Resumé

Sean Hanrahan CV

Education

2009-2010: Graphic Design QQI Level 5, St John’s Central College, Cork 

2009-2009: Arts and Empowerment Training and Facilitation
Certificate Art Therapy Department, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork

2001-2005: Fine Art Bachelor of Arts (Honours), LIT Limerick School of Art and Design

Work experience

2018-2023: Board of Directors (non-executive volunteer position), Backwater Artists Studios, Wandesford Quay, Cork

2009-2011: Exhibitions Production Team, Glucksman Gallery, Cork

1994-1998: Performer, Musician, Set and design production Macnas Theatre Group, Fisheries Field, Galway

Residencies, commissions and awards

A Radical Plot: Artist residency, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Facebook Artist in Residence program (AIR.) Cork City

Changing Rooms : International Temporary Residency (TR5) Cork Midsummer Festival

Commissioned limited edition Memory Anthem prints for IMMA30, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Commissioned artist for the 55th Cork International Choral Festival, Cork.   

Agility grant Award Arts Council of Ireland 2021/2022

 
Collections

Glucksman Art Museum UCC Collection, Cork city, Ire

China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China

Northern Beaches Council, Australian Library, Australia

Law Society of Ireland

Douro Museum Biennial Collection, Douro, Portugal

Schio Municipality Collection, Vicenza, Italy

Office of Public Works (OPw) Collection, Dublin

Botanical Gardens Archive Collection, Glasnevin, Dublin

Civic Trust House Collection, Cork

Solo Exhibitions

Holdfast : Spike Island, Cork

Over the Sun (Kazimir Malevich’s influence on western Artists) Cork Printmakers Gallery

Night Frightens the Day : Minsk Gallery of Contemporary Art, CCA, Minsk, Belarus

Night Frightens the Day : Vitebsk Gallery of Contemporary Art (VCCA) Vitebsk, Belarus

Selected Group Exhibitions 2005-2024

Stories of Art : Selected works from UCC Art Collection, Glucksman Cork

Field Trip :  Backwater Artists Studios member exhibition Curated by Kevin Kavanagh and Alannah Murray (Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin) Lavit Gallery Cork

Closer :  Backwater Artists Studios member exhibition Curated by Janice Hough, Artists’ Residency Programme Co-ordinater at IMMA, Lavit Gallery Cork

Parklife :  Glucksman UCC University Cork

Expanded :  Curated by Andrew Folan Head of fine art Print NCAD Dublin and Peter Brennan of Graphic studio gallery Dublin Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

London Art Fair : London, UK

VUE Art Fair : RHA Gallery, Dublin

Northern Beaches Library Artists’ Book Awards : The Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australia

ApKa/Arch : Exhibition of Belarusian graphic work curated by Sean Hanrahan and Roman Sustov. Studio 12 Backwater Artists, Cork

188^th RHA Annual Exhibition Ely place, Dublin

Hermione 18: Invited exhibition curated by Aisling Prior. Alexandra College, Dublin

Stampa Ora :  Cork Print makers & Italian National Association of Contemporary Engravers, Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchini, Treviso, Italy and Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Sassari, Sardinia

Collision : SO Fine Art Editions, Law Society Dublin

Artists are here! :  Curated by Sean Hanrahan with Belarusian artists Kyrill Demchev, Anton Levadny, Paulina Ivansova and Anastasia Gohcharova. Tolstoy Arts Centre, Vitebsk, Belarus

Over the Sun (Kazimir Malevich’s influence on western Artists) Initiated and curated by Sean Hanrahan in association with V.C.C.A Vitebsk, Belarus featuring Sean Hanrahan, Dominic Fee (IRE) and Josh Dannin (USA). Vitebsk Gallery of Modern Art (V.C.C.A ) Vitebsk, Belarus

ImPress: Printmaking in the Post-print age. IMPACT9, Hangzhou, China

Anthology of Artists : Bottega Del Tintoretto, Venice, Italy Di Carta/Papermade Schio Vincenza, Italy

Ireland: Alphabet Series A Cork Printmakers touring exhibition
Irish Arts Centre, New York, USA

Impressions of your City : Exhibition of large-scale Lino cuts from Cork Printmakers 2010 Road Roller Project, Cork Opera House

Node: National Print Studio Network Exhibition Selected by Ray Henshaw Original Print Gallery, Dublin (2008)

Charles Tyrrell selects Cork Printmakers : Kinsale Arts Week 2008

Prints from Ireland :  Cork Printmakers curated by Prawat Laucharoen. Horace Mann Gallery, New York City, USA