Brian Duggan
Brian Duggan: „Get to the Point“, 2018/19, Exhibition view Balzer Projects, Basel, CH
Brian Duggan: „Get to the point“, 2023, Exhibition view National Museum of Ireland
Brian Duggan: „Demonstrable Progress“, 2018
Brian Duggan: „The truth is cruel (The Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985)“ 2004, Mirrored and polished Brass, 42 × 32 × 0.4 cm
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2005 MA Art Practices, (Honors). IADT Dublin. N.C.E.A.
1995 BA Fine Art, (Honors). Crawford C.A.D Cork. N.C.E.A.
2022
Get to the point, Multiple dates November, Irish Architecture foundation, Bachelors Walk, Dublin 2.
2019
Get to the point, Balzer projects, Basel Switzerland.
2018
Demonstrable Progress, a commission in partnership with UCD Parity Studios and UCD Ad Astra Academy for the Performing Arts, School of
Science Autumn 2017, Premiered 15th February. Toured to Canada with the AdAstra academy in March and the Hugh lane Gallery in April. Using
original footage from the nuclear storage tanks in Sellafeld, the work is preformed live on the Steinway piano, with four hands, with a new
composition by composer David Bremner.
2016
Ryou Un Maru, Project arts centre, Curated by Tessa Giblin, (Publication) Dublin | Ireland.
A cause for Concern, but not alarm, Cabinet Solo, During Art Basel, balzer projects, Basel | Switzerland.
Parkour, Out of the Booth, solo project of Art Brussels, Curated by Katerina Gregos | Brussels | Belgium.
2015
The Last Day Diary Redux, balzer projects, Basel | Switzerland.
This short-term evacuation, Art Rotterdam/ New Art / balzer projects | Netherlands.
391 Days, Art Brussels / Discovery / balzer projects | Brussels | Belgium.
The Last Day Diary, Crawford Gallery, Curator Dawn Williams, Cork | Ireland.
2013
We like it up here, it’s windy, really nice. ISCP International Studio Curatorial Programme, Curator Shinnie Kim, (Publication), New York | USA.
During the meanwhile, (BRCLMB) Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, Dublin | Ireland.
2012
They’ve tried everything to keep us from riding in the end we always win . Curator Helen Carey Limerick City Gallery | Ireland.
Everything can be done, in principle, Visual, Curator Helen Carey, Carlow, (Publication) | Ireland.
Three Lives, RUARED, Curator Karen Philips, (Publication) | Ireland.
2011
its too late now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, process room, Dublin | Ireland.
O’Machine O’Machine, Fingal Silouge water tower and Draoicht, Commissioner Caroline Cowley, (Publication) Dublin | Ireland.
2009
Step inside now step inside, The Golden Bough:The Hugh Lane, Curator Michael Dempsey, (Publication) Dublin | Ireland.
2008
A long walk of a short pier, G126, Galway | Ireland.
2007
Atelier portes Ouvertes, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Director Sheila Pratschke, 75005 – Paris | France.
2007
More Often than Most, Pallas Heights, (Publication) Dublin | Ireland.
2005
During the meanwhile, Hugh lane Gallery, Of-site IFSC,Curator Christina Kennedy, (Publication) Dublin | Ireland.
2024 A summer of perfect brightness, see you next Tuesday, Group exhibition Basel Switzerland.
2020/2021/2022
Pallas Periodical Review X. Ten year anniversary , 20 selectors and 20 curators.
RHA Annual exhibition, 21/22, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin | Ireland.
2018
The End is Where We Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and other Fairy Tales Artists: Marjolijn Dijkman, Brian Duggan, Vera Isler,
Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Susanna Hertrich, Monika Niwelinska, David Rickard and Kirsten Stolle. Curated by Pauline Doutreluingne, 6th June – 21th
July 2018.| balzer Projects, Basel | Switzerland
2018
Art and Science, University College Dublin UCD, Year long award and residency programme, (16/17) Dublin | Ireland. This residency studio
fnished in March 2017, however I remain an associate in the School of Physics and continue to work with several of the academic staf and
scientists on several projects. Ongoing research and development projects with Luis Leon, Senior lecturer, School of Physics, UCD, Dr Jonathan
McNulty Assistant Professor / Head of Subject, Radiography UCD School of Medicine. Prof Louise Rainford Associate Dean, Radiography and
Diagnostic Imaging.
2017
Future Proof / Curated by Sheena Barret and Emer O’Boyle, October, November, December, The Lab | Dublin.
Minimal Agency, balzer projects In collaboration with Le Guern Gallery , Basel | Switzerland.
Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek | the Netherlands.
Selected Residents. Curated by Sheena Barret and Emer O’Boyle, The Lab | Dublin.
2016
Activating Pangea, Curated by Ciara Scanlan and Matthew Nevin, CB1-G, Los Angeles | USA.
a potentially reckless mode | Untitled | balzer projects | Miami | USA.
Americana: Future Rural | The Dock | Curator Linda Shelvin | Leitrim | Ireland.
The Artist as Witness in Society: Collection, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane,curated by Jessica O’Donnell | Dublin | Ireland.
Place and Absence, Visual | Curated by Emma Lucy O’Brien | Ireland.
Portrait of a Nation, Farmleigh Gallery | OPW state collection | Dublin | Ireland.
2015
Pallas Periodical, 2015-2016, Pallas Projects | Dublin | Ireland.
The Future is Self-Organised, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick | Ireland.
To move forward with urgency, Film premier art Positions Berlin 2015, during Berlin Art week | Germany.
Prague PQ, Ireland representation pavilion. Mart | Czech Republic.
Glitch, Mart, RuaRed, Dublin | Ireland.
2013/14
National Self portrait collection of Ireland, new commission, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick | Ireland.
Motivational defcit. Crawford Gallery, Curator Dawn Williams, Cork | Ireland.
Das Leben ist (k)ein Stilleben, Balzer Projects, Basel | Switzerland.
Positions, Berlin Art Week, balzer projects | Berlin | Germany.
PP/S, City Assembly House Irish Georgian Society | Dublin.
2013/2014
One foot in the real world, Curated by Marguerite O’Molloy. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | Ireland.
2012
Braziers International, Supernormal, Oxford | UK.
TENSE, Limerick City Gallery Curated by Helen Carey, Limerick City Gallery | Ireland.
The second seating for the last supper, curated by Christian Viveros-Faune, Lyndecker Gallery | Spain.
Positions, Crawford 100, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork | Ireland.
The Measure, National Sculpture Factory, Cork | Ireland.
2011
Art Crisis Change, new commission for inaugural Dublin Contemporary 2012 curated by Christian Viveros- Faune, and Jota Castro. Dublin |
Ireland.
Gravity, Crawford Art gallery, curated by director Peter Murray, Cork | Ireland.
2010
TULCA Living on the Edge; People Place & Possibility. Curated by Michelle Browne, Galway | Ireland.
Invisible. Open & Invited Exhibition Curated by Oliver Dowling, John Graham, and Margaret O’Brien, Dublin | Ireland.
2009
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE The Irish Museum of Contemporary Art Curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons, Dublin | Ireland.
2008
Dare to live without limits, SUB:URBAN video gallery, Rotterdam | Netherlands.
Arduous intent, TULCA 2008, invited artist, Curated George Bolster, Galway | Ireland.
2007
3 days left, Curated by Caroline Cowley and Cleo Fagan TBGS, Dublin | Ireland.
Castle squared, Ardgillan Castle, Dublin, Ireland. The Lucifer Efect, Curated by Gordon Cheung, Primo Alonso Gallery, London | UK.
2007/8
(I’m always touched) By Your Presence, Dear, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | Ireland.
2006
Mix Pickles, Fully Loaded, K3, Zurich | Switzerland.
Braziers International, Oxfordshire | U.K.
FILMOWA, kino Kijow, Darklight, selected artist, Krakow | Poland.
Dark, VUSPACE, Melbourne | Australia.
BEFF 4, (touring from Thailand) RedCat Gallery, California Institute of Arts, LA | USA.
By diverse means we arrive at the same end, CHQ, Docklands, Dublin | Ireland.
2025/6 Arts Council of Ireland, Project award R2.
2023 Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award R1.
2021 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award R1.
2020 Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary Award R1.
2017 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award for 2018.
2016 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2015 Culture Ireland project Award.
2015 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2014 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award.
2013 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award project with ISCP NYC.
2012 Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award for project in 2013.
2011 Culture Ireland project award for exhibition in ISCP in 2013.
2011 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2010 South Dublin County Council, Artist bursary award.
2009 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2007 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2007 Culture Ireland, Grant Award.
2007 Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Award.
2006 Culture Ireland, Grant Award.
2006 Arts Council of Ireland, Travel award.
2006 Arts Council of Ireland, (Inward mobility), Travel Award.
2005 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2003 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Residency Award.
2002 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award.
2002 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist ‘Go-See’ Award.
2000 Arts Council of Ireland, Artist ‘Go See’ Award.
1994 Crawford Award, Sculpture presented to An Taoiseach.
2023
Presentation, New Media Class, University of the Arts, Berlin, DE
2022 – 2023
Lecturer/programme head (ad interim MA Experimental Design, IXDM Institute of
Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2023
Online presentation, Jacob’s Institute for Design Innovation, UC Berkeley, US
Presentation, Domus Academy MA in Interaction Design, Milan, IT
2022
Artist talk with Jonathon Keats, Un/apparent sensory perception, part of
Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves festival, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Forests of Antennas, Oceans of Waves. An Exploration of Art and Theory in Electromagnetic Urban Environments conference, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Folding Symposium: Structural Materiality in Textiles and Electromagnetics, Open lab, University of Arts Berlin, DE
2020 – 2022
Lecturer/studio head, MA Integrative Design, Institute of Integrative Design,
Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2019
Presentation, Zukunft der Künste, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, DE
Presentation & discussion, Stories Leading to the Future, with Hiroyuki Hattori, Tokyo Arts and Space Residency, JP
2018
Presentation & discussion, Minds, Bodies and the Machine, Mapping Festival, HEAD, Geneva, CH
Presentation & discussion, Empathy and Justice, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Art Academy Munich, DE
2017
Presentation, Rensselaer Institute, Troy, NY, US
Panel discussion, Boston Center for the Arts, US
Presentation, Haunted Technologies, Museum of Failure workshop, IXDM, Basel, CH
Talk, Ghosts in the Machine, mediating critique lecture series, IXDM, Basel, CH
Artist Talk with Martina Siegwolf, Dock, Basel, CH
Presentation, Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, Transaesthetics Foundation, Barcelona, ES
Artist Talk, Creative Hub 131/NICA Nihombashi Institute of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
Presentation, Dept. of Media Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, DE
2016 – 2019
Senior Researcher, co-conducting the project Sensorium of Animals with Shintaro Miyazaki at the Critical Media Lab, Academy of Art and Design Base FHNW, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, CH
2016
Talk & panel discussion, Newnew Festival at ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
Artist talk with Klaus D. Pohl, Schader-Founddation Gallery, Darmstadt, DE
Presentation with Desiree Förster, Metabody Symposium, Spektrum, Berlin, DE
Presentation, Poetry of the Real Symposium, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, CH
Presentation, Cyborg e. V., Berlin, DE
Panel discussion, Meister, Cyborg und Machine, DASA, Dortmund, DE
2015
Presentation & discussion with Enno Park, Art Laboratory Berlin, DE
Panel discussion Soft Power Blues, Villa Kamogawa, Goethe Institute Kyot, JP
2014 – 2015
Visiting Associate Professor, Intl. CODE program, Chiba University, JP
Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Academy of Art and Design Basel FHNW, CH
2013 – 2014
Visiting Professor/course leader, MAID Intl. Master in Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, DE
2014
Research Fellow, Critical Media Lab, Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Basel, CH
2012
Artist-in-residence, TASML Tsinghua Art & Science Media Lab, Beijing, CN
2011 – 2012
Visiting lecturer, BA Product Design: University of the Arts Berlin, DE
Visiting lecturer, BA Design, University of Applied Sciences Anhalt, Dessau, DE
2010 – 2011
Research Fellow, Design Research Lab, University of the Arts Berlin, DE
2009
Artist-in-residence, Meta Perception Research Group, The University of Tokyo, JP
Research Associate, Pervasive Interaction Lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, GB
2007
Research Scholar, People & Practices research group, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon, US
2002 – 2006
Associate Professor of Multimedia, KHIB Bergen Academy of Art and Design, NO
2024/5/6 UCD School of Architecture Parity Studios
2016/17 UCD Art in Science, school of Physics, Dublin Ireland.
2013 ISCP, International Studio Curated Programme, Brooklyn New York, USA.
2011 Artist residency program ARP, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
2007 Centre Cultural Irlandais, 3 month Residency, Paris, France.
2006 Braziers international, International residency program, Oxfordshire, U.K.
2006 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig.
2005 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig.
2005 Sculptors Society of Ireland, Symposium, Burren Co. Clare.
2004 Thailand, 3 month Residency in conjunction with ‘Project 304’, Chang Mai and Bangkok.
The Arts Council of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane
Trinity College
Several works to Ofce of Public Works OPW, state collection
National Self portrait collection of Ireland, UL Limerick.
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Chang Mai Art Museum, Thailand
Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design
National College Art and Design Dublin
Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology
Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. Ireland.
The Lesser-Told Story of the Carnsore Folk Festivals, Art Review, Declan Long September 2026
Irish Times, Future proof our bodies and maps from Mars, Gemma Tipton, 21 September 2017
Artforum, critics Picks, Gemma Tipton, August 2017
The Irish Times, , A Japanese Ghost ship, drops anchor in Dublin, Aidan Dunne, 14 June 2017
The Irish Times, Visual art, Bursts out of gated community, Aidan Dunne, 5 January 2016
Artforum, Critics Picks, online LCGA, December 2015
Monopol – Magazin fur Kunst und Leben, 10 Dinge, die man auf der Art Brussels nicht verpassen sollte, Daniel Volzke, April 27, 2015
Sunday Times, Culture, Review, Cristin Leach Hughes, 15 March 2015
Tagesspiegel , Culture, Michaela Nolte, 20, September 2014
ARTFORUM Critics’ picks New York, Ara H.Merjian, August 2013
Bedford+Bowery, New York Magazine, Emily Colucci, August 20, 2013
Three Lives, Sculpture magazine, John Gayer, March 2013
Top 5 exhibitions of 2012 Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times – Thursday, December 27, 2012
ARTFORUM, print review Declan Long October 2012
Irish Times, June 9th Saturday feature 2012
the Examiner, August 1 , half page feature 2012
Sunday Independent June 10, 2012
IRISH TIMES, 14 June Aidan Dunne, 2012
Exhibitions & Projects
A SUMMER OF PERFECT BRIGHTNESS
Group show
5.7.–22.8.2024