Cecilia Bullo
(IE/IT)
Education
2009 MFA in Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland
2005 BFA, Academy of Brera, Milan, Italy
2003 Erasmus Mobility Fine Art Academy of Athens, Greece
1997 BFA, Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, IADT, Ireland
Upcoming
2025 CCI Paris Residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (March–May 2025)
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2023 Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?
Curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Leigheas-Liminalis: Antidotes for Melancholic Gestures
Curated by Sarah Searson, The Dock, Ireland
2021 Bleach Those Tongues: Dystopian Assemblages
Essay by Jennie Guy, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2024 In–DREAMS, Two-Person Show: Cecilia Bullo & Arno Kramer
Esker Arts, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland
2024 DISTINCT
Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2024 Endlessnessnessness
Curated by Julia Mustacchi, The Lab, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Periodical Review 12—Practical Magic
Curated by Julia Mustacchi, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Infinite Possibilities
Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran, Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland
2023 Vox Magicae
Curated by Suzanne Walsh, Kirkos Ensemble, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Material Stories
Curated by Helen Carey, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, Austria
2022 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Kunsten Platform WARP, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2018 Hermione 2018
Curated by Aisling Prior, Alexandra College, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Artrooms Fair Roma
Selected by Gianluca Marziani, International Contemporary Art Fair, Rome, Italy
2018 Ex-Voto the Body + Institution
Curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
2017 SITE WORKS '17
Curated by Emma-Lucy O’Brien, Carlow, Ireland
2017 Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis
Curated by Mandy Wax & Spencer Rowel, Freud Museum/Draper Hall, London, UK
2011 54th Venice Biennale Italian Institutes Of Culture in collaboration Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Coordinated by Francesca Valente, Italian Cultural Institute, Dublin, Ireland Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2010 NEU/NOW Visual Art Festival
Curated by Anthony Dean & Paula Crabtree, L’Atelier, Nantes, France
2010 An Eire of the Senses
World Expo, Irish Pavilion, Shanghai, P.R. China
Awards (Selected)
2024 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland (including 2023, 2021, 2020)
2024 Solomon Fine Art Award for Sculpture in Any Medium (1st Price), RHA Annual Exhibition
2023 Arts and Disability Connect Research & Development Award, Arts Council/Arts & Disability Ireland
2022 Creative Ireland Award, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland
2022 ArtConnect’s ARTIST to WATCH ‘22, GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2022 Culture Ireland Grant Award (including 2020, 2010)
2021 DCC Visual Art Award, Dublin City Council, Ireland
2010 Neu/Now Festival, ELIA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publications (Selected)
Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?
Artist book featuring an essay by Sinéad Gleeson, published by RHA, 2023
Channel Cover Issue 10, Channel Magazine, Ireland, 2024
Galway International Arts Festival Critique, Visual Artists Ireland, VAN Special Issue, November 2022, Dr. Lucy Elvis
Amongst the Daughter: Offset Spilling Forth, Visual Artists Ireland, VAN, Nov/Dec 2021 Issue, Jennie Guy
Galway International Arts Festival Critique, VAN Special Issue, Visual Artists Ireland, November 2022
Practical Magic: Periodical Review 12, Paper Visual Art (PVA), June 2023, Sarah Kelleher
Artist Talks and Lectures (Selected)
2024 Guest Lecturer, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
2023 Commentator, WARP Artist Village, Make Eindhoven, Netherlands
2023 Commentator, Art, Disability & Climate Change, Webinar by Alan James Burns
2023 Artist Talk, in-conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Artist Talk, Dublin Learning City Festival, in-conversation with Prof. Martin Worthington, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2021 Guest Lecturer, National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland
2020 Artist Talk, Basic Talks Series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Representation and Studio Contact
Gallery: Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland (hillsborofineart.com)
Studio: Studio 6, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre (ruared.ie)