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EAMON O'KANE
Eames Studio Limerick, ev+a 2009
Deadwood I, charcoal, Draiocht 2006
Installation view, Plan 9, Bristol, 2009
Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2009
KABINETT Kunstverein Koelnberg
Re-enactment, ArtSway, New Forest, UK, 2009.
news
Review in LA Times of E-1027 + Le Cabanon, See Line gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Article in forthcoming edition of Building Material published by AAI.
Capital magazine in Germany has chosen Eamon O'Kane as a 'shooting star' of the international artworld. Click here to see the article
Eamon has been invited to be one of the first Artist Members of the Contemporary Art Society in London
'Plans For The Past and the Future' Plan 9, Bristol has been included as one of the best shows in the UK at the moment on The Guardian newspaper website Click here to go to article
'Plans For The Past and the Future' has been reviewed by a-n magazine Artists Newsletter Click here to go to article
'The Architect's House' at RARE gallery in New York, USA has been selected by Saatchi Online as one of the top ten exhibitions in New York at the moment.
The line up includes Cindy Sherman, Zaha Hadid, Alexander Calder, Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone. Click here to go to articlecurrent, recent and upcoming exhibitions
solo shows
2010
20th April 1689, Crawford Art Gallery and Museum, Cork.October 28, 2010- January 8, 2011
Architect's Study, 101 California, San Francisco, USA, Feb. 2010
E-1027 + Le Cabanon, See Line gallery, Los Angeles, USA Feb. 18th - April 30th, 2010
2009
Blizzard Heatwave, See Line gallery, Los Angeles, USA September 5 - October 17, 2009Re-enactment, ArtSway, New Forest, UK, 2009.
Panorama, Centre Culture Irlandais, Paris, France, 2009
Plans for the Past and the Future, Plan 9, Bristol, UK, 2009.
The Architect's House, Rare Gallery, New York, USA, 2008.
A solo presentation at art KARLSRUHE from the 5th - 8th March. With support from the Senate of Berlin, 15 galleries from the German capital are holding a one-artist shows in 25 m² spaces under the stewardship of the Regional Association of Berlin Galleries.
group shows
Playgrounds curated by Vincent Romagny, Micro Onde, Paris and Le Quartier, in Quimper, Brittany, France 2010
Playgrounds, everywhere / invited artists
Karina Bisch, Florence Doléac, Jochen Gerner, Carsten Höller, Tobias Putrih, Seth Price et Pierre Szekely.Playgrounds, police and the pirates / invited artists
Guy Ben-Ner, Liam Gillick, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Phalle Nielsen, Eamon O'Kane, Seth Price, Corin Sworn, Pierre Szekely et Virginie Yassef.
- Aires de jeux, partout présenté au Micro Onde avec du 10 avril au 4 juillet 2010
- Aires de jeux, la police ou au corsaires Quatrier, center dart contemporain de Quimper du 2 juillet au 24 octobre 2010.
Jan Fabre I Fabian Marcaccio I Enrique Marty I Paul Morrison I Gerben Mulder I
Eamon O`Kane I Thomas Thiede I Nisrek Varhonja I Karen YasinskyKunstverein Koelnberg, Aachener Straße 66, 50674 Köln
TERRITORIES Eamon O`Kane, Norbert Bauer, Dominic Shepherd, Rebekka Brunke and Oliver Pietsch - Galerie Schuster Miami, USA 13th February- 15th March
Noughties but Nice: 21st Century Irish Art, September 10th – November 8th 2009
Aideen BARRY | Sarah BROWNE | Amanda COOGAN | Denis CONNOLLY / Anne CLEARY | Joe DUGGAN | Ciara FINNEGAN | Sean LYNCH | Andrew KEARNEY | Tom MOLLOY | Caroline MCCARTHY | Seamus NOLAN | Eamon O’KANE | John SHINNORS
will premier in Limerick City Gallery of Art before touring to Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre in Donegal, Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, Meath and VISUAL in Carlow throughout 2010. Curated by Mike Fitzpatrick and Susan Holland, the exhibition is accompanied by a full colour catalogue.
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny: 2nd February – 20th March 2010
VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow: 2nd April – 8th May 2010
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan: 21st May – 3rd July 2010
Into Irish Drawing: Stephen Brandes, Claire Carpenter, Gary Coyle, Timothy Emlyn Jones, Brian Fay, Mark Francis, David Godbold, Anita Groener, Alice Maher, Niamh McCann , Eoin McHugh, Bea McMahon, Nick Miller, Tom Molloy, Isabel Nolan , Eamon O'Kane, Niamh O'Malley, Garrett Phelan, Kathy Prendergast, Jim Savage, Gerda Teljeur, Martin Wedge, Katie Holten - A show of Irish Drawing curated by Dutch artist, Arno Kramer. Originating at Limercik City Gallery in January 2009, travelling to Paris, Holland and Northern Ireland.
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland:15th of January - 27th of February 2009
Civic Arts Centre, Hengelo, Holland: 13th of September - 18th of October 2009
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris: November 2009OPEN e v+ a 2009 'Reading the City' - Curated by Angelika Nollert (Director of the New Museum for Art and Design, Nuremberg) and Yilmaz Dziewior (Former Director of the Kunstverein, Hamburg), Limerick City Gallery of Art, 14 March - 24 May. Selected artists: Nevin Aladag (Turkey/Germany), Andreas Bunte (Germany), Lynda Devenney (Ireland), Willie Doherty (N.Ireland), Andrea Faciu (Romania/Germany), Andreas Fogarasi (Austria), Jan Freuchen (Norway), Garvan Gallagher (Ireland), William Hamilton (Ireland), Diango Hernandez (Cuba/Germany), Michele Horrigan (Ireland), Florian Hüttner (Germany), Luis Jacob (Canada), Daniel Knorr (Romania/Germany), Jakob Kolding (Denmark/Germany), Nicky Larkin (Ireland), An Te Liu (Canada), Sean Lynch (Ireland), Eduardo Daniel Navarro (Argentina), Vukasin Nedeljovic (Serbia/Ireland), Seamus Nolan (Ireland), Isabella Oberländer (Austria/Ireland), Eoin O’Conaill (Ireland), Siobhan Ogilvy (Ireland), David O’Kane (Ireland), Eamon O’Kane (Ireland), John O’Reilly (Ireland), Alan Phelan (Ireland), Marjetica Potrc (Slovenia), Gavin Redmond (Ireland), Tom Ryan (Ireland), Jochen Schmith (Germany), Donal Sheehan (Ireland), Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch (Austria), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (Greece), Olaf Unverzart (Germany)
Two person exhibition (with Bjørn Båsen), June 12th – June 27th, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 Year anniversary exhibtion, 20th June -12th August, Campus Galerie, Bayreuth, Germany
ROOM COLLABORATORS, ROOM, London, March 2009 - SALVATORE ARANCIO * PHYLLIDA BARLOW * RICHARD BEVAN & TAMSIN CLARK * TIM BRENNAN * KIERAN BROWN * CAROLYN BUNT * YUJUNG CHANG * GORDON CHEUNG * ELISABETH.S.CLARK * NATHAN EDMUNDS * SIMON FAITHFUL * ROBERT FEARNS * CHRIS GRYGIEL * ALEX HOLLWEG * CASSIE HOWARD * TAKAHIRO IWASAKI * TINA KEANE * PETER LIVERSIDGE * ANNA LUCAS * HEIDI MORSTANG * MARIELE NEUDECKER * EAMON O’KANE * RAUL ORTEGA-AYALA * JAYNE PARKER * PHILOMENE PIRECKI * JANE PROPHET * LESLEY PUNTON * LOIS ROWE * KENNETH SACHAR * EMMA STIBBON * ROY VOSS * SHELAGH WAKELY * IAN WHITTLESEA * TOM WOLSELEY * AISHAN YU
Drawing Eire(Invited), 411 Galleries, Shanghai, Touring to Hangzhou and Beijing, China
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, November 2008.
Timbuktu, Pallas Contemporary projects, Dublin, Ireland.
upcoming and recent publications
Work will be included in: CARTOGRAPHY: Artists + Maps, which will be published as a hardcover edition by Princeton Architectural Press in late 2008/early 2009. It will start with the emergence and development of map-inspired art in the 20th century and then showcase the work of approximately 100 contemporary artists. These will include established artists (e.g., Joyce Kozloff, Guillermo Kuitca, John Baldessari, Lars Arrhenius, Ed Ruscha, Mark Bradford, Olafur Eliasson, Maya Lin, Jules de Balincourt, Richard Long, Francis Alÿs) as well as many emerging American and international artists.
Beyond Architecture: Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities for the Berlin-based international publisher Gestalten www.gestalten.com to be launched in Spring 2009.Features work by: Tom Sachs, Pipilotti Rist, Erwin Wurm, Rachel Whiteread, Mike Kelley, Do Ho Suh, The Chapman Brothers, Thomas Demand, Kobas Laksa, Arne Quinze, Wang Qingsong, Filip Dujardin, Studio Job, Droog Design, Atelier van Lieshout, Nathan Coley, Olafur Eliasson, eBoy and more.
Spacecraft 2 More Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts
Editors: R. Klanten, L. Feireiss for the Berlin-based international publisher Gestalten www.gestalten.com to be launched in Spring 2009
Like its successful predecessor, Spacecraft 2 showcases international projects by architects, artists and designers that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. This sumptuous volume further documents a dynamic range of ephemeral structures such as pavilions, art projects and exhibition spaces as well as transient architecture including mobile habitats, and vacations homes that inconspicuously adapt to their natural or urban environments.Into Irish Drawing Arno Kramer, Caroline Hancock, John Berger.
CASE HISTORIES by Eamon O'Kane - Major monograph publication to be published in summer 2009Publication Launch at ArtSway, UK: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 3.30pm
A 120-page, full-colour, hardback publication CASE HISTORIES will be officially launched at ArtSway. The publication will feature images from each part of O'Kane's major international touring project, with a critical text by Dan Cameron and transcripts of O'Kane's public discussions with Paul O'Neill and Paul Hobson.recent exhibitions
Rugby City Museum and Art Gallery, Rugby, UK, 2008 (solo)
Economist Plaza, London, UK, 2008 (solo)
Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany, 2008 (solo)Unseen, Cavanacor Gallery, Ireland, 2008 (solo)
The House and The Tree, RCC, Letterkenny, Ireland, 2008 (solo)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and touring 2007-2008
Better is something you build, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2008
ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space, London, UK, 2008
Prize Drawing, southwell art space, Nottinghamshire, UK
Multichannel, Millais Gallery, Southhampton, UK, 2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, RWA, Bristol; BayArt, Cardiff; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, 2008
[C]artography: map-making as artform Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. 2007 Participating contemporary artists: Frank Bowling, Stephen Brandes, Jon Brunberg, Dorothy Cross, Jeremy Deller, Rita Donagh, Jimmie Durham, Clodagh Emoe, Simon Faithfull, Gary Farrelly, Brian Fay, Tim Goulding, Mona Hatoum, Sean Hillen, Patrick Ireland, Kim Jones, Chris Kenny, Tom Molloy, Satomi Matoba, Mariele Neudecker, Eamon O'Kane, Cornelia Parker, Simon Patterson, Grayson Perry, Kathy Prendergast, Tim Robinson and Chris Wilson.
2006
Neue Malerei Museum Frieder Burda. 2002 to 2005 - Michael Bach, Georg Baselitz, Tim Eitel, Günther Förg, Anja Ganster, Eberhard Havekost, Almut Heise, Anton Henning, Karin Kneffel, Thoralf Knobloch, Imi Knoebel, Dieter Krieg, Susanne Kühn, Damian Loeb, Markus Oehlen, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Dirk Skreber, Florian Thoma, Corinne Wasmuht, Kate Waters
© Eamon O'Kane 2008
