Bio/CV

BIOGRAPHY/CV

Short Biography

Ian Wieczorek is a visual artist working in painting, video, installation and curation.

Since 2003 he has exhibited widely both in Ireland (including EVA International; RHA Annual Exhibitions; RUA Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition; COE Claremorris Open Exhibitions), and internationally, with participation in group/curated shows in England, N. Ireland, Germany, France, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Latvia, USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Macedonia; and solo exhibitions (17 to date) in Ireland, N. Ireland, UK and Czechia.

Public art works include Sepulchre and Everything That Rises Must Converge (Ireland, 2012, 2014), and IUXTA (France, 2015), 00040 (France, 2016), Resonator (France, 2024), and Everything That Rises: Risen (France, 2025).

Wieczorek has also devised and curated 18 shows in Ireland, most recently Gus Lynott: Say What You See (2023) and Imposed Geometries (2022/3), and has undertaken residencies in Ireland, UK, France and Austria.

Curriculum Vitae (Abridged version) For Comprehensive CV, please CLICK HERE )

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Residue

@ The Custom House Studios and Galleries, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2022 One Day : 40 Sunrises

@ Museum of Ireland - Country Life, Turlough, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2020 One Day : 40 Sunrises

@ online exhibition (supported by an Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon Covid-19 Crisis Response Award)

2019 Traverse

@ The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland

2019 Blurred Visions

@ Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2019 Transgress

@ Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2015 Soft Truths

@ Galerie Katakomby, Centrum Experimentálního Divadla, Brno, Czech Republic

2013 Other Lives

@ The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland

2013 Out of the Electric Mist

@ The Custom House, Westport, Co. Mayo, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2012 Fragments

@ Corridor Gallery, University of Leeds School of Design, Leeds, UK

2012 Trace

@ The Market Place Arts Centre, Armagh City, Co. Armagh, N. Ireland

2011 Citizens of the State of Mediacy

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2010 Unfixing

@ The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland

2009 DIS / locate

@ The Custom House, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2009 Convergence

@ Upstairs Gallery, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, Ireland

2008 Interstitial

@ Patrick Street Gallery, Cork City, Co. Cork, Ireland

2006 Intervention/Reinvention

@ The Custom House, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

Public Art Works/Installations

2025 Everything That Rises: Risen

@ Larroque, Tarn, France (in assoc. Larroque Arts Festival LAF2025)

2024 Resonator

@ Larroque, Tarn, France (in assoc. Larroque Arts Festival LAF2024)

2023 Vestige

@ Civic Offices, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2019 Borderline

@ Various field locations, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2016 00040

@ Larroque, Tarn, France (in association with Larroque Arts Festival LAF2016)

2015 IUXTA

@ Larroque, Tarn, France (in association with Larroque Arts Festival LAF2015)

2014 Everything That Rises Must Converge

@ FIND, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Alice Maher & Aideen Barry)

2014 Remnant

@ GMIT Castlebar Campus, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (part of IN SITU Residency programme)

2012 Sepulchre

@ Greenway Sculpture Trail 2012, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

Group/Joint/Selected Exhibitions

2026

ArtEvol 2026 : A View from Everywhere, London Art Collective

OSTEN Biennial of Contemporary Visual Arts 2026, Skopje, Macedonia (selected by Kornelija Koneska)

1st International Mini Print Biennale 2026, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Soft Fascination, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, (curated Marianne O’Kane Boal)

HOME, London E14, England (curated by Wai Kit Lam)

196th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland

RBA (Royal Society of British Artists) Annual Exhibition 2026, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2025

Mayo Artist Show 2025, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Aoife Banks)

Clifden Arts Festival, Interface, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (curated by Alannah Robins)

Anarchive, Saldanha Gallery, Artlink, Fort Dunree, Buncrana, Co. Donegal, Ireland (curated by Ciara Corscadden Hennessy)

Dabas Notveršanu/Capturing Nature/, Culture Centre, Jelgava, Latvia; Valles Saieta nams, Bauska, Latvia (curated by Katrīna Tračuma)

2024

Here The Considered Line, Clifden Arts Festival, Interface, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (curated by Lenka Sýkorová)

2023

All The Dark Places, Clifden Arts Festival, Interface, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (curated by Alannah Robins)

Juxtapose Art Fair 2023, Aarhus, Denmark (in association with Lacuna Festivals)

Supermarket Art Fair 2023, Stockholm, Sweden (with Interface Inagh)

2022

Root and Branch, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Wales; W.I.R. 111 Dorfkirche Meierstorf, Germany

Falling In Love Outward, GIAF Galway International Arts Festival/Clifden Arts Festival, Interface Inagh, Co. Galway, Ireland

192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland

2021

Wish You Well, Karin Weber Gallery, Central, Hong Kong; This is not a Cafe, Tainan, Taiwan
Mirrored Journey, 29th EU-Japan Fest, online exhibition (curated by Kazuhiro Yajima and Violeta Ivanova)
191st RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland
Bring the Mind Home, Artlink Saldanha Gallery, Forth Dunree, Donegal, Ireland (curated by Kaitlynn Webster)

2020

190th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland
139th RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, N. Ireland

2019

An Enduring Mystery, Interface Inagh, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland
189th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland
Surveillé·e·s, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland (curated by Nora Hickey M’Sichili & Linda Shevlin)

2018

Lower Austria Culture Prize 2018, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für moderne Kunst, St. Pölten, Austria
Incomplete Nature, Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (curated by Alannah Robins)
Incomplete Nature, Interface Inagh, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (curated by Alannah Robins)
Surveillé·e·s, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (curated by Nora Hickey M’Sichili)
188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland
EVA International, Limerick, Ireland (curated by Inti Guerrero)

2017

Surface Tension, Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden (curated by Alannah Robins)
Surface Tension, Interface Inagh/Clifden Arts Festival, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland (curated by Alannah Robins)
COE2017, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Tom Morton)
IMPRESSIONS 2017, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
Archiving Activism, The Model, Sligo, Ireland; Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Breda Burns)
Wooden Web, The House of Arts, Brno Czech Republic (curated by Josef Danek)

2016

186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland

2015

COE15, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo (curated by Brian Cass)
185th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Association, Dublin, Ireland
Lonely Planet, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

2014

marginalia, QSS Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland (2-person show with Fergus Jordan)
Unplugged, Clifden Arts Festival 2014, Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland (3-person show with Betty Gannon & Michael Gannon)
IN SITU, GMIT Castlebar Campus, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (with Amanda Rice, Joanna Hopkins & Betty Gannon)
COE14 Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Michelle Cotton)
FIND, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Exploring Spaces, Mid-Antrim Museum at The Braid, Ballymena, N. Ireland (curated by Marianne O'Kane Boal)

2013

20:20 VISION, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Linda Shevlin)
183rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, Ireland

2012

Watching the River Flow - Irish Artists, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal (curated by Sean Walsh)
Sunshine & Precipitation / De la Pluie et du Beau Temps, La Station, Nice, France
Undertow, The Lab, Dublin 1, Ireland (curated by Alice Maher & Aideen Barry)

2011

Undertow, Ormston House Gallery, Limerick, Ireland (curated by Alice Maher & Aideen Barry)

POHO: Painting on Household Objects, The Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland (curated by Diane Henshaw)

2010

Put A Lid On It, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland (curated by Siobhán McGibbon and Zulaikha Engelbrecht)

Bellacorick: Impressions of a Place, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Ireland (with Betty Gannon & Michael Gannon)

CCA:RDS Collective Contemporary Art, RDS, Dublin 4, Ireland (curated by Helen Carey)

2009

COE2009, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland (curated by Tom Morton)

Samhlaíocht Gallery, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland (2-Person Show, with Niall McCormack)

WHAT IS EUROPE?, Kornhaeuschen, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Intersection Correlation, turn-berlin, Berlin, Germany (curated by Jan Hughes & Brian Hackney)

2007

Céad in China, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai ; 411 Galleries, Hangzhou ; China Central Academy of Fine Art Gallery , Beijing , China (curated by James Ryan)

2006

Enniskillen Visual Arts Open, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, N. Ireland (curated by Diane Henshaw)

Better than the Real Thing, Four Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (curated by Regina Gleeson)

2005

IONTAS , Sligo Art Gallery , Sligo, Ireland (curated by Teresa Millet)

6x6 For Ireland, 411 Galleries, Hangzhou; Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai;

China Central Academy of Fine Art Gallery , Beijing , China (curated by Karen Loughrey)

Curatorial Initiatives, Instigated/Devised Projects & Exhibitions

2023 Imposed Geometries v2.0 (Tom Brawn, Betty Gannon & Cormac O'Leary)

@ Esker Arts, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland

2023 Gus Lynott: Say What You See

@ Ballina Civic Offices, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland (in association with Ballina Arts Centre)

2022 Imposed Geometries (Tom Brawn, Betty Gannon & Cormac O'Leary)

@ Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2018 The Cabinet of Wonders #6

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2017 The Cabinet of Wonders #3/#4/#5

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2016 The Cabinet of Wonders #1/#2

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2015 Landscape In Line

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2014 Shrouded Spirits (installation of photographs by Betty Gannon)

@ McGing's Bar, Westport, Co Mayo, Ireland

2013 Drawing on the Back of an Envelope

@ Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2011 Things That Matter

@ McGings Bar, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2010 Invited

@ Hastings, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2010 BLINK

@ Westport Arts Festival Visual Art Programme & Art Trail, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2007 FIRST FIX

@ The Custom House, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland (co-curated with Fintan Friel)

Grants/Awards

2026 Winsor & Newton Award, Royal Society of British Artists

2026 Mayo County Council Artist Bursary

2025 Mayo County Council Public Art Panel 2025 -2030

2025 Bolay Programme 2025, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland (in association with mentor/curator Marianne O'Kane Boal)

2023 Mayo County Council Award (UPSTART)

2022 Tyrone Guthrie Mayo County Council Regional Bursary Award

2020 Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland

2019 Arts Counci Covid-19 Crisis Response Award, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland

2018 Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich 18 (Lower Austria Culture Prize), Austria

2018 AIR-Krems Residency Scholarship, Krems an der Donau, Austria

2018 North West Open 2018 Award, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

2016 LSC North West Open 2016, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

2015 Heinrich Böll Residency Award, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland

2011 Tyrone Guthrie Mayo County Council Regional Bursary Award

2006 Exhibition Assistance Award, Mayo County Council