Ronan McCrea

Curriculum Vitae

Ronan McCrea Ronan McCrea is an artist living and working in Dublin working in photography, projected slide installations and sculpture.

Current projects include School Play, a commission for a primary school in Dublin and New Town Centre Project ((Extract #1) a project produced with Draiocht Blanchardstown, Dublin.

He has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally.

Recent solo projects include: Medium (Corporate Entities) a project for the Irish Museum of Modern Art 10,000 to 50 exhibition in April – June 2008, Medium at Gallery for One & Goethe-Institut, Dublin, 2007. In 2005 was one of seven artists who represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions include Galway Arts Centre (2004), Project Arts Centre Dublin 2003, Glassbox Paris (2002). Group shows include Coalcese: Happenstance, Smart Project Space Amsterdam (curated by Paul O’Neill, Nameless Science, Apexart New York 2008 curated by Henk Slager, Red White Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, 2005; La-La Land, Project, Dublin. 2005 No-one else brings me the colours that you bring, Temple Bar Galleries & Studios, 2004; Permaculture, Project Arts Centre, 2003; Grayscale/CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow, 2002. A Timely Place… London Print Studio Gallery, London 2001.

Curatorial projects include being a guest curator for The Return, visual art space at The Goethe Institute, 2003/04. Co-founder of Multiples (with Paul O’Neill) Co-Curator of Multiples x1 in 1998/99 and being Assistant Curator, The Collection at Irish Museum of Modern Art 1996/98.

McCrea studied at National College of Art & Design in Dublin, graduating with a B.A. in Fine Art (Sculpture) 1991.
He is currently a PhD candidate at University of Ulster, Belfast under the supervision of Willie Doherty, Paul Willemen (2006-07) and Dr. Alison Rowley. and teaches part time in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology and is a Board Member of Project Arts Centre.

Projects and Exhibitions:

• New Town Centre Project (Extract #1)
  Draiocht Arts Centre,Blanchardstown, Dublin, 2009
• Medium (Corporate Entities)
  A project for the exhibition 10,000 to 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2008
• Medium (Upsidesown) and Medium (The End)
  Gallery for One, Dublin, and Goethe-Institute, Dublin, 2007
• Sequences, Scenarios & Locations Parts I –III
  Ireland at Venice, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, 2005
• The Twentieth Century
  Public art commission for Dublin City Council, Dublin, 2006
• Sequences, Scenarios & Locations and The Correction Drawings I – IV
  Galway Arts Centre, Galway, 2004
• general-specific
  Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2003
• Seminal
  Glassbox, Paris, 2002
• Das Ist Echt!
  Expo 2000, Hanover, and Golden Pudel Klub, Hamburg, 2000
• In between Ronan McCrea and Paul O’Neill
  Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2000
• View
  Off-site programme, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 1999
• Out of It
  Video installation at Pier 4A, Heathrow Airport, London, 1998-2000
• “…all the time”
  Context Gallery, Derry, 1998
• Projective Techniques
  Installation at The Pearse Museum, Dublin, 1994

Group exhibitions:

• Coalesce: Happenstance
  Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, 2009
• Nameless Science
  Apexart, New York, 2008
• Red White Blue
  Spenser Brownstone Gallery, New York, 2005
• La La Land
  Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2005
• No one makes me feel the colours that you do
  Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2005
• No Respect
  Tangier Lane and Neary’s Bar, Dublin, 2004
• Tonight
  Studio Voltaire, London, 2004
• Permaculture
  Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2003
• Grayscale/CMYK
  Tramway, Glasgow, and RHA, Dublin (NIFCA), 2002/3
• Affinity Archive
  Metropolitian Complex, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, 2003
• Vacationland
  Arthouse, Dublin, and Westbourne Studios, London, 2002/3
• A Timely Place, Or Getting Back to Somewhere
  London Print Studio Gallery, London, 2001
• EV+A
  Limerick, 2000
• In Consistency II
  Arthouse, Dublin, 2000
• Multiples x3
  Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2000
• In Consistency
  Arthur R Rose Gallery, London, 1999
• Utopias
  Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1999
• Waterfront
  Catalyst Arts, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, 1998
• Passport Exchange (ex)Change
  Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, and Zachenta Gallery, Warsaw, 1997
• Les Au Revoirs
  l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, College Marcel Duchamp, Chateauroux, 1996
• Group Show
  Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 1996
• Group Show
  Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 1995
• EV+A
  Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, 1995
• Hit & Run
  Catalyst Arts, Wilmont House, Belfast, 1994
• Random Access Exhibition
  Irish Life Centre, Dublin, 1993

Publications and Texts:

• Permaculture
  edited by Sarah Pierse & Grant Watson, published by Project Arts Centre & Metropolitian Complex, 2009.
• 10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from Members of Buisness to Arts .
  Contains the project: Medium (Corporate Entities) published by Irish Museum of Modern Art
  Dublin, 2008
• Ireland at Venice 2005
  Exhibition Catalogue, 2005
• Sequences, Scenarios & Locations
  Artist’s publication, 2005
• Artist’s page, K-Bulletin Kultur-Fanzine
  Zurich, 2002
• Artist’s page, _Portal Magazine_
  ArtisExpo 2000, Hanover, 2000
• Exhibition catalogue, EV+A 2000
  Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, 2000
• Utopias
  Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1999

Education:

• B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art (Sculpture), 1991
  National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Residencies:

• Artist’s Work Programme
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2002
• Artist in Residence
  Expo 2000, Ireland Expo Cultural Programme, Hanover, 2000
• Artist in residence
  Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, 1997.

Collections:

• Arts Council Collection
• Private Collections

Other projects:

• 2004-present: Member, Board of Directors
  Project Arts Centre
• 2003-2004: Guest Curator and member of visual art advisory panel
  The Return, visual art space at Goethe-Institut Dublin. (Exhibitions: The National Gallery, co-curated with Grant Watson and Vaari Claffey; Daniel Olson; Paul O’Neill; Augustine O’Donoghue).
• 1998-99: Co-founder (with Paul O’Neill), Multiples; Co-curator, Multiples x1
  Multiples commissions, exhibits and sells multiple and edition artwork from Irish and international artists.