Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is delighted to announce Patrick Hough (IE) and Ayumi Kanno (JP) as the inaugural recipients of TBG+S/TOKAS International Residency Exchange, 2026.
In its first year, the TBG+S/TOKAS International Residency Exchange supports an Irish artist or artist based in Ireland to spend three months in residence at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Japan. The exchange also supports a Japanese artist to live in Dublin for three months and work from a studio at TBG+S.
Patrick Hough is an artist working with moving image across gallery and cinema contexts. Their practice traces the entanglement of archaeological, geological and ecological worlds, folding deep time into lived experience and material memory. Each project begins with a lingering image—a body lifted from peat, a whale stranded in an Irish bog—and develops through research-led moving-image installations. Within these works, distinctions between human and non-human or life and decay loosen, allowing feral forms of relation to surface.
Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Galway Arts Centre (2026); Esker Arts Centre (2027). Exhibitions and screenings include CPH:DOX, Copenhagen (2022); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2018); Jing’an International Sculpture Project, Shanghai (2018); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2017). They are a recipient of the Jerwood / FVU Awards (2017) and a Film London FLAMIN Productions Award (2019).
Ayumi Kanno is a Japanese visual artist based in Tokyo. She explores land-based narratives, customs and ghost stories through fragmented memories and site-specific folklore. She examines the histories behind local myths and hauntings, constructing ‘alternative folklore’ — speculative possibilities of what could have been. Recently, she has expanded this practice into digital 3D environments, reimagining site-specific narratives within virtual space.
Selected exhibitions include Boring Process, Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo (2025); P.O.N.D.2025 Swing Beyond, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo (2025); New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2024, Hokkaido; ICC Annual 2023: Shapes of Things, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Halloween Cities of To-Morrow, SACS, Tokyo (2023).
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios invites applications from artists for the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award 2026 offering professional development, an artist bursary and one-year studio.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S), in partnership with HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Programme and International Studio & Curatorial Program, NY, invites applications from artists for residencies in Helsinki and New York.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is pleased to announce the 2026 Artistic Programme including five solo exhibitions, Dublin Art Book Fair, and studio and residency awards.
