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primarily focuses on the making of site specific gallery based installa-
tions, and collaborative gallery-based music projects.
Mark represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale in a group
exhibition. Ireland at Venice 2005 was subsequently presented at the
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, in 2006.
He has had several major solo exhibitions in 2014 including: The
Model Gallery and Niland Collection, Sligo; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin;
Lafayette Projects, Marseille, France; and City Gallery, Charleston,
South Carolina, usa.
He has curated exhibitions at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin; The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; and
Draiocht Arts Centre. He curated a visual arts program for the Dublin
Fringe Festival 2000–2004; The Mattress Factory Art Museum in
Pittsburgh pa, usa 2009–2010 and has intermittently programed
exhibitions for the Goethe Institute, Dublin from 2008–2013. Other
selected exhibitions include: Stephen Freidman Gallery, London, 2011;
Frequency: Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2009; The Paradise, Douglas
Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2006.
Mark studied at iadt and holds degrees in both Fine Art and
Design (interactive media) and a Masters in Visual Arts Practices. He
has lectured in fine art at the Dublin Institute of Technology (dit) for
the past eight years.
He has forthcoming solo show in Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin,
2015.
Gary Coyle
graduated from the National College of Art Dublin in 1989
and the Royal College of Art London, where he studied Sculpture,
in 1996. He was elected a member of the rha in 2007 and Aosdana
in 2009. His work embraces various media – Drawing, Photography
and, more recently, Spoken Word/Performance. He has exhibited
widely both in Ireland and internationally including group exhibtions
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, 2001, En direct de Dublin, Centre Culturel
Irlandais Paris, 2003, I am always touched by your presence dear,
imma Dublin, 2007, and Last, The Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin, 2012.
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