John Gibbons CV

Born 1949 Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland. 1972-1976 St Martin's School of Art, London. 1970 - 1972 Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, Ireland. 1970 Limerick School of Art, Limerick, Ireland.

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2026 John Gibbons The Ghost/Within, Castor, The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London.
2019 John Gibbons and Larry Poons: Surface & Light, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.         
2017 John Gibbons: Sculpture / Transmissions’, West Court Gallery, Jesus Collage, Cambridge.
2017  John Gibbons:The Messengers’, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
2015 John Gibbons: A Line of Thought, Sculpture 1980-2014’, Unit 61, Parkside, Deptford, London, England.
2014 John Gibbons, Colour/Light, Drawing & Wall Based Scuplture', Custom House Studios Gallery, Westport, Ireland
2011 John Gibbons: Sculpture & Drawing’, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London. 
2010 John Gibbons Light/Listen’, Selected Sculptures 1991-2010, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
2010 John Gibbons', Art In Focus, Charing Cross Hospital, London, 2010-2011.
2009 John Gibbons Portraits', National Portrait Gallery,London, 2009-2010.
2009 John Gibbons The Mayo Drawings’, Jesus College, Cambridge
2007 Endless Sky/And Other Stories', Flowers Central, London.
2006 John Gibbons', Canem Galeria, Castello, Spain.
2005 North, South, East and West, John Gibbons' New Work: Sculpture in the Workplace, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London                                                                                                                                     2003 John Gibbons Charles Tyrrell' , Taylor Galleries, Dublin Ireland
2003 As One – New Sculptures,' Flowers East, London
2002 Untold, The Napoleon Garden, Holland Park, London
2001 John Gibbons,' Flowers Central, London
1999 Being, Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan, Hungary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
1999 Being, Endre Horvath Gallery, Balassagyarmat, Hungary                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
1999 Body and Soul, Flowers East, London                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
1999 From the Hand, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1998 John Gibbons 'The Small Sculpture 1981 - 98' Lothbury Gallery, London.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
1998 John Gibbons 'Signs of Passage', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
1998 John Gibbons 'Signs of Passage', Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
1997 Form and Metaphor, Kettles Yard, Cambridge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
1997 Form and Metaphor, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester                                                                                                                                                                                                       
1997 John Gibbons New Sculpture, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1996 From Night to Day, Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
1996 Flowers Graphics, London
1994 Flowers East, London
1992. John Gibbons, New Sculpture, Angela Flowers Gallery, London Fields, London
1990 Flowers East Gallery, London
1988 John Gibbons: Small Sculptures 1981-87, Madeleine Carter Fine Art, Boston, Mass, USA
1987 Galerie Wentzel, Koln, Germany
1987 John Gibbons / Mali Morris, Woodlands Art Gallery, London.
1986 John Gibbons, Sculpture 1981-86, Serpentine Gallery, London
1986 John Gibbons Sculpture, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
1984 The Triangle Centre, New York, USA
1981 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1979 Project Gallery, Dublin
1975 International Arts Centre, London

Public Collections
Tate, London
Arts Council England
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Modern Art Centre / Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
MACBA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Kasser Art Foundation, USA
The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague
The Whitworth Art Gallery , Manchester
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Jesus College, University of Cambridge
Syracuse University, New York , USA
OPW, Environmental Protection Agency, Johnstown Castle, Co. Wexford, Ireland
OPW, Dublin, Ireland
The National Self-Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, Ireland
Nograd History Museum, Salgotarjan, Hungary
Contemporary Arts Society, Dublin
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Comino Foundation
Sculpture at Goodwood
Imperial College Healthcare Charity Art Collection, London
The Ballinglen Archive, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland
Bank of Montreal
B.Z.W. London
Bradford Museums, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

Residencies & Fellowships

2018 Fundacion Casa Wabi,  Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico. 
2017 Visiting artist, Vermont Studio Centre, VT, USA.
2015 Visiting Artist, Sculpture Marathon, New York Studio School.
2011 The Heinrich Böll Association, Achill, Co Mayo, Ireland.
2011 Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
2010 RHA studio, Dublin.      
2009  Elected member of Aosdána.
2009 Emeritus Professor, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
2008 Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2013.
2003 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
2001 Invited artist, 'Steelworks,' Jindal Art Foundation, first international artists residency at the Jindal Iron and Steel Company, Mumbai, India.
1997 The Sirius Project. Cobh, Co Cork, Ireland.
1995 Elected Professor
1995 Participated in 'the Table of Silence'. International seminar of catlaytic sculpture Fundatia Culturala Romana, Bucharest, Romania.
1991 Guest Sculptor; Emma Lake Artist Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada, with guest painter Kenneth Noland.
1987 Participated in 'Art Triangle Barcelona', Barcelona, Spain
1986 Guest Sculptor; Triangle Artists Workshop, Pine Plains, NY, USA, with guest painter Larry Poons.
1986 Participated in the Hardingham Sculpture Workshop, Hardingham, Norfolk, England.
1985 Participated in Medicine Hat Sculpture Symposium, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
1984 Visiting Artist, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., USA on 'Four Sculptors' Programme.
1983 Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
1983 Visiting Artist, Clayworks Studio Workshop, NYC, USA.
1982 Participated in 'Triangle Artists Workshop' Pine Plains, NY, USA.
1980 Visiting Artist, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, USA

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