Fergus Byrne Curriculum Vitae
Education
MA in Theatre and Contemporary Practice, University of Hull – 2002/03
BA in Fine Art from NCAD, Thomas St. Dublin 8, 1991 – 96
Awards and Residencies
2023 Bbeyond Athens Residency at 1927 Art Space
2016 Dublin City Council Dance Bursary.
2015 Connect Residency, Kultivera, Tranas, Sweden.
2014 Dance Ignition Lab, Kultivera, Tranas, Sweden.
2012 Arts Council Bursary
2011 Arts Council Small Festivals Award (granted to Transversal Dublin)
Solo work
2024 Re-rooting Tallaght Performance Festival at Rua Red, Wall.din Wall.doubt
Earth Rising at IMMA, Unfold Refold
2021 Soul Noir, Festival of the Dark Arts, Dublin Castle, Curator: Sinéad Keogh.
Coming Out for Air, CQAF, Belfast. BBeyond commission.
2020 An duine ina shuí, performance at Cúl and Tí, An Spidéal.
2019 Somatic Distortion, Manorhamilton Sculpture Centre
2017 Artwaves, performance, Skerries.
Defiant Embodiments in Theatre, Sport and Performance, Brunel University.
2016 Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol.
2015 Engage Arts Festival, Bandon. May I draw your Eyes?
DLAF. Livestock, Performing Pleasure.
Dublin Live Art Festival, Seminar. Performance lecture: Dance/Movement Sculpture.
Moving Bodies Butoh and Live Art Festival, Dublin and Torino.
Belfast International Festival of Performance Art at Ulster University.
2014 Galway Dance Days, Corp-Real Symposium. NUIG
2013 The Drawing Project, DLIADT
2012 Butoh Festival Dublin, Performance/lecture at Dance House
Punishment for Galileo, performance at Market Studios, Unit H, Dublin.
2011 Siblings, solo show at Joinery Gallery
Cultures of Boxing, School of English Conference, TCD
Loop, performance at Livestock, Market Studios and 126, Galway.
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
2021 Crossing, ArtsVit Gallery, Dnipro, Ukraine.
The Maternal Gaze, IMMA.
2018 Lovely weather… Performance festival in Cavan Town.
Presentation on Irish Performance Art at RIAP, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada.
Soul Noir, Festival of the Dark Arts, Chocolate Factory, Curator: Sinead Keogh.
Autonomy Project, Limerick Sailors’ Home. Curated by Lisa McLoughlin.
2017 Mobilize: Performance Art from Ireland @ Boston Cyber Arts Gallery
Mermaid Dance Platform, Collapsible VII, with Macdara O’Maolbhuaidh
2016 Suspensions: with Marion Cronin and Alba Lorca in Tullamore, a Foundation project.
2016 Forthcoming – Hello Sam: Redux, Paramount Theatre, Boston with Brian O’Doherty and
Gare St. Lazare Theatre Co.
Hello Sam: Redux installation with Brian O’Doherty in Gare St.Lazare’s Beckett Festival, Coronet Theatre, London.
Contrivance, performer in film by Cyntia Botello, 2nd at Agit y Serva 8th Festival, Itinerante deVideodanza
2015 Moving Targets (Poise and Pace) at Source Arts Centre, Thurles. Curated by Annette Moloney
Lying–sitting- standing-walking-jumping-flying/falling. Kunstelforum, Bonn. Germany. Conception and realisation by Roland Bergère, Gerhard
Dirmoser, Sibylle Ettengruber , Susanne mine , Boris Nieslony and Thomas Reul.
Horse : Void Gallery, Derry. Curated by Mark Wallinger and Maolíosa Boyle.
2014 Paradise Lost, A Tactile Bosch event, Cardiff.
BBeyond German Exchange with PAErsche aktionslabor; Interval °4 in Essen. Spatio- Temporale °5, Cologne and Actus III, Brussels.
Self Made curated by Unit 1, performance at Crawford Art Gallery.
Bodies in Urban Spaces, Willi Dorner Company, Dublin Dance Festival.
The Infinite Line- a search for the unknown. Tactic gallery, Cork. Curated by
Sophie Behal and Maeve Lynch.
Dublin Dance Trail, International Dance Day. Collaboration with Gabriel Forestieri,
2013 Making a Mark, group show, Port of Waterford Company, curated by Mary Ruth Walsh
Weave. resdency, organised by Antoine Dutrieu and Rebecca FL, Brussels
Headin’ Out, Tallaght Community Arts project.
Between you, me and the Four Walls, curated by Michelle Browne, IETM Spring Plenary, Project Arts Centre.
2012 E.S.P. TV at Pallas Contemporary Projects
Good Works, art mass by John Byrne at Cavan Cathedral.
The Avant Festival, In the same breath, Performance in Cork.
Present , with Black Market International presented by Bbeyond at Queens University, Belfast
Fare Bbeyond, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
‘Absence in Performance’ seminar at The Lab in conjunction with ‘Other Stuff’ Working. Drawing, Residency and performance at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon Execution of Brian O’Doherty wall painting private residence, Tuscany, Italy.Hotel Ballymun, participating artist in Seamus Nolan’s Hotel Ballymun programme.
Curation
2015 Butoh Film Festival, the New Theatre. Collaboration with Ambra Bergamasco’s Moving
Bodies.
2013 Generation: curation and production of performance art day at The Dock, Carrick on Shannon.
2012 Transversal III at The Chocolate Factory. Performance event curated and produced
with Deirdre Murphy.
2011 Transversal2@DDF, Curated and organised with Deirdre Murphy, performance event within Dublin Dance Festival
Writing
2021 Forthcoming essay in RIAP’s
Art Action 1998 -2018
El Putnam – Works in the Void of the Net https://inaction.ie/2021/06/
2016 On Sculpture, the Body and Dance
https://inactionireland.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/on-sculpture-the-body-and-dance/
2015 ‘Fragments on the Performance Collective’ in Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Edited by Áine Phillips, published by Intellect Books,
2013 Hello Sam; Brian O’Doherty & Joe Stanley, Solo Score with Recollection, IMMA
Articles and Reviews
Visual Artists News Sheet, July –Aug 2016: ‘Discipline, Resistance, Resilience’, El Putnam, p23
Enclave Review, issue 11, Autumn 2014. The Infinite Line (A search for the unknown)
review by Chris Clarke, p.2