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Alan Phelan is represented by
Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
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Alan Phelan, born Dublin, 1968. Received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.

Solo exhibitions and projects include:"Ralph Eammon Barbara Odo", mother's tankstation, Dublin, 2007; "Bio Bits", The LAB, Dublin, "Fading Fast", Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 2006; "GB and the Western World", Galway Arts Centre, 2005 and Letterkenny Arts Centre; "Gordon Bennett", Kilkenny Arts Festival 2004; DCMNR Broadband commission "newtownwhowhatwhere?", 2004-05; "Tulca", Galway Arts Centre, Galway, 2004-05; "Three Stories" as part of "In Context", SDCC/Artworking, 2001; "Enthalpic" projects, Limerick City Gallery and Triskel, Cork, 2000; "Self-Rescue Mechannism", Arthouse, Dublin, with Jim Dingilian, 1998.

Group shows and projects include: "Point of View / In Transition", Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2008; "The Art World", FEINKOST, Berlin, 2007; "Platform II Dis-[re]-place", curated by Niamh Smyth, Knockbride House, Knockbride, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, 2007 "Fresh: re-imagining the collection", Limerick City Gallery of Art and West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, "Mother's Ruin", Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, "Test Pieces and Blend-in Moments", SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2006; "Strata", Wales/Ireland, "Printed Project, issue five, as editor/cuator, launched at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005; "Felons", RHA, Dublin, (artist curated project), "Small: The Object in Film, VIdeo and Slide Installation", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2004-05; "No Respect", Dublin, public art exhibition co-curated with Jane Speller, various locations Dublin city, "Country", Equrna Gallery, Ljubjana, Slovenia, "EV+A Imagine Limerick", curator Zdenka Badovinac, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, 2004; "Appendiks 1", Thiemers magasin, Copenhagen, Denmark; "Painting without Numbers", Cluain Mhuire, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, "The National Gallery", The Return, Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Dublin, "Affinity Archive", The Metropolitan Complex, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, "Permaculture", curated by Grant Watson and Vaari Claffey, Project, Dublin, 2003; "Perspective 2002", Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; "Fabulations of Form", Arthouse, Dublin; "Love 2 Love", Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2002; "Intermedia", Cork; "Stand Fast Dick and Jane", Project, Dublin co-curated with Tom Keogh, 2001; EV+A, Limerick, 1994; "Project X: Boundaries", Rochester, New York, USA, co-curated with Alex Miokovic, "Alternatives ’95: Zenophobia", jurors Doug Ischar and Kaucylia Brooke, Ohio University, USA, 1995.

Grants and awards include: Arts Council Bursary, Commissions, Projects, Publications grants, Travel Awards; Fulbright Scholarship; John F. Kennedy Fund Graduate Scholarship.

 

 

catalogues/publications:
"Bio", published by Tulca Publishing, 2005 ISBN 0-9550699-1-2
with texts by Alan Phelan, David Godbold, Jeanette Doyle, Cherry Smyth, Gemma Tipton, Mick Wilson, Sarah Pierce, Henriette Huldisch, Nataša Petrešin, Enda Leaney, Maria Fusco and Ciaran Bennett.
"Printed Project", issue five, 2005, published by the Sculptors' Society of Ireland. Alan Phelan editor/curator.
"Felons", published by the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. ISBN 1-903875-21-8
"EV+A 04 Imagine Limerick", curated by Zdenka Badovinac, published by Limerick City Gallery and Gandon Editions, ISBN 0946846 197.
"Crawford Open 1-4", published by Crawford Municipal Art Gallery and Gandon Editions, ISBN 0946846 855
"The Metropolitan Complex, Roundtable Discussion", published by The Metropolitan Complex, Feb, 2003.
"Enthalpic Whatever" with essays by Ciarán Bennett and Lucie Foley, published in Dublin by r4 Publishing 2002, ISBN 0-9543079-0-9.
"In Context", Essay by Mick Wilson on "Three Stories" commission. published by South Dublin County Council and Artworking, 2002, ISBN: 0952-84- 660.
"Stand Fast Dick & Jane", essay by Nayland Blake, published by OutArt, 2001.

 

 

supported in part by The Arts Council - An Chomhairle Ealaíon