Nigel Rolfe -.: JHB Gallery
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NIGEL ROLFE EDUCATION Farnham School of Art, 1969 - 1971 Bath Academy of Art, 1971 - 1974 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2012 The Dark End of the Street: Works from Contested Ground, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2010 European Dream, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Unseen, 10 Works 1982 and 2010, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ireland 2009 Notes on a Return – The Rope, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England Inversion, University College Dublin, Permanent Video Installation, Dublin, Ireland 2008 The Milk of Human Kindness / Video 2008 and selected videoworks 1983 - 2008 / Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Dust Breeding, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2006 Momento Mori, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork Flowers-Momento Mori, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2005 The Book of Signs, Polaris Gallery, Paris, France Many Silver Things, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2003 From Darkness to Annihilation, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2002 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Absence and Loss, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2001 Performances, fotografias y videos Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Ghost, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000 Life Without Life (installation), Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Learnington Spa, Warwickshire, England Corps, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Introduction 1, Centre Culturel Condorcet, Chateau Chinon, France Lament, site specific installation on River Foyle, Derry, Northern Ireland The River The Path, Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland Joy, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Life Without Life, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Works with Photography, Inauguration of CAMAC, Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine, France Two Drums, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France 1998 Life Without Life, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Nigel Rolfe, monocromatic section, XXIV Biennial Sao Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 1997 Nigel Rolfe - Two Drums, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Private Pictures, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Listening to the Landscape, Academia Bartolomeo Cristofori, Florence, Italy; Galerie Polaris, Paris, France; and Inis Meain, Aran Islands, Ireland 1996 Nigel Rolfe - Videos 1983- 1996, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France La Rosa, Red on Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland E Bamba lo Fosho (he picks up the spade), Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Video Works, 1983-96, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1995 Photographic project of knitwear from Inis Mean, Aran Islands, Ireland, for trade fairs in Europe, America, and Japan Working with Christy Moore as co-producer on a recording project 1994 Field of Dreams, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Per For Mer, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS, continued Archive, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Resonator, City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Everyday Objects, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1993 Frozen Moments, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts, Cleveland, OH Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska (two person with Terry Allen) Children Love Children, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1992 Private Pictures, El Sur Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan Frozen Moments, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY Hands, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Resonator, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Wind From The North, Muury, Helsinki, Finland (Sound & slide installation) The Great Book, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1991 Hands, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany Works With Photography, Dolan / Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Commissioned work, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Lament, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland 1990 Shrouds Woodblocks Photoworks Texts Sounds, Dolan / Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY Black and White Photoworks, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1986 Island Stories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1984 Various Works, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1982 Nine Shrouds, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Ground Drawings, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1978 Red Towers, Individual Parts, Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff, Wales Red Wedge, Acme Gallery, London, England Zebra, Time / Space Series, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 1977 Various Works, Funge Arts Center, Gorey, Wexford County, Ireland 1976 Balance Structures, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2011 A Rocky Road, curated by Sean Lynch, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2010 History of Disappearance - Live art from New York 1975 – present, Aarhus Art Building, Denmark 2008 10,000 to 50: Gerard Byrne, Paul Doran, Nigel Rolfe & Corban Walker, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Immergence, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Off Site, National Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Abhar agus Meon, UCD Newman House, Dublin, Ireland Performance/Video/Photo, Bussan Biennale, Korea 2006 Cross-section, from the Collection of the Arts Council, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland 2005 Siar, 50, 50 Years of Contemporary Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Bread Matters, Performance and Exhibition, West Cork Arts Centre, West Cork, Ireland Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland The Rope (from the Franklin Furnace New York’s History of the Future program), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England 2003 Summer Exhibition, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Summer Exhibition, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland Anti-war Exhibition, Royal College of Art, Photography Department, London, England 2002 The Unblinking Eye, lens based work from the I.M.M.A collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Ireland Something Else - Irish Contemporary Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland and traveling SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, continued to: Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Oulu City Art Museum, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland 2001 Summer exhibition, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland FIAC, Galerie Polaris, Paris, London Contemporary Art Fair, Chicago Art Fair, Koln Art Fair, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2000 New Media, New Faces, New Direction, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Shifting Ground, Selected Works of Irish Art 1950 – 2000, The Rope, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Summer exhibition, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Kingdom of Heaven, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland Chicago Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery; Brussels Art Fair, Polaris Galerie, Paris, France London Contemporary Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Inevitable Progression I, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA The Waters, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland 1998 Récentes Oeuvres, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Christmas Show, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland XXIV Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brasil Les ordonnances de l’eau, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France Troubled: Photography, Film and Video from Northern Ireland, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC 1997 Christmas Show, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea 71:40, Milch Gallery, London, England Power, curated by Sung Wan-kyung, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea 1997 Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives,The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, curated by Jayne H. Baum and Vicky Clark, Pittsburgh, PA 1996 Self-Portrait in Despair - for those who confuse creativity with capitalism, Temple Bar Print Suite, Dublin, Ireland The Celts are Coming, Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark Photowork for Invited Ev+A '96 adjuncted by Guy Tortosa, postcard for EV+A '96 artist's postcards 1995 PENNART, The Department of Fine Arts, Meyerson Hall Galleries, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Poetic Land - Political Territory, Northern Centre for Comtimporary Art, Sunderland, City Library and Arts Centre, Sunderland, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, AberystwythArt Centre, Oriel, Cardiff, Barbican Centre, London, City Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stiriling, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Alloway, England 1994 Paradoxical Scale, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Brought to Book, Flowers East, London, England 1993 Fields of Vision: Selected Works by Contemporary Irish Artists, curated by Peter Lukehart, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Photoworks, University of Massachusetts, Herter Art Gallery Amgerst, MA. touring to Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Survival in the Technological World, curated by Philip LaDouceur, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA Fictions of the Self, curated by Michael Coblyn and Trevor Richardson, traveled to: Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Palazzo de Exhibitions, Rome, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Nice, France Island Stories, video, shown in To Camera, a Film and Video Umbrella traveling program: SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, continued Watershed, Bristol, England; University of Warwick, England; Center for Contemporary, Open Space, Reading; England, Broadway, Nottingham, England 1992 From Day to Night, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan (billboard) 1992 Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower