Sean Burns is an artist, editor and writer.

He is the director of the film Dorothy Towers and the co-founder of Queer Street Press, an independent publishing imprint.

He has written extensively on art and culture and sits on an advisory council at Tate. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Tate Publishing recently released his book, Death, which explores the intertwined relationships between life, love and mortality in art.

In 2024, he received a Montez Press residency and development grant. He lives in London and is an associate editor of frieze.