BIO


Ciara Phillips is an Irish & Canadian artist born in Ottawa, Canada in 1976.


Her work has been exhibited in public institutions, artist-run spaces and private galleries worldwide including:


Ciara Phillips at Trykkeriet in Bergen in 2019




The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; The Model, Sligo; Kunsthall Stavanger; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Benaki Museum, Athens; TATE Britain, London; and Hamburg Kunstverein. She is the initiator of many collaborative projects including: Workshop (2010 - ongoing); Poster Club (2010 - 2017); Press Room (2019); and Åpent Trykkeri (2018 - 2019).

In 2014 Phillips was nominated for the Turner Prize, and in 2020 she was awarded the Queen Sonja Print Award in Oslo. She is a Professor at the University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design.



Exhibitions & Projects
2024       We realised the power of it: Derry Film and Video Workshop (w/ Sara Greavu), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2024       Microcosmos, Studio Forum, Bergen
2024       25 Years in Print, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2023       The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrant to Rego, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinbugh
2023       Use as much pressure as possible (collaboration w/ Sam Ainsley & Scott Myles), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2023       On the cusp of perfect logic, spinning apart into something, QSPA Bispevika, Oslo
2023       Natten är full av blommornas frö, Lingbo Konsthall, Lingbo, Sweden
2023       Under Press, Entrēe, Bergen
2022       The Love of Print, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK
2022       Queen Sonja Print Awards, QSPA Bispevika, Oslo, Norway
2022       Love and odd posters, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2021        New Arrivals: from Salvador Dali to Jenny Saville, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK 
2021        Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House, Chichester, UK
2021        Open the book at a different page: Derry Film and Video Workshop (w/ Sara Greavu), Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2021        Palimpsest - Reading between the signs, after the butcher, Berlin, Germany
2021        We realised the power of it: Derry Film and Video Workshop (w/ Sara Greavu), 39th EVA  International, Limerick, Ireland
2021        Mono, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2021        Queen Sonja Print Awards, QSPA Bispevika, Oslo, Norway
2021        Materiality, collaboration and agency, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki, Finland
2019        Whatever happened to that bridge we crossed?, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2019        A dream of community: Norske Grafikere 100 Years, Kode, Bergen, Norway
2019        Haugesund Internasjonale Tresnittfestival, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Norway
2019        Brexit: Mail art from a small island, sipgate, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019        Du coq à l'âne, Le Bel Ordinarie, Pau, France
2019        Drawing Biennale 2019, Drawing Room, London, UK
2019        Future Feminist Archive - Live! (w/ Jessie Street National Women’s Library), Wollongong Art Gallery, Australia
2018        Dog Comes In, Cat Goes Out, Trykkeriet and Tag Team Studio, Bergen, Norway
2018        Show Me Your Glow, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2018        21st Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
2018        The Medium is the Message, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin, Ireland
2018        Innovative Printmaking, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2018        Love Letters, Art-Cade Galerie, Marseille, France
2018        31 Women Painters, McClure Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2018        Hope is Strong, Museums Sheffield, UK
2018        What’s Love Got To Do With It, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2017        Policy Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2017        New Edition (w/ Poster Club), Edinburgh Printmakers, UK
2017        Systems for Saying It, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
2017        Yours and Mine is Ours, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2017        Throwing Shapes: Hard Fact / Emotional Fiction (w/ Michael Stumpf), Sipgate, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017        Open Edition, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2016        British Art Show 8, Southampton Art Gallery, UK
2016        Comrade Objects, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
2016        NEW Mud, NEW Wheat, NEW Machine (w/ Poster Club), Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
2016        British Art Show 8, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2016        British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2016        I still believe in miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, UK
2016        Cold Friends, Warm Cash, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2016        What we recognise in others, CCA Derry-Londonderry, UK
2015        British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, UK
2015        Warm Friends, Cold Cash, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden
2015        MUD, WHEAT, MACHINE (w/ Poster Club), Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China
2015        They printed it!, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
2015        Printshop! (w/ Edwin Pickstone), Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2015        Eyes on the Prize, Travelling Gallery, Scotland-wide
2015        Bloused & Mintier (w/ Edwin Pickstone), blip blip blip, Leeds, UK
2015        Textured Windows, Global Committee, New York, USA
2015        The only way to do it is to do it, Hunterian Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015        Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2015        Drawing Biennale, Drawing Room, London, UK
2015        The Drouth Five-Oh, Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2014        Turner Prize 2014, Tate Britain
, London, UK
2014        Just You, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2014        I was a double, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, USA
2014        Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2014        Just You, Galerie Praterstraße, Berlin
2013        Workshop (2010-ongoing), The Showroom, London, UK
2013        Funktion/Dysfunktion: New Art from Glasgow, Neues Museum Nurnberg, Germany
2013        And More, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
2013        Riff/t, Baltic 39, Newcastle
, UK
2013        There should be new rules next week, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
2013        The Souls : A Twice-Told Tale, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
2013        40/40: 40 Years, 40 Artists, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2013        Drawing Biennale, Drawing Room, London, UK
2012        Slippery Under Pressure, OUTPOST, Norwich, UK
2012        Pull Everything Out (w/ Corita Kent), Spike Island, Bristol, UK
2012        21 Revolutions: Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women’s Library, Intermedia, Glasgow, UK
2012        The Irregular Correct, Fremantle Arts Centre, Australia
2012        Pavilion, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2012        Petrosphere, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, UK
2012
        Who Decides? (curated w/ Michael Stumpf and Skafte Kuhn) Stadtgalerie, Mannheim, Germany
2012       Start with a practical idea, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich, Switzerland
2012       Art Lending Library, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, UK
2012       Double Trouble, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK
2011        Petrosphere, ReMap3, Athens
, Greece
2011        Poster Club, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2011        Modern Languages, Galway City Museum and National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2011        Blueprint for a Bogey (w/ Corin Sworn and Nicolas Party), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
2011        The only rule is work, Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2011        Springtime will never be the same, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2010        Zwischenraum : Space Between, Der Kunstverein, Hamburg
, Germany
2010        Optimism and its signs, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010        Aires de jeux: la police ou les corsaires (w/ Corin Sworn and Nicolas Party), Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, France       
2010        Every Woman a Signal Tower, Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2010        Fizz Up and Dissolve, Glasgow Project Room, UK
2010        Vocal Sans, 48 King Street, Glasgow, UK 
2010        Field, Satellite, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
2009       Ciara Phillips, Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2008       Recyclight, Electrorama, Paris, France
2008       Vault II, Bank Gallery, Carlisle, UK
2007       I See Prisms, an Open Eye Club event at G126, Galway, Ireland
2007       Scottish Printmakers’ Summer Exhibition,  Glasgow Print Studio, UK
2007       Vault, Bank Gallery, Carlisle, UK
2007       Vowelled, Glasgow Project Room, UK
2006       Bazaar, an Open Eye Club event at Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2006       Scottish Collective, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2006       The Clamour of Ornament, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, UK
2005       From there to here, Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto, Japan
2005       The last chicken at Sainsbury’s, The Chateau, Glasgow, UK
2005       Capricorn 25, Rocket Art Projects, Miami, USA
2005       Do it now, TotalKunst, Edinburgh, UK
2004       Leisure Paintings, Leisure Projects, Montreal, Canada
2004       MFA Glasgow 2004, Tramway, Glasgow

Commissions
2019        Press Room, Crosby Library, Liverpool, UK
2018        Åpent Trykkeri, Vaksdal Senter, Vaksdal, Norway
2018       This, looped, V&A Dundee, UK
2017        For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet, Radar, Loughborough, UK
2016        Every Woman: Dazzle Ship Scotland, Price of Wales Dock, Leith, UK

Awards 
2020       Queen Sonja Print Award 2020, Oslo, Norway
2019        Haugesund Internasjonale Tresnittfestival Festival Prize, Haugesund, Norway

2014        Turner Prize nomination, Tate Britain, London, UK 

2013        Drawing Room Bursary Award, London, UK

Residencies
2022       The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2021        Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
2019        Griffelkunst, Hamburg, Germany
2018        Trykkeriet, Bergen, Norway
2017        Grafikens Hus, Stockholm/Södertälje, Sweden
2016        Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, USA
2016        Koerner Artist-in-Residence, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

2015        Zendai Art Museum (w/ Poster Club), Zhujiajiao, China

2014        St. John's College, Oxford
, UK
2012        Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany
2010        Anna Löbner Glasgow/Düsseldorf Exchange
2009       Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Cove, UK

Publications
2022       Free Hot Mess, designed in collaboration with Fraser Muggeridge, published by Agnes Etherington Art Centre. With essays by Melissa Gronlund, Jen Kennedy and Sunny Kerr.
2020       There are already flowers, artist’s produced in collaboration with students at UniArts Helsinki
2019       What is good contact?, artist’s book made as part of Workshop at Kunsthall Stavanger
2014       xo, artist’s book for Good Press, Glasgow
2013       Irregular Bulletin 54, artist’s book made as part of Workshop at The Showroom, London
2012       Irregular Bulletin 53, artist’s book in collaboration with Melissa Gordon, Jono Lewarne, Fraser Muggeridge, and Poster Club, Spike Island, Bristol

Works included in:
2022       Utan Väggar - Grafikens Hus de mobila åren 2014 - 2021, Grafikens Hus, edited by Anna Henriksson
2021        QSPA 10: The Queen Sonja Print Award 2011 - 2021, Press Publishing
2020       Homeworks: A Cooking Book, catalogue for the Home Works programme at Konsthall C, edited by J. Richards and J. Strandberg
2019        14-18 NOW: Contemporary arts commissions for the First World War Centenary, catalogue edited by Angela Koo, Profile editions
2019        Du coq à l'âne, catalogue for the exhibition at Le Bel Ordinarie, edited by Paul McDevitt and Cornelius Quabeck
2018        SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium and Engagement, catalogue of the 21st Biennale of Sydney
2018        31 Women Painters, catalogue of the exhibition at McClure Gallery at the Visual Arts Centre, Montréal
2016        More Lasting Than Bronze, catalogue of Edinburgh Art Festival
2015        British Art Show 8, Hayward Touring catalogue
2014        Just You, edited by Martin Clark, Bergen Kunsthall
2014        Generation Guide and Reader, edited by Moira Jeffrey, National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life
2014        21 Revolutions, edited by Dr Adele Patrick, Freight Books
2013        O Kunstverein, Where Art Thou?, Beate Anspach and Florian Waldvogel eds., Distanz Publishing

Press
2022        MacMonagle, Niall, ‘What lies beneath: Group studios the key to creativity’, Irish Sunday Independent, 29/5/2022
                  Tipton, Gemma, ‘It’s almost like being in the thought space of my studio’, Irish Times, 31/03/2022
                  Rocks, Sean, Live interview on ARENA on RTÉ Radio 1, 30/03/2022
                 ‘Ciara Philliips ‘Love and Odd’ comes to The Model’, The Sligo Champion, 15/03/2022
                  Finn, Alan, ‘The Model has revealed packed new programme’, The Sligo Weekender, 17/02/2022
                  Cordray, Julianne, ‘’Palimsest - Reading between the signs’ at after the butcher’, BerlinArtLink.com, 28/01/2022
2021        Macmillan, Duncan, ‘Art review: New Arrivals, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art’, The Scotsman, 7/12/2021
                  Ferguson, Brian, ‘Art treasures spanninig 110 years and worth up to £20m brought together for Edinburgh exhibition’, The                     Scotsman, 26/11/2021
                  ‘The 39th EVA International Phase 3 Exhibition Programme Opens untii 14 November’, Limerick Leader, 15/10/2021
                  Stephen, Phyllis, ‘New Exhibition at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art begins in November’, 11/10/2021
                  Hannan, Martin, ‘Scotland to welcome one of its largest modern art shows in its recent history’, The National, 30/09/2021
2020      ‘Queen Sonja Print Award 2020: The Irish-Canadian artist Ciara Phillips is the recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2020’, The Royal Court of Norway, 7/10/2020
2019       ‘Kunsthallen blir verksted’, Stavanger Aftenblad, 11/09/2019
2018        Januszczak, Waldemar, ‘Art review: The V&A, Dundee’, The Times, 16/09/2018
                 ‘Can Glasgow School of Art rise from the ashes?’, Frieze, 25/06/18
2016        Palermo, Alex, ‘Off the walls, Ciara Phillips: Comrade Objects’, The Queen’s Journal, 16/09/2016
                  Juddah, Hettie, ‘What not to miss at The 2016 Edinburgh Art Festival’, Artnet news, 29/07/2016
                 ‘Art This Week: Yong Soon Min, Ciara Phillips and Ron Simmer’, Vancouver Sun, 21/03/2016
2014        Jones, Jonathan, ‘Why is political art such elitist twaddle?’, The Guardian, 17/10/2014
                 Sherwin, Skye, ‘Ai Weiwei, Modern Toss, The Turner Prize: this week’s new exhibitions’, The Guardian, 27/09/2014
                  Luke, Ben, ‘Interview: Turner Prize finalist Ciara Philliips on printmaking, activism and campaigning for Justice for Domestic Workers’, Evening Standard, 25/09/2014
                 Brown, Mark, ‘Turner Prize 2014 shortlist unveiled’, The Guardian, 7/05/2014