Speaker Series: Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne is an artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland. His studies include the Whitney Independent Study Program, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center Program and The New School for Social Research in New York. Byrne’s work engages with the construction of history in and through our media-dense society. Selecting found source material such as ads, articles, theatre productions and films stemming from the Seventies through to today, Byrne reconfigures these materials to create new films and installations. The works shed light on the conventions and codes that make pictorial narratives and show the intricate web of cross-references and chains of associations in image culture. He has an international exhibition record that includes showing in the Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Europe and the US. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Project Dublin, Nicola Fornello Gallery in Prato, Italy, and the Kunstverein, Frankfurt. Byrne has participated in the Göteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal and this summer’s I REALLY SHOULD… at the Lisson Gallery in London.

The Speaker Series (2000–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures organized by Charles H. Scott Gallery in conjunction with the Art Now course at ECIAD. The programme was initiated by ECIAD faculty Ian Wallace in the 1970’s as a series of lunchtime artist talks. Wallace ran the programme until 1998.