Artist Bio

index
artist bio
some words
email

Alan Phelan is represented by
Mother's Tankstation, Dublin
contact for details

download CV as PDF

artist bio

supported by
The Arts Council - An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Alan Phelan, born Dublin, 1968. Received BA, Dublin City University, 1989 and MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, 1994.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009	“Fragile Absolutes”, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales. “Fragile Absolutes”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin with sculpture commission in the Formal Gardens.
	“Ciao No More”, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise.
2007	“Ralph Eamon Odo Barbara”, mother's tankstation, Dublin.
2006	“Bio Bits”, The Lab, Dublin.
	“Fading Fast” and “The Second Gordon Bennett Memorial Show & Shine - Modified Car Event”, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland.
2005	“GB and the Western World”, Galway Arts Centre, Galway and Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal.
2004	“newtownwhowhatwhere?”, DCMNR broadband commission www.broadbandart.ie.
	“Gordon-Bennett”, Grennan Mill, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Thomastown, Kilkenny.
2003-4	“newtownwhowhatwhere? archive”, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts”, Galway Arts Centre, Galway .
2001	“Three Stories”, South Dublin County Council and Artworking, “in context” public art project.
2000	“Enthalpic Everything”, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick.
	“Enthalpic Pleasures”, Triskel, Cork.
1998	“Self-Rescue Mechanism”, Arthouse, Dublin, with Jim Dingilian.
1994	“Behind and Ahead”, SPAS Photo Gallery, RIT, Rochester, New York.
1993	“Egon and Ireland”, Gallery of Photography, Essex Street, Dublin.

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2009	“Snakes and Ladders”, curated by Daniel Figgis, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall , Dublin; Wexford Opera House, Wexford; and Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway, New York .
	“Traces: IMMA limited Editions”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
	“Dennis Farrell”, curated exhibition at US Ambassadors Residence, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
	“Additions 2009”, National Self-Portrait Collection, Vincent Bourne Gallery, University of Limerick.
	“Pecha Kucha Night”, The Irish Architecture Foundation, Sugar Club, Dublin.
	“Reading the City”, EV+A curated by Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2008	“Shuffle”, “I-Podism: Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of Consumption”, curated by George Bolster, Tulca, Galway.
	“The Space In Between”, curated by Fiona Mulholland, Basement Gallery, Dundalk.
	“Fifteen Fragile Absolutes”, The Process Room, part of the Artist's Residency Programme, IMMA, Dublin .
	“Concourse Offsite”, curated by Claire Power and Carolyn Browne, DLR, Blackrock Park, Dublin
	“Points of View - In Transition”, curated by Ciaran Bennett, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.
2007	“The Art World”, Feinkost, Berlin.
	“ Platform II: Dis-[re]-place”, curated by Niamh Smyth, Knockbride House, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan.
	“Pilot:3 - live archive for artists and curators”, Venice Biennale, collateral event.
	“inter-changes”, Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park , Dublin and Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda .
	“Oh show me your beauty when the witnesses have gone”, curated by Noel Kelly, Š KUC, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
	“Artist Exchange: process, practice and the audience, ResCen and Create”, Soho Theatre, London.
2006	“X-mas the spot”, curated by Nevan Lahart, Driaocht, Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, Dublin.
	“Seconds: the imperfect artwork”, invited by Aileen Lambert, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford.
	“The Square Root of Drawing”, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.
	“Fresh: reimagining the collection”, curated by Pippa Little, LCGA, Limerick and West Cork AC, Skibbereen.
	“Mother's Ruin”, curated by Finola Jones, mother's tankstation, Dublin.
	“Test Pieces and Blend-in Moments”, curated by Sandra Grozdanic, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
2005	“Fused”, ‘ Gordon Bennett Sound Off', South Dublin County Hall, Dublin .
	“Another Monumental Metaphor”, Printed Project, issue 5, editor/curator (launched at the 51st Venice Biennale).
	“Strata”, curated by Ann Mulrooney and Tim Davis, Kells, Ireland and Pontrhydfendigaid, Wales.
	“Felons”, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (artist-curated project).
2004	“Thinking of Ideas”, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
	“Small: The Object in Film, Video and Slide Installation”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
	“No Respect”, Dublin, public art exhibition co-curated with Jane Speller, various locations Dublin city.
	“Country”, curated by Noel Kelly, Equrna Gallery, Ljubjana, Slovenia.
	“Imagine Limerick”, EV+A, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
2003	“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.
2002	“Crawford Open 3”, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
	“Perspective 2002”, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
	“Love 2 Love”, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
	“Fabulations of Form”, curated by Sarah Pierce, Arthouse, Dublin.
2001	“Stand Fast Dick and Jane”, Project, Dublin. Co-curated with Tom Keogh.
	“Intermedia”, Triskel, Anglesey Street Garda Station, Cork.
2000	“Absolutonic”, Sculptors' Society of Ireland, Dublin.
1999	“Freeze II”, curated by Anya von Gösseln, Arthouse, Dublin.
	“Sculpture in Context”, Irish Management Institute, Dublin.
	“Office for Contemporary Art”, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.
1998	“EV+A”, juror Paul O'Reilly, Gaeltacht Cleaners, O'Connell St., Limerick.
	“Art/Exchange Fair”, New York, USA.
	“Excellent Dynamite”, Pallas Studios, Foley Street, Dublin.
1997	“Quadrant ‘97”, curated by Caomh í n Mac Giolla Léith, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
	“SSI/Ireland and Europe: International Visual Art Event”, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
1996	“Artist Garden Project”, Highland Park, Rochester, New York, USA.
	“ACA presents”, Tea House Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA.
1995	“Project X: Boundaries”, Pyramid Arts Centre, Village Gate Square and the Mall at Greece Ridge Center, Rochester, New York, USA. Co-curated with Alex Miokovic.
	“Alternatives '95: Zenophobia”, jurors Doug Ischar and Kaucylia Brooke, Ohio University, USA.
	“Alien Artists II”, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA.
	“Fragile Landscapes”, Centre for Photography at Woodstock, New York, USA.
	“Signal”, Bug Jar, Rochester, New York, USA.
1994	“Small World-Small Works”, Galerie + Edition CAOC, Berlin, Germany.
	“EV+A”, curated by Jan Hoet, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.

Catalogues

2009	Charta and IMMA	“Fragile Absolutes”, texts by Dusan I Bjelic, Seán Kissane, Medb Ruane and Tony White with a foreword by Enrique Juncosa.
2008	Solstice Arts Centre	“Points of View - In Transition”, essay by Ciaran Bennett.
2007	mother's tankstation	“Mother's Annual”, essay by Chris Fite-Wassilak.
2006	LCGA	“Fresh: reimagining the collection”, essay by Pippa Little.
2006	mother's tankstation	“Mother's Annual”, essays by Sarah Pierce and Alan Phelan.
2005	Tulca GAC/MCAC/APN	“Bio”, with texts by David Godbold, Jeanette Doyle, Cherry Smyth, Gemma Tipton, Mick Wilson, Sarah Pierce, Henriette Huldisch, Nataša Petrešin, Enda Leaney, Maria Fusco and Ciarán Bennett.
2005	RHA	“Felons”, catalogue with texts by Alan Phelan, Michel Peillon and Pelin Tan.
2004	No Respect	“No Respect”, essay by Cherry Smyth, catalogue brochure.
2004	LCGA	“EV+A 2004 - Imagine Limerick”, ‘Imagine Curating', texts pp.162-171.
2003	CMGA	“Crawford Open 1-4”, p.234-235.
2002	R4 Publishing	“Enthalpic Whatever”, essays by Ciarán Bennett and Lucie Foley.
2002	SDCC	“In Context”, SDCC and Artworking. Essay by Mick Wilson.
2001	OutArt	“Stand Fast Dick & Jane”, introduction essay, text by Nayland Blake.