2009
OPEN ev+a 2009 - ‘Reading the City’, Curated by Angelika Nollert and Yilmaz Dziewior, Limerick, Ireland
‘Into Irish Drawing’, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland; Civic Arts Centre, Hengelo, Holland;
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; MCAC, Portadown, N. Ireland.
Summer group exhibition, Mogadishni, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 Year anniversary exhibtion, Campus Galerie, Bayreuth, Germany
ROOM COLLABORATORS, ROOM, London, UK.
Drawing Eire (Invited), 411 Galleries, Shanghai, Touring to Hangzhou and Beijing, China.

2008
'Winter Salon', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
‘Timbuktu’ Pallas Contemporary projects, Dublin, Ireland.
ARTfutures 2008, Bloomberg Space, London, UK.
Better is something you build, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Prize Drawing, Southwell art space, Nottinghamshire, UK
Multichannel, Millais Gallery, Southhampton, UK
Jerwood Drawing Prize, RWA, Bristol; BayArt, Cardiff; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle.

2007
(C)artography: Map-Making as Artform, Crawford Muncipal gallery, Cork.
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and touring UK
Multichannel, ArtSway, New Forest, UK (forthcoming).
LISTE, Berlin, Germany
Ten Years Running, Chelsea Museum, New York, USA
Spike Island Open, Bristol
The Double Image, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
‘Not what you’d expect: Irish Painting 1919-2007’, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
IONTAS 2007, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland
‘Martin Kippenburger with fries and a shake’ Plan 9, Bristol, UK
Inter-Changes, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin + touring to Highlanes Gallery Drogheda.
CEAD, 411 Galleries, Touring to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing, China.
EV+A 2007 (selected by Klaus Ottmann), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.

2006
Neue Malerei, Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany.
Four Lights, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Overlap 2, The British School at Rome, Rome.
Tryingtoland, MACRO Museum, Rome.
AIB Prize Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Taylor Prizewinners Exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin.
Overlap 3, The British School at Rome, Rome.

2005
A Moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.
Drawing From Landscape, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray; Limerick City Gallery of Art; Crawford Gallery, Cork..
R.H.A. Annual Exhibition (Invited), RHA, Dublin. + 2004 (Invited), 2002, 2001, 2000,1997, 1996
West as metaphor, RHA, Dublin.
Trans-Atlantic, RHA, Dublin.
EV+A 2005 (selected by Dan Cameron), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
RISK, CCA, Glasgow.
Landscape, Vertigo, London.
Neues aus des Ateliers, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt.
6X6, Tsiangou, China.
Can Buildings Curate, LOT, Bristol and touring.
Perpetual Portfolio, Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Full Circle, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Reference, Cavanacor Gallery.
Max10@Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery.
Galerien zu Gast im Kunstverein, Kunstverein Speyer e.V., Germany
meeting.ch, Zürich.
Eigse, Carlow.
Re-Joyce, Temple Bar, Dublin.
The Bigger Picture, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Travelogue, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
ARTfutures 2004, London.
Iontas Award Winners Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery and touring.
6X6, Tsiangou, China.
Art Cologne, Cologne.

2003
50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Dreams, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo.
6X6 for Ireland, Shanghai, China.
From Bahia to over by yer’ tactileBOSCH, Cardiff.
Works from the collection’ Kunsthaus, Gelnhausen, Germany.
The National Gallery, Goethe Institute, Dublin.
Shanghai film festival, China.
Impressions, works from OPW collection, Touring exhibition, Ireland.
EV+A 2003, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt.
Referenz Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich.
Start London Art Fair, London.
54 Degrees North, Hull, England.
6X6, Tsiangou, China.

2002
Tabula Rasa (video projections in Croydon city centre), Croydon, England. Curio, public art project, Brick Lane, London.
SCA-ART Awards exhibition, Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany.
Straylight: Digital Art Exhibition, Darklight film festival, Dublin.
On Board, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo.
VII, Lead White Gallery, Dublin.
Mostyn Open 12, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales.
AKA IV, Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt.
Recent Acquisitions, Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin.
EV+A 2002, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
AKA III, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm.

2001
Crawford Open 2001’ Crawford Gallery, Cork.
Articulate, Station, Bristol.
ArtLink Selected IYA, Victoria Park Plaza Hotel, London.
Victor Treacy Award Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
Vacationland, Art House, Dublin.
Rondout Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, USA.
I/O, Parsons Gallery, New York City.
EV+A 2001 (selected by Salah M. Hassan), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
Millennium Box Set Exhibition, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
147 Initiative, Liberty Hall, Dublin.
Focus on Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Crawford Gallery, Cork; NCAD, Dublin.

2000
Perspective 2000 (selected by Lynne Cooke, curator at Dia Center for the Arts, NY), Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.
Microsoft Corporate art Exhibition, Microsoft Ireland, Dublin.
Iontas 2000’, RHA, Dublin; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo; Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork.
Snapshot’ Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (touring).
Refresh: Dystopia + identity in the age of global communication’ Tribes Gallery, New York City.
Greetings From..., Public Art Project, New York City + Dublin.
Extracts’ Engine Room Gallery, Belfast.
Oireachtas 2000’, Dun Laoghaire.
Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ashford Gallery, Dublin.
Jettison, Elmwood Gallery, Belfast.
Iontas ’97, RHA, Dublin and touring,
Reading Rooms, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast.
The Third Electronic Art Exhibition, Pisa.


Selected Competitions, Awards

2008
Residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Residency, Guest Studio, Gæsteatelier Hollufgård, Odense, Denmark.

2007
Cill Rialaig Project, Ireland.
Finalist, Celeste painting prize, London.

2006
Short-listed for AIB Prize, Ireland.
Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship, British School at Rome.

2005
Curated and organised Remote @ LOT (artist run space), Bristol.
Co-curated and organised Poster Show @ LOT (artist run space), Bristol.
EV+A Open Award (selected by Dan Cameron).
Vermont Studio Center, USA.

2004
Artist’s work programme, IMMA, Dublin.

2002
Short-listed for SCA-ART Award, Mannheim, Germany.
Residency, Tilburg Art Academy, March-April.
Short-listed for Golden Fleece Award, Dublin.

2001,99,98
Short-listed for PS1 International Fellowship to New York, Arts Council of N. Ireland.

2000
Media-Play-Off (workshop and conference), Bertelsmann Pavillion, Planet M, Hannover Expo, Hannover.
Artflight Award, Aer Lingus & Arts Council of Ireland.
General Art Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
KPMG Award, Oireachtas 2000 Art Exhibition, Dublin.
Text/Context, collaborative web site with Jack Sal for Hannover Expo 2000, Hannover.

1999
Fulbright Award, Brian Burns Scholarship (visual arts), Ireland-U.S. Committee for Educational Exchange.
ArtLink @ Sotheby’s, International Young Art 1999, auctions in Chicago and Tel Aviv.

1998
Tony O’Malley travel award for painters, Butler Gallery & Waterford Crystal.
Emerging Artist Award, Donegal County Council.

1997
Best Drawing Prize, Joint prize, IONTAS, Dublin.
Best Student Prize, Joint prize, IONTAS, Dublin.
Artsite, site specific billboard, Belfast.


Selected Commisions

2002 Imagine Belfast Panorama commission for Waterfront Hall (Belfast City Council)
2001 Painting commission for Dundalk Institute of Technology
1998 Commissioned painting for Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, Aras An Uachtarain
1997 Hillsborough Castle, portrait commission of Lord Erskine


Selected Collections

Deutsche Bank, Germany;
Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany;
Limerick City Gallery (National Drawing Collection);
FORTIS, Frankfurt;
DUBLIN 98FM Radio Station;
Microsoft, World Product Group Ireland;
Bank of Ireland Collection;
Irish Contemporary Arts Society;
Country Bank, New York, USA;
Office of Public Works: Department of Agriculture and the Office of the Attorney General;
P.M.P.A. and Guardian Insurance;
Donegal County Library;
UNIBANK, Denmark;
ASPEN RE, London;
NKT Denmark;
HK, Denmark;
Den Danske Bank, Denmark;
Letterkenny Institute of Technology;

Works in various private collections in Ireland, England, Scotland, Denmark, the United States, Italy, Belgium,
the Netherlands, Spain, Germany.


Selected Writings

‘Wall Painting Project: Thomas Thiede’ catalogue essay, 2006.
‘Not arranged in....’ essay for Art and Architecture, published by CIRCA, Dublin, 2005.
‘Object’ review for Art Bulletin, Summer 2001.
‘Drawing in Cyberspace: From the panorama to virtual reality’, essay for Drawing Texts, published by
Occasional Press, Limerick, 2001.
Nephrop Norvegius, Artist’s Book, limited edition, 1998.


Selected Bibliography

2009
‘Neverlands. Architecture and the City in the Contemporary Arts’ for the Berlin-based international
publisher Gestalten www.gestalten.com to be launched in Spring 2009
‘CARTOGRAPHY: Artists + Maps’, which will be published as a hardcover edition by
Princeton Architectural Press in late 2008/early 2009.
Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, Jan.

2008
Laura McGovern, Better is something you build, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin,
Aidan Dunne, Contriving a striking absence on canvas Irish Times, February 13
Lucy White, Making A Space, Metrolife Dublin, Feb 13th
Aidan Dunne, A Tale In The Trunk, Irish Times, Jan.

2007
Fergal Gaynor ev+a 2007 CIRCA Issue 120, Summer 2007
Aidan Dunne, Is the wall big enough for both of them? Irish Times, October 8
EV+ A 2007: A Sense of Place Contemporary Magazine, No. 94, Zoë Gray
Aidan Dunne, ‘More Space for a Sense of Place’ Irish Times, 5 April.
Aidan Dunne, ‘Deep Immersion in the World’ Irish Times, 17 Jan.

2006
Panorama Draiocht (catalogue), text by Gemma Tipton, published by Draiocht, Dublin
ISBN 0-9545582-4-3
Auf der Galerie (catalogue), published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt/Berlin.
Ruth Händler, ‘Auf der Suche nach dem idealen Atelier’ Häuser, Germany, 5/06.
Neue Malerei: Erwerbungen 2002-2005, published by Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.
Dan Cameron, ‘Perambulations’ EV+A catalogue.
FAZ, Frankfurt, Sept. (3 articles).
Caoimhin Macgiolla Leith, Trans Atlantic catalogue, published by the Ireland-US Fulbright Commission.
Dr. Yvonne Scott, The West as Metaphor catalogue, published by RHA Gallery, Dublin.
Chris Schuler, ‘A natural world made modern’ The Independent, 8 June.
Aidan Dunne ‘Opening spaces in the city‘ Irish Times, 22 March.
Mobile Museum (catalogue), texts by Megan Arney, Niamh Ann Kelly and Gemma Tipton, published
by Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown.

2004
Aidan Dunne ‘A self-contained show turned inside out‘ Irish Times, 29 Dec.
Dr. Slavka Sverakova ‘The Studio’ CIRCA, Winter.
Peter Michael Hornung ‘Kitschmaleri’ Politiken, 19 Nov.
‘Twin Peaks Stemning’ Berlingske Tidende, 25 Nov.
Marc Spiegler ‘German Market Swings Back Into Action’, www.theartnewspaper.com
Walter Robinson ‘Blue Skies Over Berlin’ www.artnet.com, 23 Sept.
Thomas Eller ‘FAIR Frankfurt’ www.artnet.com, 24 May.
Overlook (catalogue), texts by Claire Doherty and Padraig Timoney, published by Galerie Schuster,
Frankfurt/Berlin ISBN 3-934545-07-6.
Studio in the Woods (catalogue), text by Mike Fitzpatrick, published by Campus Galerie, Bayreuth.

2003
Brenda McNally ‘Building a Successful Career’ The Sunday Tribune, 7 Sept.
‘Grand Tour’ Tages Anzeiger, 21-27 Aug.
Ros Drinkwater ‘Gambling on Art’s Young Talent’ Sunday Business Post, 16 March.
Aidan Dunne ‘Opening Irish Gallery Doors’ Irish Times, 15 March.
Philipp Meier ‘Referenzen und Reverenzen’ Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 3 Feb.
Fictionlands (catalogue), text by Klaus Dierssen, published by Kunstverein Hildesheim,
ISBN 3-935729-09-x.

2002
Mark Ewart, ‘Crawford Open 2’ SSI Magazine, July/August.
Die Bildermacher, texts by Mark Stafford and Anja Musiat, published by Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt/Berlin.
Apinan Poshyananda, ‘Concerning Heroes + Martyrs’ EV+A Catalogue, May.
Aidan Dunne, ‘A rewardingly obsessive attention to artistic detail‘ Irish Times, Jan 2.

2001
Aidan Dunne, ‘Maintaining classical calm in life’s flux‘ Irish Times, Sept 19.
Mary Cassai, “Kingston Biennial changes ‘beat’” Daily Freeman, July 20.
Declan Kiberd, Millenium Box Set Hot Bed Press, Limerick, July.
Aidan Dunne, ‘Cautionary Tale of a Gallery Guide‘ Irish Times, May 9.
Eric Beazley, ‘AKA (After Kafka’s Amerika) by Eamon O’Kane’, www. entertainmentireland.ie, May 1
AKA (catalogue), published by Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick

2000
Mary Cassai, ‘Art Beat’ (Review) Daily Freeman, Sept 15.
An American Cross Section’ (catalogue), text by Fiona Kearney, May.
‘Nord Kunst’ television interview, Malmö, March.
Brid Nelson, ‘Anything Irish’ television interview, Woodstock open access television, USA, March.

1999
Roberta Reeners (Ed.), ‘A Buyers guide to Irish Art’, Ashville Media Group Ltd, Dublin.
Ruth Jones, ‘Niamh O’Malley, Eamon O’Kane, Joanna Fursman’ SSI magazine, Nov.
Jeanne Greenberg, ‘EV+A:Reduced’ Catalogue, (Illus.), Limerick, May.
Mark Currah, ‘Sean Hillen, Eamon O’Kane: KoRaw’ Time Out, London, 28 April.
’Sean Hillen, Eamon O’Kane: KoRaw’ Evening Standard, London, 26 April.
Ole Reitov, ‘Kulturnyt’ (interview), Danmarks Radio P1, 23 Feb.
Susanne Jørgensen, ‘Eamon O’Kane’, BT, 29 Jan.
Ole Schierbeck, ‘Irsk Kulturfremstød i Danmark’, Politiken, 8 Jan.
Mette Olsen, ’Irerne kommer til byen’, Jyllandsposten, 8 Jan.
Tal Danai, ‘International Young Art ‘99’ ArtLink @ Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv/Chicago, Jan.