Brian Fay

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Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin. His practice is rooted in drawing and uses the materiality of pre-existing artworks and objects to examine our own complex relationship to time.

Solo shows include The Most Recent Forever, a national touring survey show; A mobile living thing, DLR Lexicon, Dublin; To Something that went before (C.S.deK), Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin; X (IR),(2016) nag Gallery, Dublin; Of the Survival of Images (and Objects) (2014), nag Gallery, Dublin; and Broken Images or When does Posterity Begin? (2011), Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

Selected group shows include Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer (2017), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; J+1 (2023), Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin; After an Act (2018), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Second Summer (2021), The Dock, Leitrim; Akroma (2016), Arsenals Museum of Contemporary Art of Riga, Latvia; Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image (2012), Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Other Mens Flowers (2008), Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Dublin; and Drawing Stonehenge (2008), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England.

He was the winner of the 2014 Derwent International Drawing Prize and the AXA Drawing Prize 2016. In 2021 he was awarded a Visual Arts Bursary from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. He was recently invited onto the artist residency programme at the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA and completed a national touring survey that took place in 2022 - 2023 in Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Limerick City Gallery of Art and Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.