Mark O’Kelly

Selected Exhibitions Include:

Infrastructures of Now, NCAD Gallery 2018.

It’s Very New School Rua Red Tallaght 2017 (catalogue publication)

Peripheres Soul Beating Gorey School of Art 2017

Virtue The Hunt Museum Limerick 2017

A Delay in Addressing the Glass (solo) Bleed Gallery Dublin 2016

Empireland (solo) Project Arts Centre Dublin 2016 (catalogue publication)

The Future is Self-Organised Pallas projects Limerick City Gallery of Art 2015-16

What Is and What Might Be, Highlanes Gallery Drogheda 2015

IMMA Collection: Conversations Irish Museum of Modern Art 2014-15

AGITATIONISM EVA International Limerick 2014 (catalogue publication)                         

The Artist’s Eye, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, 2014

Drivetime, The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork 2014

New Additions, National Self Portrait Collection, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick (UL) 2013

Starting Over (curator) Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin 2013

Modern Families Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork 2013 (catalogue publication)

PARTITION Void Gallery Derry 2013.

Periodical Review 2 Pallas Projects Dublin 2012-13

Last Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin 2012 (catalogue publication)

After the Future EVA International Limerick 2012 (catalogue publication)

Transitive Relationships Limerick City Gallery of Art 2012 (catalogue publication)

Figure of 8 (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2011

Leaders and Followers (solo) Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin 2010 (catalogue publication)

Cinema Impero (solo) Occupy Space, Limerick 2010

Unconscious (solo) The Black Mariah, Cork, 2009

Mark O’Kelly (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2008

Selective Knowledge ITYS National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation Eynard Mansion Athens 2008 (catalogue publication)

Mark O’Kelly and Stephen Loughman Galway Arts Centre 2008 (catalogue publication)

Presence, Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2007

New Territories; Cityscapes ARCO Madrid, 2006 (catalogue publication)

Other Visions: Representation in Contemporary Irish Painting and Photography Purdy Hicks, London 2006

Kandalama (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2006

126 Presents Galway Arts Centre 2006

A moment in Time Temple Bar Gallery Dublin 2005

Seeing is Believing Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2005 

In Fashion (solo) Limerick City Gallery of Art 2005 (catalogue publication)                     

Old Holland, New Amsterdam (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2004

Éigse Carlow 2004
En-Direct de Dublin, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 2003
Affinity Archive, Broadstone Studios Dublin 2003

50/50, Temple Bar Gallery 2003  
The National Gallery, Goethe Institute Dublin 2003
The View From A Bridge (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2002 (catalogue publication)
Looking at Pictures (solo) Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2001 

Time LSAD Church Gallery Limerick 2002

See It As It Is Draiocht, Dublin 2001

Virtual Studio Arthouse, Dublin 2001
Looking at Pictures, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise 2001

Visual Art is Disposable 147 Liberty Hall Dublin 2001

Vivid, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin 2000

Collections Include:

The Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Arts Council of Ireland

Office of Public Works

Boyle Civic Collection

University College Dublin

Limerick City Gallery of Art

Dublin City University

University of Limerick

Limerick Institute of Technology

Athlone Institute of Technology

Bank of Ireland

Northern Trust

Mason Hayes & Curran

AIB

AXA

Microsoft

Private collections Ireland UK USA

Previous Experience Include:

Programme Leader Painting Department Limerick School of Art and Design Limerick Institute of Technology

Member of the Academic Council of the Limerick Institute of Technology

Board Member Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin

Curatorial Advisory Committee of Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin.

Part time Lecturer MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS) DLIADT

Member of New Arts Studios Dublin

Board Member Engage Art Studios Galway

Part time Lecturer NCAD DLIADT

Lecturer in Painting and Drawing Cornish College of the Arts Seattle Washington USA

Art School Residency

Image of the self with and amongst others.

Art School-Artist in Residence at Our Lady’s School, Terenure, Dublin. Winter Term, 2016.

Artist in Residence with the art department and working with transition year students on a project curated by Jennie Guy/Art School. Art School is a platform that establishes new interfaces between contemporary art and sites of education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFT_mwWJ8A

PUBLIC TALKS PUBLICATION AWARDS

Selected Public Talks and Lectures includes:

Field Recording Public Talk

Mark O’Kelly (Chair) in conversation with Curator Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong and  exhibiting artists Sven Anderson and Mit Jai Inn in the context of the exhibition Field recording curated by Jennie Guy

Rua Red South Dublin Art Centre Tallaght Dublin

October 6th 2018

 

Architecture of Pictures by Mark O’Kelly, Public Lecture

Rupert Guinness Theatre, NCAD Dublin

September 27th, 2018

 

Painting and Materiality by Mark O’Kelly, Public Lecture

RHA School: Painting as Material II Lecture Series,

Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin.

March 8th, 2018.

 

EVA International: 40thAnniversary Panel Discussion, Participants; Blindboy Boatclub, Alice Maher, Kevin O’Keefe, Mark O’Kelly, chaired by Mary Conlon,

Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) and Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD, LIT), Limerick.

December 7th 2017.

 

The Creative Impulse - Art, Creativity, Education: Negotiating the Challenges, Panel Discussion. Paricipants: Jean Butler, Trish Long, Dr.Michael Finneran, Mark O’Kelly chaired by Dr. Mary Nunan

The I.NY Creative Education Symposium, Ireland and New York,

The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. University of Limerick (UL), Limerick.

October 12th 2017.

 

Mark O’Kelly, Artist Talk, Visual Artists Ireland, National Get Together,

Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

15th September 2017

 

Artistic Communities: Studio Provision in the City, Invited Symposium. Mark O’Kelly: Introductory Presentation of the Creative Spaces Collective (CSC), summary position and progress report followed by Panel Discussion. Participants: Gerard Byrne, Jacinta Lynch, Ray Yeates, Chaired by Vincent Woods Old Library, Royal Hibernian Academy, (RHA), Dublin.

May 5th 2017.

 

Maria McKinney, Mark O’Kelly and Sarah Pierce, Artists Talk, Chaired by Jennie Guy, in the context of the exhibition It’s Very New School curated by Jennie Guy / Art School,

Rua Red, Dublin.

8th April 2017

 

Marmite Prize for Painting: Opening Speech.

Speaking on behalf of Panel of Judges, Phillip Allen, Mark O’Kelly, Vanessa Jackson.

Marmite Prize for Painting exhibitions. UK and Ireland.

Block 336, Brixton, London and Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda,

3rd June and 8th July 2016

 

Under the Sign of Painting: The Contemporary Condition of Painting. Mairead O’hEocha and Mark O’Kelly in conversation with Francis Halsall, in the context of the exhibition Empireland by Mark O’Kelly, curated by Tessa Giblin,

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

19th May 2016.

 

Presentation to Dublin City Council SPC

Creative Spaces Collective Presentation to the Arts, Culture, Recreation and Community special planning committee (SPC) of Dublin City Council.

Helen Carey, Jacinta Lynch and Mark O’Kelly present the CSC case for strategic planning for artists’ workspace and for the inclusion of new infrastructural development for artists’ studios in the Dublin City Development Plan (2016-22)

Council Chamber, City Hall, Dublin

9th May 2016

 

Empireland by Mark O’Kelly, Artist Talk.

Project Arts Centre, Dublin

https://projectartscentre.ie/event/empireland/

31st March 2016

 

Supporters Club Talk 6: Mark O’Kelly.

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin

26th November 2015.

 

Ramon Kassam and Mark O’Kelly in Conversation: Artist Talk in the context of the exhibition EVA International, Agitationism, curated by Bassam El Baroni, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) 

19th June 2014

 

EVA International Panel Discussion: AGITATIONISM.

Participants: Bassam El Baroni, Aislinn O’Donnell, Mark O’Kelly, Woodrow Kernohan chaired by Noelle Collins.

Limerick City Gallery of Art

12th September 2015.

BI-FOLD INTERPELLATION +billion-’s contribution to EVA International 2014

Mark O’Kelly in conversation with James Merrigan

Filmed at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin lhttp://vimeo.com/89483233

21st March 2014.

 

PARTITION: Recorded 2 day Public Meeting. By Static Gallery/Void

A Void Gallery SITES commission as part of Derry City of Culture 2013

An invited a group of theorists, curators and artists invited to participate in a two-day recorded public meeting at Void Gallery, Derry/Londonderry.

The participants were: John Byrne, Mary Conlon, Anna Dezeuze, Aislinn O’Donnell, Mark O’Kelly, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Francesco Manacorda, Seamus Nolan, Frederic Pradeau, Paul Sullivan, Padraig Timoney, Katherine Waugh, Eyal Weizman, Stephen Wright, George Yúdice.

16Th and 17th July 2013.

 

Starting Over: Curators Talk: Mark O’Kelly, in the context of the exhibition Starting Over,

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin vimeo.com/69931705

20th June 2013

 

 

Bibliography

 

Writings and Publications.

 

Existential Observers: Mark O’Kelly discusses aspects of Portrait Painting in Ireland.

Extended Essay, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Visual Artists Ireland, Issue 5, September-October 2017.

 

Artist Response: Mark O’Kelly.

Lucien Freud, IMMA Collection Freud Project, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2016,

ISBN: 978-1-909792-17-3

 

Starting Over: Mark O’Kelly.

Curatorial Essay published to accompany the exhibition Starting Over, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, June-August 2013.

http://www.templebargallery.com/content/files/FINAL_Starting_Over_A3_PRINT_FIXED-3.pdf

 

Jeanette Doyle: Mark O’Kelly

Exhibition Review; Portrayals / and then I place my face against the Glass.

Circa Magazine, Issue 116, 2006

 

Do you Believe in Reality: Mark O’Kelly

Another Monumental Metaphor, Venice Biennale Publication, Editor/curator Alan Phelan.

Printed Project, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, Issue 5, 2005

ISBN: 1649 4075

 

Regarding the Use of Time: Mark O’Kelly

Essay, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Sculptors’ Society of Ireland, March–April 2005

 

Untitled: Mark O’Kelly

Charley Magazine, Edited by Maurizio Catalan, Les Presses Du Reel, 2002

ISBN: 1-564-66092-3

 

Exhibition Publications.

 

Empireland, Mark O’Kelly.

Painting as Polis by Isobel Harbison.

Project Arts Centre, Dublin 2016

https://projectartscentre.ie/event/empireland/

 

Leaders and Followers, Mark O’Kelly.

Into the Archives by Janet Coen.

Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2010

ISBN: 978-1-903895-10-8

 

Mark O’Kelly and Stephen Loughman.

Nothing is Real by Hugo Hamilton.

Galway Arts Centre, 2007

ISBN:978-0-9555164-5-0

 

In Fashion, Mark O’Kelly

Building Images, Aidan Dunne

Limerick City Gallery of Art. 2005

ISBN: 0-9544291-7-6

 

The View from a Bridge. Mark O’Kelly

Essay by Dr. Yvonne Scott.

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2002.

 

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AGITATIONISM, Bassam El Baroni

EVA International, 2014 ISBN 978-0-9576258-1-5

 

After the Future, Annie Fletcher

EVA International, 2012, ISBN 978 -0-9576258-0-8

 

Dictionary of Irish Living Artists. Robert O’Byrne,

Plurabelle Publishing, 2010, ISBN 987-0-9563011-0-9

 

Selective Knowledge, Els Hanappe

National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/MIET 2008, ISBN 978-960-250-394-2

 

Cityscapes, Rachael Thomas

ARCO’06 Volume 2, 2006, ISBN 13 978-84-8215-337-7

 

Selected Awards

 

Project Award, Arts Council of Ireland 2015

Temple Bar Studio and Gallery, Studio Membership 2011 - 2015

Artists' Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2005

Artists' Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2004
Golden Fleece, Merit Award, 2004