SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024 FORMAT Festival, curated by Peggy-Sue Amison (UK)
2023 The Song of the Bleeding Tree, (SOLO) curated by Séamus Kealy, Salzburg Kunstverein, (Austria)
2023 Collaboration with musician Peter Gabriel (UK/Worldwide)
2023 It took a Century, The National Gallery of Ireland (IRL)
2023 RHA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Hibernian Academy (IRL)
2023 ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program Residency Award by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, New York (USA)
2022 Optimisim for the Future, Kaunas European Capital of Culture Lithuania, commissioned Artist for the European Capital of Culture 2022 Klostés/
Folds/Pleats, feature film to be presented during the year of Culture.(LIT)
2021-2023. by slight ligaments we are born to prosperity or ruin, , touring solo curated by Sarah Searson, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Source Art Centre,,
Centre Cultural Irlandais Paris, Canadian Consulate Paris, Lithuanian Consulate Paris, Belfast International International Arts Festival & North
America (USA)
2022 Listen. Liquid, the syllables; the echo, luminous Art Basel Hong Kong with Galeria IH (CN)
2021 Girls Go Boom, curated by Alice Donckels, Cluibhuis, Rotterdam ( Netherlands) / (KultureHaus)Gent, Belgium (BM)
2023 The Machine Stops, Aideen Barry & Christo & Andrew curated by Peggy Sue Amison (TBC)
2021-2022 Passing-time,initiated by Neville Wakefield & Alex Perweiler, an artist-driven experiment that has no commercial or institutional affiliation www.passing-time.org.
2021 Politics CAC Collection Malága, Spain, Aideen Barry, Iván Pérez, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Daniel Richter curated by Almudena Ríos
2020 The Long Minute, curated by Bronwyn Lace, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, South Africa
2019 Fair is foul &foul is fair, Glucksman House, NYU, New York City.(USA)
2019 Welcome Home, curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Elephant West Elephant Magazine, Elephant Gallery, London, (UK)
2019 Elliptical Affinities, IRISH WOMEN ARTISTS AND THE POLITICS OF THE BODY, 1984 TO THE PRESENT, curated by Dr. Fiona Banner & Aoife Ruane, Manchester Univeristy Art Gallery, Limerick City Gallery and the Highlands Gallery 2019-2021.
2019 Frieze Art Fair, VIP Programme with Elephant West, Elephant Art & Welcome Home curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry (UK)
2019 The Film Makers Co-Op, Manhattan, NYC (US)
2019 Aesthetica Film Festival (UK)
2019 Oaxaca Film Festival ( Mex)
2019 Galway International Arts Festival 2019. (IRE)
2019 21st Century Ireland, in 21 Art Works, Glebe House, Curated by Cristín Leech (IRE)
2019 A Double, A Dream, A Skin, Alchemy Film Festival, Harwick, Scotland (UK).
2019 Everything Changes, Nothing Perishes, solo, Galeria IH, Malaga Spain.(ESP)
2019 Kaunas 2022 AIR invited residency, Kaunas, Lithuania.(LTH)
2018 Oculto en una infinidad de pequeñas cosas/concealed in an infinity of little things Galeria Concrete, Solo curated by Ximena Moreno,
Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile. With a 2018 Culture Ireland Award.(CHL)
2017 Strange Terrain, Danube Cultural Conference, Pecs, Hungary (HU)
2017 In Consequence of Everything, curated by Mirra Goldfrad, Random Access Gallery, Syracruse University, Syracuse NY.(US)
2017 SLICE,VAST,DEEP Lexicon Gallery, (IRE)
2017 The Way things Go: An Homage to the Fiscilli and Weiss, Butler Gallery curated by Anna O Sullivan, Ireland. (IRL)
2017 Not to be Known, Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork, July 17th-October 4th. Curated by Dawn Wiliams.(IRL)
2016 Morph/transform, Solo, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.(IRL)
2017 Vermont Studio Centre, Fellowship, Vermont, (US)
2017 The Museum of August Destiny, at the Pearse Museum, Dublin ( Touring project).
2016 A Different Republic, Centenary show at the Lab, commissioned by Fire-Station (IRL)
2016 Sense, European Facebook HQ, Docklands, DublinIreland, curated by Gemma Tipton.(IRL)
2016 Conversation on Drawing, curated by Mary-Ruth Walsh, RHA, Ely Place (IRL)
2016 Brittlefield, Solo Survey Show, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place Dublin ( IRL)
2016 The Museum of August Destiny, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Co. Waterford. Invited by Eamonn Maxwell (IRL)
2016 Residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art ( 12 month residency)
2016 By Association, IMMA Commission to respond to the works of Carol Rama. (IRL)
2016 COE Selected, a group project curated by Helen O Donoghue
2016 Invited artist, Eigse, by Visual’s Emma Lucy O Brien, Carlow ( IRL)
2015 IGNITE touring Award 2015.( IRE)
2015 The Gallery of Wonder, curated by Irene Brown, as part of and Arts & Heritage UK Commission, (UK.)
2015 Wright State University, Stein Gallery,OHIO, (USA)
2016 RCA Annual, Invited Artist March 30th to April 30th, RCA London, Dubai Art Fair ( UAE)
2015 The Past Presence, The Dock Art Centre, Roscommon.(IRL)
2015 The Gallery of Wonder, Touring Curated Project, The Arts & Heritage Trust, (UK).
2014 Changing Tracks, EU Public Art Commission, Northampton (UK), and Catalonia (ESP),Mayo (IRE)
2014 Force Majore, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York ( US)
2014 Hold your Breath, Lauren Kelley & Aideen Barry, Two person Show in ASC Projects, San Francis (USA)
2013 Dangerous Beauty,Graffit Gallery, Bulgaria.(BUL)
2013 Comes and Goes as it pleases, Et al. San Francisco, California, (USA)
2013 ÓR, Curated by Robert Hayes and Vera Markevich, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia, (RUS).
2013 Pallas Periodical Review, selected by Eamonn Maxwell and Padraig E. Moore, Pallas ProjectSpace (IRL)
2013 ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, (ESP)
2013 ART OMI, International residency, Artist in Residency at the Beamish Centre, New York, USA.
2013 NINE, Curated by Liz Coman, The Lab, Dublin, IRL ( traveling to Galway Art Centre in 2014). (IRL)
2013 The Poetry Project, Curated by Gemma Tipton to mark the EU Presidency, (IRL)
2013 Fire station Studios residency and project exhibition, Dublin,(IRL).
2013 Gems from the Collection, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (,IRL)
2012 Beautiful Decay , printed publication, curated by Amir H. Fallah and Nathan Larmendy (USA)
2012 Possession at Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco California, US. (USA)
2012 The Island Within, curated by Hartwig Knack Kunsthall, Vienna, Austria, (AUT)
2012 Girls on Film, curated by Josephine Kelliher, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, (IRL)
2012 REMNANT, curated performance works, Ballina Art Centre, Co. Mayo, curated by Gaynor Seville (IRL)
2012 Nervous Notions and Menageries, Galarie Isabel Hurley Malaga, Spain, (ESP)
2012 Chance SF Centre for the Book, San Francisco, (USA)
2012 Mine!eld Public art Commission, Ballina Art Centre, Mayo County Council, (IRL).
2012 Undertow, a co-curated project with Alice Maher, Ormston House in Limerick and The LAB Dublin, (IRL)
2011 Apertures and Anxieties Royal Hibernian Academy & Trinity School of Medicine, (IRL)
2011 The San Francisco International Animation Festival 2011, (USA)
2011 Ludique Public art Commission, launch, Department of Education and Skills, (IRL).
2011 This Little Bag of Dreams, curated by Nathan Larramenedy, Catherine Clarke Gallery,(US).
2011 Who’s Afraid of Performance Art, Performance Project, Forde Galarie, Geneva, Switzerland. (CH)
2011 On Tenterhooks, MCAC, Northern Ireland, (UK.)
2011 Gravity, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork,(IRL).
2011 Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, (USA).
2011 Possession, solo at the Galway Arts Festival, (IRL).
2011 Flight Folly Mothers Tankstation, Dublin, Performance (IRL).
2010 Liste 15, “Performance Project”, The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, (CH)
2010 “PBN”, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, (IRL)
2010 Terror & The Sublime, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, (IRL)
2010 Only when the Tide goes out, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow, (IRL)
2010 Sound Design for Future Films, The Wexner Centre, Ohio, (USA)
2010 Bizarre Bazaar, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, (IRL)
2010 Noughties but Nice, Visual, Carlow, (IRL)
2010 Next Art fair, Chicago, (USA)
2010 Morphology of the Other,The Butler Gallery. Solo Show, (IRL)
2009 Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, (IRL)
2009 Force Majeuire, The Lab, Dublin, (IRL)
2009 the disjoined and the morphological Mermaid Arts Centre. Solo Show, (IRL).
2009 Park Life, St. Anne’s Park and Gardens, Dublin City Council, (IRL)
2009 of hypothetical evolutions of another, Galway Arts Centre. Solo Show, (IRL)
2009 Brochure, Ard Bia Gallery, Galway/Berlin, Germany, (DE)
2009 FRA GIL, Bonnat Museum, Lyon, France. (FRA)
2009 Notions of Capital, The Dock, CarrigonShannon, Leitrim, (IRL)
2009 Sound Design for Future Films, Modern Musette, Sweden, (SE)
2009 Behind Smoke and Mirrors, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, (IRL)
2008 Stomper, Louise T. Bloudin Institute, London, (UK.)
2008 Beckett 13, The Banff Centre, Canada, (CAN.)
2008 About 100 Experiments” Birr, Offaly, (IRL).
2008 FRA GIL Loop, Video Art Biennale, Barcelona, Spain,( ESP).
2008 The Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, (IRL)
2007 City of Ideas Tulca 2007, Galway , (IRL)
2007 Never been to Tehran, Lower Manhattan Cultural Centre,Tehran, Iran, New York, (USA)
2007 Heavier-Than-Air Flying machines are impossible, Contemporary Lab, Bang Kok, Thailand (TH)
2007 Stand Out Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada,( CAN)
2007 Alterity, Cavan Museum, Cavan, (IRL)
2007 House Projects Galway, Dublin, New York, London. (UK)
2007 Visual Fictions The Fenton Gallery, Cork, (IRL)
2007 Resonances, Drogheda Arts Centre, Louth, (IRL)
2007 Convoy Skaftfell Gallery, Seidisfjorder, Iceland, (IS)
2006 Navigations: Per Forma,Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, (IRL)
2006 Folklore experiments Tulca 2006, Galway, (IRL)
2006 Concave,Convex The Berkley Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival. (IRL)
2006 Lateral Inhibition, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, (IRL)
2006 Anaxiphales Ard Bia Gallery, Galway. (IRL)
2005 Interim, Tulca 2005, Galway, (IRL)
2005 Whatgoesaroundcomesaround, Cork 2005 The European Capital of Culture, (IRL)
2005 The First book of ideas, Arts Scene, Shanghai, China, (CN)
2004 Storm Reader, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Over all Prize winner, Mayo, I(RL)
2004 Sculpture in Context, National Botanical Gardens, Dublin, (IRL)
2004 “Horizon”, Tulca 2004, Galway, (IRL)
2003 “Bloomsday” , Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris, (FRA.)
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2023 International Studio & Curatorial Programme NYC Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Award
2023 Salzburg Kunstverein Residency Award
2022 YADDO International Residency Programme
2021 Golden Fleece Award
2021 Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award for Visual Art 2021/2022
2020 Elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy as an ARHA
2020 Yaddo International Residency program ( residency postponed due to Covid)
2020 Anderson Lecture Series Penn State University, USA
2019 Elected to Aosdána
2019 The Myron Marty Lectureship at Drake University Iowa, USA.
2019 Teaching Fellowship at VCU, Richmond, Virginia.
2018 Culture Ireland Award (iSolo in Chile i2018)
2018 Professor Emeritus Award/Teaching Fellow at the Universidad Santiago Chile, November-December 2018
2017 DLRLexicon Commission Award
2017 Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship award
2017 Arts Council of Ireland Project New Work Film Award
2017 Arts council of Ireland Bursary Award
2016 Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, winner for the 2015 final entry.
2016 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award
2016 IMMA Residency Award
2015 IGNITE Touring Award
2015 Cork City Council Bursary Award
2014 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award
2014 IGNITE Award ( Arts and Disability/ Arts Council of Ireland Commission)
2014 CHANGING TRACKS EU Public Art Commission
2014 Business to Arts Award, for FIND mentoring programme
2014 Arts & health, Arts & Disability Enquiry Award, CREATE, ADI, Arts Council of Ireland
2014 ADAI Award
2013 Art OMI, residency in New York and and Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award
2012 Firestation Digital Media residency
2012 The Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award
2012 Artist Residency Award, Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris.
2011 Galway County Council, Bursay Award.
2011 The Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training Awards.
2011 Artist Residency Headlands Centre for the Arts, California.
2010 Culture Ireland Award
2010 Public Art Commission, The National development Plan 2010-2021Gael Scoil na Laois,
2010 Shortlisted for the AIB Prize
2010 The Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Awards.
2008 NASA, residency at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, US.
2008- 2009 The Arts Council of Ireland, Project Awards.
2008 Arts Council of Ireland, Art and Disability Award
2007 Banff Residency, The Banff centre Canada
2007 Skaftfell Residency, Seidisfjorder, Iceland.
2007 The Travel and Training Award
2006 Experimental Film Award, The Cork Film Festival.
2004 Claremorris Open Award
2002 Student of the Year Award, GMIT and HETAC.
2001 Galway County Council, Artist Grant.
2000 Walsh Waste Award