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CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

2019 - 2021  MA in Art + Research Collaboration [ARC],

                     Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

2011 - 2015  BA (Hons) in Photography,

                     Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland

2009 - 2011  FETAC Level 5 in Visual Arts,

                     Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent, Art & Study Centre, Callan, Ireland

UPCOMING Feb-2025: Films at the Curve, a day screening event with Irish Artists‘ Film Index at VAI, Dublin

Collaboration

2023    live performance: Interlinking the Spiritual Bodycurated by Lauren Kelly - Uprooting Tallaght Performance Art Festival Rua Red, Dublin

2022    community based project: If We Could See Ourselves As Others See Us produced by Dumbworld, commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre 

Residency

2024    One-month artist residency: ÚSÁID Residency at Brown Mountain Diamond, Co. Kilkenny

Solo Exhibitions

2023    I - Self-initiated exhibition: The Dean Art Studios, Dublin, curated by Sara Muthi

2021    Of the Body - Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport

2021    Aesthetic Distance - Virtual exhibition: Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich, Belfast, NI/UK  

2018    Aesthetic Distance - Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

Group Exhibitions

2024    Skin / Deep: Perspectives On The Body - Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, curated by Darren Campion [until Feb-25]

2024    Feminine Space - The Courthouse Gallery and Studios, Ennistymon

2024    A Place Is Only a Place? - Open Submission Exhibition, Arts Festival, Birr, curated by Rowena Keaweny

2024    Burn the Witch, Still I Rise - GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, curated by Simon Fennessy

2023    Open Submission Group Exhibition - Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, guest selector: Blaise Smith R.H.A.

2023    No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography - Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin

2023    Commuovere - Annual Open Submission Exhibition, Arts festival, Birrcurated by Amanda Jane Graham 

2023    If We Could See Ourselves As Others See Us - Co. Meath touring exhibition: Solstice Arts Centre, Navan; Ashbourne Library & Cultural

            Centre, Ashbourne; Kells Courthouse - Cultural Hub, Kells

2022-23    Person Presence Perception - Annual touring exhibitionin partnership between the OPW and The Dept. of Finance Northern Ireland

2022    Summer Group Exhibition - Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport 

2022    Images Are All We Have - Printworks, Dublin Castle, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin

2021    Open Submission Group Exhibition - Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, guest selector: Sharon Murphy

2021    2021 HALFTONE Print Fair - The Library Project, Dublin

2021    Juncture: a place where things join - Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

2021    Through the Looking Glass - Virtual exhibition: Open Submission Exhibition, Arts Festival, Birr  

2021    cohost - Online exhibition: IADT ARC MA Programme & The LAB Gallery, Dublin 

2020    FUTURES Irish Talents 2020 - The Library Project, Dublin

2019    Winter Open 2019 Annual Exhibition - Rua Red, Dublin

2018    FiLiArt100 - FiLiA 2018 Conference, Manchester, UK

2018    The 188th Annual Exhibition 2018 - Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin

2018    Nasty Women - Global charity art exhibition, Constellations, Liverpool, UK

2017    Lass Struggle - FiLiA 2017 Conference Exhibition, The Institute of Education, London, UK

2017    Hotron ART WORKS'17 - Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow

2017    The 187th Annual Exhibition 2017 - Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin

2016    Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016 Exhibition - National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin,

2016    135th Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition - Ulster Museum, Belfast, NI/UK

2016    Hotron ART WORKS'16 - Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow,

2016    The 186th Annual Exhibition 2016 -  Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin

2015    Emergence - Steambox Galleries, Dublin

2015    Open Submission Exhibition - Arts Festival, Birr

2015    Graduate Show - Dún Laoghaire IADT, Dún Laoghaire

2014    Residency - The Library Project, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin

2013    Alternate Voices - Moxie Studios, Dublin

        
Prizes, Grants and Awards

2024    awarded Professional Development Grant - Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council 

2023    awarded Visual Arts Bursary Award - The Arts Council of Ireland

2022    awarded Making and Momentum Artist Prize - Making and Momentum, Wexford

2022-24    awarded Studio Residency - The Dean Art Studios, Dublin 

2021    awarded Agility Award - The Arts Council of Ireland

2020    selected artist for FUTURES: Irish Talents 2020, nominated by PhotoIreland

2017    winner of Hotron ART WORKS Prize for work by a recent graduate

2017    awarded Professional Development Grant - Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

2016    short-listed for Hennessy Portrait Prize

2016    short-listed for Hotron ART WORKS Prize for work by a recent graduate

Reviews and Features

2024    Skin / Deep: Perspectives On The Body, exhibition catalogue, Photo Museum Ireland, 2024

2022    Profiles, a journal of character-driven writing and portraiture, Profiles Journal, Issue 1

2021    CCA Introducing 2021: 24hr social media takeover - CCA Derry – Londonderry

2021    Critique: Aesthetic Distance at Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich - VAI News Sheet May/June 2021

2020    RESET, a Futures Photography 2020 publication, Vandejong Amsterdam, 2020

2020    OVER, The critical Journal of Photography and Visual Culture, PhotoIreland, Issue 1

2019    Artist Interviews: Performing the Posthuman Subject - VAI News Sheet September/October 2019

2017    Graduate Photography 2007 - 2017: The Long List - Source Magazine Online October 2017

2017    Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016 - VAI News Sheet January/February 2017

2015    Source Graduate Photography 2015 - Source Magazine Issue 83

Artist Talks

2023    Panel discussion: Migration & Displacement, No Place Like Home: The Domestic in Irish Photography, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin
2020    Technological University Dublin, Dublin

2020    The Open Mic, Futures Digital Festival, Irish Talents at FUTURES 2020

2019    Panel discussion: Performing the Posthuman Subject in Photography,

            Critical Academy at Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin

2019    Guest lecturer, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoighaire 

2018    In conversation with an independent curator Becks Butler, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

 

Events

2022    Self-portrait After Vera Ryklova - Culture Night 2022, The Dean Art studios, Dublin

Curatorial Projects

2017    Curator of group exhibition RE:VIEW, The Complex, Dublin 

            Collaboration with 15 recent graduates of BA Honour Photography course at Dún Laoghaire IADT.

            Artform: photography, video and installation

2015    Curator of group exhibition Emergence, Steambox Galleries, Dublin

            Initiating and organizing this exhibition, which featured work of 13 artists, including myself.

            Artform: photography and installation

Collections

The Arts Council of Ireland / OPW State Art Collection / Trinity College Dublin 

Private collections, Dublin 

(she/her)

 

Born and raised in

 the Czech Republic.

In 2007

moved to Ireland,

since 2011

based in Dublin.

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