- Exhibition Monthly open studios with Dana Ellyn at 916 G Street NW #304
- Exhibition “Stepping into the Unknown,” group show on political anxiety, Silo118, Santa Barbara, CA
- Milestone AVAM puts its newly acquired Sesow paintings
- Media The Squire Foundation screens “Join Hands” with artist talks by its resident artists, Santa Barbara
- Media Live painting, “A Window to the Arts” pop-up studio, 927 State Street, Santa Barbara
- Exhibition Transformer annual Silent Auction & Benefit, Washington, DC
- Exhibition Two-Person Show — with Dana Ellyn