Gerard Byrne

♂ *1969 / Ireland

Works

Solo exhibitions

The Struggle With the Angel

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (IE)
28 Feb 2025 – 5 Apr 2025
Upon all the living and the dead

Wiener Secession, Wien (AT)
1 Feb 2019 – 31 Mar 2019
Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli

A film inside an image & some related works.

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (BE)
9 Nov 2018 – 19 Jan 2019
A Visibility Matrix

Sven Anderson & Gerard Byrne

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE)
6 Jun 2018 – 25 Aug 2018
In Our Time

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (SE)
22 Feb 2018 – 7 Apr 2018
In Our Time

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (IE)
1 Dec 2017 – 20 Jan 2018
In Our Time

Lisson Gallery NY, New York (US)
3 Nov 2017 – 22 Dec 2017
Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli. Film Inside an Image

Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE)
8 Apr 2017 – 3 Sep 2017
A late evening in the future

AUS Centre Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
8 Oct 2016 – 27 Nov 2016
A LATE EVENING IN THE FUTURE

Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen, Sankt (CH)
6 Jun 2015 – 13 Sep 2015
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Lisson Gallery, Milano (IT)
18 Sep 2014 – 7 Nov 2014
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (US)
23 Oct 2013 – 16 Feb 2014
Just before that

PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
20 Nov 2013 – 14 Dec 2013
Around that time

PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
23 Oct 2013 – 17 Nov 2013
Early works

PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
3 Oct 2013 – 20 Oct 2013
Older works

PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
19 Sep 2013 – 29 Sep 2013
Present Continuous Past

Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
30 Jan 2013 – 9 Mar 2013
A State of Neutral Pleasure

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
17 Jan 2013 – 8 Mar 2013
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
17 Jan 2012 – 8 Mar 2012
Through The Eyes

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
27 Jul 2011 – 31 Oct 2011
Loch Ness, non-site

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (SE)
25 Aug 2011 – 2 Oct 2011
Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011

MK Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (GB)
14 Jan 2011 – 3 Apr 2011
A thing is a hole in a thing it is not

The Renaissance Society, Chicago (US)
9 Jan 2011 – 27 Feb 2011
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Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
11 Feb 2009 – 21 Mar 2009
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ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
12 Nov 2008 – 1 Mar 2009
Forms of Abstraction

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (SE)
10 Oct 2008 – 16 Nov 2008
x-rummet: Related Works

SMK National Gallery Denmark, København (DK)
5 Apr 2008 – 3 Aug 2008
1984 and Beyond

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
16 Nov 2007 – 13 Jan 2008
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Venice Biennale - IE, Venezia (IT)
10 Jun 2007 – 21 Nov 2007
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Kunstverein Rheinlande, Düsseldorf (DE)
5 May 2007 – 8 Jul 2007
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Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
22 Mar 2007 – 4 May 2007
Hommes à Femmes

Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (IE)
11 Nov 2004 – 23 Dec 2004
In repertory

Project Gallery, Dublin (IE)
28 Oct 2004 – 13 Nov 2004
In repertory

Project Gallery, Dublin (IE)
16 Sep 2004 – 23 Oct 2004
A country road. A tree. Evening.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL)
13 Feb 2004 – 21 Mar 2004
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Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato (IT)
22 Nov 2003 – 30 Jan 2004
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Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
3 Sep 2003 – 12 Oct 2003
Herald or Press

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE)
18 Oct 2002 – 30 Nov 2002

Group

Galerie Nordenhake 50 Years – Stockholm

Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (SE)
2 Jul 2026 – 15 Aug 2026

with Dawoud Bey, Ann Böttcher, Cecilia Edefalk, Nan Goldin, Antony Gormley, Gunilla Klingberg, Lap-See Lam, Zoe Leonard, Helen Mirra, Mikael Olsson, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Ulf Rollof …
Le contrat naturel

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (BE)
22 Jan 2026 – 28 Feb 2026

with Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Katinka Bock, Jef Geys, Mimmo Jodice, Louise Lawler, Mike Mandel, Sophie Nys, Marina Pinsky, Ed Ruscha, Thomas Struth, Larry Sultan …
Polygraphs

GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GB)
17 Feb 2017 – 20 May 2018

with Jane Evelyn Atwood, Graham Fagen, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Kruger, Hito Steyerl
Song of the Open Road

Contemporary Art Gallery , Vancouver (CA)
1 Apr 2017 – 18 Jun 2017

with Vikky Alexander, Dawit Petros, Lisa Tan
Performer/Audience/Mirror

Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
15 Jul 2016 – 3 Sep 2016

with Marina Abramovic, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language , Ryan Gander, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Christian Jankowski, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Santiago Sierra
Time Present

Contemporary Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

Singapore Art Museum , Singapore (SG)
3 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015

with Shirin Aliabadi, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Zohra Bensemra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Derges, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Hassan & Hussein Essop, CAO Fei, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoefer …
Second Sight: The David Kronn Photography Collection

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
2 Aug 2014 – 9 Nov 2014

with Abbas, Berenice Abbott, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eve Arnold, Karl Blossfeldt, Fergus Bourke, Hugh Brown, Harry Callahan, Elinor Carucci, Vincent Cianni, Mark Citret …
CURIOSITY

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
28 Jun 2014 – 14 Sep 2014

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Pablo Bronstein, Tacita Dean, Aurelien Froment, Laurent Grasso, Nina Katchadourian, Matt Mullican, Katie Paterson, Miroslav Tichy
Ruin Lust

Tate Britain, London (GB)
4 Mar 2014 – 18 May 2014

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Paul Nash, John Savage, Jane & Louise Wilson
Salon der Angst

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
6 Sep 2013 – 12 Jan 2014

with Kader Attia, Harun Farocki, Fischli & Weiss, Rainer Ganahl, Bouchra Khalili, Eva Kotatkova, Allan Sekula, Jeff Wall, Mark Wallinger, Gillian Wearing, Tobias Zielony
Art of Memory

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
4 Sep 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Cecilia Edefalk, Raqs Media Collective
Victor, A, Judge William, Johannes (de silentio), Constantin, Vigilius, Nicolaus, Hilarius, Johannes (Climacus), H.H., Anti-Climacus et. al

Fotografisk Center, København (DK)
24 Aug 2013 – 6 Oct 2013

with Alen Aligrudic, Matthew Bakkom, Jeanne Faust, Aurelien Froment, Andrea Geyer, Ulrik Heltoft, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Joachim Koester, Runo Lagomarsino, Lasse Ernlund Lorentzen, Michala Paludan, Florian Pumhösl …
dOCUMENTA (13)

documenta, Kassel (DE)
9 Jun 2012 – 16 Sep 2012

with Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Kader Attia, Judith Barry, Kudzanai Chiurai, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Attila Csoergoe, Manon de Boer, Tacita Dean …
Art Histories

VOX, centre de l'image, Montréal (CA)
16 Mar 2012 – 20 May 2012

with Mario Garcia Torres, Rodney Graham, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Paul McCarthy, Ron Terada
DARK SIGHTS

Kunststiftung DZ BANK, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
27 Jan 2012 – 31 Mar 2012

with Oliver Boberg, Angus Boulton, Gregory Crewdson, Lucinda Devlin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gefeller, Paul Graham, Naoya Hatakeyama, Bill Henson, Robert Longo, Thomas Ruff, Sascha Weidner …
A rocky road

Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork (IE)
18 Nov 2011 – 14 Jan 2012

with Nigel Rolfe
The Venice Biennale - 54th International Art Exhibition - ILLUMInations

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
4 Jun 2011 – 27 Nov 2011

with Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Meris Angioletti, Alexander Apostol, Nairy Baghramian, Yto Barrada, Elisabetta Benassi, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Monica Bonvicini, Mohamed Bourouissa, Carol Bove, Mariana Castillo Deball, SONG Dong …
Performa 11 - biennial of new visual art performance

Performa, New York (US)
1 Nov 2011 – 21 Nov 2011

with Abbas Akhavan, Julieta Aranda, Robert Ashley, Tamar Ettun, Tamar Ettun, James Franco, Simon Fujiwara, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ragnar Kjartansson, Liz Magic Laser, Guy Maddin …
Opening di Lisson Gallery a Milano

Lisson Gallery, Milano (IT)
15 Sep 2011 – 5 Nov 2011

with Cory Arcangel, Ryan Gander, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Jonathan Monk
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Pawel Althamer, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari …
The 7th Gwangju Biennale Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
5 Sep 2008 – 9 Nov 2008

with Adel Abdessemed, Bani Abidi, Francis Alys, Lara Almarcegui, Stefano Arienti, Sadie Benning, Ursula Biemann, Tania Bruguera, Bruce Conner, Thomas Demand, Koo Donghee, Lili Dujourie …
Not Quite How I Remember It

The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
7 Jun 2008 – 1 Sep 2008

with Nancy Davenport, Felix Gmelin, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Michael Stevenson
The Venice Biennale - 52nd International Art Exhibition

Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
10 Jun 2007 – 21 Nov 2007

with Ignasi Aballi, Adel Abdessemed, AES+F, Mounira El-Solh, Francis Alys, Alexander Hnilitsky & Lesia Zaiats, Alterazioni Video, Ghada Amer, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Sonia Balassanian, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé …
Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art

Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen (BE)
18 Aug 2007 – 21 Oct 2007

with Bohdan Stehlik/Una Szeemann, Aline Bouvy, Omer Fast, John Gillis, Cao Guimaraes, Carsten Hoeller, Saskia Holmkvist, Hassan Khan, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Gabriel Lester, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rosalind Nashashibi …
Like Leaves

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (US)
15 Sep 2007 – 13 Oct 2007

with Bojan Sarcevic, Miroslav Tichy, Ulla von Brandenburg
The V Effect

Kunsthallen Nikolaj, København (DK)
10 Feb 2007 – 28 May 2007

with Maryam Jafri, Joachim Koester, Ann Lislegaard
Alabama

Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
27 Apr 2007 – 26 May 2007

with Jeremiah Day, Matt Keegan, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer
On Peter Watkins

Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)
28 Apr 2007 – 26 May 2007

with Melik Ohanian, Roman Signer
Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art

Tate Britain, London (GB)
1 Mar 2006 – 14 May 2006

with Angela Bulloch, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Luke Fowler, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Jonathan Monk, John Stezaker, Cerith Wyn Evans
A Short History of Performance - Part IV

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
1 Apr 2006 – 14 Apr 2006

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Judith Barry, James Coleman, Christian Jankowski, Isaac Julien, Barbara Kruger, Aernout Mik, Catherine Sullivan, Francesco Vezzoli, Gillian Wearing, Artur Zmijewski
Information/Transformation

Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
4 Sep 2005 – 4 Dec 2005

with Sven Augustijnen, Banu Cennetoglu, Andrea Geyer, Jef Geys, Ivan Grubanov, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Jan Kempenaers, Boris Mikhailov, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group)
More Than This! Negotiating Realities

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art

Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (SE)
3 Sep 2005 – 6 Nov 2005

with Fikret Atay, Miriam Baeckstroem, Monica Bonvicini, Runa Islam, Marcel Odenbach, Adrian Paci
I Really Should ...

The Lisson Gallery Summer Show

Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
13 Jul 2005 – 27 Aug 2005

with Matthew Buckingham, Emma Kay, Tim Lee, Hilary Lloyd, Kelly Mark, Nils Norman, Mathias Poledna, Jeremy Shaw, Sean Snyder, Cerith Wyn Evans
I Really Should ...

The Lisson Gallery Summer Show

Lisson Gallery, London (GB)
13 Jul 2005 – 27 Aug 2005

with Matthew Buckingham, Emma Kay, Tim Lee, Hilary Lloyd, Kelly Mark, Nils Norman, Mathias Poledna, Jeremy Shaw, Sean Snyder, Christopher Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans
Biennale! International Artist Film & Video

BizArt Art Center, Shanghai (CN)
1 Aug 2005 – 14 Aug 2005

with LU Chunsheng, Jonah Freeman, Anthony Gross, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Francis Lamb, Michele Naismith, Grace Weir, Jen Wu, YANG Zhenzhong
Tír na nÓg: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection

Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
3 Nov 2004 – 28 Mar 2005

with Phil Collins, Anthony Hobbs
Biennale! Artist Film and Video

temporarycontemporary, London (GB)
22 Jan 2005 – 27 Feb 2005

with LU Chunsheng, Jonah Freeman, Anthony Gross, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Francis Lamb, Michele Naismith, Mark Ariel Waller, Grace Weir, YANG Zhenzhong
Dedicated to the Proposition

Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
20 Nov 2004 – 20 Feb 2005

with Francis Alys, Chris Burden, Joost Conijn, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Paul Graham, Enrique Metinides, Damian Ortega, Robin Rhode, Gert Robijns, Luc Tuymans
Fiction: truth in photography and painting

Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (GB)
15 Jul 2004 – 4 Sep 2004

with Cieslik & Schenk, Luisa Lambri, Ed Ruscha, Bettina von Zwehl
8th International Istanbul Biennial

"Poetic Justice"

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
19 Sep 2003 – 16 Nov 2003

with Can Altay, Alexander Apostol, Knut Asdam, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Txomin Badiola, Zarina Bhimji, Monica Bonvicini, Tania Bruguera, Filipa Cesar, Attila Csoergoe, Minerva Cuevas …

Events

FOTO WIEN - Monat der Fotografie

FOTO WIEN, Wien (AT)
20 Mar 2019 – 20 Apr 2019

with Toni Amengual, Iris Andraschek, Diane Arbus, Miia Autio, Anatoliy Babiychuk, Mohamed Bourouissa, Carina Brandes, Peter Braunholz, Heinz Cibulka, Lena Dobrowolska, Philipp Ebeling, Petros Efstathiadis …
Le Printemps de septembre 2018

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR)
21 Sep 2018 – 21 Oct 2018

with Alain Bublex, David Claerbout, Brice Dellsperger, Latifa Echakhch, CAO Fei, Lauren Huret, Alexander Kluge, Ange Leccia, Marie Losier, Laurent Mareschal, Tracey Moffatt, Lisa Reihana …
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

114 Artists. 28 Exhibitions

Front International, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Eric Baudelaire, Walead Beshty, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bloom, Candice Breitz, Willie Doherty, Paul Druecke, Paul Druecke, Harrell Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher, Cyprien Gaillard …
Art Basel 2018

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
14 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018

with Marina Abramovic, Robert Adams, Dove Allouche, Darren Almond, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Primoz Bizjak, Carina Brandes, Candice Breitz, Edward Burtynsky, James Casebere, Andre Cepeda, Helen Chadwick …
Capture Photography Festival 2017

Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver (CA)
1 Apr 2017 – 28 Apr 2017

with Vikky Alexander, Lewis Baltz, Marian Penner Bancroft, Dieter Blum, Dirk Broemmel, Barbara Cole, Thomas Eigel, Marten Elder, Greg Girard, Fred Herzog, Béatrice Hug, Werner Pawlok …
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PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
Just before that

PRAXES Center, Berlin (DE)
“Hommes à femmes” (Video, 40 min.)

mit Diskussion moderiert von Eckhart Gillen (Berlin)

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
Between Photography & Video: The Still and Moving Image in Contemporary Practice.

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)

with Melanie Manchot