Fiona Hackett, Dublin, IRELAND

T: +353 (0)87-6837397 E: fionahackett13@gmail.com

Exhibitions – Solo and Selected Group

  • 2024-5 Rua Red Annual ‘Borders’, showing Extraterritorial Spaces

  • 2024 The Library Project, Halftone Print Fair, La Brea Tar Pits

  • 2024 RHA 194th Annual Exhibition

  • 2023 RHA 193rd Annual Exhibition Dublin

  • 2023 The Library Project, Halftone Print Fair

  • 2022 Museum of Contemporary Photography, Photo Festival Ireland, Group Show, showing selection from Extraterritorial Spaces.

  • 2022 PhotoMuseum Ireland, Politics of Place, Group Show, exhibiting selection from Mausoleums of Precious Belongings

  • 2021 Solo exhibition: ‘The Long Disease: LA Stories’, RHA Dublin

  • 2019 RHA 189th Annual Exhibition. Curtin O’Donoghue Progressive Vision Photography Award winner.

  • 2018 RHA 188th Annual Exhibition Dublin

  • 2017 RHA 188th Annual Exhibition Dublin

  • 2017 Solo exhibition: ‘Mausoleums of Precious Belongings’, DLR Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Co Dublin

  • 2016 Photography in Space/ Space in Photography, Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, University of West Bohemia, Czech

  • 2015 Focus -Mumbai Photo Festival. Selected work: ‘Extraterritorial Spaces’

  • 2015 ‘Self Storage’ in Home, DLR Lexicon Municipal Gallery. Curator Mark St John Ellis, nag Gallery

  • 2013 In the Drawing Room Group Exhibition, Henrietta Street, Dublin

  • 2012 Solo exhibition: ‘Terra Incognita: Imagining Southern California’, UCD Research Building, May/June 2012. From doctoral research Photography, Seismology and the Imagining of Southern California.

  • 2010 ‘The Lives of Spaces’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (Ireland’s Architecture Venice Biennale exhibit).

  • 2009 Solo exhibition: ‘Fade Out’, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray. Solo exhibition.

  • 2009 ‘Extraterritorial Spaces’, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Co Mayo (curated by Tom Morton, Hayward Gallery, London).

  • 2008 ‘Extraterritorial Spaces’, EV+A (curated by Hou Hanru, China/USA).

  • 2008 ‘Human Nature’, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Co Mayo (curated by Lizzie Carey Thomas, Curator of Tate Britain and Turner Prize).

  • 2008 ‘Extraterritorial Spaces’, SCAN ‘08 (Ministry of Arts, Culture and Communications, Catalan, Tarragona, Spain).

  • 2007 RHA Annual Art Exhibition, Dublin.

  • 2007 ‘Fade Out’, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Temple Bar, Dublin. Solo exhibition.

  • 2006 ‘Ordinary Life’, EV+A (curated by Katerina Gregos, Greece).

Press Reviews

  • 2021 Visual Artists Newsletter

  • 2017 The Irish Times review of the solo exhibition Mausoleums of Precious Belongings, DLR Lexicon Gallery, Jan-Mar 2017. ‘How We Pack and Store our Feelings and More’ by Aidan Dunne. Also voted Top 10 Visual Art Exhibitions of 2017.

  • 2015 Conde Naste's Architectural Digest (India) featured Extraterritorial Spaces which was exhibited as part of Mumbai's Photography Festival. ‘Home Away from Home’ by Sanhita Sinha Chowdury and Bindu Nair.

  • 2009 The Irish Times review of the solo exhibition Fade Out, Mermaid Arts Centre ‘Setting the Scene in Empty Rooms’ by Aidan Dunne.

  • 2008 Irish Arts Review, Spring 2008 ‘Open/Invited ev+a 2008’ by Marianne O'Kane Boal.

  • Selected Publications
    The Long Disease: LA Stories by Fiona Hackett. Hardback bound, 168 colour pages, self-publ 2021. ISBN 978-1-5272-7839-4. Printed by MM Artbook Printing

  • Katalog (June 2013): Journal of Photography (Denmark). Four page spread featuring Terra Incognita.

  • Photoworks UK (Dec 2012): Terra Incognita selected to showcase on Photoworks online Gallery.

  • Landscapes Journal (Jan 2013): Fragmentary Landscapes: Revealing Southern California. (Essay including 13 images from Terra Incognita.)

Selected Conferences/ Public Lectures

  • Creating the Geological Imagination in Fieldwork: A study of Ralph Arnold’s Albums. The Huntington Lecture (Los Angeles). Oct 2017

  • Photography in Space/ Space in Photography at the University of Westbohemia, Pilzen, December 2016

  • ‘Landscape in Imagination and the Virtual Future’, CHeriScape conference V Newcastle (UK). Poster: Ground Truths in Southern California: Contemporary Landscape Photography as a Tool of the Geographical Imagination. 2016

  • Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality, Trinity College Dublin. June 2014. Paper: Fault Lines: Terra Incognita in the Geographical Imagining of Southern California.

  • AIARG All Ireland Architectural Research Group, Emerging Research Conference, University of Limerick, 25-26 January 2013. Paper: Research and Art Practice: How research informed the art practice in the making of Terra Incognita

  • Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation, University of Westminster, London, June 2010. Paper: Terra Incognita: Human Dreams and Fragilities in the Southern California Landscape.

Scholarships/Fellowships/Awards

  • 2023 Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award

  • 2019 DLR Arts Grant to pursue Invisible Women creative practice

  • 2015 -16 Dibner Research Fellow Award, The Huntington Library and Archives, Los Angeles. Research grant to pursue interests in relationship between seismology and photography

  • 2015 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Small Arts Grant (DLR) for large format project

  • 2014 Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Small Arts Grant for project – ‘Self Storage’

  • 2009-12 Irish Research Council Post Graduate Award for PhD research project

Education

  • PhD (practice-led in photography) - UCD Clinton Inst of American Studies (2012)

  • BA Photo Institute of Art Design and Technology

  • MSc Occ Psych., Queens University Belfast

  • BA Psych. University College Dublin.

Career Notes

  • 2013-2022 Lecturer in Photography, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. 

  • < 2013 Pursued a career in organizational psychology

Resumé

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