Born Dublin, 1971
Lives and works in Dublin

EDUCATION

1997    MFA Combined Media (cum laude), Hunter College, New York, USA
1989    BA Sculpture (1^st class hons) National College of Art and Design, Dublin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
RHA, Dublin
2011
Nor for Nought: Brendan Earley & Kevin Cosgrove, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2009
Ghost's of the Future, mother's tankstation, Dublin
2008
The Curated Visual Arts Award (Part 2): Brendan Earley and Bea McMahon, Void Gallery, Derry & Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2007/2006
Towards a Large White Building, Roscommon Arts Centre, Co. Roscommon, Ireland; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2003
Arrival, Pallas Heights, Dublin
Schemata, Triskel Art Centre, Cork

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
All Humans Do, David Beattie, Rhona Byrne, Brendan Earley, Aleana Egan, Fergus Feehily, Mark Garry, Kevin Kirwan, Bea Mc Mahon,
Locky Morris, Dennis Mc Nulty, Niamh O’Malley, Tamsin Snow. White Box, Broome St, NYC
2011
Utopia Ltd., Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda & Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
Fine Lines, Limerick City Gallery of Art at Istabraq Hall, Limerick
2008
Menschheit, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
European Exhibition of Young Artists, Electrique Gallery, Brussels
CACT, Centre of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Greece
2007
Black, Ashford Gallery, Dublin
2006
Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2005
Fulbright Scholarship Show, RHA, Dublin
EV+A, Limerick, Ireland. Curator Dan Cameron
Futures Anthology, RHA, Dublin
2004
Superbia, Ballymun, Dublin
2002
EV+A, Limerick City, Ireland. Curator Apinan Poshyananda
2001
Futures, RHA Gallery, Dublin.  Curator Patrick T. Murphy
2000
Prix Ars Electronica, Vienna, Austria
Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Curator Lynne Cooke
1999
EV+A Reduced, Limerick City Art Gallery, Curator Jeanne Greenberg
TV as Window, The Knitting Factory, NY, USA. Curator Laura Brown
1998
Video Rewind, Syracuse University, NY, USA. Curator Experimental TV Centre
Scope 2, Artist’s Space, Green St, NY, USA. Curator Pip Day

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011
Gemma Tipton, ‘I’m an artist – can I take your order?’, The Irish Times, 18 January
2010
Brett Littman, ‘A Philosophers House’ an interview with Brendan Earley. Small Fires Started Daily
Brian O’Doherty, ‘Beyond the White Cube’ an interview with Brendan Earley. Small Fires Started Daily
John Hutchison, ‘In Praise of Hands’ an interview with Brendan Earley. Small Fires Started Daily
Mike Nelson, ‘Labyrinths and Islands’ an interview with Brendan Earley. Small Fires Started Daily
2009
Lucy White, ‘Ghosts of the Future’, Metro, 29 September
Chris Clarke, ‘Haunted Houses, Mother’s Annual 2009
2008
Aidan Dunne, ‘Messing with the Modernist Flat Pack’, The Irish Times, 26 March
Brett Littman, ‘From Wittgenstein’s Vienna house to Ikea flat-pack furniture: the art of Brendan Earley’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, radio interview
Alan Phelan, ‘Brendan Earley’, AICA No Borders
Declan Sheehan, ‘True Complex’, Circa, January–February
2006
Billy Leahy, ‘Marking Modernity’, village.ie, 26 April
Gemma Tipton, ‘Towards a Large White Building’, Circa, April
2004
Sarah Browne, ‘John Brunberg & Brendan Earley’, Circa Online, March
2003
Ciara Healy, ‘Arrival’, Circa Online, December

AWARDS

2011
Project Grant, Arts Council Ireland
2007
Curated Visual Arts Award, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2005
Thomas Demand Travel Award
2004
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
Shortlisted for The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2003
Banff Residency Scholarship
2001
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2000
Experimental Film and Video Award
1997
Fulbright Scholarship

RESIDENCIES

2005
ORTE, Krems, Austria
2003
Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada
1999
Firestation Artist Studios, Dublin