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alan phelan | cv
 
Alan Phelan
Born 1968, Dublin, Ireland.
 
EDUCATION
1994 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA Master of Fine Arts (Imaging Arts, Photography).  
1989 Dublin City University, Dublin Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies).  
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 GB and the Western World, Galway Arts Centre, Galway & Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal
2005 "Fused", Gordon Bennett Sound Off, County Hall, Dublin.
2004 Newtownwhowhatwhere?, DCMNR broadband commission www.broadbandart.ie.
  Gordon-Bennett, Grennan Mill, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny.
  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, NY, USA.
1993 Egon and Ireland, Gallery of Photography, Essex Street, Dublin.
PROJECTS / GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Another Monumental Metaphor, Printed Project, issue 5, editor/curator launched at the 51st Venice Biennale.
  Strata, Kells, Ireland and Pontrhydfendigaid, Wales.
  Felons, RHA, Gallery 3, 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, Equrna Gallery, Ljubjana, Slovenia.
  EV+A Imagine Limerick, curator Zdenka Badovinac, Limerick City Gallery.
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, Dublin.
  Permaculture,curated by Grant Watson & Vaari Claffey. Project, Dublin.
2002 Crawford Open 3, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
  Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
  Love 2 Love, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
  Fabulations of Form, 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.
  Artists represented by Anya von Gösseln. Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.
1998 EV+A, Gaeltacht Cleaners, O’Connell St., Limerick.
  Art/Exchange Fair, New York, USA. Represented by Anya von Gösseln.
  Excellent Dynamite, Pallas Studios, Foley Street, Dublin
1997 Quadrant ‘97, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
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, NY, USA.
  Signal, Bug Jar, Rochester, New York, USA
1994 Small World-Small Works, Galerie + Edition CAOC, Berlin. Germany.       
  EV+A, juror Jan Hoet, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick.
  Sporty ‘94, SPAS Photo Gallery, RIT, Rochester, NY, USA.
AWARDS
2004 The Arts Council, Travel Award.
  The Arts Council, Commissions Scheme (2005).
2003 The Arts Council, Projects Scheme (2004).
  The Arts Council, Exhibitions Assistance Scheme.
2002/5 The Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Residential Studio.
2001 The Arts Council, Publications Grant.
1998 The Arts Council, Visual Arts Bursary.
1997/8 Artist in Residence, Arthouse, Dublin.
1995 Arts for Greater Rochester, Special Opportunity Stipend.
1991-94 Fulbright Scholarship.
  RIT Graduate Scholarships and Assistantships, awarded quarterly.
1993 RIT Graduate Scholarship for "Best Show" of Winter Quarter Review.1992 The Arts Council, Post-Graduate Scholarship.
1991-01 The Arts Council/Aer Lingus Art Flights.
1991 John F. Kennedy Fund Graduate Scholarship.

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