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Thomas Brezing

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Born 1969 in Herrenberg, Germany 



List of Solo Exhibitions


2018 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Anvil Dust
2018 Custom House Gallery & Studios, Westport Out Too Far (Wishing Too Many Things)
2016 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin Jonah And The Whale
2016 Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Co. Dublin I Am A Painter I Love You 
2015 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo Why Stop Dreaming When You Wake Up
2015 Engage Longford, The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2015 Drogheda Arts Centre, Co. Louth The Road Is Paved With Good Intentions
2014 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin The Art Of Finding A Remote Place
2012 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, High Violet
2011 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, The Art of Failure isn't hard to Master
2009 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, All of this could be true
2008 Draiocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin New Works on Paper
2008 Seahorse Gallery, Co. Dublin Heaven was in the Sky
2007 The Lab, Dublin Seven Miles Above the Earth
2007 Access To Arts Gallery, Dublin Perished Futures - Found Pasts
2006 Ard Bia Gallery, Galway The World is over there
2005 Basement Gallery, Dundalk Is it another day?

2005 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin Remember when we were older?
2002 South Tipperary Arts Centre, Something that could have lived
2002 Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin Women and Children first
2002 Drogheda Arts Centre, County Louth Women and Children first
2001 Basement Gallery, Dundalk The Art of Falling Apart

Two Person Shows

2016 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern 
2016 The Old Church Of Isokyro, Finland, Father, with Klaus Effern
2007 Oriel Contemporary Gallery, Hay-On-Wye, Wales Flaw with Alan Crosby
2002 Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin with Maura Murtagh
1996 Seminarturnhalle, Nagold, Germany Leiden, with Emmajane Watson

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2018 Gathering, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon, curated by Paul McKenna
2018 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
?2017 Einblattdrucke, PalmArtPress Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Molesworth Artist's, Lavit Gallery, Cork, with Vera Klute, Gabhann Dunne, Helen Blake, Jennifer Trouton
2017 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, RHA, Dublin, curated by Patrick Murphy and Aoife Ruane
2017 So Here's The Thing, Westport Arts Festival, Collaboration, D.Newton & G.Robinson & T.Brezing
2017 Loughshinny Boathouse Launch exhibition, Fingal, Co. Dublin, curated by Denise Reddy
2017 Soundwaves/Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Skerries, Co. Dublin, curated by Deirdre Glenfield  
2017 Memory Has a Pulse, Engage, Longford, with Gary Robinson, Sean Cotter & Thomas Brezing
2017 Memory Has A Pulse, Artists-Run Gallery 126 & NUI Galway Art Gallery, Galway Arts Festival
2017 Stretch, Basement Gallery, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk, Co Louth, curated by Heather Cassidy
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Lourdes Youth & Community Services, Dublin

2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Airfield Estate, Dundrum, Dublin,
2016 Imago Mundi Project, Luciano Benetton exhibited Internationally. Curated by Ciara Gibbons and Sean Kissane
2016 Waste Not, Want Not, Millfield Shopping Centre, Balbriggan, Co.Dublin,
2015 Finders And Keepers, OPW Collection, Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, curated by Claire Halpin
2015 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2015 Artwaves, Skerries Mills, Soundwaves Festival, Co.Dublin
2014 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Dublin, represented by Molesworth Gallery
2014 Foundation14, Battery+, Tullamore, Co.Offaly, curated by Brendan Fox
2014 One Hundred + Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2013 Voltus Contemporary Portraits, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, curated by Ronan Lyons
2013 Royal Hibernian Annual Show, Dublin (invited artist) & 2012, 2010, 2009 (invited artist) 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
2012 7.42 Cable Factory Helsinki, Finland - with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2012 7.42 Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter       
2012 Additions, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, Bourne Vincent Gallery
2011 7.42 Lapua Art Museum, Finland, with Mary Kelly, Abigail O'Brien & Sean Cotter
2011 Altered Images touring show cont., Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2011 International Exhibition of Emerging Art, Art Fair, Chicago (also 2010)
2010 Assembly Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda, curated by Aoife Ruane
2010 Altered Images Ballina Arts Centre, Clonmel County Museum, & Irish Museum Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
2010 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Blackbird Gallery (featured artist)
2010 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
2010 Iontas Arts Centre, Monaghan, curated by Ronan Lyons
2009 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
2009 The Rough and the Smooth Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare with Sheila Rennick and Hugh McCarthy
2009 Dreissig Mal Dreissig Galerie Merkle, Stuttgart, Germany
2008 Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin,
2008 The Plinian Sponge, maybe Ashford Gallery, RHA, Touring Exhibition curated by Mark St. John Ellis

2008 Boyle Arts Festival, King House Museum, Roscommon
2008 Eigse Arts Festival Carlow, selected by Patrick Murphy RHA
2007 Vangard Gallery, Cork
2007 Summer show Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin
2006 Balbriggan Arts Festival, (also 2004, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)
2006 Central Bank Exhibition, Dublin, curated by Patricia Clyne-Kelly
2005 Art Cologne, Art Fair, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 A Moment in Time Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2005 Art Forum Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany, presented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf
2005 End of year show Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin  curated by Mark St. John Ellis
2005 Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Duesseldorf, Germany
2004 After Sunlight Ardgillan Castle, Skerries, Co. Dublin
2004 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2004 Cross Gallery, Dublin
2002 Conclusions Toradh Gallery, Duleek, Co. Meath
2002 Renegade La Perseveranza, Gent, Belgium
2002 Connections Glor Gallery, Ennis
2002 Members and invited artists Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin
2002 20/20 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2001 Connections Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
2001 A presence times 3 Arthouse, Dublin
2001 The road less travelled Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre 
2001 Baa baa black sheep Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork
2001 Tense present West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 
2001 It will get you in the end Civic Theatre Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin 
2000 Three do tango Signal Arts Centre, Bray
2000 Go forth and multiply Windmill Arts, Tralee

2000 Debut defection Basement Gallery, Dundalk
2000 9 times different Drogheda Arts Centre
1999 Salon 99 Pallas Studios, Dublin
1999 Goethe Institute, Dublin (also 1998)
1999 Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow



Collections 

Fingal County Council Collection (2017)
Mason, Hayes & Curran Collection (2016)
Office Of Public Works (2014 & 2005)
National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick (2012)
Lapua Art Museum Finland Collection (2012)
Drogheda Arts Centre Collection (2012)
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery (2012)
Boyle Civic Collection (2008)
Mayo County Council Collection (2008)
Dundalk District Council (2006 & 2001 & 2000)
Society for Contemporary Arts in Ireland (2005)

Awards/Residencies

Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2018)
Arts Council Visual Bursary Award (2017)
Artist-in-residence, Creative Spark, Dundalk (2017)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2017)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2016)
Residency, Boathouse Studio, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin, Fingal Arts Office (2015)
Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award (2015)
Per Cent For Art Scheme, Gaelscoil Bhaile Brigin (2014)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2014)
Arts Council Travel & Training Award (2014)
Arts Council Travel and Training Award (2010)
Residency, Lapua Art Museum, Finland (2010)
Arts Council Travel and Mobility Award (2006)
Residency Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland (2002)
Arts Council Studio Rental Assistance Award (2001)



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