David O'Kane Ireland, b. 1985

EDUCATION

2012     Meisterschüler Degree, Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig, Germany
2009     Diploma, Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig, Germany
2006     BA, History of Art and Fine Art Painting, The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020     Gallery of Glass, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2017     Splendide Mendax, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland

2017     A Melancholy Object, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2017     Lapse of Time, Observation Deck, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

2017     A Modest Proposal, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2017     A Modest Proposal, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland  

2016     The Glass Harmonica, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2016     The Acuity of Blindness, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2015     Beltany, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland
2014     Continuum – Repetition & Difference, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2014     The Zoetrope - Repetition & Difference, Gallery Baton, Seoul
2013     Der Spieler: Homo Ludens (The Player – Homo Ludens), Stiftung Starke, Berlin

2012     Blindsight, Villa Schomburgk/ St. Elisabeth Hospital, Leipzig, Germany

2012     The Persistence of Vision, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2010     Still, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

2009     Dissection, Filipp Rosbach Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2009     Doppelgänger, Pierogi Gallery, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019     The Ever Widening Spiral, Boston College Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

2019     The Epiphenomenal Magic Lantern Show, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany

2019     Genius of Genre, John J. Burns Library in Boston College, Boston, USA

2018     Salondergegenwar, Hamburg, Germany

2018     New Irish Creatives, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany

2018     Light, Non-Light, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea

2018     MdbK meets G2 (Painting from Leipzig since 2000), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2017     Impressions, Print Biennale, GMIT, Galway, Ireland  

2017     Acting Out – The Shadow on the Wall, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria

2017     187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

2017     Jetzt Druck Machen (Apply Pressure Now), Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Germany

2016     Imagination Dead Imagine & Selected Prints, Kulturgut Hirtscheid On Paper, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Ireland

2016     COE 16 New Century Retro - A Selection of COE Prize-winners, Claremorris, Ireland

2016     The Shadow on the Wall, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

2016     186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

2015     Imagination Dead Imagine, Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2015     Imagination Dead Imagine, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

2015     The Liminal Space, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

2015     Trash, Gallery Eastmen, Hasselt (curated by Koen van den Broek), Belgium

2014     Open Your Eyes, Galerie Maïa Muller in Paris, Paris, France

2013     Neither Here Nor There II – Contemporary Irish, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland

2013     Pilot Projekt (Project Pilot), Hansaallee 159 in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2013     Neither Here Nor There – Contemporary Irish, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany

2013    Der Aufstand der Dinge (The Uprising of Things), Neue Kunstverein Aschaffenberg Die Schwarze Zunge, Winterthur, Switzerland

2012     Divergence, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

2012     Envia Kunstkalender, Chemnitz, Germany

2012     German Now From Leipzig, Seong Nam Arts Center, Seongnam, Korea

2012     Tafeldienst (table Service), Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig, Germany

2011     Die Schwarze Zunge (The Black Tongue), Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2011     I have looked everywhere that can be looked, Cavancor Gallery, Donegal, Germany

2011     Le Mal de Montano, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France

2011     L’art de la rencontre, Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, France

2011     Its not them, its us, Pilotenkueche, The Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany  

2010     Der Ehemalige Norden (The Former North), Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen, Ettlingen, Germany

2010     The Salon Art Prize Exhibition, Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, London, UK

2010     New Bottle, Old Wine, Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig, Germany  

2010     The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers)

2009     Neun Neue (Nine New Ones), Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany

2009     Claremorris Open Exhibition, Mayo, Ireland (curated by Tom Morton)

2009     Baluster, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig, Germany

2009     Werkschau 2009 (Work Show 2009), 125th Spinnerei anniversary exhibition, Leipzig, Germany

2008     Impressions, Print Exhibition, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland

2008     Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2008     Serralves em Festa (Serralves in Party 2008), Oporto, Portugal (selected by the Regina Guimarães)

2008     EVA International, Limerick, Ireland

PRIZES

2018     Shortlisted for the Visual Art Award, Irish Embassy, Berlin, Germany (selected by Dr. Katja Blomberg & Seán Kissane)

2014     Winner of the Golden Fleece Award, Dublin, Ireland

2013     Shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award, Dublin, Ireland

2013     Shortlisted for the ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’, Thames & Hudson, initiated by Kurt Beers
2011     Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2009     Claremorris Open Exhibition Award, Ireland (Awarded by the curator Tom Morton), Claremorris
2008     Honorary Awards for Video and Installation, 1st Montijo International Plastic Arts Biennial and IX, Portugal
2008     Winner of the artistic projects tender at the Serralves em Festa 2008 in Oporto, Oport0, Portugal (Awarded by the curator Regina Guimarães)
2008    Eva International - Open Award, Limerick, Ireland (Awarded by the curator Hou Hanru)

2006     Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

2006     R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award for Painting at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland

2006     O’Sullivan Award for Graphic Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

RESIDENCIES

2016     ACME Studios Residency Exchange, London, UK
2016     Residency in Ethiopia, hosted by the Irish Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2014     Residency at the Fire Station Artist’s Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2010     Residency at the Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany
2010     Residency at the Pilotenkueche, The Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2009     Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship & Residency at the British School at Rome, Rome, Italy

2009     Lithography Residency at Obelisk Studio, Uithuizermeeden, Netherlands

2009     Residency at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland