Alan Phelan, born 1968 in Dublin, studied at DCU and RIT, New York. His practice involves the production of objects, participatory projects, curating and writing. These all inform, combine and contribute to an interest in the narrative potential surrounding an artwork. This can be exploited or explored from actual and historical events, ideas, things and places as well as their fictional counterparts. Working in the museum and archive sector has shaped this approach somewhat but more as a counterpoint than agency.
Exhibitions include: 2016: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, EVA International, Limerick; Videonale.15, Fragments, IMMA; 2014: Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Detroit Stockholm; 2013: Treignac Projet, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; TBG+S; Bozar, Brussels; 2012: Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai; 2011: Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki; 2010: Galería Del Infinito Arte, Buenos Aires; 2009 Fragile Absolutes, IMMA, Dublin and Chapter, Cardiff; EV+A, Limerick; 2008: Solstice, Navan; 2007 Feinkost, Berlin; mother’s tankstation, Dublin; 2006: ŠKUC, Ljubljana; SKC Gallery, Belgrade; The Lab, Dublin; 2004: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Gordon-Bennett”, Grennan Mill, Thomastown; 2003: Appendiks 1”, Thiemers magasin, Copenhagen, Denmark.