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Contact: E: martinalobrien@gmail.com Education: M.A. in Visual Art Practice, IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin National Certificate in Photography, IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin National College of Art and Design, Dublin Awards + Commissions: 2022 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award 2022 Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2022 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award 2021 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award 2021 Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2021 Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award 2020 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award 2019 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award 2019 Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award 2019/20 Temple Bar Gallery + Studio's Project Studio Award 2019 Commission, The European Commission, IT 2019 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award 2018 Creative Ireland Bursary Award 2017 Arts Council of Ireland Project Award 2017 Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award 2017 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award 2016 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award 2014 Arts Council of Ireland Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realization Award 2014 Arts Council of Ireland Artist in the Community Scheme Research and Development Award Residencies (selected): 2022 The Artist Laboratory, Devenish Lands at Dowth, curated by Belinda Quirke, Director Solstice Arts Centre 2022 Marine Expedition, N E Atlantic, aboard RV Celtic Explorer in association with UCD Parity Studios + iCRAG, supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service 2020/22 UCD Parity Studios iCRAG Artist in Residence www.ucdartistsinresidence.com/martina-obrien 2022 Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre 2021 SHUL Residency, South Tipperary Arts Centre 2020 Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residency 2020 Temple Bar Gallery + Studio’s Creative Generations Artist in Residence, O’Connell’s Boys School, Dublin 1 2019 Monitoring Changes in Submarine Canyon Coral Habitats Marine Expedition, NE Atlantic Ocean, RV Celtic Explorer 2019 Artist in Residence, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK 2019 Artist in Residence, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, EU Science Hub, IT 2018 EUCIDA Digital Artist in Residence, Espace Multimédia Gantner, FR 2018 Resonances Summer School, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, IT 2017 Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts Residency, Cow House Studios 2017 This Must be the Place, Arts and Health Residency 2016 Artist in Residence, Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), Dublin Solo Exhibitions / Projects (selected): 2024 Title TBC, Galway Arts Centre 2024 Title TBC, Wexford Arts Centre 2023 Title TBC, Highlanes Gallery 2022 SEA STATE, Science Gallery Dublin (cancelled due to gallery closure) 2019/20 Quotidian, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University 2018 At Some Distance in the Direction Indicated, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, RUA RED 2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, RDS Library Archive 2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, Waterways Centre, Dublin 2015 Continuum, Draiocht, Ground Floor Gallery, Dublin 2012 Knitted Flood Wall, Ballsbridge Dodder Residence Association, Dublin Group and Two Person Exhibitions (selected) : 2022 Landscape, Ecology & Environment Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre 2021 SHUL, Martina O’Brien & Christine Mackey, South Tipperary Arts Centre 2020 New Era, curated by Brenda McParland, Solstice Arts Centre 2019/20 Datami, curated by Freddy Paul Grunert, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels 2019 Tactical Magic, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Kerry Guinan, 126 Artist-run Gallery, Galway 2019 Datami, curated by Freddy Paul Grunert, European Commission’s Science Hub Joint Research, Italy 2017 Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts, curated by Francis Halsall & Kelley O’Brien, NCAD Gallery 2016 The Headless City, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Daniel Jewesbury, Galway Arts Centre, Galway 2016 ART WORKS, VISUAL Carlow, selected by Annie Fletcher & Claire Feeley 2015 2050, Boston High Water Collective, Boston MA 2014 Royal Ulster Academy’s 133rd Annual Exhibition 2014 Shadows, CPPCC Museum, Beijing 2013 Poster Politik, Martina O’Brien & Mick O’Kelly, The LAB, Dublin 2013 Walls & Borders, 3C CREATIVE MALL, 798, Beijing 2012 Intimate Revolutions: Discourse on Disappointment, Siemens Space, Beijing Artist Talks, Events & Screenings: 2021 Dublin Art Book Fair: Manual, TBG+S, invited artist 2021 SHUL Artist Talk, Martina O’Brien, Christine Mackey and Aideen Barry 2020 Dublin Art Book Fair: Design as an Attitude, TBG+S, invited artist 2020 Talking about talking / Speaking through speech: Lunchtime conversation with Martina O’Brien, TBG+S 2019 Every Single Morning, Artist Book launch, Studio 6, TBG+S 2019 Dublin Art Book Fair: Art & Architecture: Learning from the Bauhaus, TBG+S, invited artist 2019 The Art of Citizen-Science: Monitoring a Climate Crisis Symposium, Maynooth University 2018 Quotidian: Art, Climate Change and Citizen-Scientists, Maynooth University 2017 Screening, In the Open, Sheffield, UK 2016 Screening, Being in Place: The Highs and Lows of Situated Practice, University of Dundee, Scotland Collections: Butler Gallery Permanent Collection An Bord Altranais Earlsfort Group Purchased by The Office of Public Works Private collections |