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Name: Susan Connolly Email: [email protected] Web site: www.susanconnolly.com
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, curator Mirjami Schuppert 2018 Slippage, Platform Arts, Belfast 2017 Traces of an activity, The Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, curator: Ruth Carroll/Victoria Evans An Exhibition, qss, Belfast 2015 over & over + over and over, dlr Lexicon, Dublin, curator Rowan Sexton When the Ceiling Meets the Floor, The Lab, Dublin, curator Sheena Barrett 2014 Something about Some Thing to do with Paint, The MAC, Belfast, curator Hugh Mulholland 2007 SHIFT, Stone Gallery, Dublin, curator Cleo Fagan 2006 AINT, Draiocht, Dublin, curator Carissa Farrell 2005 Queen Street Gallery, Belfast
Group Exhibitions
2020 FE McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, curator: Riann Coulter + Louise Wallace 2019 MAKing Art: PAINTing, Draiocht Art Centre, Dublin, curator: Sharon Murphy Archive of Paint, Ulster University, Belfast 2018 After an Act, The GoldenThread Gallery, Belfast, curator: Peter Richards Art Car Boot Sale, Invited Artist, Russborough House, Wicklow 188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New York Unafraid- White, qss, Belfast, curator: Colin Darke 2017 Fully Awake, Glasgow OPW exhibition, Armagh/Dublin Nasty Women (Dublin), Pallas Studios Peripheries, Gorey School of Art, curator: James Merrigan 187th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2016 Artbox Bazaar, Dublin Mirror, Independent Studios, Dublin/London Studio Members Exhibition, qss, Belfast Veins, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, curators; Prendergast & Moor Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow, selectors: Annie Fletcher, Claire Feeley, Emma Lucy O'Brien 186th RHA Annual Exhibition 2015 What is and What Might be, The Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, curators; Aoife Ruane, Colin Martin, Cliodhna Shaffrey 2014 Persona, ArtBox Project Space, Dublin (Two person show), curator Hilary Murray The Trouble with Painting, The Pumphouse Gallery, London, curator Hannah Conroy Essays for the House of Memory, Ormston House, Limerick, curator Haizea Barcenilla 2013 Three Degrees of Painting, Solstice Art Centre, curator Carissa Farrell Detonate, Limerick, curator Michele Horrigan Stranger/Stranger, The Complex, Dublin 2012 Urban Interventions, NCAD/UCD/DCC, Grafton St, Dublin 2011 Airport for Shadows, Cross Gallery, Dublin, curator Mark St. John Ellis Consellations, Eigse, Carlow, curator Emma Lucy O’Brien Blue, SOMA, Waterford, curator Rachael Corcoran and Paul Hallahan Connections, Red/Rua, Dublin, curator Hugh McCarthy 2010 Irish Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai, China, curator James Ryan Connections, RED/RUA, Dublin, curator Hugh McCarthy 2009 New Traditions, Group Exhibition, Stone Gallery, Dublin, curator Anne Hendrick 2007 Iontas07, Sligo Art Gallery 2004/03 EV+A’03, selected by Virginia Perez-Ratton 2002 Catalyst Arts, Group Show, Belfast
Awards/Residency’s and Commissions
2019 Kildare County Councils, Arts Bursary Invited speaker, Perceptions of Irish Culture, WIT, Mar’19 2018 Invited speaker, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, Feb’18 2017 Shortlisted Art Panel- Stage 3, Infrastructure, Fingal County Council Public Art Programme 2017-2021 Invited Speaker, Painting/Materiality, RHA School, Dublin, Nov’17 Invited artist response, IMMA Freud Project, Dublin Invited Chair, Painting Now, VAI event, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast Art Grant Award, Kildare County Council Short-listed artist, Suki Tea Prize, NI Artist Residency, The Golden Foundation, NY, Feb/Mar’17 2016 VAI Get Together, Invited Speaker, IMMA, Dublin, Aug’16 Invited Speaker, Slow Motion: A Painting Symposium, UU, Belfast PhD conference 2016, awarded presentation of excellence award Invited participant in a documentary about Contemporary Irish Painting, curated by James Merrigan and filmed/produced by Saskia Vermeulen 2015 Artist Talk, LSAD, Dec’15 in-conversation with Dougal McKenzie, dlrLexicon, Oct’15 What is and What might be, artist talk and workshop, July 15 Invited Speaker, Artists present, University of Ulster, Belfast 2014 Invited Speaker, The Place of Painting, Symposium, The Mac, Belfast Artist Bursary Award, Kildare County Council 2013 Conference paper, Doubt and Visual Representation, UCC, Cork Kildare County Councils, Arts Bursary 2012 Invited Speaker, PAINTTUBE, Symposium, NCAD, Dublin 2011 Habitation, curated project, Kildare County Council Commission, St Mary’s Secondary School, Naas, Co. Kildare Commission, St Franan’s Secondary School, Prosperous, Co.Kildare 2010 WARP, Artist Residency, Belgium 2009 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland DCR, Artist Residency, The Hague, Holland. June-July 2008 New York Research Trip, May-Aug 2007 Artist Panel, 2007-2008, IMMA % for Art, Scoil an Linbh Iosa, Prosperous, Co. Kildare 2006 Artist in Residency, Driaocht, Dublin, June-Dec’06 Artist Bursary, Kildare County Council 2005 Tyrone Guthrie residency, awarded from Kildare County Council 2004 Awarded General Art Award, Arts Council of N.I 2003 Irish Art Review, Most Promising Young Artist 2000 ‘Cill Rialaig Artist Residency’, Kerry 1997 Taylor Art Award, RDS, Dublin
Publication
MAKing Art: PAINTing, Sara Muthi, VAI newsletter, May’19 After an Act, Slavka Sverakova, June’18 Artist response, Freud Project, IMMA VAI- Painting edition, Sept’17 RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good natured show, The Irish Times, May’17 Others, Other-d and Otherness, Response to a Request, online journal, Dec’16 Visual Arts Round up, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, July’16 VAN, curated by James Merrigan, Spring 2016 BAM, Berlinartmagazine, Nov’15 What is and What might be, Shower of Kunst, May’15 Visual Arts Round up, Painters who break the rules, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 05/05/15 When the Ceiling Meets the Floor, Eoin Dara,April 2015 (commissioned text) Short texts…, Declan Long, June’15 The Dance, James Merrigan, Billion,, May’15 Susan Connolly at the Mac, by Declan Long, June 2014 (commissioned text) Something about Some Thing to do with Paint, by Slavka Serakova , May 2014 The Irish Art Review, ‘Three Degrees of Painting’, by Carissa Farrell, Winter 2013 Subjects on a painter, Online Journal Studentszine.com, Issue 3, Open Submission Award, 2011 Connections, Sunday Irish Times, Culture Section, Cristin Leach, 1 May 2011 Expo 2010, China, feature artist AIR, Someone’s Garden, Japan, Nov’09 Circa, Slavka SverakovaFeb’08 VAN, May’07 Irish Times, ‘Crossing spaces and structures’, by Aidan Dunne, Feb’07 Irish Times, ‘Dreamers in difficult spaces’, by Aidan Dunne, Jan’06 EV+A 2003, catalogue for exhibition selected by Virginia Perez-Ratton The Sunday Business Post, ‘Gambling on art’s young talent’, Mar’03
Education
2014-2018 PhD candidate, Ulster University, Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship 2011-2013 NCAD, Art in the Contemporary World- MA, Dublin 2000-2002 University of Ulster-Belfast, Masters in Fine Art 1994-1998 Limerick School of Art and Design, Degree in Fine Art-Painting 1996: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lecturing
2006- present Lecturer in Visual Art, WIT, Waterford 2017-19 Assistant Lecturer, Painting Dept, Ulster University, Belfast 2007-2010 Assoicate Lecturer, Visual Art Practice-Painting, iadt, Dublin 2002-2003 Assistant Lecturer, Painting Dept, LSAD, Limerick