Aisling McCoy is an Irish visual artist whose work looks at how we inhabit and imagine place. Her background as an architect is central to her practice, which looks at the relationship between architecture as an intellectual concept, created through images, and it’s translation into built form. She is particularly interested in the ideological aspect of inhabitation and the role of both architecture and photography in constructing the ideal.
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Education
- MFA Fine Art Photography Belfast School of Art, Ulster University 2013 – 2015
- Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture University College Dublin 2011 – 2013
- Bachelor of Architecture University College Dublin 2006 – 2007
- Erasmus Technische Universiteit Delft 2005 – 2006
- Bachelor of Science of Architecture University College Dublin 2000 – 2003
Exhibitions
- The Positive Space Dublin City 2020
- Poetics of Space Space Lhomond, Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris 2019
- New Irish Works Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, Dublin 2019
- Capture SO Fine Art, Dublin 2019
- Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin 2018
- Open House Dublin Home on the Grange, Dublin 2018
- Engage Gallery of Photography, Dublin 2017
- THF Belfast Exposed Futures Gallery, Belfast 2017
- New Irish Works The Library Project, PhotoIreland, Dublin 2017
- Interactions Belfast Exposed, Belfast 2017
- New Irish Works Space Lhomond, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 2016
- Home on the Grange Open House Dublin 2016
- PhotoLondon Peckham 24, Belfast Exposed Futures at the Copeland Gallery, London 2016
- Circulations Festival 104 Gallery, Paris. 2016
- Beyond the Camera Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi Province, China. 2015
- Fotobookfestival Kassel Dummy Award Travelling exhibition: Rome, Madrid, Dublin, Kaunas, Oslo, Istanbul. 2015
- RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. 2015
- Scopic MFA Graduate Exhibition Darc Space Gallery, Dublin and Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast 2015
- Nine Lives The Tank, Design Museum, London. 2015
- Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2015
- PhotoIreland The Beginning of the Sharpness, Dublin 2013
- Culture Night Block T, Dublin 2013
- IAF Open House Describing Architecture Exhibition. Dublin 2012
- Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2012
Awards
- Visual Arts Bursary Award Arts Council of Ireland 2020
- Language Bursary Award Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris 2020
- Futures Artist at Unseen Amsterdam Nominated by PhotoIreland 2019
- Travel & Training Award Arts Council of Ireland 2019
- New Irish Works Selected Artist 2019
- Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency, Institut Français 2019
- Next Generation Award Arts Council of Ireland 2017
- Project Studio Award Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2017
- Belfast Exposed/Seen Fifteen Exhibition Award 2017
- Belfast Exposed Futures Selected Artist 2017
- New Irish Works PhotoIreland, Selected Artist 2016
- Kassel Photobook Festival Dummy Book Award – Shortlisted 2015