Paul Carter
b. 1979
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Current: Director, Gorey School of Art (GSA)
EDUCATION AND DISTINCTIONS
2006: MFA Art in the Digital World (Hons), Photography and Video, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2001: BA Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
CURATORIAL & COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2022: Art Trails 2022, Lead Organiser, Community Art Project, Gorey, Co. Wexford.
2021: Art Trails 2021, Lead Organiser, Community Art Project, Gorey, Co. Wexford.
2020-2021: The Architecture of Absence, Artist in School Scheme, St. Mary’s Secondary School, Arklow.
2019: George Muncey: Lonely Cloud, Curator/Project Manager, Periphery Space.
2019: peripheriesOPEN 2019, Curator, Open Submission Exhibition, Periphery Space.
2018: peripheriesOPEN 2018, Curator, Open Submission Exhibition, Periphery Space.
2017: peripheriesOPEN 2017, Curator, Open Submission Exhibition, Periphery Space.
2013: PERIPHERIES 2013 Readymades, Curatorial Project.
2012: PERIPHERIES | Art by Proxy, Curatorial Project, Gorey School of Art.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025: Rooted Utopias: our Future at Play, Group Exhibition, Westgate Heritage Centre, Wexford Arts Centre. (Curated by Karla Sánchez)
2010: Unbroken Line, Documentary Film, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow.
2009: Éigse Invited Artist, Éigse Art Festival, Carlow.
2008: International Group Show, Manhattan International Arts Center, New York.
2008: 178th RHA Annual Show, Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin.
2007: Céad in China, (Travelled to Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai; 411 Galleries, Beijing; Hang Lou, China).
2007: Anniversary Show, Leinster Gallery, Dublin.
2006: Reflections, OPW Atrium, Dublin; Switch Room Gallery, Belfast.
2006: Art of the State, Muckross House, Kerry.
2003: Contemporary Irish Art, Opera Festival, Wexford.
2001: De-Ox ribonucleic Acid (DNA), NCAD, Dublin.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006: Space and Place, Leinster Gallery, Dublin.
2006: Genius Loci, Digital Hub, Dublin.
SELECTED AWARDS
2011: Travel Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Emerging Art Organisers Conference London.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Kevin Kelly, Board of Directors, IMMA
Office of Public Works (OPW)
Collectors Club, Dublin
Philip Carton, Private Collection
Harry Crosby, Private Collection
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010: Unbroken Line, Photographer, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art publication.
2007: Of Weight and Wings, Editor of Photography, an RHA publication.
2007: Céad in China, Featured Artist in exhibition catalogue (Shanghai, Beijing, and Hangzhou).
2006: Reflections, Art of the State, Featured in Patrick J. Murphy’s introduction: ‘Paul Carter’s Temple of Hephaistos demonstrates the exciting possibilities of lens-based art at the present time.’
2003: Light, Weight and Gravity, Editor of Photography for Gandon publication. (Publication awarded highest credit for photographic quality by Irish Arts Review magazine.)