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Biography

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Born 1969 in Limerick, Ireland
Lives and works in London and Madrid

 

Selected Exhibitions

2024

PANORAMA Monferrato, curated by Carlo Falciani, Italy.

One Painting, day.01 Gallery, Sydney (solo)

Objecting Reality, curated by Saša Bojogev, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong.

2023

Close Corners, Turps Gallery, London

Sseed, Sid Motion Gallery hosted by Sadie Coles HQ, London. (Solo)

Damien Meade, day.01 Gallery, Sydney (Solo).

CAR Gallery @ UMBERTO DI MARINO, Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples.

2022

Damien Meade, Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp (Solo)

Kaleidoscope, Workplace Gallery, London.

Damien Meade, CAR Gallery, Bologna (Solo)

2021

EX Roma, APT Gallery, London

Lost In TranslationPLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2020

Frenetic Standstill / Artissima Unplugged, GAM Museum, Turin (with CAR Gallery)

Come le lucciole, CAR Gallery, Bologna

2019

Contemporanee/Contemporanei, works from the collection of AGI Verona, curated by Denis Isaia. Polo Santa Maria, University of Verona. (Catalogue)

Gorillas In Our Midst, MONA Museum, Tasmania, Australia. (Catalogue)

2018
Damien Meade, CAR Gallery, Bologna, Italy (Solo) 
Not Dream of Islands, Palfrey, London 
June Mostra, British School at Rome, Italy 
Damien Meade, Peter Von Kant, London (Solo) 

2017
Nature Morte, The Guildhall Art Gallery, London 
Nature Morte, The Four Domes Pavilion Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Museum in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

2016
Some thing as a line, curated by Brian Fay, High Lanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
Nature Morte, Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
In This Soup We Swim, Kingsgate Project Space, London

The Abject Object, Wimbledon Space, London
Black Light, curated by Twelve Around One & Slate Projects, Everard Hotel, London

2015
Damien Meade and Natasza Niedziolka, Sommer & Kohl Gallery, Berlin
London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (Catalogue)
Phantom Limb, PuntWG, Amsterdam
Insomniac, Singular Galerija, Pula, Croatia (Solo)
Nature Morte, Ha gamle prestegard, Norway
Sudo, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich (Solo)

2014
Suspicion, Jerwood Space, London (Catalogue)
3 Years, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich
Summer Saloon, Lion & Lamb gallery, London.

2013
Sitting with the Qualities of a Mountain, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
Damien Meade, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich (Solo)
Believing (in) objects, House Projects, Dalston, London
Beastly Hall, Hall Place, Bexley, Kent
Unknown Sitter, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
Chapter, Austin Forum, London
Shape Shifters - Jason Brinkerhoff, Michelle Carla Handel, Damien Meade, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
Unspecific Objects, Malgras|Naudet, Manchester and The Royal Standard, Liverpool

2012
Have You Seen Dante?, Vitrine Gallery, London
The John Moores Painting Prize 2012, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. (Catalogue)
About Face, curated by Daniel Weinberg, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
The Future Can Wait 2012, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London. (Catalogue)
CAVE / Liverpool Biennial 2012, Baltic Creative Campus, Liverpool. (Catalogue)
The Smallest Composite Number, curated by Peter Ashton Jones, Standpoint Gallery, London
Damien Meade, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London (Solo)
SV12, selected by Mike Nelson and Jenni Lomax, Studio Voltaire, London
Reason Swings Its Bone, Pesthouse Editions, Amsterdam
The Perfect Nude, curated by Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs. Wimbledon space, Wimbledon College of Art, London, touring to Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, Charlie Smith Gallery, London

2011
FROM LONDON, Art Nueve Gallery, Murcia, Spain. (Catalogue).

2010
Be-Head, Andipa Gallery, London
Super Natural, curated by Dan Hays, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
SV10, selected by Jennifer Higgie and Rebecca Warren, Studio Voltaire, London

 

1995

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Damien Meade, Jock Colville Hall, Kettles Yard fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (Solo)

1994

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London

1992

Damien Meade, Irish Arts Council, Dublin (Solo)


 

 

Publications

2019

Gorillas In Our Midst, exhibition catalogue, MONA Museum, Tasmania, Australia.

Contemporanee/Contemporanei, works from the collection of AGI Verona, curated by Denis Isaia., exhibition catalogue, Polo Santa Maria, University of Verona. 

2015
The London Open, exhibition catalogue, texts by Daniel F.Herrmann and Poppy Bowers, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2014
Suspicion, exhibition catalogue, with texts by Dan Coombs and Sean Ashton, Jerwood Space, London

2013
Nature Morte: Contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition, by Michael Petry. Thames & Hudson

2012
The John Moores Painting Prize 2012, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Damien Meade: A History of Fear, by Geraint Evans, Turps Banana Magazine, Issue 11, May 2012

2011
FROM LONDON, exhibition catalogue, text by Martin Herbert, Art Nueve Gallery, Murcia


 


Awards

2018
The Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School at Rome, Italy.

1994-95
Kettle's Yard Artist Fellowship, Churchill College, Cambridge University.

1992
Irish Arts Council Travel Award
Irish Arts Council Artist Bursary

 



Education

1993 - MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London

1991 - BA Fine Art, DIT, Dublin.

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