Cecilia Bullo (IRL/ITA)
C.V.
EDUCATION
2011 -2012 P.D.E. Visual Education, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IRL
2007-2009 M.F.A. Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRL
2003-2004 Erasmus Scholarship, Fine Art Academy of Athens, GR
1999-2005 B.A. cum laude, Fine Art Sculpture, Brera Art Academy, Milan, ITA
FORTHCOMING
2024 (Jan.), Group show and solo performance (the Cube Space) curated by Julia Mustacchi, The Lab, Dublin, IRL
2024 (Mar.), Group show curated by Alan James Burns, Project Art Centre, Dublin, IRL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Being haunted by the breezes, now how do you exist?, curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IRL
2023 LEIGHEAS-LIMINALIS: antidotes for melancholic gestures, invited by Ruth Carroll, curated by Sarah Searson, The Dock, IRL
2021 Bleach Those Tongues, Solo show, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, IRL
2010 The Fractured Self, curated by D. Morrissey & C. Behan,The Market Studios, Dublin, IRL
2009 METANOIA, curated by Emma-Lucy O’Brien, Custom House Studios, Westport, IRL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, COLLABORATIONS, PROJECTS, PERFORMANCES, (selected)
2023 Vox Magicae – an invocatory evening of voice, language, sound, improvisation, rhythm and beyond, curated by Suzanne Walsh, Unit 44 Kirkos Ensemble, Dublin, IRL
2023 Russborough House CarBoot Art Sale, on invitation by Rebecca Gale (RHA), IRL
2023 RHA Annual Exhibition, (also selected in: 2022, 2018, 2014), Ely Place, Dublin, IRL
2022 Periodical Review 12—Practical Magic, curated by Julia Mustacchi, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, 10/12/22—28/01/23
2022 I know why the caged bird sings, curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Kunsten Platform WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE
2022 Material Stories, curated by Helen Carey, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, AUT
2021 Bleach Those Tongues: Dystopian Assemblages, (Solo), Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, IRL
2021 IRL, Emerging Irish Artists, GalerieAnna25, Berlin, DE
2020 Biomedia: Illness, Art and Medicine, curated by Felipe Osornio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Querétaro, MX
2019 The Question of Feeling at Home, curated by Moran Been-Noon, PS², Belfast, NI
2018 Cast, curated by Katriona Gillespie, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IRL
2018 Hermione 2018, curated by Aisling Prior, Alexandra College, Dublin, IRL
2018 Artrooms Fair Roma, selected by Gianluca Marziani, International Contemporary Art Fair, Rome, ITA
2018 Ex-Voto the Body + Institution, curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre, IRL
2017 SITE WORKS '17, curated by Emma-Lucy O’Brien, Carlow, IRL
2017 Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis, curated by Mandy Wax & Spencer Rowel, Freud Museum/Draper Hall, London, UK
2014 Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens, Dublin, IRL
2014 RDS Craft Awards Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society (RDS), Dublin, IRL
2013 RDS Student Art Awards, RDS, Dublin, IRL
2013 LAND: A Scarcity Banquet, collaboration with The Prosperity Project, a durational conference and permanent artwork by artist Jesse Jones - in collaboration with MOUTH, Create Ireland & the South Korean Society of Ireland, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, IRL
2012 ARTWIKI, curated by Pit Schultz, 7th Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, GE
2011 54th Venice Biennale, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Francesca Valente, Italian Pavillion, Venice, ITA
2010 NEU/NOW, Visual Art Festival, curated by Anthony Dean & Paula Crabtree. Selected as Irish representative for NCAD Fine Art Department, L’Atelier, Nantes, France, FR
2010 A Way of Collecting, Collective Contemporary Art, curated by Helen Carey, RDS, Dublin, IRL
2010 An Eire of the Senses, World Expo, Irish Pavilion, Shanghai, P.R. China
2010 Claremorris Open ’10, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, Claremorris, IRL
2009 Claremorris Open ’09, curated by Tom Morton, Claremorris, IRL
2009 MFA Degree Show, Digital Depot, Thomas Street, Dublin, IRL
2007 Cead in China, curated by James Ryan, Shanghai/Beijing/Hangzhou, P.R. China
2006 Body of Work, curated by Shan McAnema, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast, NI
2006 Engendered Species, curated by Dr Karen Kleinfelder & Victoria Bryan, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, US
AWARDS
2023 1st prize winner, Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture in any medium, 193rd RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy
2023 Arts and Disability Connect Research & Development Award, The Arts Council/Arts & Disability Ireland
2022 Creative Ireland Award, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
2022 Agility Award, The Arts Council of Ireland
2021 Visual Arts Bursary Award, The Arts Council of Ireland (also in 2020)
2022 Culture Ireland Grant Award (also in 2021, 2019)
2021 DCC Visual Art Award, Dublin City Council Arts Bursary Award
2021 Carlow Arts Festival, Wedge fund, Micro Grant Award
2020/2023 Fire Station Artist Studios - FSAS Residential Studio Award
2020 RHA Micro Grants, Royal Hibernian Academy
2020 Creative Ireland/DLR COCO Artist Bursary
2020 Arts Council/Arts & Disability Ireland, Arts-Disability Connect Scheme
2020, 2019 PSDP Access Programme, RHA School, Royal Hibernian Academy
2019 DLR COCO - PSDP Scheme Grant
2014 RDS Craft Awards - 1st prize winner (stone-carving category)
2010 Neu/Now Festival, ELIA, (European League of Institutes of the Arts), Amsterdam, NL
2009/12 DCC Graduate Studio Award, Red Stables Artists' Studios, Dublin City Council
ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES
2023 Panelist, Art | Disability | Climate Change, Webinar hosted by Alan James Burns
2023 Artist in-conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2023 Dublin Learning City Festival, in-conversation with Prof. Martin Worthington, Al Maktoum Associate Professor, Middle Eastern Studies (Trinity College Dublin), P.A (Paranoid Visions) and RHA Curator Sarah McAuliffe, RHA
2022 Artist Talk, Culture Night, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin
2021 Guest Lecturer, ARTNetdlr, IRL
2021 Guest Lecturer, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IRL
2020 Artist Talk, Basic Talks Series, Artist Talk Lectures Programme, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, IRL
TEXT
2023 CECILIA BULLO: being haunted by the breezes, now how will you exist? – Mostra Dublino, PIKASUS ARTENEWS, 15 Marzo 2023, Redazione
Link: https://www.pikasus.com/tag/cecilia-bullo-being-haunted-by-the-breezes-now-how-will-you-exist/
2021 Amongst the Daughter: Offset Spilling Forth, Visual Artists Ireland, VAN - Nov/Dec 2021 Issue, Jennie Guy
Link: https://visualartists.ie/out-now-november-december-2021-issue
2021 SCOLPITE, IO Donna, Corriere Della Sera, Aug 28, Renata Ferri
2021 Two To View, The Irish Independent, July 21, Niall MacMonagle
2018 Intersecting Interests, Opinions, reviews, practice, and reading, Cast at Luan, Moran-Been Noon
Link: https://intersectinginterests.wordpress.com/2018/12/08/cast-at-luan/
2018 Human bodies taken over by anxiety, Ex-Voto: the Body + the Institution, The Irish Times, Feb 21, Aidan Dunne
2018 Putting Pain in Perspective, The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, Feb 11, Cristín Leach
Link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-voto-the-body-the-institution-galway-arts-centre-gzps983dp
2018 The best art exhibitions this week: Grayson Perry at the RHA, Encounters between the human and institutional, plus a history of Dublin in nine maps, EX-VOTO: the body + the institution, Jan 20, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne
2018 In The Picture: The Body + The Institution at Galway Arts Centre, Jan 22, RTE Culture
Link: https://www.rte.ie/culture/2018/0122/935125-in-the-picture-ex-voto-at-galway-arts-centre/
2018 Roma, camere e d’hotel come gallerie d’arte, Moda, stream24, Il Sole 24ore,
2018 Square in Circle, Curios About: Wound X by Cecilia Bullo, Dublin Inquirer, Feb 24,
Link: https://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/02/24/curios-about-wound-x-by-cecilia-bullo
2015 La "santa anorèxia", en l'actualitat, Sobre psicologia i actualitat, Clara Esquena i Freixas, SP
Link: http://clarapsicologia.blogspot.com/2015/09/la-santa-anorexia-en-lactualitat.html
2015 Cecilia Bullo, blending human physiology, medicine and philosophy, CLOT-Art, Science&Technology Magazine London, Dec 28, Merixell Rosell,
Link: http://www.clotmag.com/cecilia-bullo
2014 The Sky Has Gone Mad, Gorse - print journal, Sept 16, Susan Tomaselli, Link: http://gorse.ie/the-sky-has-gone-mad/
2011 Retraced Geographies, The Red Stables, Dublin City Council, James Merrigan
2010 CCA: Collective Contemporary Art, Nov 5, The Irish Times, Nov 5, Aidan Dunne,
2009 Taking art beyond fixed boundaries, The Irish Times, Jun 10, Aidan Dunne,
Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/taking-art-beyond-fixed-boundaries-1.780898
2008 Inner Space: Science fiction and Irish Art:Towards a new psychology, Circa 124, Summer 2018, Chris Fite-Wassilak
Link: https://circaartmagazine.website/wp/wp-content/from%20VAC/PDFFiles/32299_124/circa124.pdf
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, OTHER EDUCATION
2022 SCOIL SCAIRTE, Irish language, culture and heritage, Kathy Scott, Manchán Magan
2018-2022 The Pulse of Life, Archeology, History, Irish Culture, lecturer Vincent Butler
1996-1997 Failte Ireland National Badge, Amiens Street, Dublin, IRL
1997-1998 Bronze Casting Techniques, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IRL
1994- 1999 HDip, Fine Art Sculpture, IADT, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology, IRL