CV - Sam Keogh
Born 1985, lives and works in London
Education
•MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, 2011 - 2013
•BA Fine Art Painting, NCAD,Dublin, Graduated 2009
•BA Animation Production and Design, DLIADT,Dublin, 2004-2006
Selected Solo Exhibitions
•Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, September 2013(forthcoming)
•Terrestris, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, July 2012
•BABEL, Artlink Gallery, Buncrana, Co.Donegal, July 15th 2010
Selected Two/Three Person Exhibitions
•Sam Keogh, Lucy Andrews, The Model, Sligo, Ireland, October 2012
•Before Commandments, Sam Keogh and Rebbeca LaMare, Shudder Gallery, Vancouver BC, April 2011
•DANGEROUS THINGS, Sam Keogh and Joeseph Noonan Ganley, Exchange, Dublin, November 2009
•EUPRAXIA, Sam Keogh, Joseph Noonan Ganley and Alice Lucy Rekab, The Joy Gallery, Dublin, September 2009
Selected Group Exhibitions
•The Line of Beauty, curated by Rachel Thomas, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 2013(forthcoming)
•NINE, The Lab, Dublin, August 2013(forthcoming)
•Weaponising Speculation, organised by Michael O’Rourke, Paul Ennis and Fintan Neylan, Independent Colleges, Dublin, March 2013
•Gracelands 2012; 'Circling the Square', curated by Vaari Claffey, The Milk Market, Limerick, August 2012
•WORK HEAD, Sam Keogh, Jason Dunne, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Frank Wasser, Marcel Vidal and David Eager-Maher, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, June 2012
•eva International 2012, curated by Annie Fletcher, Limerick, May 2012
•Brucennial 2012, 159 Bleecker Street, New York, February 2012
•Gracelands 2011: 'Substance Abuse', curated by Vaari Claffey, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, September 2011
•Radical Love II, curated by Sam Keogh and Joseph Noonan Ganley, Dublin, September 2011
•Aerial Blue, curated by Claire Feely and Ruth E. Lyons, Dorinish Island, Co.Mayo, July 2011
•Tool Use, curated by David Beatty, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, June 2011
•Repoman, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, May 2011
•An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, MassMOCA, New York/Massachusetts, January 2011
•The Swimming Naked Prophecy,Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, December 2010
•Smoke & Mirrors, The Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma, November 2010
•Mare Street Biennale 2010, Unfeasibility Study, London, November 2010
•Gracelands 2010: 'I'M SPARTICUS', curated by Vaari Claffey, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, September 2010
•Instantaneous Personal Magnetism, currated by Padraic E. Moore, Galway Arts Centre, September 2010
•Radical Love, curated by Joe Noonan Ganley and Sam Keogh, Dublin, August 2010
•Scalar, curated by Seán O Sullivan, Ormand Studios, Dublin, June 2010
•EFFECT, curated by Vaari Claffey, Broadcast Gallery, June 2010
•Done to a Dead End & The Dead or Alive Sale, Curated by Lee Welch, 1001 Nights, Rotterdam, March 2010
•Aion Experiments, Currated by Padraic E. Moore, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, February 2010
•The Great Redundant, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, December, 2009
•Gracelands 09, Currated by Vaari Claffey, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, 2009
•NEU!, Monstertruck Gallery, 2009
•Take a Picture, It’ll Last Longer, The Joy Gallery, Dublin, 2008
• Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2007
•RDS Student Art Awards, RDS Concert Hall, Castletown and Sean Hollywood Arts Center, 2007
Awards
•Wicklow County Council Project Award 2012
•Project Arts Centre's Project Catalyst 2011-12
•Dublin City Council Visual Arts Bursary 2011
•Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award 2011
•Wicklow Co. Council Visual Arts Bursary 2010
•Artlink New Art Award 2009
•RDS Taylor Award 2007
•Clair Lynch Award (1st prize) for Best First Irish Short at the 2006 International Cork Film Festival.
•2nd prize for Best First Animated Short at the Galway Film Fleadh 2006
Collections
•Whose Museum Collection, 2010
•National College of Art and Design, 2007
Bibliography/Media
• 'Taken from/put in Oscar's bin', in 'Oh wicked flesh!', ed. Joseph Noonan Ganley, published by South London Gallery, May 2013
• 'A Touch of Magic', review, Aiden Dunne, Irish Times, July 2012
• 'Tool Use', review, Adrian Duncan, Paper Visual Art Journal
• Editor and co-creator (with Joseph Noonan Ganley) of Radical Love, Vol. 1, September 2010
• Researcher for Feint Magazine, Issue 13, June 2010
•‘Ordo Templi Oblatio’, exhibition publication by Sam Keogh for Jason Dunne’s ‘Extempora’, Exchange Gallery, 14th March 2010
•‘The Aion Experiment’, review, Kate Butler, The Sunday Times, 14th March 2010
•‘Keeping an Aion the world’, review, Aiden Dunne, The Irish Times, March 3rd2010
•Artist’s pages, WOO Magazine, Issue 01, 2009 -10
•‘Taking art beyond fixed boundaries’, review, Aiden Dunne, The Irish Times, June 10th 2009
Speaking Engagements
•'What Next?', Draiocht, Dublin, January 2012
•'What Do You Stand For?', NCAD, Dublin, March 2011
•'A&E: Liminality', Black Church Print Studios, Temple Bar, Dublin, February 2011
•'YOU ARE HERE: A Conversation on the Internet and Contemporary Art' with Brad Tromel, The Workhouse Test, Callen, Co.Kilkenny, January 2011
•'Practice', Ormand Studios, Dublin, December 2010
•'Restaging Minimalism: On and Around Recent Work by Gerard Byrne', Lismore Castle, September 2010
Other relevant experience
•Artist, Schools workshops, Tate Modern - September 2012 - July 2013
•Curatorial panel member at Exchange Gallery, January 2010 – October 2010