Clare Langan
1992 Intensive Film Workshop, NYU, New York
1989 First Class Honours Degree, Fine Art, NCAD, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2017
River – 3 screen video installation A NAME UNMADE: FRANCIS LEDWIDGE (1887-1917), Solstice Arts Centre.
Curated by Sabina Mac Mahon
The Winter of 13 Storms: Recent film and video works 2015-2017 -The Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Canada
The Winter of 13 Storms will be exhibited at the B3 Biennal of the Moving Image Frankfurt 2017 curated by Kelly Gordon and Anita Beckers
Solo exhibition – Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford
2015
The Floating World – Multi Screen Installation VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
2012
State of Suspension
Galerie Anita Beckers, Germany
2011
The Wilderness Part 1
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2009
The ice above, the fire below, and other works - 2007 -2009, Limerick City Art Gallery
2008
New Work, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Solo Exhibition at Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona
2007
Metamorphosis, Houldsworth Gallery, London; Anita Beckers Galerie, Frankfurt; Galerie Nichido Contemporary, Tokyo.
Selected Works 1999 -2003, Galeria Art Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain.
2004
MediaScope, MoMA, New York
A Film Trilogy, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; nca | nichido
contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan; Domus Artium DA 2, Salamanca, Spain;
2003
A Film Trilogy, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden; Galleri Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain; Fenton Gallery, Cork.
2001
Too dark for night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Vedanta Gallery, Chicago; Fenton Gallery, Cork
1999
Forty Below, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
1998
Track, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
1997
Track, Hafnarburg Cultural Centre, Iceland; University of Salamanca, Spain; Gallery of Photography, Dublin
1994
Dogdays”, Cult Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1993
Dogdays, City Arts Center, Dublin; Unwahr Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Shows
2016
Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
2015
B3 Biennial – Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany. Expanded Senses – exhibiting Flight from the City
TULCA – Festival of Visual Arts, Galway. Curator Mary Cremin
Moving Pictures, Group Show curated by Anita Beckers, Marburger Kunstverein, Germany
2013
The Floating World – World Premiere Kinoderkunst, Munich, Germany
2012
None Went Mad, None Ran Away – Group Show Rubicon Gallery
2011
In Search of the Miraculous; ten days of film video and photography, Crawford Off-site, curated by Rachael Thomas, IMMA
Destructiveness and Beauty, Norbert Frensch, Monica Ursina Jäger, Clare Langan. Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt Gravity – Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland
Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta, Katzen Center Museum, American University Museum.
INVIDEO 2011, Milan, Italy – The Wilderness, Part 1
2010
Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
2009
Sounds and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv - representing Ireland. Curated by Angelo Gioè and Maria Rosa Sossai.
Highlights of KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne - Group Exhibition composed by Gabriele Horn and Heinz Peter Schwerfel. - KunstWerke, Berlin and touring to Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
House Warming, Group show, RED, South Dublin Art Centre, Ireland
Dojima River Biennale 2009: Reflection: The World Through Art, From Singapore Biennale 2006, 2008
Curated by Fumio Nanjo & Kenji Kubota, Osaka, Japan
Goldstein Connections, Participating artists: Jack Goldstein, Gregor Hildebrandt, Clare Langan, Bjørn Melhus, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
A Secret Understanding, touring exhibition programmed by Forma Arts.
The Best of LOOP 2008, Pacific Design Center, LA, curated by Paul Young
H20: Film on Water, Great River Arts, Vermont Connecticut, & Cynthia Reeves Gallery New York.
Then & Now: Evolving Art Practices, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Terror and the Sublime: Art and Politics in an Age of Anxiety, from the IMMA Collection, The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Adventures in Sound & Image; Panorama 1: I thought I was Hallucinating, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2008
Singapore Biennale, Curated by Fumio Nanjo, Joselina Cruz and Matthew Ngui.
Video Zone Festival, Braveman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
El agua y sus suenos contemporaneous, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain. Curated by Miguel Marcos and Fernando Castro-Florez
Loop '08 Barcelona, Fundacio Miro, A Film Trilogy Part of the Collection of The Irish Museum of Modern Art curated by IMMA director Enrique Juancosa.
Rendez-vous, curated by Isabelle Bertolotti, Shanghai Art Museum, China
2007
Atlas of the Future - Visions of Scenarios to Come, - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Italy Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Becks Fusions, collaboration with Sigur Ros - Trafalgar Square, Curated by & ICA London, UK
Rendez - Vous, Lyon Biennale, curated by Isabelle Bertolotti
Terra Infirma, Pratt Gallery, New York, curated by Berta Sichel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain.
Apocalypse, Candace Dawn Gallery, New York.
2006
Group Exhibition, with Juane Plensa and Zhang Huan, Galerie Cadaques, Cadaques, Spain
2005
Marking Time / Moving Images, Miami Art Museum, Florida, curated by Lorie Mertes
Vision Express, Shanghai Youth Biennale 2005, Lui Hai Su Art Museum, Curated by Fumio Nanjo
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2004
Tir na Nog: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection, IMMA, Dublin
Views from an Island; Contemporary Art from Ireland, Millennium Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Gallery of Modern Art, Shanghai, China.
2003
Panoramica, Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
After Nature, CCA, Glasgow
The New Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2002
International 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool
25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (representing Ireland)
View Finder, curated by Catsou Roberts / Stephen Hepworth, Arnolfini, Bristol.
Greyscale / CMYK, Tramway, Glasgow
The Mind is a Horse, Bloomberg Space, London
2001
At Sea, curated by Victoria Pomery, Tate Liverpool
2000
Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2000, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1999
Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Utopias, curated by John Hutchinson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
First Look, curated by Patrick T. Murphy, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Loose End, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway
Film Festivals
2014
The Floating World – VIDEOFORMES 2014, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2013
The Floating World – World Premiere Kino Der Kunst Munich, Germany
2007
Metamorphosis, Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany - Premier prize for International Film
Metamorphosis, Lorcrano Film Festival, Switzerland
Metamorphosis, Loop Art Fair Barcelona
2002
Too dark for night, Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Youth Jury Award.
Film Projects
1998
Art Director on James Coleman’s Photograph
1997
Assistant Art Director on “The Boxer” re-shoot directed by Jim Sheridan
1995
Assistant Art Director on “Some Mothers Son “directed by Terry George
1994
Assistant Art Director on” Braveheart” directed by Mel Gibson
1992
Art Director on” Far and Away” directed by Ron Howard
1991
Short film for Dorothy Cross shown at “Powerhouse”, ICA, Philadelphia
Art Fairs
2015
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam – Galerie Anita Beckers / Toronto Art Fair – Galerie Anita Beckers
23rd – 26th October 2015 Toronto Art Fair – Galerie Anita Beckers
2009
The ice above, the fire below, Pulse New York 2009 – featured installation Galerie Anita Beckers
2008
Pulse New York - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Art Cologne, Germany, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
SWAB - Barcelona - Galeria Cadaques Dos, Spain
Arco, Madrid - Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona
2007
Pulse Miami - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Art Miami - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Pulse London - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Year ’07 - Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Loop, Barcelona - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Chicago Art Fair - Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Residencies
2005
Residency at at La Fondation Albert Gleizes, Moly Sabata, France
2004
Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1998
Artist in Residence at Roches Point Lighthouse, Cork.
1997
Artists Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Awards
2007-2009
Arts Council Multi- Annual Bursary
2003-2004
Nominated for The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
1992-2014
Visual Arts Bursaries & commissions from The Arts Council of Ireland & The Irish Film Board.
1992
Fulbright Scholarship to attend Intensive Film Workshop at N.Y.U.
Collections
Tony & Heather Podesta Private Collection, Washington DC
Hugo & Carla Brown, Private Collection
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Clarks Private Collection, UK
Dublin Institute of Technology
University College Dublin
University College Cork