CV/BIO
CV/BIO
BIO
Bryan Gerard Duffy is a multi-disciplinary artist working in paint, sculpture, lens-based work, moving image and installation. He draws lines and also crosses lines, both physically and metaphysically while investigating psychological and physical displacement. He has collaborated with other artists, refugees and asylum seekers globally on a number of projects.
Duffy is now based in Mayo, and is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He has continued toexhibit nationally and internationally, which includes upcoming solo shows in the Ballina Arts Centre, and the Courtyard Gallery at the National Museum of Ireland, Country Life.
He was a recipient of the PLATFORM 31 award (2022), Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award (2022), and the recipient of the Bolay Residency Award, Castlebar (2020). He has been awarded numerous of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, including the Travel and Training award to participate in Artifariti Arts Festival in Algeria and Western Sahara (2017). Recent public art projects include the “Art Roundhouse” G.E.T.N.S. Commission, Galway, funded through the Department of Education Per Cent for Art Scheme (2020); and “The New Wing”, The Sacred Heart Hospital Commission, Castlebar, funded through the HSE Per Cent for Art Scheme, (2019). In 2021, he was elected to the Board of Trustees at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar.
Duffy has also been the recipient of multiple national and international awards for his films, including being shortlisted for the Best Irish Human Rights Short Documentary with “Sumud, Everyday Resistance” at the ICCL awards (2016), and receiving Bronze Medal Award at the Global Independent Film Awards, USA for his film “Delivery” (2021).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming: The Fabric of Society, Ballina Arts Centre (IE)
2022 Oct The Fabric of Society, The Courtyard Gallery, National Museum of Country Life, Ireland
2017 Aug "The Fool by the Roadside", Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (IE)
2016 Jan "Follow the Yellow Brick Road", The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 March ‘The Fool by the Roadside’, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Society, Sligo (IE)
2010 Sep "Footsteps towards Freedom", Mayo County Library, Co. Mayo (IE)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022: “Straight out of Ireland”, (Group), Philadelphia, USA
2022: Clifden Arts Festival, Galway (IE)
2022: Re:Form, 126 Gallery, Galway (IE)
2022: Group show, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (IE)
2021: “Elaborate and Methodical”, (Group). Curated by Nuala Clarke. Ballina Fringe Festival, Ballina, Co. Mayo (IE)
2021: “Reopening”, (Group). Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (IE)
2020 Dec. “Disappeared”, installation, Artifariti 2020, Western Sahara/ Algeria / Mexico / Spain
2020 “Delivery”, Official Selection. Fastnet Film Festival, Cork.
2020 “Delivery”, Official Selection. Waterford Film Festival. (Ire)
2018 Oct. “Identity”, Westport Gallery, Westival, Westport Arts Festival (IE)
2018 Oct. “I AM”, Mc Gings, Westival, Westport Arts Festival (IE)
2017 Dec. Mayo Arts Show 2017, Ballina Arts Centre / Linenhall Arts Centre (IE)
2017 Nov. 8X8 Film Festival, Trinity College, Dublin (IE)
2017 Oct. Artifariti 2017, Tifariti, Western Sahara
2017 Sept. COE 2017, Claremorris, Co. Mayo (IE)
2017 July. "Viewing Copy", The Radical Film Archive, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast (NI)
2017 Mar "Together as one", Rebooted Gallery, Bradford, England
2016 Dec "Christmas Show", Group Exhibition, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2016 Dec "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Short Stop Film Festival, Glasgow, Scottish Premiere
2016 Oct "Matchbox", Mc Gings, Westport Arts Festival, Co. Mayo (IE)
2016 Oct "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Nominated for Best Documentary, Short Pole Film Festival, London, England
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", (Special Showing) Culture Night 2016, The Custom House Gallery and Studios, Westport (IE)
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", (Special Showing) Culture Night 2016, The Chocolate Factory, Dublin (IE)
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Scandinavian International Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, SOSE International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Aug "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Guth Gafa Film Festival, Meath (IE)
2016 July "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Sydney World Film Festival, Australia
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Award of Recognition, Hollywood International Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, United States
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Ouchy Film Awards, Switzerland
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Largo Film Awards, Switzerland
2016 May "To speak…is to starve", LIVESTOCK "Mayhem", The Complex, Dublin (IE)
2016 April "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Spain
2016 April "The State We're In", THE MART, Rathmines, Dublin (IE)
2015 Dec "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", La Biennale College Cinema, Venice Film Festival, Italy
2015 Dec "Christmas Show", Group Exhibition, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Dec "Mayo Show 2015", Group Exhibition, The Linenhall, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Nov "Off the Walls", Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, Group Exhibition, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Oct Group Exhibition, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Oct "Life Begins", Mc Gings, Westport arts Festival, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Aug "Saw Dust", THE MART Project Space, Dublin (IE)
2015 June "Interland", Friary Abbey, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 June “Landscape in Line”, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (IE)
2015 May “Busk”, Hive Gallery and Studios, Waterford (IE)
2014 Dec Open Christmas Exhibition 2014, Group Exhibition, LSC, Manorhamilton, Leitrim (IE)
2014 Nov “Fly by Night”, Group Exhibition, Westport Arts Festival, Mc Gings, Westport (IE)
2014 Dec Annual Group Show 2014, Group Exhibition, Custom House Gallery, Westport (IE)
2014 Aug Visual Artists for Gaza, Group Exhibition,126 Gallery, Galway (IE)
2014 July ‘Duffy’s Vintage Photography’, Siamsa Sraide, Swinford, Co. Mayo (IE)
2013 Dec Christmas Group Show 2013, Group Exhibition, Custom House Gallery, Westport (IE)
2013 July ‘Duffy’s Vintage Photography’, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet. TG4 Siodiní Staire (IE)
2010 Oct Artifariti 2010, Group Exhibition, Tindouf, Algeria
2010 July Parallax Off-Site Event, MK International Festival 2010, ‘Blacks in the Jacks’, Milton Keynes Gallery, England
2010 May ‘320 Journeys from One Home to Another’, Féile na Tuaithe, Irish Museum of Countrylife Ireland (IE)
2009 Jun National College of Art and Design, Dublin (IE)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2022: PLATFORM 31 Scheme, Association of Local Authority Arts Office, Arts Council of Ireland, and Mayo County Council (IE)
2022: The Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Mayo County Council (IE)
2021: Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland (IE)
2021: “Bronze Medal Award”, Peace and Human Rights, Global Independent Film Awards (USA)
2020: “Best Irish Human Rights Film”, Wexford Documentary Film Festival (IE). Co-producer of “Delivery”.
2020: Bolay Residency Award. Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (IE)
2019 April. Joya AIR Artist in Residency, Almeria, Spain
2019 June. Arts Letters Numbers Residency, Averill Park, New York, USA
2019. Sacred Heart Hospital Commission, Co. Mayo, Funded by Per Cent for Art scheme
2018 Jan Mayo Arts Council, materials and exhibition grant (IE)
2017 Oct. Artifariti 2017, Tifariti, Western Sahara
2017. The Art Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award (IE)
2016 Oct Custom House Studios and Gallery supports, presentation, Co. Mayo (IE)
2016 Jun National Museum of Countrylife, workshops and facilitation, Co. Mayo (IE)
2016 Jan Mayo Arts Council, materials and exhibition grant (IE)
2016 Jan Custom House Studios and Gallery supports, Solo Exhibition, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 July Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT Research Residency, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 July THE MART Project Space, Residency, Rathmines, Dublin (IE)
2014 Dec Documentary and Residency, House Demolition, Badil org, The West Bank, Palestine
2014 June ‘On the road to Gaza’, Research Project, Israel / Palestine
2014 June Performance, ‘Everyone carries a shadow’, Vesonova Mental Asylum, Belarus
TALKS, EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS
2021 May Artists Talk, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (IE)
2018 Oct. Visual Arts Trial, Westival 2018, Westport (IE)
2017 Nov. Panel Discussion, Trinity College, Dublin (IE)
2017 Feb Guest Lecturer, Social Studies, Final year, GMIT, Mayo (IE)
2016 April Artists Talk, Mayo Arts Office & The Custom House Studios, Westport (IE)
2015 March Artists Talk and Panel Discussion, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Society, Sligo (IE)
2015 March Artists Talk, Mayo Arts Office & The Custom House Studios, Westport (IE)
2013 Nov Guest Board Member, Developing New Art Degree, GMIT, Mayo (IE)
2012 May Presentation: ‘A Journey of Displacement’, Mayo Artists Network, Ballina Arts Centre (IE)
2011 May Presentation: ‘Displacement’ and ‘Western Sahara’, guest lecturer, GMIT (IE)
2010 Oct Presentation: ‘Disappeared’, 27th February Refugee Camp, Tindouf, Algeria
2010 July Presentation:‘Displacement’, Milton Keynes Gallery, England; Parallax Off-Site Event, MK International Festival 2010
PROJECTS/ WORKSHOPS/ COMMISSIONS
2022: “Mayo Day”, public art commission, funded by Mayo County Council (IE)
2021: “Note Waves Podcast”, by Mayo County Council Writer in Residence, Elizabeth Reapy. Paintings by Bryan Gerard Duffy. (IE)
2021: “Artist’s Repeal the Eighth Amendment”, a conversation with Alice Maher and Cecily Brennan, filmed/edited by Bryan Gerard Duffy, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.
2020/21: “The Art Roundhouse”, G.E.T.N.S. Educate Together Commission, Galway, funded by the Department of Education Per Cent for Art Scheme (IE)
2021/22: Resident artist at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Mayo (IE)
2020: Ongoing. Creative Schools Mayo (IE)
2019: “The New Wing”, Sacred Heart Hospital Commission, Co. Mayo, funded by the HSE Per Cent for Art Scheme
2017 Oct. "4000 Promises", Workshops in collaboration with Ballyhaunis FRC, Ballyhaunis, Mayo (IE)
2015 / 2016 "Give your Voice Wings", Workshops in collaboration with Irish Museum of Countrylife, Co. Mayo (IE)
2014 June Workshops, Vesonova Mental Asylum, Belarus
2010 May Féile na Tuaithe, Irish Museum of Countrylife Ireland (IE)
2008 Mar IMMA in association with Spirasi Group (IE)
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021: “High Impact”, Visual Artists News Sheet, issue: July-Aug (IE)
2019 Sept “The New Wing”, Arts and Health case study (IE)
2019 Aug “The New Wing”, VAN, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2018 March "What lies beneath the sand", VAN, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2017 Sept Interview with Gráinne O'Reilly, The Arts Show, Westport Radio 98.2FM (IE)
2017 March Interview, The Arts Show, CRC Radio FM, Castlebar (IE)
2016 Kerry Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Preview Publication (IE)
2016 Waterford Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 June Re. ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2016, The Irish Times (IE)
2016 June ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2016, ICCL Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 Fastnet Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 March Interview with Breda Burns and Gráinne O'Reilly, The Arts Show, Westport Radio 98.2FM (IE)
2016 "The wonderful everyday", Mayo News, 16/02/16
2015 "Off the Wall", GMIT, Dec/ Jan issue, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2015 "Sawdust", The MART Gallery, Oct/ Nov issue, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2015 “World Record Attempt on World Refugee Day”, June 12th, Mayo Advertiser (IE)
2014 Nov Interview with Aidan Crowley, World Record, Castlebar Community Radio (IE)
2011 ‘Western Sahara; footsteps towards freedom’, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2011 ‘Artifariti 2010 catalogue’, 27th February, Tindouf, Algeria, pg 140-141
2011 March By Augustine O’ Donoghue, VAN, Visual Artists Ireland, “from Amazon to Sahara” (IE)
2010 Interview with Tom Shiel, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2009 Interview with Tom Shiel, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2009 Sept CIRCA Magazine, ed. 129, Autumn, 2009, pg 74, Interviewed with Michelle Brown (IE)
2009: BA Fine Art Sculpture (Honors), National College of Art and Design, Dublin 8 (IE)
MEMBERSHIPS
Visual Artist Ireland
Ormston House, Limerick
Catalyst Arts, Belfast
126 Gallery, Galway
STUDIO SPACE
bgd Art Studio, Kileen Cottage, Turlough Road, Castlebar (IE)
(+353) 87 6009175
(+353) 87 2640765
duffy.bryan@gmail.com
www.bryangerardduffy.com
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