Education

2001-03    MA Virtual Realities, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

1998-00    Degree Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

1992-95    Diploma Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design

 

Exhibitions

SOLO

2024  Lazy Luddite Lapped by LARPers, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin 

2017   Liberty Party Shop, Krieg, Hasslet

2016   Disguise the Limit, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 

2015    Balor's Mega Ballistic Gall Stones, G126,Galway

             The ERROR CELL # 1: G2: Native Cog Dissidents, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

             Paintings for Atheists, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Art15 London

2014    Serf-Vice Paintings, Art Brussels, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2013    The Most Conservative Game in Town, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             The 2nd Most Conservative Game in Town, Ormston House, Limerick

2012    Won-Nil, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.

2011    HD SOFTCORE, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angles

             A Title in a Haystack (2 Bit Part time Amateur Productions), Triskel Arts Center, Cork

2010    Genuine Irish Mug, Catalyst Arts, Belfast  

             A Colonial Subject in Washington DC, Solus Nua, Washington DC

             A Lively Start to a Dead End, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

2009    Heavens Full and the Fire Escapes are Locked, Heavens Full, London 

             UGLY LOVELY, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2008    Tax Prayers Money, Public Sculpture Commission, Sligo Corporation

2007   Static TV, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 

2005   Showy Off Shit, Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2004   AH FUCK, not another art video, The Goethe Institute, Dublin

2003    Feeding the Well-Feed, The Goethe Institute, Dublin

 

GROUP 

2024  TURBO GLOBAL: An Irish Tale, curated by Dr. Martin Steffans, Ulrich Vogl and Rebekka Liebmann, Schloss Britz, Berlin

2019  P is for Portrait, The Art House Worcester in association with Division of Labor

          Together Now the Engagement Project, West Cork Arts Centre

2018  There's no place like Space , Kevin Kavanagh, Manchester Art Fair

          Island Life, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport, Mayo

           Requiem for the Future Tense, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels,  in association with KRIEG

2017   Vacuum Packed Vacation, SCHARFSTELLEN_2, Rotor, Graz 

            Overpanted Underpaint, The way things go: A Homage, Butler Gallery,Kilkenny

2016   Engagement - Work in Progress- The Courtship, KCAT, Kilkenny Arts Week

             IMMA Collection: A Decade

             Carnage Visors, Rua Red, Dublin

2015    RHA Annual, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

2014    Art for Gaza, Oonagh Young Gallery

             Instant Crush, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             The Carny, FLOOD, Dublin

             Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle    

2013    Play, Gothenburg Biennial 2013, Sweden

             Measures for Saving the World, < rotor >, Graz, Austria

             To Have and Have Not, HALLE 14 Leipzig, Germany

             To Have and Have Not, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany 

             The Future Perfect: We are here, RUBICON PROJECTS, Brussels

             I want to be your Dog, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

2012    Newtopia, Mechelen, Belgium

             Cutting a Door, The Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

             Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

             PERIPHERIES, Gorey school of Art

             The Rise and Fall of Meritocracy, Vice & Virtue, Kinsale Arts Week

             Horse Show, RHA, Dublin

             Into the Light: The Arts Council - 60 Years of Supporting the Arts, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

2011    Preview 2012, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin

             Dublin Contemporary, Dublin

             Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool

             CARTOON, Silver Cloud Gallery, London

             From Us, Through Them, To You, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny 

             Three Colours /Yellow, Soma Contemporary, Waterford

             The Horse Show, Kinsale Arts Week, Kinsale, Cork

             Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

             Terminal Convention - Cork Airport, NSF/Static, Cork

             Wake Amusements - Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

2010    Blasphemy, The Dock, Leitrim

             Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room], Parkers Box, Brooklyn

             Shop If You Can, Look If You Wan , St. Patricks Festival, Dublin

             Backwater Twenty-10, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

             Blasphemy, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin

2009    ABOVE THE FOLD, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin

             Moraltarantualla III,The summer of the Vernunft, Valentinskamp 34A, Hamburg

             Offcenter, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

             The Gold Standard, NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland

             Richtiger als Falsch, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg

             Grin & Bear It, Cruel humour in art and life, Glucksman, UCC, Cork

             Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, 

             Arizona  

2008    Gems from the Collection, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

             ART IN THE LIFE WORLD, Ballymun, Dublin

2007    The Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

             Thirty Two Thousand Years Later, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin 

             Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Aqua Arts Fair, Miami

             07 Arts Fair, London - Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

             Zoo Art Fair, London - Colony Art Gallery

             Docks Art Fair, Lyon - Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

             Drunken Boat, Colony Gallery, Birmingham

             Paintaholics #2, Product Arts Festival, Varna, Bulgaria

             Moraltarantualla, Electrohaus, Hamburg

             Plastercine, Group Show Monster Truck

             Group Show, Fenton Gallery, Cork         

             Group Show, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2006    X-Mass the Spot, Driaocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin

             The First and Last and Always, Axis Arts Center, Ballymun, Dublin

             Fun Factory, Baltimore, Maryland

             Failure, Kilkenny Arts Festival

             126 Gallery Presents, Galway Arts Center

             Utopias, Eigse, Carlow

             Spréacha, Driaocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin 

             Ding Dong, Altona, Hamburg, Germany

             EV+A 2006, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

             Black: Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham

             126 Gallery, Galway

             Platform 1, Cavan

2005    A moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

             Faculty of Failure, Where's Me culture?, Cork

             Eurojet Futures 2005, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

             Flagged, Visualise, Carlow

             From the Liberties to Parramatta, Parramatta Campus, Australia

             R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

2004    Eurojet Futures 2004, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

             Contemporary Art in the Cathedral, St. Finbarre's Cathedral, Cork

             Looking for Clues, Chamber of Cashel UDC, Cashel

             Summer Short's, Parkers Box, Brooklyn

             Retreat Billboards, Sydney

             Electric Rain, Club 1, Cork

             R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

2003    50/50, Temple Bar Galley, Dublin

             Us Live, Guinness Store House, Dublin

             NCAD MA, Virtual Realities, Dublin

2001    Vacationland, Arthouse, Dublin

2000    NCAD Degree Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin

1998    The Mighty Right Show, Fuse 98, Crawford Art College, Cork

1997    Bridget Murphy Dunne, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

             Articulate Intelligence, Infusion, University of Limerick

1996    Mental Exercise, Volume, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery

             Shambolic, Intermedia, Triskel Arts Center, Cork

             Beuys Black Board, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

1995    Pain-Thing Diploma Show, Limerick School of Art & Design

1994    Title Unknown, Limerick City Gallery of Art

             In The Beginning, Limerick City Gallery of Art

 

Collaborations

Money'N'Muck (2016- ) Andrew Pike / Nevan Lahart

2 Bit Part time Amateur Productions (1994-2011) Terry Blake / Nevan Lahart

Paintaholics (2006-2011) Thomas Marcus Schumann / Nevan Lahart

Bridget Murphy Dunne (1997) Declan Kennedy / Augustine O'Donoghue / Nevan Lahart

 

Visiting Lecturer

National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Dun Laoighre Institute of Art & Technology, Dublin

CalArts, California

Syracuse University, New York

Galway Mayo Institute of Technology

Limerick School of Art & Design

Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork

Sligo Institute of Technology

Waterford Institute of Technology

Dublin Institute of Technology

Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg

KCAT Studios, Kilkenny

 

Awards 

Culture Ireland 2011

Arts Council Bursary 2005; 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

Arts Council Materials Award; 2000 & 2001

 

Residences

2013  I.A.S.P.I.S, Gothenburg

2011  18th Street Art Studio, Santa Monica

2010  Solus Nua, Washington D.C.

2005  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin   

2003  St Andrews Community Centre, Rialto, Dublin

1998  National Sculpture Factory, Cork

 

Publications

Vic Sims of the Hollow Gram

Text: Sebastián Gonzalez de Gortari
Edition: 400
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 64 (full colour)
Graphic design: Jedidja Samyn
Publisher: KRIEG, in collaboration with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

 

Collections

Lisser Art Museum, Netherlands

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

Bank of Ireland, Dublin

Office of Public Works, Ireland