Allyson Keehan
  • RESEARCH
  • PAINTINGS
  • SELECTED PAINTINGS 2009 - 2012
  • BLUE STUDIO PROJECT BERLIN
  • INSTALLATION IMAGES
  • CV
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EDUCATION
PhD in Fine Art Painting                           Glasgow School of Art 2015 - 2019
Masters in Fine Art                                   Byam Shaw College of Art, University of the Arts London, 2004
BA Hons Degree Fine Art (Painting)        Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, 2002  
Erasmus                                                     Athens School of Art, Greece, 2001

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019        Virtues of Real/Necessity of Imaginary, The Art Space, CASS Art Glasgow
2014        Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo
2012        Life Drawings, Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin
                 Shimmering Synthetic Appearances; I Want to Put You Back In, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
2011        Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
2010        Blue Studio Project Exhibition, Takt Gallery, Berlin
                 Comparatively Peculiar, Alley Arts Centre, Tyrone, NI
2008        Appropriately Strange and Disciplined, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
2006        Symptoms of Fetishism, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019         Clash Femininity, Curated by Vava Collective, South Block, Glasgow
2017     
     Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
                  Transmission Members Show, Glasgow

2016         Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow
                  Collective Memory curators Anna Bauer & Benjamin Lee Sperry. International exchange between      
                  Celine Gallery Glasgow & Brunswick Studio New York

2015         RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin    
                  Periodical Review #4, Ormston House, Limerick
                  Lonely Planet, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2014         Periodical Review #4, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
                  Winter Open, Rua Red, Dublin 
                  Eigse Open, Visual, Carlow
                  RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 
2013         Still Life and Interiors, curator Bernadette Madden, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
                  RHA Annual, Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012         RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
                  Eigse Open Submission, Visual, Carlow
                  Positions, curator Dermot Browne, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork
2011        NEXT/Art Chicago, Chicago
                 Drawing Thursday, RHA Drawing Exhibition, Bourne Vincent Gallery, Limerick
2010        Winter Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
                 Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Roscommon
                 Dunamaise Open Submisson, selector Geraldine O Neill, Dunamaise Arts Centre Laois
                 RHA Annual, invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
                 Open Studios, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin
2009        Dunamaise Open Submission, selector Martin Gale, Dunamaise Art Centre Laois
                 New Irish Art: Group Exhibition curator Aidan Dunne, Purdy Hicks Gallery London
2008        Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
                 Subjected Galway Arts Festival 
                 Eigse Annual, juried competition, Carlow
2007        Modern Exotics with Jack Donovan, Brian McMahon, John Collins. Limerick
2004        Currents:  travelling exhibition by the OPW Ireland
                 Gin or Tonic, Empire Gallery, London UK
  
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2017         The Presidents Award UK
2015         Scholarship from the Wellcome Trust UK

2014         Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, IRE
2013         Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, IRE
2012         Royal Hibernian Academy Residency, IRE
                  Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
                  Merit Award, Golden Fleece Award
2010         Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, DE
                  Travel and Training Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2008         Draíocht Art Centre Residency, IRE


CURATING
2016          Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow

PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Keehan, A. 2018 'Propositions for Prosthetics and Painting' in Physical or Otherwise: Suggestions and Encounters Glasgow

Keehan, A. 2013 Life Drawings 2010 - 2012
Keehan, A. 2010 Blue Studio Project Berlin

Aidan Dunne, Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, The Irish Times- Tues, September 23, 2014 
Cristin Leach Hughes, Seeing is Believing, Sunday Times Culture, November, 2013
John Graham,  Life Drawings Review,  Critique, Visual Artists Ireland Newsheet, July, 2012
Aidan Dunne, Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, The Irish Times - Friday, March 25, 2011
Aidan Dunne, Contriving a Striking Absence on Canvas, The Irish Times, Wed 02 Feb 2008
Aidan Dunne, A Very Desirable Joint Venture, The Irish Times, Wed 09 Sep 2006
Shan Kelly, Objects of Desire, Artists and Illustrators, March 2011