MAUD COTTER

Lives and works in Cork, Ireland
Maud Cotter was elected a member of Aosdána in 2000

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
*2025 Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
*tbc Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2024 a collect of will, domobaal, London, UK
2022 what was never ours to keep, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2022 a consequence of –, Irish Arts Center, New York, USA
2020 a consequence of – a dappled world, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
2019 a consequence of – a breather of air, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland
2018 a consequence of – without stilling, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
2016 Matter of Fact, domobaal, London, UK
2013 A Solution is in the Room, CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland (Artist’s Newspaper)
2011 All Stuff Is Farce, book launch and solo show, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2010 All Stuff Is Farce, book launch, Irish Consulate, New York, USA
Rumpus Room, The Third Space, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Objects that are no longer themselves, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2009 More than one way out, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Rumpus Room, Point B, Williamsburg, New York, USA
2008 Open Studio, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2007 Not the Full Story, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Studio/House Open, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
2005 More than anything, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales (catalogue)
2004 More than anything, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (catalogue)
2002 also, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland (catalogue)
Things of no Fixed Meaning, The Process Room, I.M.M.A., Dublin, Ireland
1999 Shadow, Street installation, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
1998 In Absence, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1996 Outer Veil, Inner Shroud, Economist Plaza, St James’s, London, UK
1995 Mute Displacement, Galerie Schlossgoart, Luxembourg (catalogue)
The Heart Asks Pleasure, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1992/91 My Tender Shell, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
Maison Internationale de Rennes, France
West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff, Wales (catalogue)
1991 Solo Show, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1983 Stained Glass, Painting and Drawing, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (catalogue)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Taking Form: Students Of The Year 1973-77 | Maud Cotter, Eilis O’Connell, Vivienne Roche, Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2019 The Twin, Coventry Biennal of Contemporary Art, Coventry, UK
Backyard Sculpture, domobaal, London, UK
2018 YOU ARE HERE, La Tannerie, France
Josef and Anni Albers: Voyage Inside a Blind Experience / Please Touch, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2017 Nasty WomenKnockdown Center, New York, USA
2016 Some thing as a line, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2116: Forecast of the next century, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland and Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2015 Compression, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland, Curated by Ed Krčma
18 x 8: From Point A to PointB and Back again…PointB Workspace, New York, USA
Forth Space, New West Cork Arts Centre inaugural exhibition, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
2014 The Land of Zero, Initiator/Curator for The Land of Zero with Pluck Project, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 21 November – 17 December, thelandofzero.com
a soul’s escape, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin 2Ireland
Re-framing the Domestic In Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2013 The Air They Capture Is Different, Joint exhibition with Karl Burke, MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Artist’s Newspaper)
Neither Here Nor There, a video made in response to Seamus Heaney’s poem Postscript, Poetry Project, Ireland
THE FUTURE PERFECT (Brave New World),Rubicon Projects Brussels, Belgium
Prelude Speaker, Castletown House, Co. Kildare, Ireland
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council 60 Years of Supporting the Arts, Dublin, Sligo, Cork, Ireland
The God of Small Things, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011 this little bag of dreams, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Point to Point, Kinsale Arts, Cork. Ireland
Gravity, Crawford Gallery, Cork. Ireland
ENTER SLOWLY, The Lab, San Francisco, USA
Emblem of My Work, The Laurence Stern Trust, York, UK
2009 Between Metaphor and Object, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
Then and now, Lewis Glucksman, UCC, Cork, Ireland
The Weight of Light, VISUAL, Inaugural Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
2008 Discussions in Contemporary Sculpture, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
Pulse Miami Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
Pulse NY Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
Self as Selves, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Kilkenny Arts Festival (curated by Hugh Mulholland), Butler House, Kilkenny, Ireland
Coffee Project, Temple Bar Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Pulse NY Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
2006 Fiac Art Fair, France with Rubicon Gallery Dublin
Irish American Awards (nominee), New York USA
2005 Vinyl, Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture, Cork, Ireland
C2, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (catalogue)
Passing Through, Selected Students of the Crawford College of Art and Design 1975 – 2005, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Forty Shades of Green, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (catalogue)
New Sculpture from Ireland, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Wiltshire, UK
ArtBrussels Art Fair, Belgium, Fiac Art Fair, France and Art Cologne Art Fair, Germany (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
2004 Solid Space, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
In the time of shaking, Art for Amnesty, IMMA,, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
The Raw not Cooked, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Tír na nÓg, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
ArtBrussels Art Fair, Belgium, Fiac Art Fair, France and Art Cologne Art Fair, Germany (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
2003/02 Something Else, Contemporary Art from Ireland, Turku Art Museum/Amos Anderson Art Museum Helsinki/Oulu City Art Museum, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland (catalogue)
2002 No Object No Subject, No Matter, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
Irish Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk, Museum, Aalst, Belgium
ArtBrussels Art Fair, Belgium and Art 2002 London, UK (with Rubicon Gallery, Dublin)
2001 ArtBrussels Art Fair, Belgium and Art 2001 London, UK (with Rubicon Gallery)
2000 Locus International, series of site-specific responses to Swansea, Wales
IMMA / Glen Dimplex Artist Award, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
ArtBrussels Art Fair, Belgium and Art 2000 London, UK (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
2000/1999 0044, Irish Artists in Britain, PS I Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA;
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland (catalogue)
1999 Half Dust, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Objects in Time, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland
A Measured Quietude – Contemporary Irish Drawing, Drawing Centre, New York; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
Some BodiesIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Theme, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Art 1999 Art Fair London, UK (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)
1997/96 Human Nature – Seven Artists from Ireland, touring Newfoundland, Canada (catalogue)
1995 Compulsive Objects, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (curator)
10, Galerie Schlossgoart, Luxembourg
Irish Steel, Model Arts Centre, Sligo; Limerick City Gallery; Crawford Gallery, Cork , Ireland (catalogue)
10, Galerie Schlossgoart, Luxembourg
COMMISSIONS
2022 Project Atrium: Maud Cotter, what was never ours to keep, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2019 the crow’s nest, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland 
2010 Garden, The Department of Defence, Newbridge, Kildare, Ireland
2005 House, Courthouse, Cork, Ireland
2003 As I was saying, Sligo County Council, Tubercurry, Sligo, Ireland
2002/01 Of Air and EverythingLooking GlassSpeculum, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2000 Four Clouds Approaching, Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin, Ireland
1999 Shadow, Temporary Installation, Outdoor Images, Curve Street, Dublin, Ireland
1994 Absolute Jellies Make Singing Sounds, The Green Building, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
1992 Fast Fish Loose Fish, Castlebar Library, Co Mayo, Ireland
1991 Michael Scott Memorial Window, St Pancras Church, Kingston Lewes, East, Sussex, UK
1988 That Sound Meets Sense Straight as Lemons Meet Fish, Dublin Castle, Ireland
1985 Route Impeller, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022/23 Critical review, MArch, Queens University, Belfast
2019 Critical Review, MArch, Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Cork, Ireland
Lecture and Critical Review for Residency Project, First year, Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Cork, Ireland
interior within an exterior day workshop, MAAP, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland
2019/16 External Examiner, Sligo College of Art, Sligo, Ireland
2017 Matter and Space in a Contradictory Field day workshop, MAAP, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland
2014 Critical Review, MArch, Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Cork, Ireland
Critical review, MArch, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
On Line Studio Visit, hosted by Joseph R. Wolin, MFA Low Residency Students, Massachusetts College of Art and Design. USA
The Land of Zero, Initiator/Curator, presented in association with Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork City Council, Crawford Art Gallery, Pluck Projects, The National Sculpture Factory Cork, opening a space as a sculptural action for discussion within showing, 21 November – 6 December, Ireland
2013 Symposium, Doubt & Visual Representation, Keynote Speaker, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Lecture, Spatial Intangibility – a Companion to Form and critical review, Masters of Architecture Course, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Consultation for the C.C.W. and Wellcome Trust, collaborative project, The Changing Perception of Images, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK
Lecture, Intangibility in Form, Masters of Architecture Course, Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Cork, Ireland
2012 Appointed Jury Member of Architects Association of Ireland Award
A Solution is in the Room, AAI Lecture Series with Dominic Stephens, Ireland
Lecture, Overview of Practice, with critical review, Masters of Architecture Course, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Final critical review fourth year, Cork Centre of Architectural Education, Cork, Ireland
Lecture, A Practice, with tutorials first and second year, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, Ireland
2011 Visiting Artist, Kent State University School of Art, Blossom Program, Ohio, USA
Every Way Out, a domino effect to the future. Maud Cotter, Visual Artist Ireland & Veronika Valk, Architect Estonia; present a synopsis of ideas shared at a seminar & week long workshops in Cork City September 2011, Ireland, in association with Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Cork City Council, The National Sculpture Factory Cork, Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Cork Institute of Technology
Every Way Out, a domino effect to the future, presented by Dublin Contemporary, Ireland, in association with Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Cork City Council, The National Sculpture Factory Cork, Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Cork Institute of Technology
2010 Studio visit and artist’s talk to students of Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
Studio visit and artist’s talk to students of Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN, USA
Lecture, Into, Educational Department, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Studio visit and artist talk to students of Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA
2008 Assessor, West Cork Arts Centre Architectural Design Competition, Ireland
2007 The Space In-Between, Project Assessor, for Crawford College of Art and Design, the Cork Centre For Architectural Education, University College, Cork and the National Sculpture Factory, Ireland
2003/1998 Member, Arts Council of Ireland
2001 The Cork Experience, Tutorials given to School of Architecture and Interior Design, University of North London, UK
2000 Lecture, Inside, School of Architecture, University College, Dublin, Ireland
1997/94 Lecturer, Public Art Module, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
1996 Lecturer and Course Director on Glass Painting, Ausglass Conference, Canberra College of Art, Australia
1995/93 External Examiner, Glass Department, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1989/81 Lecturer and Course Director, Stained Glass, Crawford Municipal Art College, Cork, Ireland
Founder Director of National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland

 

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