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Education

1992
1989

Intensive Film Workshop, NYU, New York
First Class Honours Degree, Fine Art, NCAD, Dublin


Forthcoming Exhibitions

2008


2009

Singapore Biennale, Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Joselina Cruz and Matthew Ngui. 11th September – 16th November
House Warming, Group show, RED, South Dublin Art Centre. - 14th October
Video Zone Festival, Braveman Gallery, Tel Aviv, November 6th - December 11th

Solo Show, Limerick City Art Gallery
Sounds and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv – representing Ireland. Curated by Angelo Gioè and Maria Rosa Sossai.


Solo Exhibitions

2008


2007


2004



2003


2001

1999

1998

1997

1994

1993

New Work, Fenton Gallery, Cork.
Solo Exhibition at Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona

Metamorphosis, Houldsworth Gallery, London; Anita Beckers Galerie, Frankfurt; Galerie Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo.
Selected Works 1999 –2003, Galeria Art Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain.

MediaScope, MoMA, New York
A Film Trilogy, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo; Domus Artium DA 2, Salamanca, Spain;

A Film Trilogy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden; Galleri Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain; Fenton Gallery, Cork.

Too dark for night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Vedanta Gallery, Chicago; Fenton Gallery, Cork

Forty Below, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin

Track, Model Arts Centre, Sligo

Track, Hafnarburg Cultural Centre, Iceland; University of Salamanca, Spain; Gallery of Photography, Dublin

Dogdays, Cult Galerie, Vienna, Austria

Dogdays, City Arts Center, Dublin; Unwahr Galerie, Berlin, Germany


Selected Group Shows

2008





2007




2006

2005



2004



2003



2002





2001

2000

1999

El agua y sus sueños contemporaneous, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain. Curated by Miguel Marcos and Fernando Castro-Flórez
Loop '08 – Barcelona, Fundacio Miro, A Film Trilogy – Part of the Collection of The Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by IMMA director Enrique Juancosa.
Rendez-vous – curated by Isabelle Bertolotti, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Atlas of the Future - Visions of Scenarios to Come, - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Italy Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt

Becks Fusions, collaboration with Sigur Rós - Trafalgar Square, Curated by & ICA London.
Rendez - Vous, Lyon Biennale, curated by Isabelle Bertolotti
Terra Infirma, Pratt Gallery, New York, curated by Berta Sichel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain.
Apocalypse, Candace Dawn Gallery, New York.

Group Exhibition, with Juane Plensa and Zhang Huan, Galerie Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain

Marking Time / Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Florida, curated by Lorie Mertes
Vision Express, Shanghai Youth Biennale 2005, Lui Hai Su Art Museum, Curated by Fumio Nanjo
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

Tir na Nog: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection, IMMA, Dublin
Views from an Island; Contemporary Art from Ireland, Millennium Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Gallery of Modern Art, Shanghai, China.

Panoramica, Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
After Nature, CCA, Glasgow
The New Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

International 2002, Liverpool Biennial
, Tate Liverpool
25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (representing Ireland)
View Finder, curated by Catsou Roberts / Stephen Hepworth, Arnolfini, Bristol.
Greyscale / CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London

At Sea, curated by Victoria Pomery, Tate Liverpool

Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2000, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Utopias, curated by John Hutchinson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
First Look, curated by Patrick T. Murphy, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Loose End, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway


Film Festivals

2007



2002

Metamorphosis, Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany. – Premier prize for International Film
Metamorphosis, Lorcrano Film Festival, Switzerland
Metamorphosis, Loop Art Fair Barcelona

Too dark for night, Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Youth Jury Award.


Film Projects

1998

1997

1995

1994

1992

1991

Art Director on James Coleman’s Photograph

Assistant Art Director on The Boxer re-shoot directed by Jim Sheridan

Assistant Art Director on Some Mothers Son directed by Terry George

Assistant Art Director on Braveheart directed by Mel Gibson

Art Director on Far and Away directed by Ron Howard

Short film for Dorothy Cross shown at Powerhouse, ICA, Philadelphia


Art Fairs

2008




2007

Pulse New York – Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Art Cologne, Germany, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
SWAB – Barcelona - Galeria Cadaques Dos, Spain
Arco, Madrid – Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona

Pulse Miami – Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Art Miami - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Pulse London - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Year ’07 - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Loop, Barcelona - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Chicago Art Fair - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt


Residencies

2005

2004


1998

1997

Residency at at La Fondation Albert Gleizes, Moly Sabata, France

Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Artist in Residence at Roches Point Lighthouse, Cork.

Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin


Awards

2007-
2009


2003-
2004

1992-

2007


1992

Arts Council Multi- Annual Bursary



Nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Visual Artists


Visual Arts Bursaries & commissions from The Arts Council of Ireland & The Irish Film Board.


Fulbright Scholarship
to attend Intensive Film Workshop at N.Y.U.


Collections

  • Tony Podesta Private Collection, Washington DC
  • Hugo & Carla Brown, Private Collection
  • Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • Clarks Private Collection, UK
  • Dublin Institute of Technology
  • University College Dublin
  • University College Cork


Selected Filmography

  • The ice above, the fire below, 2008 – 8 minutes
  • Metamorphosis, 2007 - 9 minutes
  • The Flooded Rooms, 2007 - 4 minutes
  • I Gaer - with Sigur Ros for Becks Fusions, 2007 – 6 minutes
  • Glass Hour, 2002, 8 minutes
  • Too dark for night, 2001, 10 minutes
  • Storm, 2001 3 minutes
  • Floodlight, 2000, 3 minutes
  • Forty Below 1999, 5 minutes


Selected Bibliography

  • Rachael Thomas, The ice above, the fire below, 2008
  • Metamorphosis - through a glass darkly - Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator, Head of Exhibitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2007
  • Terra Infirma - Berta Sichel, Director of the Department of Audiovisuals and Film & Video Curator, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain, 2007
  • Civilization’s Homestretch, Mimi Thompson for Apocalypse, Candace Dawn Gallery, New York 2007
  • No Place to Stay, Clare Langan – A Film Trilogy - Aidan Dunne, RHA, Dublin, 2003
  • International 2002 - Christoph Grunenberg, Liverpool Biennial 2002
  • Apocalypse Now, Clare Langan - Too dark for night - Christoph Grunenberg, Published on the occasion of Ireland’s participation in the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002
  • Too dark for night, - Patrick T. Murphy, Paises, 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Iconografias Metropolitanas, 2002
  • Greyscale / CMYK, - Patrick T. Murphy, Tramway, Glasgow, 2002
  • View Finder - Stephen Hepworth & Catsou Roberts, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2002
  • Silent Witness to the Devouring Forces of Nature - Medb Ruane, Sunday Times, 2001
  • Glen Dimplex Artists’Award 2000 - Sarah Glennie, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2000
  • Patrick T. Murphy, Regarding Location, Clare Langan - Forty Below, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 1999