Eoin O’Dowd is an Irish multi media artist, living and working between Dublin Ireland and Helsinki Finland. Working in collage, moving image, sculpture and live performance. Thematically Eoin's work concerns frustration with violence in reactionary masculinity and art as a means for catharsis. Their work is heavily influenced by an interest in cultural materialism, and cognitive behavior associated with violent and religious experiences.
Eoin was the coordinator of Eight Gallery Dublin from 2013 - 2018
Exhibitions.
Solo:
2025
(Upcoming), Titanik-Galleria, Turku, FI
2024
A sun floats above the witches' altar, Pispala Contemporary Art Centre, Tampere, FI
First Day on Earth without You, Galleria 3H+K, Pori, FI
2023
Behind the Walls Tickling the Bricks, Asbestos, Helsinki, FI
2021
Emotional Illiteracy, Fellmannia, Lahti Fringe, FI
Group:
2024
Don't avoid me at the vast, mean, ethereal space, Galleria Loisti, Helsinki, FI
Re-Fest. CultureHub, SeoulArts & La MaMa, Ansan, KOR
Galerie Toolbox, Berlin, GER
Heart Attack Film Festival, Helsinki, FI - Riga, LAT
2023
Thinning the Veil (production & performance) Teatre Tuiki, Helsinki, FI
Thinning the Veil (production & performance) Yö Galleria Helsinki, FI
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity (performance) SoupSpoon, RIB, Rotterdam, NL
Mastofestari (screening) ASKEL - pop up, Lahti, FI
Bring your own Beamer (screening) Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, FI
2022
Boreal Screendance Festival (screening) Deiglan Gilfélagið, Akureyri, IS
International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy (screening) FRA
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities (performance), Uniarts Helsinki, FI
Kino Club Nomads Festival (screening) Musiikkitalo, Helsinki FI
Kino Club Nomads Festival (screening) Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, FI
Cathartic Heresy , Platform Arts, Belfast, N.I
2021
AV Festival, Simpele, FI
Residency (invitational) Oma TaideTalo, South Karelia, FI
Looking to the Future (screening), OddballSpace, Virtual, Birmingham, UK
Indigo, DrewBoy Creative, Richland WA, USA
Hope, Fragmented Collective, Virtual
Compression, Vayo Gallery, Rochester NY, USA
Fragments from Shattered People, Big Rat.Studios, Virtual, Bristol UK
My Pandemic Film Festival, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
TELEPHONE, Phonebook Gallery, Virtual
2016
Momento, Standard Galería y Estudios, Valencia, ES
Twenty Sixteen..., Ormond studios, Dublin, IRL
2015
Ormond Stew, Ormond studios, Dublin, IRL
Experimental Curatorial Project IV, Eight Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2014
Experimental Curatorial Project III, Talbot Gallery, Dublin, IRL
Experimental Curatorial Project II, Ormond Studios, Dublin, IRL
Experimental Curatorial Project I, Mart Gallery, Dublin, IRL
(Screening : Manhattan Syndrome*)
Odessa Night Club, Dublin*, IRL
Cork Film Centre Gallery, Cork*, IRL
T.C.D, Dublin*, IRL
2013
New Living Art IV, I.M.O.C.A., Dublin, IRL
(Screening: Fractal Music Collective*)
Irish Film Festival, Riverside Studios, London* U.K
Irish Cultural Centre, London* U.K
C.F.C.P., Dublin*, IRL
The Back Loft, Dublin*, IRL
Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo*, IRL
2012
Television, Tactic Gallery, Cork, IRL
Gilgamesh, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IRL
2011
Monster Truck’s Xtravaganza VI, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, IRL
Middleground, No Grants Gallery, Dublin, IRL
New Living Art II, I.M.O.C.A., Dublin, IRL
KRF Notebook Project, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, IRL
Student Art Expo 2011, Royal Dublin Society , Dublin, IRL
D.I.T Grad Show 2011, Portland Row, Dublin, IRL
2010
Swords heritage festival, St Columba's Church, Dublin, IRL
The Look of Laughter and Forgetting, St Joseph’s Convent, Dublin, IRL
7 Days Play, AppleRock Studios, Dublin, IRL
Curation.
Cathartic Heresy - Platform Arts, Belfast, N.I (2022)
Annual Exhibition Programme, Eight Gallery, Dublin (2013 - 2018)
Texts and Print Publications.
2019 - 2024
Review
First Day on Earth without You at Galleria 3h+k - Kati Heljakka (2024)
Interviews
Cults of Life - Niko Vartiainen - Saturation (2023) FIN
Verbal Art - Xenia Ramm - Behind the Wall Tickling the bricks at Asbestos Gallery (2023) FIN
OddballSpace - Looking to the future, Spotlight (2021) U.K
Visual Arts Ireland - Aidan Kelly Murphy - Temporal-Platform - Eight Gallery (2019) IRL
Cults of Life - Mythology - Issue XI, FIN
численничек - Chislenichek , RUS
Long Con Magazine - Issue VII, CAN
TELEPHONE - Visual Art book by Crosstown Press, USA
Sienna Solstice Arts and Science Joural - Issue III, USA
BackSlash Lit - <body>, Issue IV USA
Cults of Life - Royal Issue X FIN
Corbeaux Magazine - Issue X USA
Pandemic Post Zine - Issue VI USA
Visio Literary Arts Zine - Duality, Issue X USA
Education.
2011, BA (Hons) Fine Art D.I.T, Dublin
2010, Ecole Supérieure d'Art, Lorient
2022, GAP peer-to-peer programme
