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click here to view recent bio and download current cv EAMON OKANE Born 10:09:1974, Belfast. EDUCATION 2001 MFA (Design Technology) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, USA. 1998/99 Research Fellowship (Painting), Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Edu.,England. 1998 Master of Fine Art Degree (With Distinction), University of Ulster, Belfast. 1996 B.A. Joint Honours Degree in History of Art and Fine Art Painting, (First Class Honours), N.C.A.D. Dublin. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2009 ArtSway, New Forest, UK (forthcoming) 2008
Rare Gallery, New York, USA (forthcoming) 2007 Galerie
Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany 2006
2004 Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland (catalogue)
2003 Galerie Pi, Copenhagen.
2002 One Person Exhibition Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin.
2001 AKA II Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
2000 This Indenture Donskoj + Co. Gallery, Kingston, New York.
1999 Postcard Cities, (with Sean Hillen) KoRaw Gallery@Bankside, London.
1998 Selected Small Scale Work Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen.
1997 RESTORATION MCMXCVII,Foyle Arts Centre, Derry (AICA Congress). 1996 KUNST I,II,III,IV,V . , University of Ulster, Belfast. 1995 One Person Exhibition, Europoint, Government Buildings, Rotterdam. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 ARTfutures 2004, London./ ‘RE-JOYCE’ Temple Bar, Dublin./ ‘The Bigger Picture’ project organised by Cornerhouse, Manchester./ ‘R.H.A. Annual Exhibition’(Invited), RHA, Dublin./ ‘Travelogue’ Butler Gallery, Kilkenny./ ‘Scope Art Fair’ New York./ Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt./ BMW, Berlin./ Art Forum, Berlin./ Art Cologne, Cologne./ ‘Iontas Award Winners Exhibition’, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo and touring./ 6X6, Tsiangou, China./ 2003 50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin./ Art Forum, Berlin./ Dreams, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo./ 6X6 for Ireland, Shanghai, China./ From Bahia to over by yer tactileBOSCH, Cardiff./ Works from the collection Kunsthaus, Gelnhausen, Germany./ The National Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin./ Robinson Building Exhibition, Bristol./ Shanghai film festival, China./ Sommerudstilling, Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ Impressions, works from OPW collection, Touring exhibition, Ireland./ Summer Exhibition Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ EV+A 2003, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick./ Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt./ Referenz Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich./ Start London Art Fair, London./ 54 Degrees North, Hull, England./ 6X6, Tsiangou, China./ 2002 Tabula Rasa Video projections in Croydon city centre, Croydon, England./ Curio Public art project, Brick Lane, London./ SCA-ART Awards exhibition, Mannheim Kunstverein, Germany./ Straylight: Digital Art Exhibition Darklight film festival, Dublin./ Christmas Exhibition Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ Invited Artists Hallward Gallery, Dublin./ On Board, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo./ Secret, Royal College of Art, London./ VII, Lead White Gallery, Dublin./ MOSTYN OPEN 12 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales./ AKA IV Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt./ Sommerudstilling, Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ Summer Exhibition Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin./ Recent Acquisitions Bank of Ireland Arts centre, Dublin/ EV+A 2002 Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick./ AKA III Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm. 2001 Crawford Open 2001 Crawford Gallery, Cork./ Articulate Station, Bristol./ Vinterudstilling, Galleri Pi, Copenhagen./ ChristmasExhibition Hallward Gallery, Dublin./ Mindscape Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ ArtLink Selected IYA Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London./ Victor Treacy Award Exhibition Butler Gallery, Kilkenny./ Vacationland Art House, Dublin.Rondout Sculpture Biennal Kingston, USA./ Summer Exhibition Hallward Gallery./ I/O Parsons Gallery, New York City./ Summer Exhibition Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ EV+A 2001 (Selected by Salah M.Hassan), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick./ Millenium Box Set Exhibition Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick./ 147 Initiative Liberty Hall, Dublin./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin./ Focus on Drawing Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Crawford Gallery, Cork; NCAD, Dublin. 2000 'PERSPECTIVE 2000' (Selected by Lynne Cooke curator at Dia Center for the Arts, NY),Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast./ Microsoft Corporate art Exhibition Microsoft Ireland, Dublin./ Iontas 2000, RHA, Dublin; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo; Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork./ Invited Artists Hallward Gallery, Dublin./ Summer Show and Christmas Group Exhibition Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal./ Snapshot Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (touring)./ Refresh: Dystopia + identity in the age of global communication Tribes Gallery, New York City./ Greetings From... Public Art Project, New York City + Dublin./ Extracts Engine Room Gallery, Belfast./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin./ Oireachtas 2000, Dun Laoghaire./ Irish Art Exhibition Vine Gallery, Louisville, USA./ Self Portraits Deep Dale, New York City, USA./ New Technologies, New York City, USA./ Irish Arts 2000 Studio 1019, Washington DC./ Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art Ashford Gallery, Dublin. 1999 Biennale Internazionale Dell Arte Contemporanea Florence./Gallery Artists Hallward Gallery, Dublin./ Eamon OKane,Niamh OMalley + Joanna Fursman Context Gallery, Derry./ Microsoft Corporate Art Exhibition Microsoft Ireland, Dublin./Documentation etc., Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham./ Sommerudstilling Galleri Pi, Copenhagen./ Summer exhibitionHallward Gallery, Dublin./ Sommerudstilling Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ EV+A 99: Reduced Selected by JeanneGreenberg, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick./ Microsoft Art Exhibition Microsoft, Dublin./ Glaxo Velkommen Glaxart,Brøndby, Denmark./'The Ida Branson Bequest Exhibition' The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset./ArtLink @ Sothebys,International Young Art 1999, exhibitions and auctions,Tel Aviv and Chicago. 1998 'Decemberudstilling' Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ 'Christmas exhibition' Hallward Gallery, Dublin./ 'Absolut Secret'NCAD, Dublin./ 'IndustriaArt Exhibition',Clifton Hall, Dublin./ Absolut Secret London and New York, Gulbenkian Galleries,Royal College of Art, London./ Absolut Secret USA, McKee Gallery, New York City./ Arts Cabaret 5 M2 Fax BoxProject, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA./ Forest The Bull and Last, London./Staff & Fellows Show, Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham, England, Nov./ United Nations Exhibition, City Hall, Copenhagen./ Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast./ 'PERSPECTIVE 98' Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast./ 'It's All in the Genes', Ballance House, N. Ireland./ Sommerudstilling, Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ M.F.A. Belfast, University of Ulster, Belfast; County Museum, Dundalk./ Connect, Public Art in Transit Project, Drogheda & Newry train stations./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin. 1997 Vinterudstilling, Galleri Pi, Copenhagen./ Galleriets Kunstere, Galleri Lisse Bruun, Copenhagen./ Drawing and Watercolour exhibition, Sligo Arts Centre, Sligo. / Gallery Artists, Hallward Gallery, Dublin. / Finale, One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast./ Museum of the Twentieth Century, Catalyst Arts, Belfast./ Clioth is dealain, Letterkenny Arts Centre & site specific installation, Letterkenny./ Panorama Athens, Athens./ The Ideal Academy, R.H.A. Banquet Show, RHA, Dublin./ Microsoft Corperate Art Acquistion Exhibition, Microsoft Ireland, Dublin./ 'Jettison', Elmwood Gallery, Belfast./ Iontas 97, RHA, Dublin; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo; Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork./ Reading Rooms, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin./ The Third Electronic Art Exhibition, Pisa. 1996/95 Open Plan, Catalyst Arts, Belfast./ EXPO 96, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin.N.C.A.D. Gallery250 years, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin./ Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast./ In the Basement, RHA, Dublin./ Taylor Art Award & Henry Higgins Award Exhibition, R.D.S., Dublin./ Father & Son, two person show, Workhouse Gallery, Co. Donegal./ N.C.A.D. Degree Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. June./ R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. April./ Group Exhibition, Bank of Ireland, London./ Group Show, Dillon Gallery, London./ 12th Cleaveland International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough./Impressions, print exhibition, Galway Arts Centre, Galway./ Northwestern Artists Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo./ R.H.A. Banquet show, RHA, Dublin./ Oireachtas 95, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin./ North by Northwest, Letterkenny Arts Centre; Queen Street Studios, Belfast./ Manifestatie Laurenskwartier, C.B.K. Rotterdam./ R.H.A. Annual exhibition, RHA, Dublin. 1994/93Oireachtas 94, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin./ Taylor Art Award & Henry Higgins Award Exhibition, R.D.S. Dublin./ Iontas 94, Sligo Arts Centre, Sligo; RHA, Dublin.
COMPETITIONS/AWARDS/PROJECTS 2005 Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland. 2004 Artists work programme, IMMA, Dublin (Forthcoming). 2002 Imagine Belfast Panorama commission, Belfast. Short-listed for Letterkenny Arts Commission, Donegal. Short-listed for Croke Park public art commission, Dublin. Short-listed for SCA-ART Award, Mannheim, Germany.
'Short-listed for Golden Fleece Award Dublin. 2000 Media-Play-Off(Workshop and conference) Bertelsmann Pavillion, Planet M, Hannover Expo, Hannover.
1999 FULBRIGHT AWARD, Brian Burns Scholarship (visual arts) Ireland-U.S. Com. for Edu. Exchange. 99/98/01 'Short-listed for PS1 International Fellowship to New York' Arts Council of N. Ireland. ArtLink @ Sothebys, International Young Art 1999 , auctions in Chicago and Tel Aviv. 1998 'Tony O'Malley travel award for painters', Butler Gallery & Waterford Crystal.
1997 PANORAMA PROJECT, organised by ELIA, 13 Oct.-1 Nov. 1997, Athens. Workshop/ seminar in co-operation with Hogeschool Ghent, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, University of Plymouth, Exeter.
1996 Postgraduate Bursary, D.F.E., British Council. Taylor Art Award, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin.
1995 Artflight Award, Aer Lingus & Arts Council.
1994 Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Scholarship for Travel & Study Abroad, RHA Dublin.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS OKane, Eamon Not arranged in.... essay for book Art and Architecture (published by CIRCA, 2004). OKane, Eamon Object review for Art Bulletin, Summer 2001. OKane, Eamon Drawing in Cyberspace: From the panorama to virtual reality, essay for Drawing Texts (Limerick: Occasional Press, 2001)./ OKane, Eamon Tourist Interactive CD-ROM (limited edition)./ OKane, Eamon Nephrop Norvegius (Artists Book, limited edition), 1998. WORKS IN PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DUBLIN 98FM Radio Station; Microsoft, World Product Group Ireland; Bank of Ireland Collection; Irish Contemporary Arts Society; Country Bank, New York, USA; Office of Public Works: Department of Agriculture and the Office of the Attorney General; P.M.P.A and Guardian Insurance; Donegal County Library; UNIBANK, Denmark; NKT Denmark; HK, Denmark; Den Danske Bank, Denmark; Letterkenny Institute of Technology; Painting commission for Dundalk Institute of Technology; Hillsborough Castle, Portrait commission of Lord Erskine; Commissioned painting for Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, Aras An Uachtarain; Collection of Mr. Carey Clarke P.R.H.A.; Collection of Mr. Dermot Desmond; Collection of Bernadette Madden; Collection of Dr. Slavka Sverakova; Collection of Mr. Bruce Arnold; Collection of Mr. James E. Sharkey, Irish Ambassador to Denmark; the Derek Hill Collection. Works in various private collections in Ireland, England, Scotland, Denmark, the United States, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007
2003 Dunne, Aidan EV+A 2003 The Irish Times. 2002 Ewart, Mark Crawford Open 2 SSI magazine, July/August. Stafford, Mark + Musiat, Anja die bildermacher catalogue, May. Poshyananda, Apinan Concerning Heroes + Martyrs EV+A Catalogue, May. Dunne, Aidan A rewardingly obsessive attention to artistic detail The Irish Times, Jan. 2. 2001 Dunne, Aidan Maintaining classical calm in lifes flux The Irish Times, Sept. 19. Cassai, Mary Kingston Biennial changes beat Daily Freeman, July 20. Kiberd, Declan Millenium Box Set Hot Bed Press, Limerick, July. Dunne, Aidan Cautionary Tale of a Gallery Guide The Irish Times, May 9. Beazley, Eric AKA (After Kafkas Amerika) by Eamon OKane, www. entertainmentireland.ie, May 1, 2001. 2000 Cassai, Mary Art Beat (Review) Daily Freeman, September 15, 2000. Kearney, Fiona An American Cross Section Catalogue, May. Nord Kunst Television Interview, Malmö. March. Nelson, Brid Anything Irish television interview, Woodstock open access television, USA, March. 1999 Roberta Reeners, (Editor) A Buyers guide to Irish Art Foreword by Dorothy Walker, Ashville Media Group Ltd, Dublin./ Brophy, Richard Whos Who in Ireland? Dublin./ Arnold, Bruce Florence Biennal catalogue, Florence, Dec./ Jones, Ruth Niamh OMalley, Eamon OKane, Joanna Fursman SSI magazine, Nov./ Greenberg, Jeanne EV+A:Reduced Catalogue, (Illus.), Limerick, May./ Currah, Mark Sean Hillen, Eamon OKane:KoRaw Time Out, London, April 28th-May 5th./Sean Hillen, Eamon OKane:KoRaw Evening Standard, London, 26th April./ Morrison, Cormac Eamon OKane Interview + Text. March./ Reitov, Ole Kulturnyt (Culture News) Interview, Danmarks Radio P1, 23rd Feb./ Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten, Eamon OKane Udstiller (illus.) 15th Feb./ The Ida Branson Bequest exhibition illus. catalogue, Feb./ Jørgensen, Susanne Eamon OKane, BT (illus.) 29th Jan./Schierbeck, Ole IRSK KULTURFREMSTØD I DANMARK, Politiken, 8th Jan./ Olsen, Mette Irerne kommer til byen, Jyllandsposten, (illus.) 8th Jan./ Danai, Tal International Young Art 99 ArtLink @ Sothebys, Tel Aviv, Chicago (illus.) Jan. 1998 Libens, Daniel & Diggle, Jeremy Panorama Athens, publication & CD-ROM, Nov./ Dompierre, Hedge, Sverakova Perspective 98, illus. catalogue, Oct./ Hendry, Matthew Artist of the month Profile, Arts link, (Illus.) Oct./ FitzGerald, Derval 'Art on the line', CIRCA art magazine, Summer./ Sverakova, Dr. Slavka M.F.A. 1998, illus. catalogue./ Sverakova, Dr. Slavka Eamon OKane - Selected work 1997/98 illus. catalogue. 1997 Weston, Gavin Museum of The Twentieth Century, The Sunday Times, 23 Nov./ Panorama Project, Athens, Newspaper-EAEYOEPOTYNIA, 1 Oct./ Panorama Athens, Newspaper-PIZOENAETHE 25 Oct./Panorama Athens, Newspaper-EAEYOEPOE 30 Oct./ OCuiv, Ruairi, Iontas 97, catalogue, Sligo. 1996 Fallon, Brian 250 years of Irish Drawing, The Irish Times, 21 Nov./ Sheridian, Noel NCAD 250 Drawings 1746-1996, illus. catalogue, Dublin./ Dunne, Aidan NCAD degree exhibitions, The Tribune Magazine, 16 June./ Fallon, Brian, NCAD Degree Show, The Irish Times, 14 June./ Ruane, Medb NCAD Degree Show, The Sunday Times, 9 June./ Topp, Gary 12th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, illus. catalogue,Middlesborough./ Fallon, Brian The RHA comes back to life, The Irish Times, 24 April. 1995 Vermeulen, Eveline Manifestatie Laurenskwartier, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, illus. catalogue, Rotterdam. LECTURING EXPERIENCE 2001-Present Guest Lecturer (MFA Course) Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York 2001-Present Lecturer B.A. Fine Art course, University of the West of England, U.K. 2000-01 Visiting Lecturer Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, Ireland. Nov, Jan, March, May. 2000 Visiting Artist Boston University Internship Program, Dublin. Nov and April. 2000-2001 Assistant Lecturer Foundation studies, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland. 2000 Visiting Artist New York Studio Program, New York, USA. Feb. 1999 Visiting Lecturer National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland. March. Visiting Artist Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Letterkenny, Ireland. March. 1998/99 Research Fellow (Painting) Lecturing and Tutoring on B.A. Fine Art course, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, England. 1996-98Demonstrator Lecturing University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland. Catalogue Design and Layout, Tutoring Fine and Applied Arts students design techniques with Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express. Feb.-May. 1997/1998 Introduction to Photoshop Tutoring first year Graphic Design students Photoshop Techniques, Feb.-May. 1997/98 Tutoring, Fine Art Painting students. 1997/98 Ways of Drawing Module First year Fine and Applied Arts, Nov.-Jan.
SELECTED TALKS 2001 Drawing in Cyberspace Talk + Presentation and panel discussion, Limerick City Gallery of Art, 23rd Feb. 2000 The Flat Screen in Contemporary Art Two artists talks at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland. Sept. 2000 New Media artists talk at the Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland, June.
DESIGN EXPERIENCE 2001 Catalogue and CD-rom for AKA II, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland. Nov. 2001. 2000 An American Cross Section catalogue for exhibition at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. 1998 MFA Catalogue & Poster Assisted with design layout & editing of M.F.A. Catalogue & Poster, Uni. of Ulster. 1996 NCAD Catalogue Assisted with design, layout and editing of B.F.A. degree Catalogue. |
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