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Gerard Byrne    (Irish, 1969)

 Gerard Byrne - '68 / Mica & Glass or A counter-entropic exercise, as demonstrated by workers from a State Museum for Art (Video/Film)
Gerard Byrne
'68 / Mica & Glass or A counter-entropic exercise, as demonstrated by workers from a State Museum for Art 2008
 
 Gerard Byrne - In the organic world , for instance, soft tissue (gels and aerosols, muscle and nerve) reigned supreme until 500 million years ago... (Photographs) h: 64 x w: 54 cm / h: 25.2 x w: 21.3 in
Gerard Byrne
In the organic world , for instance, soft tissue (gels and aerosols, muscle and nerve) reigned supreme until 500 million years ago... 2008
 
 Gerard Byrne - It is comparatively easy to set up a basic model for epic theatre... (Photographs) h: 64 x w: 54 cm / h: 25.2 x w: 21.3 in
Gerard Byrne
It is comparatively easy to set up a basic model for epic theatre... 2008
 
 Gerard Byrne - The reverse of a framed painting. Catalogue No. KMS 1989, Collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Item dimensions: 66.4 x 87 cm. Item age: 348 years. Reproduced at 56.25% of original size. (Photographs) h: 64 x w: 54 cm / h: 25.2 x w: 21.3 in
Gerard Byrne
The reverse of a framed painting. Catalogue No. KMS 1989, Collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. Item dimensions: 66.4 x 87 cm. Item age: 348 years. Reproduced at 56.25% of original size. 2008
 
  

Biography
1969 born in Dublin, Irland
1991 B.A. National College of Art & Design, Dublin
1992 Pepinieeres Europeenes Fellowship, Niort, France
1994 Fulbright Scholarship
1994 Irish Arts Council Bursary
1995 Graduate Research Summer School, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
1996 M.F.A. New School for Social Research, New York
1997 - 1998 P.S. 1 Studio program, New York
1998 Victor Treacy Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
1999 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
1999 Theater-Bunker-Archive-Reception area, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Irland (solo)
2000 Irish Arts Council Bursary
2001 Irish Museum of Modern Art Artists Work Programme, Dublin
2002 Irish Arts Council Project grant
2002 Network North Residency, Helsinki
2004 Artissima, Turin, Italy
2000 - 2005 Lecturer in Fine Art Sculpture, Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland
2005 Banff Center, Canada
2005 Irish Arts Council Project grant
2007 Professor of Time Based Media, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
since 1998 Visiting lecturer at Universities and Art Schools internationally including The Royal College of Art, London, Konstfack, Stockholm, The University of Ulster, Manchester Metropolitan University, Rochester Institute of Technology, National College of Art & Design Dublin, and Bergen Academy of Arts, Norway

Exhibitions
2008 Greenroom: Reconcidering the Documentary…, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annadale on Hudson, NY, USA
2008 7th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
2008 16th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2008 Not quite how I remember it, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Peripheral vision… Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2008 Power, Foxy Productions, New York
2008 Greenroom: Reconcidering the Documentary…, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annadale on Hudson, NY, USA
2008 7th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
2008 16th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
2008 Not quite how I remember it, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Peripheral vision… Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2008 Power, Foxy Productions, New York
2008 Form of Abstraction, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2008 Gerard Byrne Related Works in X-Rumnet, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Sweden (solo)
2007 1984 and Beyond: Gerard Byrne, Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania Gerard Byrne, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
2007 Gerard Byrne, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2007 Gerard Byrne, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Irland (solo)
2007 52nd Venice Biennale Irish Pavilion, Italy (solo)
2007 Gerard Byrne, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
2007 Gerard Byrne, Lisson Gallery, London, GB (solo)
2007 Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2007 9th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2007 Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
2007 Anachronisms, Bonniers Konsthalll, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2007 9th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2007 Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
2007 Anachronisms, Bonniers Konsthalll, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 The ‘V’ effect, Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium
2007 On Peter Watkins, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2007 Alabama, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 The Art of Failure, Kunsthaus Baselland, Baselland, Muttenz, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Flashcube, Leeum – Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea
2007 2 ou 3 choses que j’ignore d’elle, FRAC Lorraine, France
2006 Nordic Biennial, Moss, Norway
2006 Bühne des Lebens - Rhetorik des Gefühls, Lenbachaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
2006 A Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2006 Gerard Byrne, Nominally an installation, a performance, or an event, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2006 3rd Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
2006 The Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Irland
2006 Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Performance appropriated, Museum Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2005 Eindhoven Istanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2005 Goteborg Biennial, Goteborg Kunsthall, Sweden
2005 Information / Transformation, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
2005 If I can't dance, Utrecht, Den Bosch, Leiden, Netherlands
2005 Icestrom, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
2005 Beaumont Public Project Space, Luxembourg (solo)
2004 Green on Red Gallery, Dublin Artissima, Turin, 2004 In repertory, Project, Dublin, Irland (solo)
2004 Artissima, Turin, Italy (solo)
2004 BAK Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
2004 Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 Fiction, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2004 The Whitstable Biennial, Whitstable, England
2004 This much is certain, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004 EV+A, Limerick, Irland
2004 New Party, Breeder Projects, Athens, Greece
2003 Institution@, Kiasma, Finnish Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
2003 The Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey (Curated by Dan Cameron)
2003 The American effect, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (Curated by Lawrence Rinder)
2003 Stop & Go, FRAC Pas-de-Calais, France
2003 Permaculture, Project, Dublin, Irland
2003 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
2002 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Irland (solo)
2002 Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Irland (solo)
2002 Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2002 One Site, Two Places, Galleri der Stadt, Sindelfingen, Germany
2002 September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany
2002 Greyscale / CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2002 Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Gerrmany (Curated Trembly, Boubnova)
2002 How things turn out, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland
2002 Stepping out, Center for Contemporary Art Pittsburgh, USA
2001 Vacationland, Arthouse, Dublin, Irland
2001 New Settlements, Nikolaj center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 At a remove, Woodstock Center for Photography, New York
2000 Light as object, Gale Gates Performance space, New York
2000 A crime dramatically re-constructed, again, Meeting House Square, Dublin, Irland (solo)
2000 Theater, Galeri T-19, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2000 Strange but True, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2000 Art London 2000 & 2001, UK
2000 Transporter, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 Theater-Bunker-Archive-Reception area, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Irland (solo)

Literature
2007 The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
2007 The Present Tense Through the Ages – On the recent work Gerard Byrne, Lisson Gallery, Green on Red, Culture Ireland, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Koenig Books
2006 Monumentum 2006 (cat) Pub. Monumentum, Moss
2006 A Short History of Performance (cat), Whitechapel Gallery
2006 Stages of Life, (cat), Lenbachhaus Munchen, Cologne
2005 1984 and Beyond, Emily Pethick
2005 If I can’t dance, Episode, Rotterdam
2005 More Than This, (cat), Goteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art
2004 Books, Magazines, Newspapers, w/essay by George Baker, Lukas & Sternberg # 9
2004 This much is certain, Royal College of Art Curatorial programme
2004 A country road, a tree, evening, BAK, 2004
2003 Printed, Project Issue # 1, October
2003 Poetic justice, The 8th Istanbul Niennial, Ed. Dan Cameron
2003 The American Effect, Ed. Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum of American Art Interview with Joachim Koester, Newspaper Jan Mot, Brussels, Jan-Feb
2002 Op-Ed, Limerick City Gallery & The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2002 Artists contribution to October Magazine, # 100, Pub. M.I.T. Press
2002 Greyscale / CMYK (Cat.) Ed. Rebecca Gordon- Nesbitt, Pub. NIFCA
2002 Manifesta 4 (Cat.) Frankfurt, 2002. Meike Behm (Ed.)
2002 How things turn out (Cat.) I.M.M.A.,Dublin . Annie Fletcher (Editor)
2000 Transporter (Cat.) Editors De Chiara & Urabe AARA Bangkok Thailand
1999 Utopias (Cat.) Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1999 Performance festival (Cat.) Pub. Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark 1997 & 1999
1999 E.V.+ A. 99. (Cat.) Ed. Jeanne Greenberg Rohytan. Pub. Gandon Editions
1995 Collisions (Cat.) Ed. Corinne Diserans. Pub. Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
1992 Lux Europae (Cat.) Ed. Isabelle Vasier. Pub. Edinburgh
1991 Windfall (Cat.) Pub. Glasgow
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