Education
PHD Art practice Goldsmiths University, London 2017-2023
MFA (Distinction) Goldsmiths University 2010-2013
BA Honours Fine and Applied Arts, (First Class), University of Ulster Belfast
2025
Vague symptoms clinic’, Project arts centre, https://projectartscentre.ie Dublin, Ireland, October 2025.
Eva International, https://www.eva.ie, Limerick, Ireland, 29 August to 26 October 2025.
Bíodh Orm Anocht, https://ormstonhouse.com/programme/biodh-orm-anocht/
Ormston House in collaboration with EVA International presents Bíodh Orm Anocht. August 2025.
Loughs of Ireland, a user’s guide. Rod and Line Clarendon Street
1 Clarendon Street, Derry, March 2025
2024/25
Jerwood Survey III opening 6 April 2024 (preview 5 April)
Artists: Che Applewhaite, Aqsa Arif, MV Brown, Philippa Brown, Alliyah Enyo, Sam Keelan, Paul Nataraj, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Ebun Sodipo, Kandace Siobhan Walker, 2024-2025
Tour date
g39, Cardiff 13 July – 7 September 2024
Site Gallery, Sheffield 27 September 2024 – 26 January 2025
Collective, Edinburgh 28 February – 4 May 2025
2023
Equine Ears and other stories, Lawrence Street workshops, Belfast, Dec 2023
Drawing room London, Contemporary Drawing Research presentation, January 2023
https://drawingroom.org.uk/events/drawing-research-forum-2022-23-sessions-part-2
Visual Artist Ireland (VAI), Practice presentation, January 2023
2022
Cultural & Creative Practitioner in Residence in a Care Setting, Foyleville Day Centre, May June 2022
Artist talk, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (CCA), April 2022
Artist workshops, over sixties, group, Culmore Community Partnership, April 2022
Lough Fad East – A Users guide, a public talk April 2022
https://www.ccadld.org/public-programme/lough-fad-east-a-users-guide
Artist talk, Lough Fad East, Donegal October, 2021
https://www.ccadld.org/public-programme/lough-fad-east-a-users-guide
2023
Ferox, Exhibition and public and engagement program, Lawrence Street Workshops, Belfast Autumn 2023
launch of Loughs of Donegal guide, Part of Bounce festival at Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (CCA), October 2023
https://www.ccadld.org/public-programme/bounce-festival-lough-fad-a-users-guide-publication-launch
Fiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, Film and & Media - Thursday July 20th 2023
2022
Periodical Review, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, December -January 2023.
Ferox, CCA Derry-Londonderry, January-April 2022
https://www.ccadld.org/exhibitions/ferox
Metabolic time / Am meitibileach public programme, Project Arts Centre presents, February-April 2022
https://projectartscentre.ie/event/metabolic-time-am-meitibileach/
Mixed Bag - a group exhibition by the PhD Art cohort at Goldsmiths College, February, 2022.
https://padlet.com/mixedbag2022/mixedbagexhibition
2021
Public art event at a hill top lough, 23 October, 2021
https://www.ccadld.org/public-programme/hill-top-lough-donegal
Theorem, printed publication, February 2021
Social media takeover, CCA Derry-Londonderry, April 2020
2019
OUTPOST members show, August 2019
De l’île au monde: Centre international d’art et du paysage, July 2019
Theorem 2019. Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, June 2019
Futures of the real: Goldsmiths Postgraduate Research Conference, June 2019
OUTPOST Open Film 2019, March 2019
ASAP, A symposium of the association for the study of the arts of the present, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong, June 7-9 2019
Goldsmiths research café, wednesday 13 March 2019
Performance and Protest symposium, School of Arts and Humanities Ulster University
Magee campus Derry/Londonderry, N. Ireland 10th January 2019
2018
DOBLES DE PROXIMIDA. Curated by Patricio Kind, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art 2018. Participating artists: Gonzalo Aguirre, Jorge Cabieses-Valdes, Carlos Costa, Museo de Historia Natural Río Seco, María Karantzi, Alejandro Leonhardt, Rodrigo Lobos, Chavis Mármol, Marie Edinger Plum, Nicolás Rupcich, Pablo Selín, Maaike Anne Stevens, Amalia Valdés, Maite Zabala , Javier González, Ciaran Ó Dochartaigh, Guillaume Brisson-Darveau, Marcos Sánchez y Raimundo Edwards.
http://www.mac.uchile.cl/exhibiciones/e/dobles-de-proximidad
2017
Tulca international festival 2017
with
Fabienne Audeoud, Sam Basu and Liz Murray, Kian Benson Bailes, David Beattie, Oisin Byrne, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain, Liz Magic Laser, McGibbon O’Lynn, Yvette Monahan, Yoko Ono, Plastique Fantastique, Richard Proffitt, Bob Quinn, Florian Roithmayr, Kaspar Oppen Samuelsen and Marie-Louise Vittrup, Lucy Stein
http://tulcafestival.com/
2016
Residency Programme / curated by CCA at CIAP, Ile de Vassivière, France, 2016
http://www.ciapiledevassiviere.com/en/pensionnaires.aspx
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Treignac Projet, France, 26 June - 25 September
Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Öyvind Fahlström, Philipp Kremer, Bea McMahon, The Performance Group, Megan Rooney. Curated by Matt Packer
http://www.treignacprojet.org/
2015
Vanishing Futures: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Golden Thread gallery, Belfast, October 2015
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/events/vanishing-futures-collective-histories-of-northern-irish-art/
Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Norway, August 2015
http://www.biennialfoundation.org/biennials/lofoten-international-art-festival-liaf/
Don’t Let the Truth Get In The Way Of A Good story, DAM PROJECTS, London, 2015
http://dam-projects.com/?works=feb-15
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, CCA Derry February 2015
http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/crooked-rain-crooked-rain/
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, CCA Derry February 2015
http://www.lismorecastlearts.ie/index.php/events
Research/ Lectures / Public events
Research associate CCA Derry-Londonderry, 2020-2021
Lecture to MFA Art program, University of Ulster, Belfast, March 2016
Residencies/ peer groups
ACE Art, March 2010
http://www.aceart.org/
Lux critical forum (2014-2015)
http://www.lux.org.uk/education/lux-critical-forum
Awards
Arts bursary, Irish Arts council, 2025
Bursary Award - Personal Disability Access Costs, Irish Arts council, 2025
CIRP award, 2021
ACNI, SIAP, general art award, 2020
Arts council England, COVID Emergency grant, 2020
ACNI, SIAP, general art award, 2019
Artist and Cultural Practitioner Award 22-23
Artist and Cultural Practitioner Award 21-22
Artists International Development Fund, Arts Council England / British Council, June 2015.
British council NI, international artist award, March 2015
AHRC 2 year Bursary Award for MFA at Goldsmiths, 2010-2012
Vanishing Futures: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Oct 2015
http://www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk/events/vanishing-futures-collective-histories-of-northern-irish-art/
Press
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Vague Symptom Clinic, Project Arts Centre, 31 October 2025–17 January 2026. Iarlaith Ní Fheorais 4 December 2025
https://papervisualart.com/2025/12/04/ciaran-o-dochartaigh-vague-symptom-clinic-project-arts-centre-31-october-2025-17-january-2026/
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh: Vague Symptom Clinic, Project Arts Cente, Dublin.
Tom Lordan, Tue Dec 2025.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/review
Artist Ciaran O Dochataigh's Vague Symptom Clinic: 'Is sickness generational?', RTE culture. Wednesday, 26 Nov 2025 11:38
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1117/1544451-artist-ciaran-o-dochataigh-is-sickness-generational/
My Cutural Life, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Irish independent
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/artist-ciaran-o-dochartaigh-i-always-go-back-to-prince-when-im-under-pressure-with-research-or-installing-an-exhibition/a1414015659.html
Critique, Bíodh orm anocht’, Sheenagh Geoghegan, November 18, 2025
https://visualartistsireland.com/critique-biodh-orm-anocht
impulse magazine
https://impulsemagazine.com/symposium/on-organization-and-collaboration-at-eva
Interview, Oct 8, written by Leah Triplett
e-flux criticism, 41st EVA International, “It Takes a Village”, Eva international, August 29–October 26, 2025
https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/6782316/41st-eva-international-it-takes-a-village
Jerwood Survey III opening 6 April 2024 -2025
https://corridor8.co.uk/article/jerwood-survey-iii/
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/jerwood-survey-3-review-southwark-park-galleries-london
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
http://www.labellerevue.org/fr/critiques-dexpositions/2016/kisses-sweeter-than-wine
“Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” at Lismore Castle Arts, March 22~2015
http://moussemagazine.it/crooked-rain-lismore-castle/
They Call Us the Screamers BY DECLAN LONG, frieze, 17 NOV 17
https://frieze.com/article/they-call-us-screamers
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (texts by Kevin Burns & Dorothy Hunter)
http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/public-programme/crooked-rain-crooked-rain-texts-by-kevin-burns-dorothy-hunter/
Potential for Damage, VAN November / December 2014
http://visualartists.ie/van-ebulletin/visual-artists-news-sheet/van-november-december-2014/
Collections
V22 Young London artwork acquisition, March 2015