Contact: padtrob@gmail.com
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October 2024, A Faggot is a Unit, forthcoming artist book in screenplay format published by Have a Nice Day Press, Milan / Chicago
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July 2024, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II and An Empircal Queer Theory, Virtual NYI #9 screening followed by discussion, NYI Global Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Cultural Studies
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May 2024, Masquerades of Research: Part I & II, nominated for Best Feature, Stockholm Independent Film Festival, Zita Folkets Bio, Sweden
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April 2024, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, screening followed by Q+A, Geelong Pride Film Festival, Australia
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April — May 2024, A Faggot is a Unit, solo exhibition curated by Sarah Jones, Platform Arts, Australia
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November 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part II, Official Selection, Dublin Indepedant Film Festival, Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
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August 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, screening as part of the Official selection of GAZE International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, with post screening discussion with Mark O’Halloran and Tom Creed, Light House Cinema, Dublin
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August 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, screened in Cactus Club Independant Film Festival, Milwaukee, USA
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May 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, Official Selection, Out and Loud: Pune International Queer Film Festival, Maharashtra, India
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May 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, Official Selection, 7th Anticensura Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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April - September 2023, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, Cineverse Mellbourne Film Festival, ‘Queer As’ Showcase powered by Vimeo On Demand and CinéCiné Lo (Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific Region)
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Nov 24th 2022, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, film screening as part of Swallowing Geography, curated by Rachel Botha, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland
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Oct 20th 2022, Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, screening curated by El Reid Buckley, Supported by the Sociology Department, University of Limerick, Belltable - Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick, Ireland
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July - Sept 2022, GUIDES, group exhibition celebrating 60 years of the Arts Council of Ireland Collection, curated by Séamus Nolan, Linenhall Arts Centre, Ireland
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April 2022, Guest Lecture, Fine Art Department, moderated by Breda Lynch, Limerick Scool of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland
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January 2022, Five Short Stories on Fire with after screening discussion moderated by Polly Gannon, Virtual NYI #4, NY-St. Institute of Linguistics, Cognition, and Cultural Studies
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December 2021 - February 2022, Five Short Stories on Fire, screened in Laois Arthouse 10th Anniversary exhibition curated by Monica Flynn, Laois Arthouse Ireland
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March 2021 - May 2021, Step out of the Strange Light, group exhibition curated by Krisztina Hunya and Melanie Roumiguière, N.B.K, Berlin
https://www.nbk.org/en/diskurs/masquerades-of-research
November 2020 — January 2021, Beyond Walls, group exhibition, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
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13th November - 10th December 2020, Daily 8pm Screenings of the new short film Five Short Stories on Fire, Flat Time House, London http://flattimeho.org.uk/events/padraig-robinson/
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Sept 2020, 'I am invisible but you see me well enough' published in Solitude Journal 01 - Collective Care and Response-ability
https://www.akademie-solitude.de/solitude-journal/i-am-invisible-but-you-see-me-well-enough/
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May — June 2020, Online screening of 'An Empirical Queer Theory, Schloss Post Cinema, with introduction by Sebastian Schneider
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Feb 1st, 2020, Queering the Archive, panel discussion, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin https://imma.ie/whats-on/queering-the-archive-talks-and-events/
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Dec 2019 - March 2020, CHROMA, exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
https://imma.ie/whats-on/chroma-exhibition/
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Sept 2019 — March 2020, Visual Arts Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
October 2019, Gaze Against Imperialism, book with Cathal Kerrigan, designed by Yin Yin Wong, published by Metaflux Publishing
https://www.bookdepository.com/Gaze-Against-Imperialism-Padraig-Robinson/9780993327278
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January 2019, 6 – 9: Notes from the archive of Dan Kane, represented in the book Queer Publishing: A Family Tree, published by Salon fuer Kunstbuch, Vienna, 2019
https://www.sfkb.at/books/queer-publishing-a-family-tree/
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Jan - Feb 2019, Screenplay development at ONE Archives, Los Angeles, USA
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2018, The voice of the artist, speaker at symposium curated by Lisette Smits, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
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2018, 6 – 9: Notes from the archive of Dan Kane, Publication Studio Rotterdam, at Ghent Art Book Fair, Belgium and Madrid Art Book Fair, Spain
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2018, Process: Experimental Film Festival, film screened in the ‘Resistance’ program curated by Erik Martinson. Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia
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2014 – 2017, Research at Irish Queer Archive, National Library of Ireland, Dublin, supported by Kildare County Council Arts Office
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November 2017, Interwoven, Dublin Art and Architecture book fair, curated by Oonagh Young, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
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July 2017, NYI-St 15: Institute for Cognition, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, invited by Polly Gannon to participate in seminars in de-colonial, poetry and cinema seminars, St Petersburg, Russia
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June 2017, Cadernos Sesc_Videobrazil 12: Metafluxus, script published in the 12th annual publication of Videobrazil, edited by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes around a selection of writings by Vilém Flusser, São Paulo, Brazil
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March 2017, 6 – 9, book launch and film screening at Publication Studio Rotterdam, Netherlands
https://www.sfkb.at/books/6-9-notes-from-the-archive-of-dan-kane/
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2016, K*nk Kino presents films by Padraig Robinson, Blo-Ateliers, Berlin, Germany
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2015, Anarcheologies – Hypothesis of a lost fragment, Group exhibition curated by Alena Alexandrova, Ygrec, École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts, Paris, France
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2014, Felt and Fa(c)t: Difference to Other, community event and curated exhibition, former Malt House Factory, Stradbally Laois, as part of Laois Arthouse Residency, Ireland
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2014, Group Curating: (How) does it work?, speaker on panel curated by Ruth Noack, Šaloun Professor, Academy of Fine Art, Prague, Czech Republic
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2014, Felt and Fa(c)t, research and curatorial project launched at Ormston House Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
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2013, Nothing Goes Through My Mind, 2013, group exhibition, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem
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2013, Artist book for Publishing Class III, in collaboration with Daniel Frota, published by DAI and Casco Office for Art, Design, and Theory, Utrecht
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2013, The Founding Phant, group exhibition curated by Paul Quast & Joan Stack, Ormston House Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
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2012, WE, group exhibition curated by Ruaidhri Lennon, Catalyst Arts Belfast, Northern Ireland
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2012, Undertow, group exhibition, curated by Alice Maher and Aideen Barry, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland. Travelling to The Lab, Dublin
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2011, Im täglichen Wahnsinn den Zauber finden, group exhibition, Kunstraum Gothestrasse, Linz, Austria
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2011, 228 Lashes, ** solo exhibition, 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland. Link to review:
http://showerofkunst.com/sok/2011/12/16/228-lashes/
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2010, Video Killed the Radio Star, group exhibition curated by 126, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
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2010, A poem of Friendship, group exhibition curated by Breda Lynch, Occupy Space, Limerick
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2009, How do you know?, group exhibition curated by Jim Ricks, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, California
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2009, Fun, Friendship and Maybe More, ** solo exhibition, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin. Link to review:
2009, The Black Mariah, at URA Project Space, Istanbul, Turkey
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2007, Lights on up front / Dark down the back, ** solo exhibition curated by Karl Wallace, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
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2007, Inertia and Beyond, group exhibition curated by Mary Fox, The Black Mariah, Cork, Ireland
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2007, Apostates, Belltable Arts Centre, curated by Not Abel, Limerick, Ireland
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2006, Life During Wartime / Artfare, Baker Place, curated by Not Abel, Limerick, Ireland
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Education
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2004 - 2008, BA Sculpture and Combined Media, LSAD
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2011 - 2013, MFA, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Netherlands
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Awards / Bursaries
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2020, Arbeitsstipendium fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
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2018, 2016 and 2009, Visual Artist Bursary Award, The Arts Council, Ireland
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2018, 2017, 2012 and 2011, Travel and Training Award, The Arts Council Ireland
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2017, 2015 and 2011, Kildare County Council Arts Act Grant
A Faggot is A Unit, 2023
Solo exhibition Gallery 2, Platform Arts, Geelong, Australia
April 6th - May 17th 2024
A Faggot is A Unit, 2023
Solo exhibition Gallery 2, Platform Arts, Geelong, Australia
April 6th - May 17th 2024
Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, 1 hour 5 min, digital film, 2020 - 2022
Test screening before the Irish premiere, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
Followed by after screening discussion with Padraig Robinson, Mark O’Halloran, and curator El Reid Buckley, supported by Sociology Department and Institute for Popular Culture and Music, University of Limerick
Masquerades of Research: Part I and II, 1 hour 5 min, digital film, 2020 - 2022
Test screening before the Irish premiere, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick.
Followed by after screening discussion with Padraig Robinson, Mark O’Halloran, and curator El Reid Buckley, supported by Sociology Department and Institute for Popular Culture and Music, University of Limerick
Production Still, Masquerades of Research: Part II, 2022
Production Still, Masquerades of Research: Part II, 2022
Film stills, Masquerades of Research: Part 1, 35 mins, 2020
Film stills, Masquerades of Research: Part 1, 35 mins, 2020
Two piles of the book Gaze Against Imperialism 2019 on wooden storage box and black A0 poster for Masquerades of Research: Part I, 2021 in black aluminium and glass frame Installation view, AR_29 / Atelieretage Reinickendorf, Berlin, August 2021
Two piles of the book Gaze Against Imperialism 2019 on wooden storage box and black A0 poster for Masquerades of Research: Part I, 2021 in black aluminium and glass frame Installation view, AR_29 / Atelieretage Reinickendorf, Berlin, August 2021
And then he said yes, 2020 reissue and redaction of 2013 newspaper artwork in collection newspaper holders from German Newspapers. Intallation view, Beyond Walls, group exhibition Kunstmuseum Stuttgart November 2020 — March 2021.
And then he said yes, 2020 reissue and redaction of 2013 newspaper artwork in collection newspaper holders from German Newspapers. Intallation view, Beyond Walls, group exhibition Kunstmuseum Stuttgart November 2020 — March 2021.
Installation of six copies of Gaze Against Imperilaism on custom designed reading table. installation view CHROMA, IMMA, Dublin
Installation of six copies of Gaze Against Imperilaism on custom designed reading table. installation view CHROMA, IMMA, Dublin
'A fig A fig A trough A trough A urinal A urinal, (test cast), 2020, slip cast and glazed high fire stoneware.
'A fig A fig A trough A trough A urinal A urinal, (test cast), 2020, slip cast and glazed high fire stoneware.
Translation Sketch: Risks of the Game, 2015
16mm film transferred to digital
Translation Sketch: Risks of the Game, 2015
16mm film transferred to digital
Artist book for Publishing Class III, published by DAI and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht
Artist book for Publishing Class III, published by DAI and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht
Installation view, 288 Lashses, 2011. 126 Gallery, Galway.
Installation view, 288 Lashses, 2011. 126 Gallery, Galway.
Installation view, A poem of Friendship, with Breda Lynch and Dan Kane. Occupy Space, Limerick, 2010
Installation view, A poem of Friendship, with Breda Lynch and Dan Kane. Occupy Space, Limerick, 2010