VERA RYKLOVA
the self portfolio 2012 - 2015
VERA RYKLOVA
is an emerging artist, who is working in lens-based media. Her latest projects explore the relationship between performance and the sociology of the self through the medium of photography and her own body
She was brought to Ireland on a journey of personal discovery.
1974 born in the Czech Republic
since 2007 has lived and worked in Ireland, currently based in Dublin
education
2015 BA (Hons) in Photography Dun Laoghaire IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
2011 FETAC Level 5 in Visual Arts KCAT Art & Study Centre, Callan, Ireland
solo exhibition
2011 Private (self-curated) (Arts Festival, Wine Academy Ireland, Thomastown
group exhibitions
2017 Lass Struggle FiLiA 2017 (Feminism in London) Conference Exhibition, The Institute of Education, London
2017 Hotron ART WORKS'17 Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
2017 The 187th Annual Exhibition 2017 Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin
2016 Hennessy Portrait Prize 2016 National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
2016 135th Royal Ulster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum, Belfast, NI
2016 Hotron ART WORKS'16 Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
2016 The 186th Annual Exhibition 2016 Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin
2015 Emergence Steambox Galleries, Dublin
2015 Open Submission Exhibition (curated by Geraldine O'Reily) Arts Festival, The Maltinsgs, Birr
2015 BA (Hons) Photography Graduates Show Dun Laoghaire IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2014 Residency The Library Project, Dublin
2013 Alternate Voices 2nd Year BA (Hons) Photography Students Show, Moxie Studios, Dublin
photobook dummies
2014 15 IN 1989 reflection on self-portraits that I had taken as 15 years old over the last summer of The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1989 while putting them into context of westernized culture that has reached the former Eastern Bloc countries, including comments in English and Czech language
2012 My Goodwood Revival 2012 Race documentary piece on popular historic motor race meeting in UK, including written essay
grants and awards
2017 winner of Hotron ART WORKS Prize for work by a recent graduate
2017 awarded Professional Development Grant Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
2016 short-listed for Hennessy Portrait Prize
2016 short-listed for Hotron ART WORKS Prize for work by a recent graduate
collections
Trinity College Dublin
online features and photographic reviews
2017 Graduate Photography 2007 - 2017: The Long List Source Magazine Online October 2017
2015 Source Graduate Photography 2015 Source Magazine Issue 83
gallery education/experience
2017 Curator of group exhibition RE:VIEW, The Complex, Dublin
Collaboration with 15 recent graduates of BA Honour Photography course at Dún Laoghaire IADT. Medium: photography,
video, film and installation
2015 Curator of group exhibition Emergence Steambox Galleries, Dublin
initiating and organizing this exhibition, which featured work of 13 artists, including myself
2011 Photographic assistant to Gwen Wilkinson Co. Carlow
assisting for 2 weeks in the field and the studio on collodion wet-plate process project, whose results the same year G. Wilkinson
had brought together in her solo exhibition Edifice at The Norman Gallery, Enniscorthy
2010 - present
2010 - present
© 2015 by Vera Ryklova. All rights reserved.