E-portfolio - Stiofan O'Ceallaigh

Artist & Curator

Stiofan O'Ceallaigh

Untitled: Two Men Kissing (2018). From the painting series titled BARELY VISIBLE

The Lovers 2016

Winner of FABRIK Magazine's 2017 On the Street Photography Competition, and later exhibited at Present But Not Involved - An Exhibition of Street Photography, Fathom Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)

Stiofan O’Ceallaigh is a multidisciplinary artist and curator born in Ireland, currently working between the USA and Europe. O’Ceallaigh is also founder Balaclava.Q - An international Queer Arts Project & Collective: www.balaclavadotq.net (established 2016) Working internationally, exhibiting mainly across Europe and N/S. America O’Ceallaigh’s focus is an exploration of the understanding of a queer aesthetic, if indeed, there is one.

A personal journey, and an acknowledgement to the status flux, O’Ceallaigh’s work seeks to emancipate those who know it, simply by promoting discourse around areas such as HIV, queer art censorship, body politic and internalised shame/stigma>pride, and fundamentally an effort to reduce hate ... in all its forms.

Decisions/Decisions 2016 (from Documenting Murder & Currently Untitled Forever) Exhibitions: QUEER AS I, HERE Arts Center (2019) To coincide with World Pride 2019, New York (USA) POSTCARDS FROM THE EGDE - Visual AIDS Annual Fundraiser (2018) Gallery 524, New York (USA) TEN INSTRUCTIONS (for queer artists) (2018) Gallery 78, Reykjavik (Iceland) QUEER CURFEW (2018) Penthouse NQ at the Curfew Tower, Northern Ireland (UK) HOW DO I LOOK? Shifting Representations of Queer Identities (2017) Da Vinci Art Alliance Gallery, Philadelphia (USA) HE: QUESTIONING & QUEERING "MASCULINITIES" (2017) Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, California (USA) QUEER ART SHOW #5 (2017) Penthouse NQ, Manchester (UK)

Housed in private collections in USA and Europe.

THE QUEER ART SHOW (2017) Oslo Town Hall, for Oslo Pride (Norway)

EDUCATION 1999-2002 - Graduated with First Class Honours in BA (Hons) Fine Art with Drama & Theatre studies (including Outstanding Achievement Award 2002) – Liverpool University 1998-1999 - Foundation Certificate in Fine Art: Distinction – University of Ulster SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 - CURRENTLY UNTITLED - Number 33, Guernsey, (Guernsey) 2018 - BARELY VISIBLE - Les Mots a la Bouche, Paris (France) GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 - Residente O Visitante, part of the CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Queer Arts Festival, Athens (Greece) 2019 - Queer As I, to coincide with World Pride 2019 at HERE Arts Center, New York (USA) 2019 - HOMOSURREALISM PARIS, Les Souffleurs, Paris (France) 2018 - Postcards From The Edge, Visual AIDS, Gallery 524, New York (USA) 2018 - Creation vs. Evolution, part of the CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Queer Arts Festival Athens (Greece) 2018 - Ten Instructions (for queer artists), Gallery 78, Reykjavik (Iceland) 2018 - Queer Art(ists) Now, part of And What? Queer Arts Festival, London (UK) 2018 - Queer Curfew, The Penthouse NQ at the Curfew Tower, Northern Ireland (UK) 2018 - HOMOSURREALISM WARSAW, Kim Lee Dressing Room, Warsaw (Poland) 2018 - Retro Activo En el Local Santurce, Artspace, Puerto Rico (USA) 2018 - SEXtopia - Imagining the future of queer sex, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia (USA) 2018 - [KWIR] Identities,The Bureau Centre for the Arts, Greater Manchester (UK)

UNSELFY 2016 (from The Unselfy Project 2016 - Current) Exhibitions: HE: QUESTIONING & QUEERING "MASCULINITIES" (2017) Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, California (USA) THE QUEER ART SHOW (2017) Oslo Town Hall, for Oslo Pride (Norway)

Housed in private collections in USA and Europe

UNSELFY 2016 50 X 50 cm Edition 1 of 5 In preparation for Oslo Pride at Oslo Town Hall (Norway) 2017

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued...)

2017- CUMSLUT & DEEPTHROAT screened as part of HIVideo across 4 continents, in 22 venues on World AIDS Day including: Museum of Contemporary Art (Puerto Rico), Performing Arts Centre of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa), La Mutiniere (Paris, France), The Rainbow Project and Foyle Arts Centre (Ireland), the University of Falmouth, the University of Norwich, Powerhouse Gallery (Manchester, UK) and The Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles, USA) 2017 - Neon versus Nature part of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Queer Arts Festival, Romantso Gallery Athens (Greece) 2017 - JUEGO SUCIO: MUESTRA DE POSPORNO Artspace Mexico (Mexico) 2017 - QUEER ART SHOW #5 Penthouse NQ, Manchester (UK) 2017 - THE QUEER ART SHOW Oslo Town Hall, for Oslo Pride (Norway) 2017 - HOMOSURREALISM NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans (USA) 2017 - FABRIK Expo+ LA Photo Independent, Los Angeles (USA) 2017 - On The Street Photography Fathom Gallery, Los Angeles (USA) 2017 - HE: QUESTIONING & QUEERING "MASCULINITIES" Last Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, California (USA) 2017 - HOW DO I LOOK? - Shifting Representations of Queer Identities DVAA Gallery, Philadelphia (USA) 2016 - There & Not There (Nirtogen) screened as part of HIVideo at Art Karoo (South Africa), LGBT Foundation (Manchester, UK), PARC (Toronto, Canada), Capone Fine Art (California, USA), Les Motes A La Bouche (Paris, France) and El Local en Santurce (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 2016 - A Day With(out) Art, OffRoad Productions Studios, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) 2016 - Poetry & Porn part of the CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Queer Arts Festival, pop-up gallery at Heroes, Athens (Greece) 2016 - Wicked Gay Ways Digital Fringe Festival, CRUXSpace, Philadelphia (USA)

DIPTYCH: CUMSLUT / DEEPTHROAT 2017 Film (Visual Poem)

Exhibited simultaneously on World AIDS Day as part of HIVideo, at the following locations: Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art (Puerto Rico) The Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles, (USA) The Powerhouse (Manchester, UK) University of Falmouth (Falmouth, UK) La Pallanzzani Hospital (Rome, Italy) University of Norwich (Norwich, UK) Foyle Arts Centre (Northern Ireland, UK) The Rainbow Project (Northern Ireland, UK) Alexander Sauna (Athens, Greece) Performing Arts Centre for the Free State (South Africa) La Mutiniere (Paris, France)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued...)

2014 - Queer Art Show #4, Penthouse NQ, Manchester (UK) 2013 - Queer Art Show #3, Canal Street, Manchester (UK) 2012 - Eat Your Heart Out, Contact Theatre, Manchester (UK) 2010-12 - Staff Room #1, #2, #3 at Z-arts, Manchester (UK) 2007 - The Mantele Peece Was Heer, Ballyhurgley Lough (Northern Ireland) 2004 - Re-Appropriate, Urbis Gallery, Manchester (UK) 2003 - 10X10, Eggspace Gallery to coincide with Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK) 2003 - The Space Around The Flame Where Nothing Exists at Collect Gallery, Liverpool (UK) – funded by the Arts Council of England 2002 - There & Not There at The Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool (UK) 2001 - First Prize in Wade Smith Painting Competition, Liverpool (UK) AFFILIATIONS 2019 - Juror for Casa de Duende present Encounters with Whitman - in celebration of the Whitman Bicentennial, Philadelphia (USA) 2017 - Winner of FABRIK magazine's On The Street Photography competition at LA Photo Fest, Los Angeles (USA) 2017 - Co-curator for HE: Questioning and Queering "Masculinities" at Last Projects Los Angeles (USA) 2016-17 - Curator for HIVideo - A global screening of HIV/AIDS related video art on World AIDS Day across 4 continents 2016 - Founder & Director of Balaclava.Q – An International Queer Visual Arts Project (www.balaclavadotq.net) 2013 - Producer for Don’t Feed The Artist #1, #2 and #3, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (UK)

ACT II: FUCK LOVE (2018) (from installation piece 6 HOURS) Exhibitions: HOMOSURREALISM WARSAW (2018) Kim Lee Dressing Room, Warsaw (UK) [KWIR] Identities (2018) The Bureau Centre for the Arts (UK) NEON VS. NATURE (2017) Civil Disobedience Queer Arts Festival, Romantso Gallery, Athens (Greece)

CURATOR / PRODUCER (continued...)

2012 - The N.E.W. (New Experiments In Writing), Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (UK) 2010-12 Staff Room #1, #2- and #3, Z-arts, Manchester (UK) COMMISSIONS 2016 - White Man Love You Long Time (buy-bye-bi Me) WOOF! – The Musical! (Intervention), INSP Magazine (Issue No. 13 – RE:APPROPRIATE) 2004 - Eastside (mural), Urbis Gallery (Manchester, UK) 2004 - Schematic (mural), Urbis Gallery (Manchester, UK) RECENT PRESS 2017 - OUT.COM - HIVideo Exhibits 14 Works by International Queer Artists on World AIDS Day (written by Jhoni Jackson) 2017 - DAZED - Photos that explore alternate masculinities.

Discussing Trump, toxic masculinity and the importance of diverse representation in the art world with the co-curators of a new exhibition (written by Jake Hall)

THE QUEER ARTISTS FLOAT 2017 Manchester Pride Featured on BBC News and seen by over 30,000 attendees at Manchester (UK) Pride celebrations.

The QUEER ARTISTS FLOAT is a collaboration between artists Ron Kibble (USA) and Debbie Elvis Sharp and Rosanne Roberston (Penthouse NQ Gallery, UK)

Film still from HOMOGENETICS 2018

Contact Information

stiofanoceallaighartist@gmail.com www.stiofanoceallaigh.co.uk (UK) +44 7541 23 66 35 (USA) +1 5048 58 79 12 @stiofan.artist

Exhibitions QUEER ART(ISTS) NOW (2018) Archive Gallery, London (UK) HOMOSURREALISM WARSAW (2018) Kim Lee Dressing Room, Warsaw (Poland) RETRO ACTIVO - La Generaciรณn Silenci ad (2018) EL local, San Juan (Puerto Rico) SEXtopia - Imagi ning the Future of Queer Sex (2018) DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia (USA)

Installation shot of 6 HOURS (preview night of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: NEON VERSUS NATURE, Athens, Greece) – Photo credit: Emmanuel Barrouyer