Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh

coderry@gmail.com

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

Exhibitions & Events

2026

• The State of Us, De Appel, Amsterdam, April 2026 — deappel.nl
• Vague Symptoms Clinic, performance, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 10 January 2026 — projectartscentre.ie
• In conversation with Isobel Harbison, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 10 January 2026 — projectartscentre.ie

2025

• Vague Symptoms Clinic, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, October 2025 — projectartscentre.ie
• Eva International, Limerick, Ireland, 29 August – 26 October 2025 — eva.ie
• Bíodh Orm Anocht, Ormston House in collaboration with EVA International, August 2025 — ormstonhouse.com
• Loughs of Ireland, a user's guide, Rod and Line, 1 Clarendon Street, Derry, March 2025

2024/25

• Jerwood Survey III, opening 6 April 2024 — southwarkparkgalleries.org
  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: 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, December 2023
• Drawing Room, London, Contemporary Drawing Research presentation, January 2023 — drawingroom.org.uk
• Visual Artist Ireland (VAI), practice presentation, January 2023
• Launch of Loughs of Donegal guide, part of Bounce Festival at Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (CCA), October 2023 — ccadld.org
• Fiction Machines IV, Bath School of Art, Film & Media, 20 July 2023 — ticketsource.co.uk

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 User's Guide, public talk, April 2022 — ccadld.org
• Artist talk, Lough Fad East, Donegal, October 2021 — ccadld.org
• Herding Surrogates, live event, Lenamore Stables, Donegal, 13 April 2022 — ccadld.org
• Periodical Review, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, December 2022 – January 2023 — pallasprojects.org
• Ferox, CCA Derry, January–April 2022 — ccadld.org
• Metabolic Time / Am Meitibileach, public programme, Project Arts Centre, February–April 2022 — projectartscentre.ie
• Mixed Bag, group exhibition, PhD Art cohort, Goldsmiths College, February 2022 — padlet.com

2021

• Public art event at a hilltop lough, 23 October 2021 — ccadld.org
• Theorem, printed publication, February 2021

2020

• Social media takeover, CCA Derry–Londonderry, April 2020

2019

• OUTPOST members show, August 2019 — norwichoutpost.org
• De l'île au monde, Centre international d'art et du paysage, July 2019 — ciapvassiviere.org
• Theorem 2019, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, June 2019 — theoremphd.wordpress.com
• Futures of the Real: Goldsmiths Postgraduate Research Conference, June 2019
• Performance and Protest Symposium, School of Arts and Humanities, Ulster University, Magee Campus, Derry/Londonderry, 10 January 2019 — pure.ulster.ac.uk

2018

• Dobles de Proximidad, curated by Patricio Kind, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018 — mac.uchile.cl
  Participating artists: Gonzalo Aguirre, Jorge Cabieses-Valdés, 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, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Guillaume Brisson-Darveau, Marcos Sánchez, Raimundo Edwards

2017

• Tulca International Festival 2017 — tulca.ie
  With Fabienne Audeoud, Sam Basu and Liz Murray, Kian Benson Bailes, David Beattie, Oisín 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

2016

• Residency Programme, curated by CCA at CIAP, Île de Vassivière, France, 2016 — ciapvassiviere.org
• Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Treignac Projet, France, 26 June – 25 September — treignacprojet.org
  Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Öyvind Fahlström, Philipp Kremer, Bea McMahon, The Performance Group, Megan Rooney. Curated by Matt Packer

2015

• Vanishing Futures: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, October 2015 — goldenthreadgallery.co.uk
• Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Norway, August 2015 — biennialfoundation.org
• Don't Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story, DAM Projects, London, 2015 — dam-projects.com
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, CCA Derry, February 2015 — cca-derry-londonderry.org, lismorecastlearts.ie

Residencies & Peer Groups

• ACE Art, March 2010 — aceart.org
• Lux Critical Forum, 2014–2015 — lux.org.uk

Awards

• Arts Bursary, Irish Arts Council, 2025 — artscouncil.ie
• 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, 2022–23
• Artist and Cultural Practitioner Award, 2021–22
• Artists International Development Fund, Arts Council England / British Council, June 2015 — artscouncil.org.uk
• British Council NI, International Artist Award, March 2015 — nireland.britishcouncil.org
• AHRC 2-Year Bursary Award for MFA at Goldsmiths, 2010–2012

Press

• Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, "Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh, Vague Symptom Clinic, Project Arts Centre," 4 December 2025 — papervisualart.com
• Tom Lordan, "Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh: Vague Symptom Clinic, Project Arts Centre, Dublin," The Irish Times, December 2025 — irishtimes.com
• "Artist Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh's Vague Symptom Clinic: 'Is Sickness Generational?'," RTÉ Culture, 26 November 2025 — rte.ie
• "My Cultural Life: Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh," Irish Independent — independent.ie
• Sheenagh Geoghegan, "Critique: Bíodh Orm Anocht," 18 November 2025 — visualartistsireland.com
• Impulse Magazine — impulsemagazine.com
• Leah Triplett, "It Takes a Village: 41st EVA International," e-flux Criticism, 8 October 2025 — e-flux.com
• Jerwood Survey III, Corridor8 — corridor8.co.uk
• Jerwood Survey III, Studio International — studiointernational.com
• Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, La Belle Revue — labellerevue.org
• "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain at Lismore Castle Arts," Mousse Magazine, March 2015 — moussemagazine.it
• Declan Long, "They Call Us the Screamers," Frieze, 17 November 2017 — frieze.com
• Kevin Burns & Dorothy Hunter, "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" — cca-derry-londonderry.org
• "Potential for Damage," VAN, November/December 2014 — visualartists.ie

Collections

• V22 Young London artwork acquisition, March 2015