Nevan Lahart: The Most Conservative Game in Town
Opening Reception Thursday 14 February 6 – 8pm
Nevan Lahart (b. 1973, Kilkenny. Lives and works in Dublin)
Lahart graduated in 2003 with an MA in Virtual Realities from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
Upcoming Shows: Gothenburg Biennial 2013, Measures of Saving the World _ Part 1< rotor > Graz, Austria., To Have and Have Not, HALLE 14 Leipzig , ACC Galerie Weimar, COEXIST, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Lahart’s solo shows include; Won-Nil, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2012); HD Softcore, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (2011); A Colonial Subject in Washington DC, Solus Nua, Washington DC, USA (2010); A Lively Start to a Dead End, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (2010); Heaven’s Full and the Fire Escapes are Locked, Heaven’s Full, London, UK (2009) and UGLY LOVELY, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland (2009).
Group exhibitions in 2012 included; Newtopia, Mechelen, Belgium, Cutting a Door, The Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China; Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Into the Light: The Arts Council – 60 Years of Supporting the Arts, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Others include Dublin Contemporary, Dublin (2011); Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool (2011); Twenty at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2011); Grin & Bear It:Cruel Humour in Art and Life, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, (2009); and Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (2009).
Dublin 8
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