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Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Limerick City Gallery, Millennium
Court, Model Arts Centre, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Sirius Arts Centre)
and has participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide.
Recent solo exhibitions include Zygotic Tendencies presented at
Chicago Art Fair, and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (both
projects supported by a Culture Ireland bursary) and Rubicon Gallery,
Dublin.
Hughes’ work has been written about extensively and he has
received several awards including a one-year residency in New York
(PS1, 1990–91) and three-month residencies at Banff Arts Center,
Canada (1994) and Bemis Arts Center, Nebraska (1997). In 2006 he was
awarded both the Irish Artist Fellowship – a one-month residency at
the Vermont Studio Center and a two-month residency at the Albers
Foundation in Connecticut.
Hughes’ work is held in many public and corporate collections,
including The Arts Council of Ireland, The Arts Council of Northern
Ireland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Niall de Buitléar
was born in 1983 in Dublin and graduated with a ba in
Fine Art in 2006 from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Wexford Arts
Centre; 126, Galway; and The Lab, Dublin. He has participated in
two-person exhibitions at the Wexford Arts Centre and Queen Street
Studios, Belfast.
His work has been included in many group exhibitions including
None Went Mad... None Ran Away, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Futures
10, rha, Dublin; Material Worlds: Contemporary Sculpture from Ireland
and the uk, fe McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge; Dawning of an Aspect,
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Bookish: When Books Become Art,
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; and An Exhibition In 5 Chapters,
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
He was the 2009–2010winner of both the Red Stables Irish Residential
Studio Award and the Wexford Arts Centre's Emerging Visual Artists
Award. He is currently based at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
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