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Awards & Residencies

Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholar
Leverhulme Master of Fine Art Bursary.
Fingal Artist Support Scheme.
Fingal Artist Support Scheme.
Artist in Residence, The National Gallery of Ireland.
D-Light & BLOW Photo, Studio Award.
STEP, European Cultural Foundation & Compagnia di San Paolo.
Irish Embassy Funding.
Irish Embassy Awarded, DFA Travel Grant.
Graphic Studio Graduate Award, 1st Prize.
RHA Peer Studio Residency.
Black Church Print Studio Group Residency.
Mary Cawley Travel Bursary.
Irish Representative for the 2014 European Artist Book Biennale, Moscow.
Artist representative of NCAD at Kuntspodium-T: Apprentice/Master Conference.
Black Church Undergraduate Award.


Exhibitions

10th Silk Road International Arts Festival, Shaanxi Provincial Art Museum. Xi’An. CHN
Art Riddler, One Charlemont Square, Dublin. IRE 
The Glasgow School of Art, MFA Postgraduate Showcase, The Glue Factory, Glasgow. UK
Coalesce, Reid Gallery, Glasgow. UK
Solve the Equation, The Wrong Biennale, Valencia. ES
Do you know who I am, SouthBlock Gallery, Glasgow. UK
Salon des Inclusion, Annex Gallery, Glasgow. UK

HFBK x GSA, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg. DE
Chaos Reigns, Warehouse at David Dale Gallery and Studios, Glasgow. UK
GSA X HFBK, The Glue Factory, Glasgow. UK
flaming flowers that brightly blaze**, Ok_Gallery, New York. USA
SWATCHED x Blush, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow. UK
Interim Exhibition, Reid Gallery, Glasgow. UK
Screw It, Barnes Garage, Glasgow. UK
Let it Punk, The Old School, Glasgow. UK
House of Hibernia, Dublin. IRE

Sedes Sapientiae, 24 Hour Window, Glasgow. UK
Páipéar, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin. IRE
Annuale, Leith Arches, Edinburgh. UK

191st Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. IRE
GDOD Radio, Glasgow. UK
A Reluctant Mirage by Brendan Fox, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, IRE
SCOOP, The Copper House Gallery, Dublin, IRE

s w i t c h, Nenagh. Tipperary. IRE
A passer by, Glasgow. UK
Games for Artists and Non-Artists, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IRE
190th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. IRE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Gum Collective, IRE
With Love, Paint Talk. IRE
36th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London. UK

On Display, The National Gallery of Ireland. IRE
Stream, The Sailers Home, Limerick. IRE
188th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. IRE
Invasion Vtorzheniye, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art,
Moscow. RUS
Grafika Irlandzka, Galeria Centrum, Kraków. POL
Platform, Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown. IRE
136th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast. NI
how to grow ( blackmoon ), The Complex, Dublin. IRE

LIMBO, Malpas Street Studio, Dublin, IRE
Silk Road, Shaanxi Museum, Xi’an. CHN
Interwoven- DABF, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. IRE
Notes from the Heart of the City, Abbey Studios, Dublin. IRE.
D24: A users manual, RUARED, Tallaght. IRE
Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area, Studio6, Temple Bar Gallery & Studio. IRE
187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. IRE
Distorted Perspectives, Letterkenny RCC, Letterkenny. IRE
Fair is Foul, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Studio 6. Dublin. IRE
Soft, Bell-Table, Limerick. IRE
Young III, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin. IRE
The Idea of North, So Fine Art Editions, Dublin. IRE

Leg Over Soil, MART Gallery. Dublin. IRE
GUM, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Studio 6. Dublin. IRE
Printed Matter, The Connacht Tribune Printworks. Galway. IRE
GSD Group Show, MOK Gallery. Dębeca. POL
Signs & Memory, Federal State Institution of Culture. Moscow. RUS
YOUNG II, So Fine Art Editions. Dublin. IRE
At the Carwash, Hendrons Building, Dublin. IRE
100 Minds, The Loft, South Studios. Dublin. IRE
Gum Collective, RHA Gallery, Dublin. IRE
Black Church Cabinet, Dublin. IRE

134th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast. NI
Halftone, TLP, Dublin, IRE
Quantum Leap, Foundation15, Offaly, IRE
Graphic Studio Summer Exhibition, Dublin. IRE
RDS Graduate Award Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society. IRE
St. Patricks Graduate Exhibition, St. Patricks Hospital, Dublin. IRE
Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Roscommon. IRE
More than one maker, IMMA, Dublin. IRE
Graduate Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Dublin. IRE
Beyond the Image, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg. NL
Alumni Exhibition, Belvedere House, Dublin. IRE
Documentary Screening, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. IRE

Pull Bite Rally; Documentary Screening, Harry Clarke, NCAD, Dublin. IRE
Traces, The Library Project, Dublin. IRE
The European Artist Book Biennale, Federal State Institution of Culture. Moscow. RUS
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London. UK
Under Compulsion, Steam Box Gallery, Dublin. IRE
Collision, Mabos, Dublin. IRE
Kultur als Ware und Wirtschaftsfaktor, Westwerk, Leipzig. DE

Ecce Homo, Black Church Cabinet, Dublin. IRE
9th Biennial International Print Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, CT. USA
Minus One, Emmett House, Dublin. IRE
Subconscious, The Joinery, Dublin. IRE



















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Education

Master of Fine Art with Distinction, The Glasgow School of Art. UK

BA, First Class Honours with commendation, Fine Art, National College of Art and Design. IRE

Masterclass in Animated Drawing. Royal Hibernian Academy. IRE
City & Guilds Diploma, New Media Technology College. IRE


Outreach & Demonstrations

Fetured in ‘Doing the Work: Medievalism and the Contemporary Medieval’, Professor Clare A. Lees, University of London.
Mythocritique, The Glasgow School of Art.
Drawing Workshop, Mount Florida Primary School.
BRxACT Charity Initiative, Articulate Cultural Trust.
Lecture Series, Russian State University for the Humanities.
Open Studio, Department A.
Studio+, Studio/Micro organisation, NCAD Lecture Series.
Drawing Day Workshop, Artist Talk and Q&A, The National Gallery of Ireland.
Printmaking Workshop, National Centre of Contemporary Art (NCCA) Moscow.
Project Co-Director, Tallaght Young Filmmakers. RUARED.
Lithography Demonstration, Masterskaya Galereya Pechatnoy Grafiki LITO, Moscow.
Culture Night Open Studio, Argus House, Blackpitts.
‘Verbal Visual’ Panel Discussion, Maxwell Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.
Friends of the RHA Lecture; Gum Collective, RHA School.


Press

The Masked Sessions: Aaron Alexander Smyth
The Art Riddler Podcast, Episode 5.

Art review: GSA Degree Show 2024, Glasgow School of Art: 'has to be seen, heard, touched and even occasionally smelled
Susan Mansfield, The Scotsman

Glasgow School of Art, Master of Fine Art Degree Show
Agnes Sharp and Celeste Macleod-Brown, The Skinny.

The Skinny 2024 Degree Show Supplement
The Skinny

MFA 2024 unveils exciting new generation of artists
GSA Media Centre 

Summer Poetry Series: Aaron Alexander Smyth reads Sharon Olds
Ultraviolet Art Talks.

Páipéar, an exhibition not to be missed
Alison O’Hanlon, Dublin Gazette.

Páipéar Exhibition | Central Plaza Dame Street
John Kenny for RTÉ News and CultureHead

Signs of Memory
TV Kultra Russia interview for Signs of Memory Exhibition Moscow

Maria Chamberlain Talkshow on Moskovskaya Pravda
Radio interview for Signs of Memory, Moscow.

“Aaron Smyth Elevator Line - Pamphlet Series - Vol3”
Visual Arts at Headstuff.org

“Aaron Smyth, Influences - Pamphlet Series - Vol2”
Visual Arts at Headstuff.org

“Aaron Smyth, An introduction - Pamphet Series - Vol1”
Sinead Phelan, Visual Arts at Headstuff.org

New Kids on The Block
Tn2 interview for the NCAD Graduate Exhibition.

Curious About; As Twilight Fades by Aaron Smyth
DublinInquirer Q&A about As Twilight Fades.

Aaron Smyth, in conversation
Beyond the Image. Kunstpodium T, Tilburg.

Iedereen is bezig voorbij het plaatje te kijken
Stadsnieuws article for ‘Beyond the Image’, Kunstpodium T.

NCAD Graduate Catalogue 2015
Project Statement for ‘The Fragile Nature of Intimacy’, p.170.

Aaron Smyth at Cave Writings”  (Alternative Video Link)
In conversation about my work and the Gum Collective.

“Pick of the Week”
Sinead Phelan, Visual Arts at Headstuff.org

Prints among men
Interview with D Joyce Ahearne about myself, my art and the future.

Trinity Misc; Issue 122.1
Collection of images and Artist Statement.

Interpreting Ecce Homo
In conversation with printmaker Debora Ando.

“Collision Catalogue”
Catalogue from ‘Collision’ Exhibition, Mabos, IRE.

On Kildare Street Literature and Visual Arts Make Babies” - Gum Collective
By Damien Murphy, Dublin Enquirer

Unexpected item in the bagging area - review” - Gum Collective
by Maia Mathieu, The Bridge Magazine

Stuck on you” - Gum Collective
by Clara Murray, The Bridge Magazine

Gum- The Art of Sticking With It” - Gum Collective
by Josh Joice, UCD College Tribune


Publications

Piel, Digital Printed, Perfect Bound Artist Publication.
Fair is Foul, Bunny Collective Vol II , Magazine.
Black Lines, Xerox print on Tracing paper with collage.
The studio, By Aimee Gallagher, Silk Screen And Digital Collage.
Untitled, James Bennett, Limited run Xerox Zine.
Irrelevance By Sadbh O’Brien, Digitally printed with Matt finish.
GUM by Black Church Print Studios and NCAD Gallery.
Green Notebook, By Ciara O’Brien
GUM Volume.2.
GUM Volume 1.
Trinity Misc, Magazine






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