Bio/CV
Bryan Gerard Duffy is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, photography, film and installation.
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BIO
Bryan Gerard Duffy is a multi-disciplinary artist working in paint, sculpture, lens-based work, moving image and installation. (b. 1985) He is now based in Mayo, Ireland and is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (2009). He has continued to exhibit nationally and internationally, which includes upcoming solo shows in the Ballina Arts Centre (2025), GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford (2024) and the Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (2024). He has shown his work in England, Scotland, Spain, Italy, Finland, Serbia, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Kenya, Belarus, The United States, Algeria, Western Sahara and the West Bank.
He was a recipient of the Krems AiR residency award (2024), Interface Residence at the Galway Arts Centre (2023): the PLATFORM 31 award (2022) from Local Arts Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland; the Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award (2022); and the recipient of the Bolay Residency Award, Castlebar, Ireland (2020). He has been awarded numerous of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, including the Travel and Training award to participate in Artifariti Arts Festival in Algeria and Western Sahara (2017). Recent public art projects include the “Art Roundhouse” G.E.T.N.S. Commission, Galway, Ireland, funded through the Irish Department of Education Per Cent for Art Scheme (2020); and “The New Wing”, The Sacred Heart Hospital Commission, Castlebar, funded through the HSE Per Cent for Art Scheme, (2019). In 2021, he was elected to the Board of Trustees at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Ireland.
Duffy has also been the recipient of multiple national and international awards for his films, including being shortlisted for the Best Irish Human Rights Short Documentary with “Sumud, Everyday Resistance” at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) awards (2016), and receiving Bronze Medal Award at the Global Independent Film Awards for his film “Delivery” (2021).
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SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025:. “Break glass in case of emergency” (SOLO), Ballina Arts Centre, (IE)
2024 July: “Idle Walls” (SOLO), GOMA Gallery Of Modern Art, Waterford (IE)
2024 May: “Idle Walls” (SOLO), The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (IE)
2023: “I am Here”, by Young Model at The Model, Sligo. With Bryan Gerard Duffy (IE)
2023: 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin (IE)
2022 Sept: “The Fabric of Society” (SOLO), The National Museum of Ireland, Countrylife, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (IE)
2022: Straight out of Ireland, (group), Philadelphia, USA
2022: Group, Clifden Arts Festival, Galway (IE)
2022: Re:Form, (group), 126 Gallery, Galway (IE)
2022. Group show, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (IE)
2021 Oct. “Elaborate and Methodical” (group), curated by Nuala Clarke, Ballina Fringe Festival, Ballina (IE)
2021 May. “Reopening” (group), The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2020 Oct. Westival 2020, Westport (IE)
2018 Dec. Group exhibition, LSC, Manorhamilton, Leitrim (IE)
2018 Oct. “Identity”, Westport Gallery, Westival, Westport Arts Festival (IE)
2017 Dec. Mayo Arts Show 2017, Ballina Arts Centre / Linenhall Arts Centre (IE)
2017 Oct. Artifariti 2017, Tifariti, Western Sahara
2017 Sept. COE 2017, Claremorris, Co. Mayo (IE), curated by Tom Morton
2017 Aug (SOLO) "The Fool by the Roadside", Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (IE)
2017 July. "Viewing Copy", The Radical Film Archive, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast (NI)
2017 Mar "Together as one", Rebooted Gallery, Bradford, England
2016 May "To speak…is to starve", LIVESTOCK "Mayhem", The Complex, Dublin (IE)
2016 April "The State We're In", THE MART, Rathmines, Dublin (IE)
2016 Jan (SOLO)"Follow the Yellow Brick Road", The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Nov "Off the Walls", Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT, Group Exhibition, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 Oct Group Exhibition, The Custom House Studios and Gallery, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015 March (SOLO) ‘The Fool by the Roadside’, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Society, Sligo (IE)
2015 Aug "Saw Dust", THE MART Project Space, Dublin (IE)
2015 May “Busk”, Hive Gallery and Studios, Waterford (IE)
2014 Dec Annual Group Show 2014, Group Exhibition, Custom House Gallery, Westport (IE)
2013 July ‘Duffy’s Vintage Photography’, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet. TG4 Siodiní Staire (IE)
2010 Oct Artifariti 2010, Group Exhibition, Tindouf, Algeria
2010 July Parallax Off-Site Event, MK International Festival 2010, ‘Blacks in the Jacks’, Milton Keynes Gallery, England
2010 May ‘320 Journeys from One Home to Another’, Féile na Tuaithe, Irish Museum of Countrylife Ireland (IE)
2009 Jun National College of Art and Design, Dublin (IE)
SELECTED FILM FESTIVALS
2021 Nov. “Bronze Medal Award”, Peace and Human Rights, Global Independent Film Awards (USA)
2021 Oct. “Delivery”, official selection, New York City Short Documentary Film Festival, New York
2020 Dec. Awarded the Best Irish Human Rights Short Documentary, Wexford Documentary Film Festival (IE)
2020 Dec. “Delivery”, Selection, Jim Sheridan Film Competition, Dublin (IE)
2020 Dec. “Disappeared”, Artifariti 2020 (Group show), multiple locations: Spain/ Western Sahara/ Mexico/ Algeria/ Mozambique
2020. “Delivery”, Official Selection. Fastnet Film Festival, Cork. (IE)
2020 Oct. “Delivery”, Official Selection. FiSahara Film Festival, Western Sahara/ Algeria
2017 Nov. 8X8 Film Festival, Trinity College, Dublin (IE)
2016 Dec "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Short Stop Film Festival, Glasgow, Scottish Premiere
2016 Oct "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Nominated for Best Documentary, Short Pole Film Festival, London, England
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", (Special Showing) Culture Night 2016, The Custom House Gallery and Studios, Westport (IE)
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", (Special Showing) Culture Night 2016, The Chocolate Factory, Dublin (IE)
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Scandinavian International Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Sept "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, SOSE International Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Aug "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Guth Gafa Film Festival, Meath (IE)
2016 July "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Sydney World Film Festival, Australia
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Award of Recognition, Hollywood International Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, United States
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Ouchy Film Awards, Switzerland
2016 June "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Shortlisted for Best Documentary, Largo Film Awards, Switzerland
2016 April "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Spain
2015 Dec "Sumud, Everyday Resistance", La Biennale College Cinema, Venice Film Festival, Italy
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2024: Krems AiR Residency Award, Austria
2024: Mayo County Council Bursary Award (IE)
2023: Interface Residence at the Galway Arts Centre, Galway (IE)
2022: PLATFORM 31 Scheme, Association of Local Authority Arts Office (IE)
2022: The Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Mayo County Council (IE)
2021. “Bronze Medal Award”, Peace and Human Rights, Global Independent Film Awards (USA)
2021. The Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award (IE)
2020. Awarded the Best Irish Human Rights Short Documentary, Wexford Documentary Film Festival (IE)
2020. The Bolay Residency, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (IE)
2019 Joya AIR Artist Residency, Almeria, Spain
2017. The Art Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award (IE)
2016. Special Mention Award for Best Short Documentary, Waterford Film Festival (IE)
2016. Award of Recognition, Hollywood International Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, United States
2015. Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, GMIT Research Residency, Co. Mayo (IE)
2015. THE MART Project Space, Residency, Rathmines, Dublin (IE)
SELECTED PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
2022. “The Mayo Way”, Mayo Day Commisssion, funded by the Mayo County Council (IE)
2021. “Note Waves Podcast”, by Mayo County Council Writer in Residence, Elizabeth Reapy. Paintings by Bryan Gerard Duffy. (IE)
2021. “Artist’s Repeal the Eighth Amendment”, a conversation with Alice Maher and Cecily Brennan, filmed by Bryan Gerard Duffy, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.
2020. G.E.T.N.S. Educate Together commission, Galway, funded by Dep of Education Per Cent for Art Scheme (IE)
2019 Arts Letters &Numbers, Averill Park, New York, USA
2019. HSE Sacred Heart Hospital Commission, Co. Mayo, Funded by Per Cent for Art scheme
2017 Oct. Artifariti 2017, Tifariti, Western Sahara
2016 Jun National Museum of Countrylife, workshops and facilitation, Co. Mayo (IE)
SELECTED TALKS, EVENTS AND PRESENTATIONS
2021 May Artists Talk, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (IE)
2018 Oct. Visual Arts Trial, Westival 2018, Westport (IE)
2017 Nov. Panel Discussion, Trinity College, Dublin (IE)
2016 April Artists Talk, Mayo Arts Office & The Custom House Studios, Westport (IE)
2015 March Artists Talk and Panel Discussion, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Society, Sligo (IE)
2015 March Artists Talk, Mayo Arts Office & The Custom House Studios, Westport (IE)
2012 May Presentation: ‘A Journey of Displacement’, Mayo Artists Network, Ballina Arts Centre (IE)
2011 May Presentation: ‘Displacement’ and ‘Western Sahara’, guest lecturer, GMIT (IE)
2010 Oct Presentation: ‘Disappeared’, 27th February Refugee Camp, Tindouf, Algeria
2010 July Presentation:‘Displacement’, Milton Keynes Gallery, England; Parallax Off-Site Event, MK International Festival 2010
PROJECTS/ COMMISSSIONS/ WORKSHOPS
2022. “Mayo Day”, public art commission, funded by Mayo County Council (IE)
2021. “Note Waves Podcast”, by Mayo County Council Writer in Residence, Elizabeth Reapy. Paintings by Bryan Gerard Duffy. (IE)
2021. “Artist’s Repeal the Eighth Amendment”, a conversation with Alice Maher and Cecily Brennan, filmed/edited by Bryan Gerard Duffy, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland.
2020/21. “The Art Roundhouse”, G.E.T.N.S. Educate Together Commission, Galway, funded by the Department of Education Per Cent for Art Scheme (IE)
2022. Resident artist at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Mayo (IE)
2022. Creative Clusters Schools, Mayo (IE)
2021. Artist in residence, Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar (IE)
2020. Cruinniu na nÓg. In association with the Linenhall Arts Centre and Creative Schools, Castlebar (IE)
2020. Creative Schools. St Patricks Boys National School, Castlebar (IE)
2019. St. Josephs Secondary School, Castlebar in association with the Per Cent for Art Scheme, Sacred Heart Hospital Castlebar (IE)
2017 Oct. "4000 Promises", Workshops in collaboration with Ballyhaunis FRC, Ballyhaunis, Mayo (IE)
2015 / 2016 "Give your Voice Wings", Workshops in collaboration with Irish Museum of Countrylife, Co. Mayo (IE)
2014 June Workshops, Vesonova Mental Asylum, Belarus
2010 May Féile na Tuaithe, Irish Museum of Countrylife Ireland (IE)
2008 Mar IMMA in association with Spirasi Group (IE)
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2022 June “Bryan Gerard Duffy is Mayo artist for Platform 31 scheme”, The Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2021 July ““High Impact”, VAN, Visual Artists News Sheet (IE)
2019 Sept “The New Wing”, Arts and Health case study (IE)
2019 June “The New Wing”, VAN, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2018 March "What lies beneath the sand", VAN, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2017 Sept Interview with Gráinne O'Reilly, The Arts Show, Westport Radio 98.2FM (IE)
2016 Kerry Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Preview Publication (IE)
2016 Waterford Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 June Re. ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2016, The Irish Times (IE)
2016 June ICCL Human Rights Film Awards 2016, ICCL Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 Fastnet Film Festival 2016, Festival Programme Publication (IE)
2016 "The wonderful everyday", Mayo News, 16/02/16
2015 "Off the Wall", GMIT, Dec/ Jan issue, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2015 "Sawdust", The MART Gallery, Oct/ Nov issue, Visual Artists Ireland (IE)
2015 “World Record Attempt on World Refugee Day”, June 12th, Mayo Advertiser (IE)
2014 Nov Interview with Aidan Crowley, World Record, Castlebar Community Radio (IE)
2011 ‘Western Sahara; footsteps towards freedom’, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2011 ‘Artifariti 2010 catalogue’, 27th February, Tindouf, Algeria, pg 140-141
2011 March By Augustine O’ Donoghue, VAN, Visual Artists Ireland, “from Amazon to Sahara” (IE)
2010 Interview with Tom Shiel, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2009 Interview with Tom Shiel, Connaught Telegraph (IE)
2009 Sept CIRCA Magazine, ed. 129, Autumn, 2009, pg 74, Interviewed with Michelle Brown (IE)
EDUCATION
2009: BA Fine Art Sculpture (Honors), National College of Art and Design, Dublin 8 (IE)
MEMBERSHIPS
A member of the Board of Directors at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (IE)
Visual Artist Ireland
126 Gallery, Galway
Interface, Galway
STUDIO SPACE
Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport (IE)
(+353) 83 0986507
(+353) 87 2640765
duffy.bryan@gmail.com
www.bryangerardduffy.com
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