Ann Maria
HEALY

Ann Maria Healy is a visual artist based in Galway, Ireland. Graduating from Galway & Mayo Institute of Technology in 2009 with a first class honours in fine art, sculpture, her practice includes live performance, installation and photography. Her work explores the bodies’ relationship to space and time, in particular focusing on cycles, how they affect and shape our lives. She has shown both nationally and internationally, recent work includes Amanda Coogan’s, Yellow – Re-performed as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, Right Here Right Now - Irish Performance Art at Kilmainham Gaol and a residency at the Live Art Development Agency in London.

Since graduating, Healy has been awarded a mentored residency at Galway Arts Centre, where she has subsequently exhibited several times. She has undertaken a residency at The Firkin Crane, working in collaboration with international dancers and had her first solo show at Basement Project Space, Cork. She has also sat on the board of 126 Artist Run Gallery, Engage Studio’s and Tulca’s Season of Visual Art.

for more information see www.annmariahealy.com

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2010

Sounding the Endpoint, Basement Project Space, Cork, 10th March – 17th  March 2010

Collapsed, Galway Arts Centre, 9th February 2010

2009

Monochrome, Galway Arts Centre, 23rd  – 25th November 2009

Group Exhibitions and Performances

2012

2011

 Currency, The Guesthouse, Cork, 9th September 2011

Hello Operator(s), The Guesthouse, Cork, 11th August 2011

W.U.D. feast of fools, the Trades club, Sligo, 5th August 2011

The Asphalt City, The Docks Shed, Galway, 16th – 30th July

Vis-a-Vis, The Galway Arts Festival, The Niland Gallery, Galway, 11th 24th July 2011

Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space, The Niland Gallery, Galway, 10th June – 2nd July 2011

SpeakERR, Live@eight@Occupyspace, Limerick, 5th May 2011

SpeakERR, 126 Gallery, Galway, 15th April 2011

2010

Put a Lid on it, Galway Arts Centre, 23rd  November – 26th  November 2010

Right Here Right Now - Irish Performance Art, Kilmainham Gaol, 4th Nov 2010

Amanda Coogan's, Yellow Re-Performed, Mary's Abbey, Dublin Theater Festival, 2nd  October 2010

Orduithe@Live@8, curated by Andrew Mitchelson, Bar Eight, 29th  September 2010

PerformanceiS, with Victoria Mc Cormack, Dominic Thorpe, Amanda Coogan, Galway Arts Centre, 3rd  July 2010

Enrage, White Room Gallery, Galway Arts Festival 12th – 25th  July 2010

Dorm, with 126 Gallery, The Model, Sligo, May – June 2010

2009

When Then Now/Cuimhne Na Nollag, Rosa Parks Gallery, Galway, December 2009.

Nua Ealainn na Samhna, Rosa Parks Gallery, Galway, November 2009.

Rediscovering Locality, Cork Arts Trail, with Knee-Jerk Collective, November 2009.

Monochrome, Straylight Performance Weekender, curated by Amanda Coogan, Dublin Art Mill, October 2009.

Culture Night, Galway, September 2009.

At First Site, Site specific performance and installation with Knee-Jerk Collective, The Thatched Cottage, Galway, August 2009.

A Secret Place, Engage Art Studios, Galway, July 2009.

Fluxreflux, Performative object and video Installation, Graduate Degree Show, Cluain Mhuire, Galway, June, 2009.

Proximity, Galway & Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, March 2009.

Siren’s Warning, Artspace Gallery, Connecticut, February 2009.

126 Members Swap, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, February 2009.

The 2nd Annual Member’s Show, 126 Gallery, Galway, January 2009.

2008

In/Finite, Takt Kunstprojektraum Gallery, Berlin, September 2008.

Zufallsvariablen, Takt Kunstprojektraum Gallery, Berlin, July 2008.

Elbow Room, Barons Warehouse, Galway, June, 2008.

Graduate Show, Cluain Mhuire, Galway, June 2008.

Curation

The View from Here, 126 Gallery, November 5th  - Nov 21st 2010

Who dares this pair of boots displace? 126 Gallery, September 10th  - October 2nd  2010

Live@8, Evening of live art and screenings, No 8, Galway 31st March 2010.

Il y a Quotidian, Eimear Twomey, 126 Gallery, January 2010.

Video Killed the Radio Star, 126 3rd Annual Members’ Show, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, January – February 2010.

Residencies

Guesthouse, Cork, 1st August – 14th August 2011.

Live Art Development Agency, London, 29th November- 10th  December 2010.

Blank Canvas, collaborative project with Stephen Moynihan, Firkin Crane, Cork, 19th  -30th July 2010

Mentored Residency Award, supported by Galway City Council and Galway County Council. Galway Arts Centre, November 2009 – February 2010.

The Good Hatchery Residency, Co. Offaly, July 2009.

Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, July – August, 2008.

Awards

Individual Artist Grant 2010, awarded by Galway City Council.

Best in Show, Proximity, March 2009, awarded by the Kenny Gallery.

Individual Artists Grant 2008, awarded by Galway City Council.

Related Work

Invigilator for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, September 2009.