Dorothy Cross came to widespread attention and acclaim when she began a series of works featuring cow skins and cows' udders. In her art she amalgamates found and constructed objects, these assemblages invariably have the effect of reinvigorating the lives of everyday things, sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, always intellectually stimulating and physically arresting. Her most recent work employs the revelatory and voyeuristic traits of video and photography, combining these with sculptural work, to play with what is at risk, on hold, erotic and curious.
Cross has had numerous solo exhibitions including a large-scale retrospective at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2005.
Cross has also created a project for the DIA website entitled Foxglove -
it can be viewed at
DIA website
Dorothy Cross has been commissioned to create several public works. The most significant of these, 'Ghost Ship',
shown in Dublin and at the 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, has been regarded as one of the most successful
public art works in recent years. In 2000 she was awarded the SCIART Research and Development Project Award and in 2001
she showed her film 'Medusae as part of the Public Art Development Trust's 'Fourt Wall' series. Her work is included in
many public and private collections worldwide, including the ArtPace Foundation, Texas and the Tate Modern. Please
click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions
and projects.
BIOGRAPHY
1956
Born Cork, Ireland
1973-4
Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork
2000
Leicester Polytechnic, England (BA)
1980-82
San Francisco Art Institute, California (MFA)
Lives and works in Dublin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 2005
2003 2002 2001 1999
1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1991 1990 1988 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003 2002 'In the Freud Museum', Freud Museum, London 2001 2000 - 2001 2000 1999 1998 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1987 SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin AWARDS 2005-06 2004 2000 1999 1992 1991 1990 1988 1984-86 1998 1997 1994 1992 OPERA 2004 2003 1997 1994 1992
RESIDENCIES 2004 1996 © 2007 Frith
Street Gallery
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Medusae, (Tom Cross and Dorothy Cross) Natural History Museum, Dublin
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
'L'Air', Frtih Street Gallery, London
'Gone', McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston
'H2O', Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, January - March 2003
'H2O', Western Gallery, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, Washington, October-January, 2003
'GTECH/ NO/ ZONE', Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, 12 October,
2002 - 11 January, 2003
'Shapeshifting: The Body Transformed', Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum, 10 October 2002
- January 03
25 September, 8pm: Outdoor screening of Jellyfish Lake & symposium at the Liverpool Institute for
Performing Arts as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002.
'Salve', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Paradise', Douglas Hyde
Gallery, Dublin
'Jellyfish', Between The Ears, BBC Radio 3, 8 September 2002
'Fourth Wall', Public Art Development Trust, National
Theatre, London
Frith Street Gallery, London
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Chiasm', Project Arts Centre in Galway (Handball Alley)
'Ghost Ship', Nissan Art
Award Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Frith Street Gallery, London
'Even',
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (cat)
'Even', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno Center for the
Arts, San Francisco (with David Ireland)
'Cry', Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
'Inheritance', P.P.O.W., New York
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Croquet', Frith Street
Gallery, London
'Parthenon', Camden Arts
Centre, London
Works from 'Powerhouse', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (cat)
'Power House', ICA Philadelphia, USA
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
'Ebb', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (cat)
'Darkness Visible -
Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme', Southampton City Art Gallery
'Resonance', Frith Street Gallery, London
'18:Beckett
An Exhibition Project in 18 Sites', Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
'Femme d'Europe', Saint Tropez, France
'Dream of discipline and other works', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
'Very early pictures', an exhibition of drawings made by contemporary artists when they were
children, Luckman Gallery Cal State, LA, USA and Arcadia University Art Gallery Glenside,
Pennsylvania, USA
'Water Water Everywhere', Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
'Truth universally acknowledged', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria
'Wonderful', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
'Liquid Sea', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
'Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka', Grand-Hornu, Hainaut, Belgium;
Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham
'REALISMUSSTUDIO, NGBK', Berlin Chironex fleckeri or Suspended Moments,
curated by Frank Wagner
'A Garden for
Zoersal', Belgium, curated by Edith Doove
'Aquaria', Staedtische Kuntsammlungen, Chemnitz
'H2O', Houghton House
Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
'Silk Purse Procedure', Arnolfini and Spike Island, Bristol
Host, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
'Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of
Irish Art', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (cat)
'A Way A Lone, A Last A Loved A Long The', Museum of
Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia (cat)
'Skin', Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
'Give and Take', Jerwood Space, London
'Instinct',
Bergen Kunstverein, Norway
'The Sea & The Sky', Beaver College Art Gallery, Pennsylvania & RHA, Dublin
'Irish
Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political', Art Gallery of Newfoundland Labrador, Canada;
Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago
1st Liverpool Biennal of
Contemporary Art (cat)
'Please Touch', Edmund Hubbard Projects. Furniture design commission including Julian Opie,
Rachel Whiteread & Richard Wentworth, The Lighthouse, Glasgow and SCP showroom, Curtain Road, London
'Physical
Evidence', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political', McMullen Museum of Art,
Boston College (1999-2001) (cat)
'New Media Projects', Orchard Gallery, Derry
'0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS', Frith
Street Gallery, London
'Mirror Images:
Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation' MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass, USA (cat)
'Video /
Projection / Film', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Personal Effects: Sculpture and Belongings', Spacex Gallery,
Exeter
'Contemporary Art', Arts Council, Dublin & National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
'Figure, Sculpture,
Woman', Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria. (cat)
'May Day', PPOW, NewYork. 1997 IMMA Glen Dimplex - Artists Award, Dublin
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (2 person)
'Residue', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 5th Istanbul
Biennial, Turkey
'Kvinden', Horsens Museum, Denmark.(cat)
'Home and Away', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
'Side Tracking', Train project, Brussels Centre for
the Arts, Yerba Buena, San Francisco.
(2-person) EVA, Limerick City Art Gallery.
'96 Containers', Docklands,
Copenhagen.
'Fetishism', Brighton Museum and
Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum and 'Laughter Ten Years After', Wesleyan University, USA. (cat)
'Passions
Privees', Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.
IMMA/Glen Dimplex Award Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin.
'Bad Girls', ICA London, CCA Glasgow
(cat)
'Art, Union, Europe', Athens/Thessalonika/Corfu. Denmark/Norrkopings Konstumuseum, Sweden
'From Beyond
The Pale', Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin.
'Dialogue with the Other', Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
(cat)
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Cross, Kindness,
Prendergast)
'Other Borders: Six Irish Projects', Grey Art Gallery, New York
Biennale di Venezia, Venice,
Italy
'Artscape Nordland', Somna Kommune, Norway
EVA Exhibition, Limerick City Art Gallery
EVA, Limerick City Gallery (curated by Lars Nittve) EDGE
Biennale, London and Madrid
'Welcome Europa', Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark (cat)
'Strongholds', Tate Gallery, Liverpool
EVA, Limerick
City Gallery
(curated by Germano Celant)
'Inheritance and Transformation', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
EVA, Limerick City Gallery (curated by Saskia Bos) Volm,
Tokyo, Japan
'Irish Art of the Eighties' Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 'Artpark', Lewiston, New York (project:
Slippery-Slope)
'Eclipse', PS1, New York
Irish Women Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Dublin
Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast
Contemporary Irish Art Society, Dublin
Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick
National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick
Tate Gallery, London
The Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
Art Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
National Self-Portrait Collection, Ireland
Celebrity Cruises, Greece
The Norton Collection, California, USA
and other public and private collections in Ireland, Britain and U.S.A.
Arts Council Project rant.
Gulbenkian Foundation Production Grant for Stabat Mater, in conjunction
with Opera Theatre Compnay
SCIART Research and Development Project Award, Wellcome Trust
Gulbenkian Foundation, Arts Council of Great Britain, British Council
Nissan Public Art Project/Irish
Museum of Modern Art Award, Ghost Ship1, Scotsman1s Bay, Dublin.
EVA Open Award, Limerick.
Arts Council Bursary. O'Malley Award, Irish American Cultural Institute.
EVA Open Award, Limerick. Martin Toonder Award, Ireland.
Pollock-Krasner Award, New York.
PSI Studio
Scholarship, New York.
Arts Council
Bursaries. OPERA
100 Days Festival, Centro
Cultural de Belem, Lisbon.
'Tamberlane',
Melbourne Festival
Design for Opera Theatre
Company of Ireland production of 'Songs of Poems of Emily Dickenson (Coplans) and Diary Extracts of Virginia Wolfe
(Argento), The John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Set and Costume Design for 'Tamberlane', Opera Theatre Company Ireland, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin,
Theatre Royal, Wexford, Cork Opera House, St Columbs Theatre, Derry and Siamsa Tire, Tralee.
'Stabat Mater', ,Slate Quarry, Valencia Island, Ireland
'Tamberlane', 100 Days Festival, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
'Tamberlane', Melbourne Festival
Design for Opera Theatre Company of Ireland production of Songs of Poems of Emily
Dickenson (Coplans) and Diary Extracts of Virginia Wolfe (Argento),
The John Field Room, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Set and Costume Design for 'Tamberlane', Opera Theatre Company
Ireland, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Theatre Royal, Wexford, Cork Opera House,
St Columbs Theatre, Derry and Siamsa Tire, Tralee
Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico
Artpace,
San Antonio, Texas.
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