curriculumvitae

Martina Cleary

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Education
2004MA Ed. The University of Art & Design, Helsinki.
1995MFA The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
1993BFA The Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork.
1989Core Studies, NCAD, Dublin.

Grants/Awards
2010The Irish Arts Council Project Award.
Create Artist in the Community, Phase I Grant.
Clare County Council Exhibition Grant.
2009Art@Work Residency, Roscommon.
Artwork selected by the Irish Association of Local Authority Arts
Officers, for presentation to President Mary McAleese.
2008Impressions 2008,Open Print Show, First Prize, selected by Robert Kennen,
Director of Bonham's Auctioners Print Department, London.
2006Belmont Mills, Offaly, residency award.
2006Cite Internationale Des Artes, Paris, residency award.
2006The Irish Arts Council Travel Bursary award.
2003Selection for City of Helsinki Taiteilijatalo.
2000Analyste Young Artists Competition acquisition prize.
2000The Finnish Cultural Foundation exhibition grant.
2000The City of Kerava exhibition grant.
99-01The City of Kerava studio grant
1995The Finnish Cultural Foundation travel grant.
1995CIMO grant for University teaching staff.
1994The Irish Arts Council, Artflight Award.
1993CIMO, post-graduate research grant.

Solo Exhibitions
2012Watergate Theatre, Upstairs Gallery, Kilkenny.
2011RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin, Nov/Dec.
Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon, July.
2009Cruachan Ai, Visitor Centre, Tulsk.
2008Monster Truck, Dublin, Oct/Nov.
2005Gallery Vuoksi, Helsinki,November.
S Gallery, Helsinki, August/September.
2004Lasipalatsi Media Centre, Helsinki, April.
2001Porvoon Taidehalli, Porvoo, July/August.
Gallery Alli, Kerava, September.
2000Gallery Halvere, Oulu, April.
1999Gallery Into, Helsinki, December.
1995The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, July.

Group Exhibitions/Events
2011Rianta, Ground up Artists Collective, Ennis, Aug.
2010Invisible, Black Church Print Studios,
Curated by Oliver Dowling, John Graham, and Margaret O’Brien, Dublin, Feb/March.
2009Collaboration with CWN for 16 Days Campaign 2009.
Summer show, Stone Gallery Dublin.
ArtSwap - Monster Truck Gallery at IMOCA.
2008Impressions 2008, Curated by Robert Kennen - Galway Arts Centre, Dec/Jan.
Talbot Gallery Christmas Show, Dec.
Live at 8. Bar no.8, Galway, Nov.

EV+A 2008, Curated by Hou Hanru, Limerick City Gallery, March/May.
Transducers’ , Limerick Printmakers, Feb.
G126 Members Show, Galway, Feb.
G126 Presents, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Jan.
2007G126 at The Galway Arts Centre, October.
2006G126 Two Person Show with Anne Madden, September.
Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Berlin, July.
Helsinki Artists Association annual show, June/July.
2005Taru II, Lasipalatsi Media Centre, Helsinki, December.
Arteeki Artists Collective, Gallery Vuoksi, December.
2004Arteeki Artists Collective, Vuotalo, Helsinki, October.
2001Kerava Artists Association summer exhibition, June/July.
2000Analyste Young Artists exhibition, Kaapeli, Helsinki, October
Uudenmaan Artists Association 25 year exhibition,July.
Meridian 363 group show, Helsinki, December.
1999Kaisa International Culture Centre, Helsinki, March.
1996'Constantinople'- Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Oulu.
1993The Glebe Gallery, Cork.

Work Experience
Head of Photography and Lecturer in Critical & Historical Studies,The Burren College of Art 2006 onwards.
Associate Tutor in the Dept. of Print, Cardiff School of Art & Design, 2011-12.
Guest Lecturer for Moore College of Art & Design, Graduate Summer School program at BCA, 2011&12.
Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick School of Art & Design, 2010-11.
External Examiner Limerick School of Art & Design 2010.
External Consultant for MFA Scholarship Panel Limerick School of Art & Design 2009.
Visiting Artist Limerick School of Art & Design 2009.
Visiting Artist Cardiff School of Art & Design 2009.
Workshop leader for Mayo Arts Office, training in Digital Photography for Artists 2008.
Lecturer on the Visual Communications Line,The Helsinki Polytechnic STADIA 2001-05.
Visiting lecturer,The Helsinki Institute of Technology HELTECH 2003-05.
Workshop leader The Kassandra EU Urban Development Project,Helsinki, 2004-05.
Visiting Artist/Lecturer Imatra Art Institute,1996-04.
Visiting Lecturer,The Free Art School of Helsinki 1995-96.
Assistant Teacher in the Department of Painting,The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 1994-95.

Projects/Other Work
Curator for Burren College of Art Gallery, recent projects:
'Timespace', (Kevin Atherton, Damien Flood, Tom Hunter, Bea Mc Mahon, Dennis Mc Nulty), in association with Green on Red Gallery Dublin, July/Aug.
‘Modal Worlds’, (Guy Ben-Ner, Susan MacWilliam,Callum Morton, Shana Moulton, Sista Pratesi, Lucy Stein, Edwin Zwakman), in Association with Gimpel Fils, London Aug/Sept 2009.
‘Due North’, (Pekka & Lea Kantonen, Pertti Kekarainen, Johanna Lecklin, Heli Rekula, Jan Svenungsson, Sami Van Ingen), Aug/Sept 2008.
‘Flicker’, (Darren Bolger, Mark Cullen, Brian Duggan, Cliona Harmey, Niamh McCann) Jan/Feb 2008.
Free-lance photographer for Co. Clare Arts Office projects 2006 and 2009.
Translator for The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts PhD publication Artists Knowledge, 2005-06.

Bibliography
Prism Photo Magazine, Jan-Feb, 2012.
The Irish Times, The Ticket, 02.01.2009, by Aidan Dunne.
The Irish Arts Review, Spring 2008, ‘OPEN/INVITED ev+a 2008, by Marianne
O’Kane Baol.
The Irish Times, ‘Artists in The House’, 12.09.2006, by Aidan Dunne.
HBL Helsinki Swedish Daily,’From Japanese Woodcuts to Girls Comics’, April 2005, by Anne Rouhiainen.
HBL (Cultural Suplement centre pages), ‘Pa Jaget Efter Jaget’, 28.03.2004, by Annika Rentola.
The Helsinki Sanomat,’ The Process Based Art of Martina Cleary’. 17.04.2004, by Anne Rouhiainen.
Ny Tid (Swedish Cultural Magazine), ‘Kampen for Insikt’ 06.04.2004, by Bianca Gresbeck.
Uusimaa (Daily Finnish Newspaper), ‘From the Smal Painting to the Installation’, 05.06.2001, by Maarit Uusikumpu.
Pohjolan Sanomat, ‘Looking at the Buddhist World View’, 15.04.2000, by Soile Seppa.
The Helsinki Sanomat, ‘The Spirit of Eastern Painting’, 04.12.1999, by Marja-Terttu Kivirinta.