Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1979
Lives & works in Dublin, Ireland
Education
1999 – 2003 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting, Glasgow School of Art
1998 – 1999 Stillorgan Senior College, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin
Current / Forthcoming Exhibitions
2019
Farbvision, Berlin (S)
Mary Mary, Glasgow (S)
2020
Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf (S)
Solo Exhibitions
2017
A House and Its Head, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2015
shapes from life, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
light on a leaf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin
2014
There are all sorts of lives, Mary Mary, Glasgow
2013
The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2012
day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011
nature had an inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Aleana Egan (At intervals, while turning), The Drawing Room, London
2009
Sunday Night, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Space for the man whose keys I rescued, Art Basel Statements, Basel
2008
War Atlas Yachting & Nautical Cuttings, Mary Mary, Glasgow
We sat down where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2006
Mary Mary, Glasgow
2005
Doldrums, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow
2003
Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
2002
Collaborative work with John Egan, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Pearl Blauvelt / Aleana Egan, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Dorothy Cross / Aleana Egan / Siobhán Hapaska / Isabel Nolan / Kathy Prendergast, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2017
Sculptors’ Drawings, Alma Zevi, Venice
Curve of a hill like the curve of a green shoulder, Mary Mary, Glasgow
Intelligent Touch, Project Space Tilburg, The Netherlands
2016
Two Birds/One Stone, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
2015
Out there, thataway, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Derry
Contemporary Drawings, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (curated by Drawing Room)
2014
Dukkha, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Vestibule, outdoor work commission, Merrion Square, Dublin
Deep One Perfect Morning, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
2013
The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Several Species of Small Furry Animals gathered Together in a cave and grooving with a Pict, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin
Aleana Egan / Lucia Nogueira / Bojan Sarcevic, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
Francesco Arena / Aleana Egan / Rudolf Polanszky, Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe
Drawing : Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London
2012
A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Brussels
Drawing : Sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
All humans do, White Box, New York
2010
The Alchemy of Material, Landesmuseum Münster, Germany
Arrivals & Departures Europe, Mole Vavitelliana, Ancona
Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York
2009
About Premises and Promises, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
Jerwood Contemporary Painters, PSL (Project Space Leeds), Leeds
Green Light, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009, Jerwood Space, London & touring Working Space, Dublin
Nina Canell / Aleana Egan / Marzena Nowak, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
2008
Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
Transformational Grammers, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
abc – art berlin contemporary, Berlin (with Galerie Sandra Buergel)
Gracelands Festival, Ireland
5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Scala Paradisi, Schurmann, Berlin
Wilkommen to reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
2007
Eccentric Growth, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
Our affects fly out of the field of human reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin
2005
Take it further (Part 2), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini)
Flounder 2, Amsterdam
2004
Aleana Egan / Lee O’Connor, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow
GSS Gallery, Glasgow
2003
Royal Scottish Academy, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
2002
Group Show, Mitte, Berlin
2001
Aleana Egan – Robert Hardy, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow