The House of O'Dwyer

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HOUSE OF O'DWYER

Exhibitions as House of O'Dwyer

2007
Free Art Fair, London
Tank TV
The Centre of Attention Magazine no.4 CCA Book Fair, Glasgow; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Publish and be Damned Fair, London
Production Meeting Intermedia CCA, Glasgow
Slow Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth

2006
Venice-Istanbul Istanbul Modern, Turkey
The Truth about Susan Gescheidle Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago
City mined, UCL, London
Water Sartorial Contemporary, London
Everything Must Go VTO, London
Kaleidoscope Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2005
Lovely Shanghai Music, John Armleder curated exhibition
Imagine a World… Amnesty International, Bargehouse, London
Pilot: 2 London
Jumoku no Eishaya Toyota museum
Always a little further, Venice Biennale, curated by Rosa Martinez
Take 291, 291, London
Artificial Life, Aspex Gallery Portsmouth
Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

2004
Dalston Underground London
Inhibition Standpoint Gallery London
Do Something Floating ip Manchester
Masks and Microphones, Centre of Attention Gallery London (solo show)
copy-art.net ibid gallery London
network book for urban p/arts published by Citymined, London
Depression Parking & Atbin Gallery Tehran

2003
Arty-tecture Transition London
Wiebke Morgan London (solo show)
Don't you forget about me Studio Voltaire London
Living with art: Roger Evans Rivington Gallery London

2002
Dalston Underground Group show
Arty Magazine art reviews published
Beauty's where you find it BritArt.com Gallery, London
Majority Rules, Free Gallery Glasgow
Window Gallery London
Prenelle Gallery London
Deptford X, London
Hoxton Jubilee, London
The Green Room, London (screening)
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2001
Animal Artsway Dorset
Centre of Attention Magazine No. 2 Galapagos Gallery, New York (screening)
Group show PHOTOMONTH 2001 London
Evolution Leeds International Film Festival
everyoneisanartist Gallery Voltaire London
Record Collection VTO Gallery London
Pandaemonium Biennial Festival of Moving Images Lux Gallery London

2000
5th British Telecom Contemporary Art Show London
Group Show Stuff Gallery London
Film Screening, 291 Gallery London

1999
Tomorrow Belongs to me Centre of Attention Gallery London (solo show)
Degenerate Art, The Bean, London (solo show)

1997
Bizzart Bloomsbury Theatre London (performance)
Exploding Cinema London (screening)

1996
Volcano Film Festival, London (screening)
Tinsel and Glitter Present [SIC], Candid Café, Kings Head… Curated performance and screenings
Psychopoetica; Presence Poetry published
Exploding Cinema Brighton (screening)

Curations and Exhibitions as The Centre of Attention (with Pierre Coinde)

2007
Production Meeting 2 Bezdomny Gothenburg
Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
The oubliettes of Wolstenholme Wolstenholme Projects Liverpool
Production Meeting Intermedia CCA Glasgow
The Centre of Attention Magazine no.4 (CCA Glasgow, Les Abattoirs Toulouse, and Publish and be Damned Fair London)
Winnebago, Capital Art Projects Birmingham
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft nuans Gallery Düsseldorf
So Sad Guy Hilton Gallery London

2006
Swansong Istanbul Modern
PROSUMER, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Fast and Loose: My Dead Gallery, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Truth about Susan Gescheidle Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago
Petit Pois various venues, London
Sanatorium Swansong Zurich
The Miracle of Limerick e v + a, Limerick, Ireland
Leaving on a flat bed picture plane, Kingsland Road, London

2005
Embedded Frisbee art fair Miami USA
Swansong Toronto International Art fair Canada
Fodder Pilot London
On Demand London with Markus Vater…
Swansong Venice Biennale Always a little further curated by Rosa Martinez
The Centre of Attention at Rio Cinema, London
Nicholas Shoffer -A: found exhibition Paris

2004
Schwanengesang (Swansong) Frankfurt
3rd Centre of Attention Art Prize London
Ken Friedman: 12 Structures Fluxus Concert
Baroque Povera group show
The Curators at the:artist:network (New York) show performance

2003
Featuring… Group Show of portraits
International Art Blog Group Show incl. Martha Rosler, Adam Chodzko
Paris Beaux-Art in partnership with the French Embassy. New French video art
Lux Open 2003, Royal College of Art, London
Search Engine Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco
Gobbledygook group show on sex, art and formalism

2002
Curated screening of works by Sylvie Fleury, Matthieu Laurette and others Shoreditch Church, London
The 2nd Centre of Attention Art Prize 2002 Group show. Gallery visitors vote for winner.
Viva La Republique: Pagan Images of the Queen... Group show inspired by punk 25
E-Mail Art Group exhibition with Jenny Holzer, Sylvie Fleury, Simon Faithfull…

2001
The Centre Of Attention Magazine No.2 Video edition
A man, A woman, A machine Part of the first Photomonth 2001
Jasper Joffe (1975 - ) painting installation
The Candy Factory Installation from NY based Genesis P-Orridge and Eric Heist

2000
The Centre of Attention Magazine No. 1 Curated video art Magazine. Incl. Fiona Banner and Franko B
The 1st Centre of Attention Art Prize London
13 artists 13 Films, Wiltons Music Hall, London (screening)

Talks/presentations/performance:

2007
Valand School of Art Gothenburg, Sweden
Sheffield University

2006
Istanbul Modern
Sideshow Nottingham
Artist Newsletter conference, Bristol

2005
Mercer Union, Toronto

2004
copy-art.net ICA London
We Love You Goethe Institute London
Critical Platform Ferens Art Gallery Hull

2003
Art on the net: Internet presentation hosted by C.E.D.A.R;
To predict the future you must change the past, Beckford Tower Bath Fringe;
Building Synergies hosted by Lighthouse, Brighton

Collections: Winchester School of Art / Dartington University / University Of Newcastle / Tate Gallery various private collections

Awards: 2002 BT Community Connections, 2001 PVA MediaLab Residency and Bursary Bridport Dorset

Selected Articles, Publications and Catalogues:

Aggression Catalogue Prop (07), Art Monthly (Oct 07), Metro (Liverpool sept 07),
Free Art Fair Magazine (07)
Art Forum (Dec 06), ev+a Catalogue (06)
Venice Biennale Catalogue (05) Frieze (Oct 05), Art Forum (sept 05), Art in America (sept 05),
AN magazine (Oct 05)
Flux (Dec 04), AN magazine (March 04),
L'oeil (June 03), Liberation (03), Time Out (May 03), Flux (Jan 03), Art Review (Jan 03, June 03),
The Guardian (Feb 03), Big Issue (May 03), Teme Celest (winter 03), Channel 4 Website (03),
Vogue (May 02), Basler Zeitung (June 02), Contemporary (dec 02), Art Review (sept 02)
Teme Celest (spring 02), the Guardian (June 02), Flux (mar 02),
Contemporary (dec 01), Art Monthly, Design Weekly, Art Review (Aug 01)
Dazed and Confused (dec 97)

Education:

Central Saint Martin's London. 1997-2000
University Of Sussex Falmer, Brighton. 1990-94
Highbury Grove School Islington, London. 1984-1990