KevinGaffneY
Biography
Kevin Gaffney is a visual artist working in video and photography. His work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally. He graduated from the Royal College of Art's MA Photography & Moving Image in 2011.
In 2012, Gaffney was awarded the Little White Lies Award from the London Short Film Festival and an Artist's International Development Fund from the Arts Council of England & the British Council. In 2011, he was awarded a bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland and an Honorary Mention from the Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists, Czech Republic. In 2011 he was also awarded the Grand Prix from the Sapporo Biennale art competition to create a new project, Leaving a Vacuum in which Compasses and our Internal Navigation Systems Fail to Work, in Hokkaido for presentation at the Biennale in Japan, 2014.
Education
MA Photography & Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London. 2009- 2011.
BA Fine Art (First Class Hons.), Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin. 2004 - 2008.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Leaving a Vacuum in which Compasses and our Internal Navigation Systems Fail to Work, Sapporo Biennale, Japan.
2013 The Observer & I, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland.
2011 The Unnameable, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Ireland.
Screening & Discussion, The Lab, Dublin City Council, Ireland.
2008 The Black Plum, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
2007 What’s Behind Your Eye? (with Cotillion) The Lab, Dublin City Council, Ireland.
Awards
2012 Little White Lies Award from 9th London Short Film Festival. UK.
2011 Grand Prix from the Sapporo Biennale International Competition. Japan.
Honorary Mention from Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists. Czech Republic.
Residencies & Travel Grants
2012 Started Residency, Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists, Arbor Vitae Foundation. Prague.
Artist’s International Development Fund, Arts Council of England & British Council.
VISIO, European Workshop on Artists Cinema at Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival. Florence.
Travel & Training Award from Arts Council of Ireland.
Culture Ireland travel grant for Arte Laguna Prize exhibition. Venice.
2011 Cill Rialig Artists Residency, Cill Rialig Arts Centre. Co. Kerry, Ireland.
Culture Ireland travel grant for Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists exhibition. Brno.
2010 Travel & Training Award from Arts Council of Ireland for Royal College of Art. London.
Bursaries & Project Grants
2012 Film Project Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
Artist Bursary Award, South Dublin County Council.
2011 Artist Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2008 E’3 Film Award, European League of Institute of the Arts.
Artist Bursary Award, South Dublin County Council.
2013 Galway Arts Centre, solo publication, edition of 100.
2012 The Unnameable, solo publication, limited edition of 200. Supported by RUA RED & Arts Council of Ireland.
Forms of Imagining #2, Project Arts Centre. ISBN: 978-1-872493-28-2.
The Arte Laguna Prize Catalogue.
2011 Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists. ISBN: 978-80-87164-80-8
Hard Cover; Image Perspectives, Royal College of Art & Black Dog Press. ISBN: 978-1907-317-415
SHOW RCA 2011. ISBN: 978-1-9073420-31-8.
2010 Wandsworth Art Newspaper, commissioned feature, September issue.
2009 SuperMassiveBlackHole, Issue 2. ISSN: 2009-2288.
The LAB Gallery: 40 Exhibitions 06-08, edited by Gemma Tipton. ISBN: 978-0-955-4281-1-1
2008 Language Through Lenses, E3 Film, DVD published by ELIA. ISBN: 978-92-79-09980-9
Group Exhibitions & Film Screenings
2012 WE, Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
Periodical Review # 2, Pallas Projects, Dublin.
AND 2012 Shorts: Programme 2, Abandon Normal Devices, Cornerhouse, Manchester.
Tenderflix Film Screening, Tenderpixel, London.
Started 2012: Residents of Startpoint, Galerie NTK, National Technical Library, Prague.
Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.
The Last to Say, Museum Gavu Cheb, Czech Republic.
Big Screen, Latitude Festival, Southwold, Suffolk, UK. In association with Lux, Cine-city and Supernormal Festival.
The London Short Film Festival. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London.
Athens Video Art Festival, Historic Centre of Athens (Stoa Kourtaki).
WNDX, Festival of Moving Image, Canada.
Drop Everything, Inis Oírr, Co. Galway, Ireland.
The Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
Startpoint: Selected, Museum Gavu Cheb, Czech Republic
2011 Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
SHOW 2011, Royal College of Art Graduate Show, London.
Approaching Art by Leaving Art Behind– 9 Days the Museum Disappears, Sapporo Pre-Biennale, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan.
The Brighton Film Festival, Cinecity, the Nightingale, Brighton.
Showtime, Central Saint Martins, The Cochrane Theatre, London.
Islington Exhibits, Rowan Arts Trust, Old Fire Station, London.
Cinematique, British Film Institute, IMAX Theatre, London.
MA Photography & Moving Image, Interim Show, Lower Galleries, Royal College of Art, London.
FEST; International Film Festival, Portugal.
I’m Not a Poet, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh.
2010 Battle of Ideas, Royal College of Art, London.
Album, Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool Biennale Independents.
Mainland, 126 @ E:vent Gallery, London.
MA Photography & Moving Image, Interim Show, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.
2009 Darklight Film Festival, Light House Cinema, Dublin.
2008 Best in Show, The Digital Hub, Dublin.
E’3 Film @ Prix Europa, Berlin.
Artist Performance Series, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
DIT Graduate Show, Dublin Institute of Technology.
2007 The Rose Project, The Lab, Dublin.
RDS Student Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society.
The Forest of the Fallen Moon, Broadstone XL, Dublin.
2006 International Digital Art Exhibition, the Liverpool Biennale Independents, Walker Art Gallery.
RDS Travelling Exhibition, Main Guard Arts Centre, Tipperary.
RDS Travelling Exhibition, Island Arts Centre, Antrim.
RDS Student Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society.
All Shook Up. TULCA, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway.
Collections
National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
FX Buckley & Michael Burns, Private Collection.