Born 1968, Dublin, Ireland

EDUCATION

1994        MFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
1995        BA Communication Studies, Dublin City University, Dublin


SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2009 
Chapter, Cardiff, Wales.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – solo show and sculpture commission. Curated by Sean Kissane.
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
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
newtownwhowhatwhere? archive, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway
2001
Three Stories, South Dublin County Council
2000
Enthalpic Everything, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Enthalpic Pleasures, Triskel, Cork
1998
Self-Rescue Mechanism, Arthouse, Dublin, with Jim Dingilian

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

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, IMMA, Dublin
Points of View, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
Concourse Offsite, Blackrock Park, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
2007
Art World, Feinkost, Berlin
Platform II: Dis-[re]-place, 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, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artist Exchange: Process, Practice and the Audience. ResCen and Create, Soho Theatre, London
2006
X-mas the Spot, Driaocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
Seconds: the imperfect artwork, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Fresh: Reimagining the Collection, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, and The West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Mother’s Ruin, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Test Pieces and Blend-in Moments, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2005
FUSED Gordon Bennett Sound Off, South Dublin County Hall, Dublin
Another Monumental Metaphor, Printed Project, issue 5. Editor/curator
Strata, Kells, Ireland, and Pontrhydfendigaid, Wales
Felons, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
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-curator; various locations, Dublin
Country, Equrna Gallery, Ljubjana, Slovenia
EV+A Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
2003
Appendiks 1, Thiemers Magasin, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painting without Numbers, Cluain Mhuire, Galway Arts Festival, Galway
The National Gallery, The Return, Goethe Institut, Dublin
Affinity Archive, The Metropolitan Complex, Broadstone Studios, Dublin
Permaculture, Project Arts Centre, 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, Arthouse, Dublin
2001
Stand Fast Dick and Jane, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Co-curated with Tom Keogh
Intermedia, Triskel, Anglesey Street Garda Station, Cork
2000
Absolutonic, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Dublin
1999
Freeze II, Arthouse, Dublin
1998
EV+A, Gaeltacht Cleaners, O’Connell St., Limerick
Art/Exchange Fair, New York, USA
Excellent Dynamite, Pallas Studios, Dublin

AWARDS

2008–09       The Arts Council, Visual Arts Bursary, (multi-annual)
2007             Shortlisted for AIB Art Prize
2006         The Arts Council, Visual Arts Bursary

RESIDENCIES

2007–08       Artist Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005             Belgrade Residency, funded by Culture Ireland
2002–05       Firestation Artists’ Studios, Dublin
1997–98       Artist in Residence, Arthouse, Dublin

PUBLICATIONS

Chris Fite-Wassilak, ‘Troubled Parenthood’, mother’s annual 2007, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, 2007
‘Fresh: reimagining the collection’, Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2006
David Godbold, Jeanette Doyle, Cherry Smyth, Gemma Tipon, Mick Wilson, Sarah Pierce, Henriette Huldisch, Natasha Petresin, Enda Leaney, Maria Fusco and Ciaran Bennett, Bio: Alan Phelan, Tulca Publishing with Galway Arts Centre and Millennium Court Arts Centre, 2005
Alan Phelan, Michael Peillon and Pelin Tan, Felons, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2005
‘Imagine Curating’, EV+A 2004 – Imagine Limerick, pp.162–71
Crawford Open 1–4, Crawford Museum and Gallery of Art, pp. 234–35
Ciarán Bennett and Lucie Foley, Enthalpic Whatever, R4 Publishing, 2002
Mick Wilson, In Context, South Dublin County Council and Artworking, 2002
Nayland Blake, Alan Phelan (ed.), Stand Fast Dick & Jane, OutArt, 2001

REVIEWS/ARTICLES

2007
Dejan Novacic, ‘Driving Yugo to Dublin’, Evropa (Serbia), March
2006
Jenny Lee, ‘Boy racer art theme’, The Irish News, 23 September
Aidan Dunne, ‘Fading Fast…’, The Irish Times, 22 September
Gavin Murphy, ‘GB and the Western World, Galway’, Circa, Spring
2005
Kieran Fagan, ‘A gleam in a modified eye’, The Irish Times, 27 July
Tom Lekha, ‘Belfast: Thinking of Ideas at Golden Thread Gallery’, Circa, Spring
2004
Aaron Lister, ‘Dublin: Marking the Underpass at the Vaults’, Circa, Winter
Aidan Dunne, ‘The art of the possible’, The Irish Times, 12 August
Ciara Finnegan, ‘Limerick: EV+A’, Circa, Summer
Niamh Ann Kelly, ‘EV+A 2004’, Art Monthly, June
2003
Medb Ruane, ‘Pressed for Space’, The Sunday Times, 23 February
2001
Medb Ruane, ‘Outer Limits’, The Sunday Times, 15 July
Mark Ewart, ‘Alan Phelan, Three Stories’, The Irish Times, 30 May
2000
Jason Oakley, ‘Enthalpic Everything’, SSI Newsletter, Sep–Oct
1998
Annie Fletcher, ‘EV+A’ review, Circa, Winter
Luke Clancy, ‘Jim Dingilian and Alan Phelan, Arthouse’, The Irish Times, March 20