Artist's arttributes:
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Photography, Video |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 34 |
| Ireland (Republic) | 26 |
| Germany | 25 |
| United Kingdom | 23 |
| Spain | 13 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Alexander and Bonin, USA |
14 |
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Kerlin Gallery, Ireland (Republic) |
13 |
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Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Ireland (Republic) |
8 |
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Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Switzerland |
5 |
Biography: 
1959 Born in Derry, Northern Ireland (UK)
1978 - 1981 Ulster Polytechnic, Belfast
Scholarship 1999 DAAD residency, Berlin, Germany
Awards 1995 Irish Museum of Modern Art Glen Dimplex Artists Award
2003 Shortlisted for the Turner Prize
Lives and works in Donegal (Irland)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 187 
until 25.8.
until 7.7.
Solo shows 45
2013
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| Without Trace - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
2012
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| Secretion - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Willie Doherty - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Lapse - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Willie Doherty: Photo/text/85/92 - Matt´s Gallery, London (England) |
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| Willie Doherty: One Place Twice, Photo/Text/85/92 - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Willie Doherty - Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England) |
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| Willie Doherty - Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin |
2010
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| Willie Doherty - Unfinished - Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona |
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| Willie Doherty: LACK - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Willie Doherty: Buried - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales) |
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| Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Willie Doherty - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Willie Doherty - Three Potential Endings - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
2008
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| Ghost Story / Apparatus / Closure / Empty - VOID , Derry (Northern Ireland) |
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| Willie Doherty - The Third Space Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| Willie Doherty - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
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| Willie Doherty Replays: Selected video work 1994-2007 - Matt´s Gallery, London (England) |
2007
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| Willie Doherty - Stories - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich |
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| Willie Doherty - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Willie Doherty - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Willie Doherty - Passage - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Willie Doherty - Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City |
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| Willie Doherty - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
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| Willie Doherty - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
2005
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| Willie Doherty - "Apparatus" - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Willie Doherty - Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid |
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| Willie Doherty - Non-specific Threats - Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade |
2004
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| Willie Doherty - Non-Specific Threat - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Willie Doherty - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
2003
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| Willie Doherty - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
2002
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| Willie Doherty: False Memory - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Willie Doherty - Unknown Male Subject - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Retraces - Matt´s Gallery, London (England) |
2001
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| Willie Doherty - extracts from a file - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Willie Doherty - Extracts from a File / Akten-Auszug - GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V. Bremen, Bremen |
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| Willie Doherty - Extracts from a file - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
1999
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| Willie Doherty - new photographs and video - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Willie Doherty - True Nature - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1998
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| Willie Doherty - Same old Story - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| RACONTE-MOI UNE HISTOIRE - la narration dans la peinture et la photographie cont - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
1997
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| Willie Doherty, vidéo - attitudes - espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva |
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| same old story - Matt´s Gallery, London (England) |
1996
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| Willie Doherty - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
Group shows 140
2013
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| Concrete - Fotografie Und Architektur - Jubiläumsausstellung 1 - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon’s Studio - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| Border Cultures: Part One (homes, land) - Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario |
2012
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| Desire Lines - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Stimuli: prints and multiples - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Language Games - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| OC Collects - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Paysage-Document - l’Arsenal de Metz, Metz |
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| Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel |
2011
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| Exposición Colectiva - Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid |
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| DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien - Alltag - Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid |
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| DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien - Alltag - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| Aschemünder - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Moving Portraits - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
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| Angry - Young and Radical - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
2010
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| Storytellers - Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes |
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| Manifesta 8 - Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia |
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| Medianoche en la Ciudad - Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida |
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| The Land Between Us: power, place and dislocation - Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England) |
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| Willie Doherty, Victor Grippo and Sylvia Plimack Mangold - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Summer 2010 - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Archiving Place & Time - Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown (Northern Ireland) |
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| A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Fear and Terror - galleria gentili, Prato, PO |
2009
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| Terror & Sublime: Art and Politics in an Age of Anxiety - Crawford Art Gallery, Cork |
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| OPEN e v+ a 2009 Reading the City - ev+a, Limerick |
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| Pequeña historia de la fotografía - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Video Portraits - Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA |
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| Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
2008
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| Jahresgaben 2008 - Kunstverein München, Munich |
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| FIFTY PERCENT SOLITUDE - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Hugh Lane Centenary Print Collection - Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin |
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| Looking for mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Kunst und Counterculture in San Francisco um 1968 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Nature, space and time - recent acquisitions - Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo |
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| La Fete Est Permanente / The Eternal Network - FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims |
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| Gustos, colecciones y cintas de vídeo - CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles |
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| 15 Jahre Galerie Peter Kilchmann 1992 - 2007 - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
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| The Subject Now - Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington |
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| Willie Doherty & Gerard Byrne - Venice @ gtGallery - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| 10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business to Arts - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Celebrating 20 year - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| The Morning After - Videoarbeiten der Sammlung Goetz - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| The Picture is Still - Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal |
2007
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| Gehen bleiben - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Summer Group Show - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Selected Works by Gallery Artists - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Regarding Fear and Hope - MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, VIC |
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| perspektive 07 - Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich |
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| 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| (I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear - New Acquisitions - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Resolutions - New Art from Northern Ireland - American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC |
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| things we may have missed - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| 3rd Auckland Triennial - Auckland Triennial, Auckland |
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| Diez años - Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona |
2006
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| The Dissembodied Eye:Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| Tunnel Vision - Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters - Donation - Caisse des Dépôts' photograph collection - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Gallery Artists - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| PHotoEspaña 06 - PHotoEspaña, Madrid |
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| Reprocessing Reality - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one) - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna |
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| ARS 06 - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
2005
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| GROUP SHOW Gallery Artists - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Prepossession - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| Summer Group Show - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Slide Show - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - Always a little further - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| skyggen /the shadow - Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø |
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| Reprocessing Reality - Château de Nyon, Nyon |
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| Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
2004
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| Dwellan - Exhibition of contemporary video art - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere, contemporary art from FRAC - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
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| Glocal - Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona |
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| the Gallery selects... - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Views from an Island and Representing the Táin - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai |
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| Miedo - Fear - Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid |
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| In the Time of Shaking: Irish artists for Amnesty International - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| 3. Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst - berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Berlin |
2003
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| Change of Values. Works from the ARCO Foundation Collection - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| Turner Prize 2003 - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| 8th International İstanbul Biennial 2003 - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Réalités. Collections sans frontiers II - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
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| History Now - The Presence Of The Past In Contemporary Photography - Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand |
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| Site Specific - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Imperfect Marriages - - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (closed) |
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| Imperfect Innocence - The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Imperfect Innocence - Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
2002
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| Something Else - Contemporary Irish Art - Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki |
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| History Now - Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Something Else - Irish Contemporary Art - Turku Art Museum, Turku |
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| Spread In Prato - HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts , Gent |
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| Spread In Prato - Dryphoto Arte contemporanea, Prato, PO |
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| Europa-América - Selección 25ª Bienal de Sao Paulo 2002 - MAC - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Universidad de Chile, Santiago |
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| Willie Doherty / Paul Etienne Lincoln / Rita McBride - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| That Place - - The Moore Space, Miami, FL (closed, 2008) |
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| 25° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| The Unblinking Eye - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| formal social - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
2001
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| Landscape - Paisagem - Uma Visão Contemporânea - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo |
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| Das innere Befinden - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| Trauma - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
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| Group Show - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| >Double Vision< - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig |
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| (Self)Portraits - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Night on Earth - Fotografie und Videokunst - Kunsthalle Münster, Münster |
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| Look Out - PM Gallery & House, London (England) |
2000
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| The Bigger Picture - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950 - 2000 - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Landscape - ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar |
1999
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| Insight Out - Landschaft und Interieur als Themen zeitgenössischer - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
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| Insight Out - Landschaft und Interieur als Themen zeitgenössischer - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Dimensions Variable - Contemporary British Art - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Insight Out - Landschaft und Interieur als Themen zeitgenössischer Photographie - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
1998
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| Photographs:Matthew Benedict, Willie Cole, Willie Doherty, Rita McBride, Mona Ha - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Emotion – Junge Britische Und Amerikanische Kunst Aus Der Sammlung Goetz - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| REAL/LIFE New British Art - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima |
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| New Art from Britain - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
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| Art from the UK - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Eugenio Dittborn, Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Being & Time - The Emergence of Video Projection - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Shot Reverse-Shot - The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB |
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| Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| I d e n t i t é - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| Between Lantern and Laser: Video Projections - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Foto Text Text Foto - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| no place (like home) - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1996
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| ID - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
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| Being & time - the emergence of video projection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| distant relations/cercanías distantes/clann i gcíin: a dialogue among chicano, irish, and mexican artists - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
1995
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| Trust - Tramway, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Willie Doherty och Andreas Gursky - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
1994
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| Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| the Spine - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
1993
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| 1. Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie 1993 - - Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie, Graz (closed, 2003) |
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| Spielhölle - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz |
1991
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| A Place for Art? - The Showroom, London (England) |
Dealer Directory 5 |
Ireland (Republic)
Spain
| | Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid
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| | Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
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USA
| | Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY
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Collections 14

France
| | 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz
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| | Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
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| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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Germany
| | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
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Ireland (Republic)
| | Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
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| | Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
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| | Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
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United Kingdom
| | Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland)
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| | Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
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| | Hiscox Art Projects, London (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England)
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USA
| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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Catalogs
| | Art from the UK- Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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