VERA RYKLOVA
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 Body, curated 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, Birr, curated 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 exhibition: in 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.