Born Derry, N. Ireland 1959 Lives and works in Derry Studied
1978-81 Ulster Polytechnic (BA Hons Fine Art Sculpture) and 1977-78 Ulster
Polytechnic (Foundation Studies) Solo Exhibitions 2007
Willie Doherty: Stories, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau,
Munich; Ghost Story, Biennale of Venice, Northern Ireland Pavilion; Willie
Doherty, Hamburger Kunstverein; Willie Doherty: PASSAGE, Alexander
and Bonin, New York 2006 EMPTY, Kerlin
Gallery, Dublin and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich; Out of Position,
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City 2005 Galeria
Pepe Cobo, Madrid; Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Non-specific
Threat, Q Gallery, Derby 2004 Non-specific
Threat, Alexander and Bonin, New York; Non-specific Threat, Galerie
Peter Kilchmann, Zurich 2003 De Appel, Amsterdam;
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim 2002 False
Memory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Retraces,
Matt’s Gallery, London 2001 How It Was,
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast [catalogue]; extracts from a file, Alexander
and Bonin, New York 2000 extracts from a file
/ Akten-Auszug, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; Galerie Peter Kilchmann,
Zurich; extracts from a file, DAAD Gallery, Berlin [catalogue]; Kerlin
Gallery, Dublin; Blackspot, Vancouver Art Gallery 1999
Dark Stains, Koldo Mitexelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian [catalogue];
Willie Doherty: new photographs and video, Alexander and Bonin, New York;
same old story, firstsite, Colchester; True Nature, The Renaissance
Society, Chicago; Somewhere Else, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1998
Somewhere Else, Tate Gallery Liverpool [catalogue]; Willie Doherty,
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; Willie Doherty, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan;
Blackspot, firstsite, Colchester [catalogue]; Willie Doherty,
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica 1997 same old
story, Matt’s Gallery, London [catalogue]; Orchard Gallery, Derry; Berwick
Gymnasium, Berwick-upon-Tweed; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Willie Doherty,
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Willie Doherty, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1996 The Only Good One Is A Dead One,
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Windsor; Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; The Only Good One is A Dead
One, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; Willie
Doherty, Alexander and Bonin, New York; Willie Doherty, Musee d’Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris [catalogue]; In the Dark: Projected Works
by Willie Doherty, Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstverein, München [catalogue] 1995
Willie Doherty, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Willie Doherty,
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris 1994 The Only
Good One is a Dead One, Arnolfini, Bristol; Grey Art Gallery, New York University
[catalogue]; At the End of the Day, British School at Rome [brochure];
Willie Doherty, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 1993
Willie Doherty, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; They’re All The Same,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdoski Castle, Warsaw; 30 January 1972,
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; The Only Good One is a Dead One, Matt’s
Gallery, London 1992 Willie Doherty,
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York; Willie Doherty, Oliver Dowling Gallery,
Dublin; Willie Doherty, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich 1991
Willie Doherty, Galerie Giovanna Minelli, Paris; Unknown Depths,
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; ICA, London
[catalogue] Willie Doherty, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York; Kunst
Europa, Six Irishmen, Kunstverein Schwetzingen 1990
Unknown Depths, Ffotogallery, Cardiff; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; and
Orchard Gallery, Derry [catalogue]; Imagined Truths, Oliver Dowling Gallery,
Dublin; Same Difference, Matt’s Gallery, London 1988
Two Photoworks, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Colourworks, Oliver
Dowling Gallery, Dublin 1987 The Town of Derry
Photoworks, Art & Research Exchange, Belfast 1986
Photoworks, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin; Stone Upon Stone, Redemption!,
Derry 1982 Collages, Orchard Gallery,
Derry; Siren, an installation, Arts & Research Exchange, Belfast 1980
Installation, Orchard Gallery, Derry Group Exhibitions
2007 GOING STAYING: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum
Bonn; Regarding Fear and Hope, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria,
Australia; 3rd Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand; Fast Forward:
Comtemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
2006 RE: LOCATION, Alexander and Bonin,
New York; Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict, Whitney
Museum Independent Study Program, The Art Gallery of the Graduate Centre, City
University of New York; Naturaleza: Experiencia, Museo San Románo, PhotoEspaña
2006, Toledo; Reprocessing Reality, P.A.1 Center for Contemporary Art,
New York; ARS 06: Toden tuntu, (Sense of the Real) Museum of Contemporary
Art Kiasma, Helsinki 2005 The Experience of
Art, The Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; LisboaPhoto Biennale,
Lisbon, Portugal; La actualidad revisada,Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografia,
Donostia-San Sebastian; Non-Stop, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany; Slideshow,
Baltimore Museum of Art, then touring: Contemporary Art Centre Cincinatti; Brooklyn
Museum, New York; Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte
Contemporanea, Turin; The Shadow, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark;
British Council, Salon Muzeja Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade; Reprocessing
Reality, Chateau de Nyon, Switzerland; PREPOSSESSIONS Ivan Dougherty
Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia; Golden Thread Gallery,
Belfast 2004 Faces in the Crowd: The Modern
Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Dwellan:
An exhibition of contemporary video art, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall,
Copenhagen; Glocal: apuntes para videorepresentaciones de lo global y lo local,
Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Pamplona 2003
Turner Prize 2003, Willie Doherty, Grayson Perry, Anya Gallaccio, and Jake
& Dinos Chapman, Tate Britain, London 2002
Re-Run, Selection of work from the XXV Bienal de Sao Paolo, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile; Willie Doherty, Paul Etienne Lincoln and
Rita McBride, Alexander and Bonin, New York; History Now, Liljevalchs
Konsthall and touring; Trauma, curated by Katrina Brown, Dundee Contemporary
Arts, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery: Colchester, Oxford and Nottingham
[catalogue] 2001 Inner State of Health,
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein [catalogue]; Double Vision, curated by Andrea
Schlieker, Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig [catalogue]; Bloody Sunday
(Willie Doherty, Locky Morris, Philip Napier), Orchard Gallery, Derry; Gisela
Bullacher / Willie Doherty, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg; Night on Earth,
curated by Ralf Christofori, Stådt. Ausstellungshalle Am Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany
[catalogue] 2000 Look Out, curated by
Peter Kennard, Touring exhibition organised by Art Circuit, Wolverhapton Art Gallery;
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London; Wolsey Art Gallery,
Christchurch Mansion [catalogue]; Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal; Shifting Ground - Fifty Years
of Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin [catalogue] Drive: power>progress>desire,
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Landscape, curated
by Ann Gallagher, British Council Touring Exhibition [catalogue] 1999
des conflicts intérieurs, Willie Doherty and Donovan Wylie , Saison Photographique
d’Octeville [catalogue]; Sleuth, Chapter Arts Centre and Ffotogallery,
Cardiff; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Carnegie
International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh [catalogue];
War Zones, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; Insight-Out,
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck; Enzeit Transart, Charim Klocker, Dorotheergasse,
Vienna; Expansive Vision: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs in the Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art; Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to
the Political, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Art Gallery of Newfoundland
and Labrador, Canada; Chicago Cultural Center 1998
Real/Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts;
Fukoka Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo; Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Japan [catalogue]; Summer
Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; A Sense of Place, Angles Gallery,
Los Angeles; Photographs, Alexander and Bonin, New York; Art from
the UK (Part II), Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Eugenio Dittobrn, Willie Doherty,
Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo, Alexander and Bonin, New York; Wounds: between
democracy and redemption in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
New Art from Britain, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria [catalogue]; Critical
Distance, Andrew Mummery, London 1997 Ten
Contemporary Photographers, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta, GA; Surroundings,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv [catalogue]; Shot - Reverse Shot, Walter
Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada; Re/View: Photographs from the Collection,
Museum of Art; P.S.1 - Opening Project, P.S.1, Long Island City, New
York; No Place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [catalogue];
New Found Land Scape, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Islas, Centro
Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands [catalogue]; Citta/Nattura,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome [catalogue]; Identité, le Nouveau Museé/Institut
d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven [brochure];
Between Lantern and Laser, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Pictura Britannica,
ART FROM BRITAIN, curated by Bernice Murphy, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, and Te Papa, Wellington,
New Zealand [catalogue] Dimensions Variable, British Council Touring
Exhibition [catalogue] 1996 Distant Relations:
A Dialogue Among Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists, Santa Monica Museum
of Art; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Camden Arts Centre, London; Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin; Circumstantial Evidence: Terry Atkinson, Willie Doherty,
John Gotto, University of Brighton [catalogue]; ACE! Arts Council Collection
New Purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham;
Hayward Gallery, London; L’imaginaire irlandais, Ecole nationale superieure
des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris; Language, Mapping and Power, Orchard
Gallery, Derry [catalogue]; 10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; NowHere,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; ID, Stedelijk Van AbbeMuseum,
Eindhoven; Nouveau Musée/Institut, Villeuerbanne, France [catalogue]; Happy
End, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Face a l’Histoire 1933-1996, Centre
George Pompidou, Paris [catalogue]; Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo [catalogue] 1995
Make Believe, Royal College of Art, London [catalogue]; Double Play
- Beyond Congition, Sint-Niklaas City Academy, Belgium; IMMA/Glen Dimplex
Artists Award, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin [catalogue]; Willie
Doherty/Andreas Gursky, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Trust, Tramway,
Glasgow; It’s Not a Picture, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; New Art
in Britain, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland [catalogue]; Sites of Being,
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; IMMA Collection: Photoworks,
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 1994 The
Spine, De Appel, Amsterdam [catalogue]; The Act of Seeing (Urban Space),
Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels; Kraji/Places, The Museum of
Modern Art, Ljubljana; Museum of Modern Art, Estonia [catalogue]; Points of
Interest, Points of Departure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Cocido
Y Crudo, Museo National Reina Sofia, Madrid [catalogue]; From Beyond
the Pale: Selected Works and Projects, Part 1, Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin; Willie Doherty/Mona Hatoum/Doris Salcedo, Brooke Alexander Gallery,
New York; Turner Prize 1994, Willie Doherty, Peter Doig, Antony Gormley and
Shirazeh Houshiary, Tate Gallery, London [catalogue] 1993
An Irish Presence, Venice Biennale, Venice; Prospect 93, Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main [catalogue]; Spielholle, Grazer Kunstverein,
Graz; Sylvana Laurenz Galerie, Paris; Bockenheimer/ University Underground Station,
Frankfurt; Critical Landscapes, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,
Tokyo [catalogue]; Kreig (War), Neue Galerie, Graz [catalogue] 1992
Time Bandits, Calleria Fac-Simile, Milan; 13 Critics 26 Photographers,
Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona [catalogue]; “Outta Here”, Transmission
Gallery, Glasgow; Moltiplici Culture, Convento di S.Egidio, Rome [catalogue];
Beyond Glory: Re-presenting Terrorism, College of Art, Maryland Instiute,
Baltimore 1991 Shocks to the System,
Royal Festival Hall, London and Ikon, Birmingham [catalogue]; Storie,
Galeria il Campo, Rome; Galeria Casoli, Milan; Europe Unknown, WKS Wawel,
Krakow [catalogue]; A Place For Art?, The Showroom, London; Outer
Space, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and touring Hull, London, Bristol [catalogue];
Political Landscapes, Perspektief, Rotterdam; Denonciation, Usine
Fromage, Darnetal, Normandie, Touring to Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
& Hamburg [catalogue]; Gallery Artists, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin
1990 The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries,
Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London [catalogue]; XI Photography
Symposium Exhibition, Graz 1990 A New
Tradition, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin [catalogue] 1989
Matter of Facts, Metz pour La Photographie, Metz; Through the Looking
Glass, Barbican Art Gallery, London [catalogue]; I Internationale Foto-Triennale,
Esslingen, West Germany [catalogue]; Gallery Artists, Oliver Dowling
Gallery, Dublin; Three Artists, London Street, Derry 1988
Ireland/Germany Exchange, Ulster Museum, Belfast; Bonn; Würzburg [catalogue];
Three Artists, Battersea Arts Centre, London; Matter of Facts,
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes; Musee d'Art Moderne, St Etienne [catalogue]; Gallery
Artists, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin 1987
Directions Out, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin [catalogue] North West Artists
Association, Heritage Library, Derry; A Line of Country, Cornerhouse,
Manchester [catalogue] The State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery,
Coventry; Critic's Choice, City Art Gallery, Limerick; Oliver Dowling
Gallery, Dublin; Ireland/Germany Exchange, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1986 Guinness Peat Aviation Exhibition,
Dublin [catalogue] 1985 Points of View,
Heritage Library, Derry 1983 New Artists,
New Works, Project Centre, Dublin [catalogue]; Live Work, Artspace,
Cork; Guinness Peat Aviation Exhibition, Dublin; Days and Nights,
a slidework, Arts & Research Exchange, Belfast 1982
Live Work, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast; Photographic Collages,
King St. Gallery, Bristol; New Artists, New Works, Orchard Gallery, Derry
1981 Work Made Live, N.C.A.D., Dublin;
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin [catalogue] Film
work 1985 Picturing Derry, Faction Films for Channel 4, December
Public work 1995 Make Believe, a poster
project for British Rail Mainline Stations; The Space Between, video
installation, El Puente de Vizcaya, Bilbao 1994
Installation, Washington Square Windows, Grey Art Gallery, New York 1993
Burnt-Out Car, street poster; An Irish Presence, Venice Biennale
1992 It's Written All Over My Face, Billboard
Poster commissioned by the BBC Billboard Project as part of the Commissions and
Collaborations season; A Nation Once Again, Street Poster commissioned
by Transmissions Gallery, Glasgow as part of 'Outta Here'1990
False Dawn, Billboard Project organised by Irish Exhibition of Living
Art Dublin 1988 Metro Billboard Project,
Projects UK: Billboard shown in Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Derry and London;
Art for the Dart: a project on Dublin's suburban rail link organised
by The Douglas Hyde Gallery

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