MARTINA O’SHEA
Born in Kerry, Ireland (1982) lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2021 MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, UK
2003 BA in Fine Art Painting, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
2001 Academie Der Bildenden Kunste - Munchen, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / TWO-PERSON SHOWS
2023 Hard Drives Soft Walks duo show with Seren Metcalfe at Chemist Gallery, London https://chemistgallery.com/Hard-Drives-Soft-Walks-1
2019 Pulled Landscape, Pages of Hackney, London
2019 Sailmakers Collective, Betts Project, Central Street, London
2008 HiChristina, Orchard Street, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Corpus, Hypha Studios, Farringdon, London https://hyphastudios.com/corpus-curated-by-yasmin-noorbakhsh-jennifer-nieuwland-and-ieva-ansaberga/
2021 MFA Degree Show, CGLAS London
2021 This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London http://www.studio1-1.co.uk/past-shows-2021/
2021 Poem Atlas, Rhodes art gallery, Greece
2020 Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney, London
2020 Model Village, The Swiss Church, Curated by Hot Desque- Lizzy Drury and Neena Percy Covent Garden, London https://www.hotdesque.xyz/model-village
2019 Salon 19, Four Corners Gallery, London
2019 Velvet Ropes, Galleri Golsa in Oslo, Norway https://golsa.no
2019 Rough Print, North London Darkroom, London
2013 Over the Hill Lee Miller’s House, Farley Farm House, Sussex https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk
2011 Mill-Co Project, Dalston, London
2009 Hop Skip, Hackney Wicked, London
2008 Space Invaders, Hackney Wicked, London
2004 Origin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003 BA degree show, LSAD, Ireland
2001 Interm show, Academie Der Bildenden Kunste - Munchen, Germany
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/COMMISSIONS/TUTORING
2023 Mentor for Arts Emergency https://www.arts-emergency.org
2022 Installed Vision and Virtuosity Exhibition for Tiffany and Co https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/vision_virtuosity_by_tiffany_co
2021 Nominated for Association for Art History Prize https://forarthistory.org.uk
2018 London Creative Network, Four Corners, London https://spacestudios.org.uk/london-creative-network/
2017 Residency at Ljosmyndaskolinn, School of Photography in Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Set dresser for The Den RTE https://www.facebook.com/BringBacktheDen/
2001 Erasmus Scholarship Fund,Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Hard Drives Soft Walks collaborative zine available at Chemist Gallery https://chemistgallery.com/
2022 Vision and Virtuosity by Assouline, photograph of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauchebergs Window Display https://eu.assouline.com/products/tiffany-co-vision-virtuosity-icon?variant=39954093899875
2021 Image, Music, Exit - Thesis (copy available upon request)
2003 Through the Eyes of American Beauty Thesis
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2022 Visual Poetry in the Anthropocene: Sculpting & Materialising Language as a Social, Ecological and Feminist Gesture - PHD thesis of Astra Papachristodoulou
2021 Text-Isles anthology (Guildford Poem Atlas)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS/TALKS/LECTURES/PERFORMANCES
2023. Collaborative dream performance with Agnes Scheidewind at the Rich Mix London European Poetry Festival
2022 Artist Talk Foundation at City and Guilds of London Art School
2021 Collaborative performance with Vanessa Onwuemezi https://www.amant.org/residents/17-vanessa-onwuemezi and Maria Celina Val https://mariacelinaval.com at The European Poetry Festival, London
2017 Artist Talk at Ljosmyndaskolinn, Reykjavik, Iceland https://ljosmyndaskolinn.is
2013 Artist Talk at Photo Forum – www.photo-forum.org
2008 Curated Group show ‘Space Invaders’ for the first Hackney Wicked Festival