Bernadette Cotter b. 1958, Co Cork, Ireland.
EDUCATION:
1989 MFA Degree, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
1986 BFA Degree, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
1979 B Ed. De gree, Carysfort College of Education, Dublin, Ireland
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS:
2015 Visual Arts Bursary, Cork County Council, Cork, Ireland
2012 Scéim Sparánacht d’Ealaíontóirí, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Ireland
2011 Culture Ireland Grant
2008 Culture Ireland Grant
1996 Visual Arts Bursary, The Arts Council, Ireland
1989 Fulbright Enhancement Grant
1987 Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco Foundation
1986 Fulbright Scholarship
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Repair, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick, Ireland
2014 skin to air & Edge of Absence, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
2011 Dear Altar, 4th Annual ENGAGE Arts Festival, Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
2009 Snaithín Áine, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill agus Bernadette Ní Choitir, Gailearaí na gCroisbhealaí, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, Ireland
2008 Still Life, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, California, USA
2006 Neartú, An Gailearaí, Ceardlann na gCroisbhealach, An Fál Carrach, County Donegal, Ireland
2005 and the greatest of these, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
2002 Dear Altar, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
2000 Dear Altar, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
1998 Dear Altar, The Natalie & James Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA
1996 Coming to Land, Siamsa Tire, County Kerry, Ireland
Anywhere Is, Show‘N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1995 Reflection: Briseann an Dúchas Trí Shúilibh an Chait, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1993 The Hand Writing, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018 RHA Annual 2018, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland
2016 RHA Annual 2016, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Disconnect, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
2014 artisterium’ 14 Tbilisi, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’, Tbilisi, Georgia
SELECT, triskel christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork, Ireland
2012 Samkura: A Journey, Festival of Invisible Cities, The State Museum of Contemporary Art , Warehouse B, Thessaloniki, Greece
Irish Wave, Hidden Meanings, Yan Cho Collection Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 Pink Art Fair, Seoul Coex InterContinental Hotel, Seoul, Gangnamgu Bongeunsaro 524, Seoul, Korea
Time in Space, Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland
Robert Rasmussen, Hun-Chung Lee, Bernadette Cotter, UM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Irish Wave 2, Landscape and Memory, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
2010 Scoláireacht Mhadghie Hughie Eoin, Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, County Donegal, Ireland
Bittersweet, Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland
RHA Annual Exhibition 2010, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Páip. Eal, Works on Paper, An Gailearaí, Falcarragh, County Donegal, Ireland
Fruitcakes and Furrycollars, Bridge House B&B, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
2008 artisterium 08 Tbilisi, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Georgian National Museum,
Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’, Tbilisi, Georgia
2007 Tension, Atkins Building, Camden Quay, Cork, Ireland
Summer Group Exhibition, mcbride Gallery, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland; Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Death and Desire, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork
INTER-CHANGES, Fulbright at 50 Anniversary Exhibition, Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Time & Place, Macroom Town Hall, County Cork, Ireland; mcbride Gallery 2006, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
idir, Interdisciplinary Performance Collaboration, Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne, County Cork, Ireland
2005 C2 Contemporary Art from Cork, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2004 Ur, Clo Ceardlann na gCnoc, Doiri Beaga, Dun na nGall, Donegal, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2003 An Leabhar Mor, The Great Book of Gaelic, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
tobar, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
the national gallery a slide show, The Return, Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, Dublin, Ireland
2002 An Leabhar Mor (The Great Book of Gaelic) “Ealaíontóirí Mhuscrai”, Club Chonradh na Gaeilge, Dublin, Ireland
An Leabhar Mor (The Great Book of Gaelic) “Ealaíontóirí Mhuscrai”, Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne, Co. Cork, Ireland
VAMP, Samhlaiocht, Kerry Film Festival, County Kerry, Ireland
2001 VAMP (Video Art Mentoring Project), with Nigel Rolfe and Cork Film Centre, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co Cork, Ireland
Ealaíontóirí Mhúscraí, Electrical Engineering Building, University College Cork, Ireland;
2000 Korean Sculpture, Worldwide Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art Gyung gi-do, Korea
Bernadette Cotter, Robert Rasmussen, Woong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
O Dhuthaigh Mhuscrai, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland; Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne, County Cork, Ireland
Art in the Cathedral, St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, Ireland
EV+A 2000 Friends and Neighbours, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
1999 Iontas 1999, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
1998 EV+A, City Hall, Limerick City, Ireland
Works on Paper, Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Cheap Thrills, The Lab, San Francisco, California, USA
1997 Discards, Secession at Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Fixed Price Sale, The Lab, San Francisco, California, USA
1995 Discards, Secession at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1994 Siolru, National Maternity Hospital Centenary Exhibition, RHA Gallaher Gallery, Dublin Ireland
1993 It’s About Power, Belcher Street Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Show‘N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1992 Homefront, Falkirk Cultural Centre, San Rafael, California, USA
1991 The Barn, Ballingeary, County Cork, Ireland
1990 The Bride and the Boat, Show‘N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Flag Show, Athol McBean Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1989 Madonna Performance, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Corporeality, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Endurance Action, Artspace Annex, San Francisco, California, USA
1988 Show‘N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Visions and Voices, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, USA
Sex Self-portrait, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
1987 Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
1986 BFA Show, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
1985 Living Art Show, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
1984 Living Art Show, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Independent Art Show, Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
COMMISSIONS & RESIDENCIES:
2012 Samkura, Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 Le Chéile, drawing for Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, Commissioned by Ionad Áise, Ré na nDoirí, Macroom, Co Cork, Ireland 2009 Mise agus Oileán Chléire, Stitching Together. Mentored project with people of Oileán Chléire. Sponsored by Údarás na Gaeltachta
and West Cork Arts Centre
2008 Dinnseanchas, Residency with poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Commissioned by Gailearaí na gCroisbhealaí, Co Donegal, Ireland
2005 idir, Performance Installation with Chris Hurley, Fearghus O'Connchúir, Iarla O'Lionáird, Robert Rasmussen. Commissioned by
Ionad Cultúrtha, Baile Mhúirne, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland
2004 Maggie Hughie Eoghan Scholarship and Residency, Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, County Donegal, Ireland
CATALOGUES
REPAIR Bernadette Cotter, 2018, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Pery Square, Limerick. Texts by Sara Baume and Dr. Austin McQuinn
Samkura: A Journey, 2012, Contemporary Arts Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece. Text by Maria Tsantsanoglou
Bernadette Cotter, Robert Rasmussen, 2011, UM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Time in Space, Town Hall Gallery, 2011, Macroom, Co Cork, Ireland. Cork County Library and Arts Services. Text by John Daly, Hillsboro Fine Art
ENGAGE ARTS FESTIVAL BANDON, 2011, Bandon, Co Cork, Ireland
PINK ART FAIR SEOUL 2011, Intercontinental Seoul COEX Hotel, Korea. Text by Junsuk Jang
ARTISTERIUM IV Free Fall, 2011, 4th Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Georgia. Text by Magda Guruli
Profiles, 2009, Ealaíontóirí Mhuscraí, Cork County Council Library and Arts Services, Cork, Ireland
Snaithín Áine, 2009, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill agus Bernadette Ní Choitir, Gailearaí na gCroisbhealaí, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Text by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
artisterium '08 Tbilisi, 2008, International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi History Museum 'Karvasla', Tbilisi, Georgia
Tension, 2007, Atkins Building, Camden Quay, Cork, Ireland
Interchanges Fulbright at 50 Anniversary Exhibition, 2007, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Text by Alan Phelan
Death and Desire, 2007, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Text by Dr Grace Neville
Idir, 6-9 January, 2006, Ionad Culturtha, Baile Mhuirne, County Cork, Ireland
Time & Place, 2006, Town Hall, Macroom, County Cork, Ireland. Text by James Elkins
mcbride Gallery 2006, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. Text Dr Denise Ferran
C2 Contemporary Art from Cork 2005, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. Text Peter Murray
Samhlaiocht, Kerry Film Festival 2002, County Kerry, Ireland
Korean Sculpture Worldwide Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Korea, 2000
EV+A 2000, Limerick City of Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland. Text by Rosa Martínez
EV+A 1998, Limerick City of Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland. Text by Paul M O'Reilly
Síolrú 1994, The National Maternity Hospital of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Text by Eavan Boland
Homefront, Falkirk Cultural Centre, San Rafael, California, USA, 1992
Flag, 1990 Annual Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA
San Francisco Art Institute, Masters of Fine Arts Graduates, 1989