CV
Education
2019
Became a member of Aosdana
2017
Honorary Doctorate in Fine Art from The National University of Ireland
1992
Fulbright Scholarship for Film Studies NYU, New York
1989
First Class Honors Degree, Fine Art, NCAD, Dublin
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Alchemy, Living Canvas, IMMA
Interface Inagh, Galway Arts Festival
2023
ELIZIUM, Sarah Walker Gallery
A New Dawn Fades, Golden Thread Gallery
At The Gates of Silent Memory, Luan Gallery, curated by Eamonn Maxwell
2019
The Dock, Carrig on Shannon, Leitrim
2017
Lismore Castle, Waterford - Solo exhibition
Tom Tompson Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada
2015
The Floating World - Three screen installation - VISUAL Carlow, Ireland
2012
State of Suspension, Galerie Anita Beckers, Germany
2010
The Wilderness Part 1, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2009
The ice above, the fire below, and other works 2007 - 2009
Limerick City Gallery of Art; Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
2008
New Work, Fenton Gallery, Cork
Solo Exhibition at Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona
2007
Metamorphosis, Houldsworth Gallery, London
Metamorphosis, Galerie Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo
1999 –2003
Galeria Art Gaspar, & Galeria Cadaqués Dos, Barcelona
MediaScope, MoMA, New York
A Film Trilogy, Domus Artium DA 2, Salamanca, Spain
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo
2003
A Film Trilogy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden; Fenton Gallery, Cork
Galleri Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain
2001
Too dark for night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Fenton Gallery, Cork
1999
Forty Below, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
1998
Track, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
1997
Track, Hafnarburg Cultural Centre, Iceland; University of Salamanca, Spain; Gallery of Photography, Dublin
Selected Group Shows
2024
When We Cease to Understand the World, exhibiting The Rewilding (2022), curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll. (Clare Langan, Clodagh Emoe, Jo Killalea, Kate Fahey, Kathryn Maguire, Sarah Ellen Lundy, Vanya Lambrecht-Ward.
2022
PhotoIreland Festival, Exhibiting Future Primal (2018)
TERRA INFIRMA, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren. Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Magdalena Jetelová & Clare Langan, curated by Jan T. Wilms.
2021
Artist Film International (AFI). Exhibiting Flight from the City (Music by Johann Johannsson). Partners: Bag Factory, Johannesburg. Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas, USA. Belgrade Culture Centre, Belgrade. Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm. Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan (CCAA). Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius. Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Friends of IZIKO South African National Gallery, Cape Town. Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires. GAMeC, Bergamo. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Istanbul Modern, Istanbul. MMAG Foundation, Amman. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow. Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila. Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. NBK, Berlin. Para Site, Hong Kong. Project 88, Mumbai. Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø. Whitechapel Gallery, London.
Peintures A Leau, Galerie Analix Forever, Chene-Bourg, Switzerland
2020
And in the Silence Came … The Anthropocene days
Stiftung Nantesbuch Centre for Art and Nature Munich, and MUCA Munich Spring 2021
2019
The Gifts of Tony Podesta, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center
Ritratti Di Poesia, Poetry Festival, Rome
Physical Cinema Festival, Bio Paradis, Reykjavk, Iceland
Of Music and Making , Solstice Gallery, Navan Ireland
Moving Women, Magda Danysz Gallery. Group Exhibition
Shaping Ireland - The National Gallery of Ireland
2018
The Best of Kino Der Kunst, Dirimart Istanbul curated by director Heinz Peter Schwerfel
A New Eden - The Art Mill, Szentendre, Hungary curated by Barbara Polla as part of The Art Capital Festival
2017
The Winter of 13 Storms, B3 Biennal of the Moving Image Frankfurt 2017 curated by Kelly Gordon & Anita Beckers
A NAME UNMADE: FRANCIS LEDWIDGE (1887-1917), Solstice Arts Centre. River – 3 screen video installation curated by Sabina Mac Mahon
2015
B3 Biennale Of the Moving Image, Frankfurt
Tulca Festival of Visual Art curated by Mary Cremin
Moving Pictures, curated by Anita Beckers, at the Marburger Kunstverein
2014
UNSEEN Photo Fair Amsterdam – 18th -21st September, with Galerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt
2012
None Went Mad, None Ran Away, - Group Show Rubicon Gallery
2011
In Search of the Miraculous; ten days of film video and photography, Crawford Off-site Destructiveness and Beauty, Norbert Frensch, Monica Ursina Jäger, Clare Langan. Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
State of Suspension - Gravity – Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland
Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta Katzen Center Museum, American University Museum
2010
The Wilderness, Part 1, Busan Biennale 2010, South Korea, curated by Takashi Azumaya
For Real - 30 Utopian Projections in Public Space, curated by ViewMaster Foundation, The Netherlands
2009
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
Dojima River Biennale 2009: Reflection: The World Through Art, Singapore Biennale curated by Fumio Nanjo & Kenji Kubota, Osaka, Japan
Goldstein Connections, Participating artists: Jack Goldstein, Gregor Hildebrandt, Clare Langan, Bjørn
Melhus, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Highlights of KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne - Group Exhibition composed by Gabriele Horn & Heinz Peter Schwerfel. - KunstWerke, Berlin and Centre Pompidou, Paris
A Secret Understanding, touring exhibition programmed by Forma Arts
The Best of LOOP 2008, Pacific Design Center, LA, curated by Paul Young
H20: Film on Water, Great River Arts, Vermont Connecticut, & Cynthia Reeves Gallery New York
Then & Now: Evolving Art Practices, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Terror and the Sublime: Art and Politics in an Age of Anxiety, from the IMMA Collection, The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Adventures in Sound & Image; Panorama 1: I thought I was Hallucinating, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
House Warming, RED South Dublin Art Centre
The ice above, the fire below, Pulse New York 2009 – featured installation Galerie Anita Beckers
2008
Singapore Biennale, Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Joselina Cruz & Matthew Ngui
Video Zone Festival, Braveman Gallery, Tel Aviv
El agua y sus sueños contemporaneous, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain. Curated by Miguel Marcos & Fernando Castro-Flórez
Loop 08’ – Barcelona, Fundacio Miro, A Film Trilogy – The Collection of The Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by Enrique Juancosa
Rendez-vous – curated by Isabelle Bertolotti, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Atlas of the Future - Visions of Scenarios to Come, - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
2007
Becks Fusions,Trafalgar Square, Curated by ICA London
Metamorphosis, Lyon Biennale, curated by Isabelle Bertolotti
Metamorphosis, Pratt Art Gallery, New York, curated by Berta Sichel
Apocalypse, Candace Dawn Gallery, New York
2006
Group Exhibition, with Juame Plensa and Zhang Huan, Galerie Cadaques, Spain
Marking Time / Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Florida, curated by Lorie Mertes
Vision Express, Shanghai Youth Biennale, Lui Hai Su Art Museum, by Fumio Nanjo
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2004
Tir na Nog: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection, IMMA, Dublin
Views from an Island; Contemporary Art from Ireland, Millennium Museum Beijing, China
Panoramica, Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
After Nature, CCA, Glasgow
The New Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2002
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, curated by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Tramway, Glasgow
The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London
2001
At Sea, curated by Victoria Pomery, Tate Liverpool
2000
Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2000, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Selected Film Festivals & Screenings
2025
The Heart of a Tree (2020), Living Canvas, IMMA, Dublin
Alchemy (2024), Living Canvas, IMMA, Dublin
Loop Lab Busan Fair, South Korea
2024
Flight from the City (2015), Artists' International Film Festival, Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway
The Heart of a Tree (2020), Image Ouverte Festival , The Window, Paris
The Heart of a Tree (2020), CINEDANS Festival, Film Eye Museum, Amsterdam
2022
Wild Haven, The Art Childrens Centre Dublin
Future Primal (2018), PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
2020
The Heart of a Tree, World Premiere, Kino Der Kunst, 2020 Munich
2014
The Floating World, VIDEOFORMES 2014, Prix Videoformes 2014, Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme
2013
The Floating World, Premiere Kinoderkunst, Munich
The Floating World, 'The poetics of mountains, their mutations and multifarious things', ARTPROJX, Verbier, Switzerland
2012
Vardeldur, by Sigur Ros, director Clare Langan, Short film made as part of The Valtari Mystery Film
Experiment, London Film Festival at BFI
2011
INVIDEO 2011, Milan, Italy, The Wilderness, Part 1
2007
Metamorphosis, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Principle Prize
Awards
2022
RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition, Winner of The Progressive Vision Curtin O' Donoghue Photography Prize
2019
Visual Arts Bursaries & Project Funding from The Arts Council of Ireland, & The Irish Film Board
2014
VIDEOFORMES 2014, Prix Videoformes 2014, Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme
2007
Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany Premier Prize for Metamorphosis
1992
Fulbright Scholarship to attend Intensive Film Workshop at N.Y.U.