Ciaran Bowen (1990) is currently based in Co. Wexford. He achieved his BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Wexford School of Art and Design in 2015. He was awarded in the same year the Carlow Institute of Technology Purchase Award, which one of his degree pieces hang in their permanent collection in Carlow IT (Wexford Campus). That same year he was featured on the Irish Arts Review in their New Generation of Artists.
Bowen has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, (2013) “La Amenaza Constante“, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland. (2017) PeripheriesOPEN , PERIPHERY SPACE, selected by Paul Carter, James Merrigan and Emma Roche. (2018) The Winter Open (2018), RUARED, Dublin, Ireland. Since graduation Bowen has exhibited at the Bones & Pearls Studio, London “Touch Me Baby” (2016) which was Curated by Anna Choutova. As well as Curated show “And Creatures Dream… A New Language“, A two- venue show at Wexford County Council & Wexford Arts Centre (Curated by Catherine Bowe & Helen Gaynor)
In 2018, He was selected for an eight month residency in The Wexford Arts Centre Annexe studio. He had a two person show “betwixt” (2018) in which The Wexford Arts Centre acquired one of his works. In that same year he awarded artist in Residency in the Creative Hub up until 2020. While his time there, he has been in group shows “Vital Material” (2018) Curated by Mary-Ruth Walsh, Cairde Festival (2019), The Model, Sligo and had his first solo show “Fake Utopia” (2019), The Presentation Center, Wexford and recent group show “Material Objects” (2019).
Solo Shows:
2019 Fake Utopia, The Presentation Center, Wexford, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2019 Material Objects, Creative Hub, Wexford, Ireland
2019 Cairde Festival, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2018 The Winter Open 2018, RUARED, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Vital Material, Creative Hub, (Curated by Mary-Ruth Walsh), Wexford, Ireland
2018 Claque, Creative Hub, (Organized by Ciaran Bowen & Ceri Ryan), Wexford, Ireland
2018 betwixt End of Residency Exhibition, The Annexe at Wexford Arts Centre
2017 PeripheriesOPEN , PERIPHERY SPACE, selected by Paul Carter, James Merrigan and Emma Roche
2017 And Creatures Dream… A New Language, A two- venue show at Wexford County Council & Wexford Arts Centre (Curated by Catherine Bowe & Helen Gaynor) Wexford, Ireland
2017 Evo Festival, Wexford, Ireland
2016 Touch Me Baby, Bones & Pearls Studio (Curated by Anna Choutova), London, UK
2015 Round, The Saturday Gallery, Wexford, Ireland
2015 Wish You Were Here, The Saturday Gallery, Wexford, Ireland
2015 Amalgamations Ba Degree Show,Wexford Art Center, Wexford, Ireland.
2015 WET 3rd Annual Exhibition, Hive Emerging, Waterford, Ireland
2014 Perpetual Flux, The Red Door Gallery, Wexford, Ireland
2013 La Amenaza Constante, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland.
2012 The Great Famine Exhibition, MacDonagh Junction, Kilkenny, Ireland
Selected Collections:
2019 Wexford County Council
2018 The Wexford Arts Centre
2015 Carlow IT (Wexford Campus)
2015 Carlow IT (School of Art & Design Dept.)
Private Collections in Ireland
Awards and Residencies:
2019-2020 Artist in Residency, The Bull Ring Mall, Wexford
2018-2019 Artist in Residency, The Bull Ring Mall, Wexford
September 2017 – May 2018, Artist in Residency, The Wexford Arts Centre Annexe
2015 Carlow Institute of Technology Purchase Award
Bibliography:
2019 Irish Arts Review Magazine
2016 Dublin Inquirer- Curios About:
2015 Irish Arts Review Magazine- New Generation Artists 2015
2015 Aesthetica Issue 67 October/November 2015, Artists Directory