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EAMON O'KANE
Deadwood I, charcoal, Draiocht 2006
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upcoming exhibitions
solo shows
Rare Gallery, New York, USA, 2008.
Plan 9, Bristol, UK, 2009.
ArtSway, New Forest, UK, 2009.Centre Culture Irlandais, Paris, France, 2009
group shows
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
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 2009
'Winter Salon', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, November 2008.
‘Timbuktu’ Pallas Contemporary projects, Dublin, Ireland.
upcoming publications
Images of several works 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.
Neverlands. Architecture and the City in the Contemporary Arts for the Berlin-based international publisher Gestalten www.gestalten.com to be launched in Spring 2009
Case Histories - Major monograph publication to be published in summer 2009
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.
© Eamon O'Kane 2008