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:
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