Michelle Hall | CV

b.1983
Dublin, Ireland

Education + Training

2017 - Directing Documentary Certificate, Filmbase Professional Training, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

2013 – 2016 MA Art in the Contemporary World (Combined Pathway), First Class Honours (1:1), National College of Art and Design, Thomas St, Dublin 8.

2002 – 2007 BA Fine Art, Second Class Honours Upper Devision (2:1), Dublin Institute of Technology, Portland Row, Dublin 1.

2006 – Erasmus Programme, HKU: Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2001 – 2002 BTEC Diploma Foundation Art & Design, North West Regional College, Derry.

Exhibitions + Performances

2018

Upcoming

  • StartPoint Residency Exhibition 2018 – Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Publication Launch, StartPoint Prize 2018, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Open Studios, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
  • Room with CAPP Practice and Power 2018 – Live event curated by Angela McDonagh, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7.
  • TRUFFLES, Collaborative Exhibition with Tracy Hanna, ONONO Gallery, Rotterdam.

Past

  • Dissonant Women curated by Sophie Connon – Old Garda Station, Dalkey, South Co. Dublin.
  • StartPoint Group Exhibition – Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam.
  • Collaborative research trip with forest based performative presentations in development for upcoming collaborative project, Prehen Woods, Derry.

2017

  • Matters of Lineage/Continual Shift – Bow Arts RAW Labs, London, England.
  • StartPoint Prize 2017 – National Gallery Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Czech Republic.
  • Lost in Papancha, Ways of Escape – Solo Exhibition, ArtBox Gallery, Dublin 1.

2016

  • Upcoming: Edinburgh Artists' Moving Image Festival – Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh.
  • RDS Visual Art Awards – RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
  • Collective Memory – Celine Gallery, Glasgow, and Bushwick Open Studios NYC.
  • Excess Baggage – Group exhibition supported by WAVEparticle, Laurieston Arches, Glasgow.
  • The Lament of the Jade Phoenix – ACW Graduate Exhibition (Solo), Steambox, Dublin 8.
  • Room III – Performance Event curated by Angela McDonagh, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7.
  • Phonica III – Experimental writing and audio performative event, curated by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, upstairs Nealon's Pub, Capel St, Dublin 1

2015

  • We Are Nonetheless Always Under The Influence Of Gravity – Postgraduate Group Show curated by Lee Welch, NCAD Annexe, James's St, Dublin 8.
  • Reading Troupe #6 – performative workshop and zine collaboration as part of Emma Haugh's The Reappropriation of Sensuality, NCAD Gallery, Dublin 8.
  • Lights Out Listening Group audio event at Shona Projects, Eilean Shona, Scotland.
  • Room I – Performance Event curated by Angela McDonagh, Arbour Hill, Dublin 7.
  • Projector of the Interspace – A collaborative installation with Ella Bertilsson in disused shop window as part of Frawleys Specials, NCAD MFA Graduate Exhibition, Dublin 8.
  • NCAD 1st Year Postgraduate Exhibition – Emmet House, Thomas St, Dublin 8.

2014

  • State of Play – NCAD Postgraduate Exhibition, Emmet House, Thomas St. Dublin 8.
  • Foaming at the Mouth – spoken word event curated by Tracy Hanna and Emer Lynch, Stag's Head, Dublin 2.
  • Block T Studio Members Exhibition – Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
  • SUMMER RISING: The IMMA Festival – Group performance with MA ACW in response to Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin 8.

2013

  • Curb Your Carrie Bradshawism – The MART, Rathmines, Dublin 6. –
  • con.glom.er.ate – Catalyst Arts, Belfast.

2012

    LINKED – Link Culturefest, Block B + Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 7.

2011

  • A Vendre – Immeuble Communica, Marseille, France.
  • Block T Studio Members Exhibition – Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 7.

2010

  • Score for 51°57'N 08°40’W – a PALLASADES collaborative project presented by Pallas Projects and The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City.
  • The Pointless Pursuit of Shadows – Signal Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow.
  • Spectrum Breakdown: The Breakdown – a Beryl project in an empty retail unit, Dublin 2.
  • 15x15 – Group Show, Ormond Studios, Dublin 1.

2009

  • Bright Beginnings: Amharc Fhine Gall VI – Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin 15.
  • Bouvard et Pécuchet – Light House Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
  • Spectrum Breakdown – Live performance with Beryl, MART@POGO, Dublin 1.

2008

    PALLASADES – collaborative installation, Pallas Projects, Grangegorman, Dublin 7.

2007

  • Projector Series in conjunction with Four Gallery, The LAB, Foley St, Dublin 1
  • Mental Image – Project Ability, Centre for Developmental Arts, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Artisit? – Various locations, Galway City.
  • RDS Student Art Awards – RDS, Dublin 4.
  • Stick A Fork In Me I’m Done – Graduate Show, DIT Portland Row, Dublin 1.

Awards + Residencies

  • Infrastructure Public Art Commission – Fingal County Council, 2019-2021.
  • Artist Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2018.
  • StartPoint Artist Residency, Prague, 2018.
  • Royal Hibernian Academy + Fingal Arts Office Studio Award, Dublin, 2018.
  • The CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS Residency, London 2017.
  • StartPoint Prize Award 2017, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award, Dublin City Council, 2017.
  • Film Bursary Award, The Arts Council, 2017.
  • Artist's Support Scheme Bursary, Fingal Arts Office, 2014 - 2017.
  • Ouvertures D’ateliers D’artisites, Artist Exchange Programme, Marseille, 2011.
  • The Guesthouse, Cork City, with PALLASADES for
  • Score for 51°57'N 08°40’W, 2010.
  • Travel and Research Bursary, Fingal Arts Office, 2009.
  • Projector Series as part of Launch Graduate Awards, The LAB, 2007.

Writing + Publications

  • Poetry Ireland Review – Image contribution to Issue 120, 2016.
  • A Package included in some mark made, a publication of experimental poetry edited by Sue Rainsford, Text-piece 2016.
  • Critical Bastards Issue 13 - online audio edition, launched at Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin 2.
  • A Site of Assemblage and Becoming - Text for MFA Grad Show Publication, 2015.
  • State of Play, exhibition text for group postgraduate student exhibition, 2014.
  • A Package, folded text/image work presented at Block T Studio Members Exhibition and recited at Foaming at the Mouth, both 2014.
  • Score for 51°57'N 08°40’W, text and audio publication to coincide with PALLASADES exhibition, Triskel Arts Centre, 2010.
  • Amharc Fhine Gall VI: Bright Beginnings, catalogue essay by Edel Horan, 2009.
  • The LAB Gallery: 40 Exhibitions 06-08, 2008.

Intern + Volunteer

  • Co-director, LUX Critical Forum 2018, Studio 6, TBG+S, Dublin 2.
  • Performer for Untitled by Celina Muldoon, Live Collision Festival, Project Arts Centre, May 2018.
  • Walk’n’Talk Gallery Tour Guide, Project Arts Centre, Feb 2012.
  • Volunteer ‘Agent’ for live exhibition, Mondegreen, Project Arts Centre Jul-Aug 2011.
  • Volunteer Assistant at OUT OF SITE Promenade Event, 2008.
  • Assistant performer as part of Chloe Cooper’s Best Courgette 2008 at The Fété Encounter, Live Art Event, Birmingham, UK.
  • Gallery Intern at Pallas Contemporary Projects, 2008.