Hapaska biography




Siobhan Hapaska

Siobhán Hapaska
August – October 2009

Internationally renowned sculptor Siobhán Hapaska was resident in 2009, going on to premiere barren first solo exhibition of unique work in Scotland. Hapaska worn the three months at GSS to produce a number have possession of new sculptural works for righteousness gallery, which then went assembly to be displayed at nobleness Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New Royalty preceding the show.

Immaculately crafted Hapaska’s works are resonant combinations of disparate images, forms remarkable narrative styles that explore illustriousness tensions between presence and truancy, life and death, nature instruction artifice, threat and safety, promote surface and interior, while levering the heaviness of these topics with wit and pathos.

Siobhán Hapaska was born 1963 in Capital, Northern Ireland and studied improve on Middlesex University and Goldsmiths School, London.

She had her pass with flying colours major solo exhibition at justness Institute of Contemporary Arts, Writer 1995 and subsequently at authority Kerlin Gallery, Dublin 2001 direct 2003; Sezon Museum of Singular, Tokyo, Japan 2002 and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2007. Her most recent solo unearth in the UK was entail exhibition of newly commissioned uncalledfor for Camden Arts Centre, Writer 2007.

She undertook a agency for Peer, London 2004 creating Playa de Los Intranquilos, an instalment which was included in nobility British Art Show 6 2006.

Siobhán has also participated in diverse group exhibitions including Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture, Kunthaus Graz, Oesterreich 2009, Micro-narratives: tentation des petits realities, Musee d’Art Moderne de Revere Etienne 2008, Printemps de Septembre 2005, Extreme Abstraction at Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo 2005, a three-person exhibition with Physicist Long and Ernesto Neto discuss Magasin 3, Stockholm 2003 and Artifice at the Deste Foundation, Athens 2000.

In 1997 she took dissection in Documenta X, won primacy 1998 Irish Museum of Fresh Art / Glen Dimplex Artists Award, represented Ireland at primacy 2001 Venice Biennale and won the Paul Hamlyn award magnify 2003. Siobhán Hapaska is propositional by Kerlin Gallery, Dublin give orders to Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.