Susan MacWilliam
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Born: 1969 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lives: and works in Belfast
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Teaching
2008 - Full Time Lecturer: Fine Art, NCAD/National College of Art + Design, Dublin.
2007/08 External Moderator, BA Painting Course, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick.
2008 Visiting Lecturer, Crawford College of Art + Design, Cork and GMIT, Galway.
2007 Acting MFA Co-ordinator, National College of Art + Design, Dublin.
2000/08 Part-Time Lecturer: NCAD/National College of Art + Design, Dublin.
2003/05 Part-Time Lecturer: University of Ulster at Belfast.
2003 Visiting Lecturer: Galway + Mayo Institute of Technology.
2002 Visiting Lecturer: Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick,
2001/02 Visiting Lecturer: Crawford College of Art + Design, Cork.
1997/00 Visiting Lecturer: Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick.
2000 Visiting Lecturer: Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design + Technology.
2000 Invited Speaker: Denison University, Ohio.
1995/00 Visiting Lecturer: University of Ulster at Belfast.
1998 Visiting Lecturer: National College of Art + Design, Dublin.
1998 Visiting Lecturer: Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin.
Other
2008 Member of Advisory Panel, Visual Artists Workspaces Review, Arts Council of Ireland, 2008
- Film Archivist, The Parapsychology Foundation, New York.
- Member/Co-Director, Orchid Studios, Belfast.
- Member of the Board of Directors � Visual Artists Ireland.
- Member of the Board of Directors � Source Photographic Magazine.
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2009
Venice Biennale 2009, Susan MacWilliam will represent Northern Ireland with a solo exhibition with new work at the 53rd Venice Biennale 7th Jun - 22nd Nov 2009
The Pressure of a Sign � Visible/Invisible, international travelling exhibition - venues in Poland, Portugal, England, Ireland. Curated by Siun Hanrahan, Jolanta Mederowicz, Ines Amado.
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2008
Eileen, Gimpel Fils, London
Double Vision, Jack The Pelican Presents, New York.
2006
Dermo Optics, Likovni Salon, Celje, Slovenia.
2004
Headbox, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2003
On The Eye, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
2002
On The Eye, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
2001
Susan MacWilliam, Gallery 1, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
2000
The Persistence of Vision, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
1999
Experiment M, Context Gallery, Derry.
Faint, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast.
1997
Curtains, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
1995
Liptych II, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast.
1994
Liptych, Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn.
1994
List, Street Level Gallery, Irish News Building, Belfast.
Collections
2008
British Library, London - Sound Archive. From Summer 2008 all video works from 1998-2007 will be housed in the Drama and Literature Section of the Sound Archive.
2005
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Private Collections
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2008
RUA Invited Artists, (exhibiting -The Only Way To Travel), Drawing Offices, Harland And Wolff, Sep/Oct �08
Video Screening, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, as part of Based On Our Current Science... The Gallery Of Photography, Dublin. Curated by Sally Timmons
Salon, Studio 6, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin. Curated by Jennie Guy.
Video Screening - Trickery and Illusion in Cinema, Tatton Park Biennial, Manchester. May 24th.
Drawing a Line � A Contemporary Survey of Art from Northern Ireland, Museum of the Heilongjiang Daily, China.
Seeing is Believing, Photographers' Gallery, London.
2007
Seeing is Believing, Photographers' Gallery, London.
Rigor Mort, Castle Ellen, Dundalk. Curated by Sally Timmons.
Rigor Mort, Basement Gallery, Dundalk. Curated by Sally Timmons.
The Double Image, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. September. Curated by Dougal McKenzie.
The Fall Season, Jack the Pelican Presents, Williamsburg, New York.
Terms and Conditions, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co.Wicklow.
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co.Mayo. Curated by Ingrid Swenson.
Synesthesia Sat, Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival, Birr, Co.Offally. Curated by Paul Murnaghan.
New Art from Northern Ireland, The Katzen Arts Centre at American University, Washington, DC, USA.
Things We May Have Missed, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London. Golden Thread Gallery - Stand P8.
2006
Flash on The Screen, Basekamp Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.
Revolving Ambiguity, The Grove Gallery, the St. Patrick's Centre, Downpatrick.
A Dark Noise, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
Vstop Prost, Celje, Slovenia.
EV+A 2006, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick. Curator Katerina Gregos.
Smoke and Mirrors, Mac, Birmingham.
Platform 1, Knockbride House, Bailieborough, Co.Cavan.
2005
To Be Continued�/Jatkuu�, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland.
Offside II, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Video Screening.
Red White Blue, Spencer Gladstone Gallery, New York. Curated by Erin Krause, Sadie Laska, Mark Orange.
From The Liberties to Parramatta, Female Orphanage School Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
�Feelers�, Artists Pages, Printed Project Issue 5, Sculptors Society of Ireland Publication, Launched at Venice Biennale.
Artistas Visuales de Belfast, La Sala Naranja, Valencia, Spain.
EV+A 2005, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick. Curator Dan Cameron.
The Belfast Way: Young Art from Northern Ireland, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Curator Sergio Edelsztein.
2004
Thinking of Ideas, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
Inter, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston.
Eye Test, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Old Royal Naval College, Maritime Greenwich, London.
2003
Think Over, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome.
Perspective 03, (Prize Winner) Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Curator Enrique Juncosa (Director � IMMA, Dublin).
House of Science, Kino Central, Berlin.
Afterlife, Chapter Arts, Cardiff + Guildhall, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Exhumed, Video Screening, Museum of Garden History, London, Curator William Rallison.
Hindsight, Video Screening, Arnolfini, Bristol, Curated by Picture This Moving Image.
LUX Open 2003, Royal College of Art, London.
EV+A 2003, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick. Curator Virginia Perez-Ratton.
The National Gallery, The Return, The Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Dublin.
2002
Crawford Open 3, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
Home + Away: Contemporary Irish Art, Irish Arts Centre, New York.
Videoteque 2, Newlyn Gallery, Penzance.
From Dusk to Dawn, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Old Royal Naval College, Maritime Greenwich, London.
Videoteque, Ten Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall.
Cluster, Bowes Bar, Dublin, Curator Katie Holten.
Home + Away: Contemporary Irish Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Appropriation, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
EV+A 2002, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick. Curator Dr. Apinan Poshyananda.
2001
It�s All Over, Again, Proposition Gallery, Belfast.
Crawford Open 2, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.
Laois Arts Festival, Laois.
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co.Mayo. Curator Lewis Biggs.
Install, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn.
EV+A 2001, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (award winner). Curator Salah M Hassan.
Multiples, ICA Bookstore, London.
2000
Multiples, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
The Notice Day in This Factory is Thursday, Consortium, Amsterdam.
D-Net Festival, LUX, London.
Portobello Film and Video Festival, London.
Clockwork 2000, (PS1 International + National Studio Program Show), The Clocktower, Broadway, NY.
The Notice Day in This Factory is Thursday, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
Fantasy and Identity, Star67, Brooklyn, New York.
1999
Glen Dimplex Artists Award 1999, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
EV+A �99, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick (award winner). Curator Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn)
Multiples II, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
The Grotesqueness of Desire, insideART, Chicago, USA.
Daughters of the Middle Border, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA.
Haunted, S1 Artspace, Sheffield.
1998
Zone Festival �98, Maidstone, Kent.
Victor Treacy Award Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
First Cut, (Video Screening), Irish Film Centre, Dublin.
EV+A �98, Limerick. (Curator Paul O�Reilly).
Exhibition of Northern Irish Art, The Loft Gallery, Kingston, New York, USA.
Video Soup, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
Fix �98, Time Based Arts Festival, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
1997
Intermedia �97, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
1996
Splatter, Crawfordsburn House, Crawfordsburn, Co.Down.
House Style, The Bedroom, Greenore Street, Belfast.
1995
Arcadia, North Street Arcade, Belfast.
Subterraneans, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
1994
BBC Show, BBC Ormeau Avenue, Belfast.
Iontas Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo + RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.
Hit + Run, Wilmont House, Belfast.
Belfast Young Contemporaries, One Oxford Street, Belfast.
1993
EV+A �93, Limerick.
1992
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co.Mayo.
Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, Belfast.
1991
Fresh Art, The Business Design Centre, Islington, London.
1990
Hanover Gallery, Liverpool.
Righton Gallery, Manchester.
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Recent Publications/Catalogues/Reviews
2008
Susan MacWilliam, Eileen, Gimpel Fils, London, CIRCA Issue 125 (Pg 86-87, Riann Coulter).
Art That Makes Seance, Irish News, 19th July, (Pg 3), Emma Blee
Susan MacWilliam, Jack the Pelican Presents, ArtForum, Summer 2008 (Pg 443), Michael Wilson
Shaky Ground, Garageland, Issue 6, (Pg 46-51), Cathy Lomax, ISSN 1749-9267
2007
Photography and the Unreal, Time Out, London, 10th December, Helen Sumpter.
The Spirit of Enquiry, The Independent (London), 14th November, Charlotte Cripps.
Belfast: Four Video Artists Exploring Consciousness, Terminal: A Review of 21st Century Art, Tel Aviv, April-May, (Pg 39-40), Slavka Sverakova
On Susan MacWilliam's Dermo Optics +Explaining Magic to Mercer, CIRCA online article by Slavka Sverakova
2006
An Outsider in her Native Town, CIRCA Issue 118 (Pg 48-54, Noel Kelly).
Front Cover, CIRCA Issue 118.
A Dark Noise, Artists Newsletter, December (Pg 9, Slavka Sverakova).
EV+A 2006 Review, CIRCA Issue 116 (Pg 90-92, Paul O�Brien).
EV+A 2006 Review, Irish Times, March 16th (Pg 16, Aiden Dunne).
2005
Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland, Pg 115-126, ed. Katy Deepwell, I.B. Tauris ISBN 1 85043 621 5
Four Now, Arts Council + Arts Council of NI Collections Exhibition, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Catalogue Essay,
(Pg 13-14, by Susan MacWilliam) ISBN 1 904291 15 5
2004
Review of Headbox, Art Monthly, No 280, October, (Pg 34, Niamh Ann Kelly).
Review of Headbox, Irish Times, Sep 15th, Aidan Dunne.
Inter, Catalogue, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, London. Essay Shirley MacWilliam. ISBN 1 871575 25 7
Afterlife, Chapter Arts. CIRCA 107, Spring 2004, p 90, Jennie Savage.
Eye Test, Catalogue, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London.
2003
Women and cities: selected artworks from Belfast, Suzanna Chan, Pg 227-232, The Cities of Belfast, ed. Nicholas Allen + Aaron Kelly ISBN 1-85182-785-4.
Perspective 2003, Irish Times, October 10th, Aidan Dunne.
Spiritus, Irish Times, July 11th, Aidan Dunne.
Susan MacWilliam, Sculptors� Society of Ireland Newsletter, Jun/Jul/Aug (Pg 25, Cherie Driver).
Susan Will Catch Your Eye, Irish News, April 19th (Pg 40, Jenny Lee).
2002
EV+A, Art Monthly, May, (Pgs 41-44, Daniel Jewesbury).
Controlled Explosion (Appropriation Review), Sunday Times, Culture, May 5th, (Pgs 16-17, Medb Ruane).
Appropriation, Catalogue, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Essay Richard West.
Under An Impossibly Blue Ulster Sky (�On The Eye� Review), The Times, April 24th, (Pg 12, Aidan Dunne).
On The Eye, The Guardian, G2, Pick of The Week, April 8th.
2001
Unleashing Art in Portlaoise, The Irish Times, November 1st, (Aidan Dunne).
Tripp/Kearney/MacWilliam, The Guardian Unlimited, October 15th, (Robert Clark).
EV+A 2001 Expanded, Art Monthly, May, (Pgs 41-44, Niamh Anne Kelly).
Beyond Angela�s Ashes, EV+A 2001 Expanded Catalogue (Pg 17, Curatorial Essay Salah Hassan) ISBN094684612X.
Cutting Edge of Multi-Culturalism, The Irish Times, March 23rd, (Aidan Dunne).
2000
Ghostly Video Work Irish Connections, New York Autumn (Elizabeth Martin).
Clockwork 2000, PS1, New York, International Studio Programme Catalogue, Curatorial statement Roxana Marcoci.
The Persistence of Vision, NYarts Magazine, July-Aug (Steph Pasquini).
A Condensed International Melange, The New York Times, May 26th 2000, (Holland Cotter).
Five-artist show at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast News Letter, (9th Mar, Ian Hill).
BBC Radio Ulster, (13 March, Ian Hill).
Home Grown Talent at Golden Thread, North Belfast News, (10th March 2000, Kevin McDonald).
The Notice Day in This Factory is Thursday, Sculpture Society of Ireland Newsletter, Apr/May, Suzanna Chan.
The Notice Day in This Factory is Thursday, CIRCA, Summer 2000 (Phil Collins).
1999
Transgressive Events, CIRCA, Autumn 1999, No 89, (Pages 34-38, Eoghan McTigue).
Out of Belfast, Catalogue with Essay and Interviews, Denison University Art Gallery, Ohio, USA, (Joy Sperling).
Review of EV+A �99, CIRCA, Autumn 1999, No 89, (Pages 44-45, Dougal McKenzie).
Dystopian Chic, Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Source, No.20. Autumn, (Gavin Murphy).
Dominant Style/Variant Practices; Photography + Contemporary Art in Ireland, Source, No.20. (J.Carville).
Review of Experiment M, Derry Journal, (10th Sep, Mary Kelly).
Review of Experiment M, Belfast News Letter, (7th Sep, Ian Hill).
Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Art Monthly, (July-August, Cherry Smyth).
Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Foinse, (Tadbg MacDhonnagain).
Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Irish Times, (14th July, Aidan Dunne).
Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Sunday Times, (4th July, Dorothy Walker).
Glen Dimplex Artists Award 1999, Catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, ISBN 1 873654 73 1.
The Outsider, Review of EV+A �99, Sunday Tribune, (27th June, Marianne Hartigan).
Lens Appeal, Review of Glen Dimplex Artists Awards, Sunday Tribune, (20th June, Marianne Hartigan).
Between Darkness and Light, Contemporary Visual Arts, (Issue 23, June, Pages 36-41, Clare Doherty).
EV+A 99 Reduced, Catalogue, Essay by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (Curator), ISBN 0946846 26X.
EV+A Has a Little Lamb, CIRCA, Summer 1999, No 88, (Pages 27-28, Interview - Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn).
Review of EV+A �99, Irish Times, (27th May, Aidan Dunne).
Multiples II, Catalogue, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
The Grotesqueness of Desire, Catalogue, insideART, Chicago, USA.
Review of Faint, CIRCA, Summer 1999, No 88 (Page 47, Maeve Connolly).
Review of Faint, Sunday Times, (14th Mar, Gavin Weston).
Review of Faint, Belfast News Letter, (10th Mar, Ian Hill).
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Awards
2008
Visual Arts Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Winnipeg Residency Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2007
Award: Claremorris Open, Claremorris, Co.Mayo. Curator Ingrid Swenson.
Self Arranged International Residency Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland (Residency at the Parapscyhology Foundation, NY, 2007).
2006
Visual Arts Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
New York Residency Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Travel Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2005
Award: EV+A 2005 (Curator � Dan Cameron).
Visual Arts Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2004
Commissions Award: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council. For Headbox exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2003
Perspective 03 - Prize Winner, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Curator Enrique Juncosa (Director � IMMA, Dublin).
Visual Arts Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2002
Visual Arts Award: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council.
2001
Major Individual Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Visual Arts Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Award: EV+A 2001 - Residency Award, CCA, Trinidad, (EV+A Curator - Salah Hassan).
2000
Visual Arts Award: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council.
Nominated: Belfast Arts Awards.
illy Caf� Commission, Image Design (For Espresso Cups - PS1/MOMA 2001 Collection).
1999
PS1 International Studio Programme, New York (1 Year Scholarship).
Award: EV+A �99 (Curator: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn).
Visual Arts Bursary: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council.
Short Listed: Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Artists Award.
1998
Visual Art Award: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council.
Visual Art Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
1997
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, Annaghmakkerig - Belfast City Council Bursary.
Visual Art Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
1996
Belfast Festival at Queens: Commission for Programme Cover Image.
Visual Art Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
1995
Belfast 1991 Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
1994
Visual Art Award: An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council.
Visual Art Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
1992
Visual Art Award: Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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Residencies
2008
Residency, Winnipeg (1 month), In Conjunction with aceartinc and the University of Manitoba, Funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. July/August.
2007
Parapsychology Foundation, Greenport, Long Island, New York (July)
2006
Apartment 10, Queens, New York. Research trip to meet Parapsychology Foundation + American Society for Psychical Research (1 month) Funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2006
Likovni Salon, Celje, Slovenia. (1 month).
2001
Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad, (Jul-Aug).
1999/00
PS1 International Studio Programme, New York, (1 Year).
1998
Artists� Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Aug-Dec).
1998
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, (Two Weeks) Belfast City Council Bursary.
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