education
1990 – 91
1982 – 85
1981 – 82
M.A. in Sculpture Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
National Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction), Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
National Certificate in Visual Education, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
fellowships and residencies
2005
2004
2002

1998
1997
1996
1992 - 93
AHRC Funded, 3 Year Fellowship at Middlesex University
Informal Architecture Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Media and Visual Arts Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Artist in Residence with Glen Howell Architects,
RIBA & London Borough of Wandsworth, London
Artist in Residence, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Artist in Residence, Camden Arts Centre, London
Artist in Residence, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Arts, New York City

 

teaching and examining
2005
2003 - 04
2001 - 04
2002
1994
1994 - 88
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art ,Darting College of Art, Totnes, Devon
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, London
External Examiner, BA Sculpture, Limerick School of Art, Ireland
Guest Speaker/Lecturer, Central St-Martins School of Art, London
Visiting Lecturer, MA Sculpture, Chelsea School of Art, London
Visiting Lecturer, Diploma in Fine Art, Limerick School of Art, Ireland

 

related employment
2002
1985 – 05
1989 - 90
1985 - 90
1985 - 87
Consultant, Progetto Modrno Design, Venice, Italy
Independent Artist
Photographic Archivist, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland
Co-ordinator, All + 10 Sorts Artists’ Studios, Limerick, Ireland
Photographic Technician, Dept of Fine Art, Limerick School of Art, Ireland
grants and awards
2005
2004
2003
2002

2001
1998

1996
1995
1994

1993

1990
1991
1991
1990
1989
AHRC Fellowship Award
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
London Arts Board Bursary,
Banff Centre for the Arts Bursary, Canada
Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary
RIBA, Art for Architecture Award
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Bursary
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Fellowship
Barclays’ Young Artist Award (Winner)
The “Burstin” Award, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
Arts Council of Ireland, Exhibition Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Materials Grant
selected installation projects
2005
2004
2002

2001

1999 – 2000


1998
1996 – 98
1995


1994
1993

1991
Kilkenny Arts Festival
“Killing Time” The Phatory, New York.
“Talking in Turns”, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
“Illumination”, Ballymun Regeneration Project, Dublin, Ireland
“With Intent”, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland
“Thread” Site Gallery, Sheffield.*
“Isn’t it Normal”, P.S.1, Institute for Contemporary Art, New York,
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York State,
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Crawford Gallery, Cork•
“Untitled”, Home 1, London
“A long thin thread,” PADT, Heathrow Airport
“Swimming to the surface” Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
“The policing of pleasure”, The Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
“Temporal Change II”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
“Temporal Change” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“A Sense of Time”, P.S.1: Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
“Surveying and Containing”, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“Untitled”, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
* project realised as part of group exhibition

 

selected public and collaborative projects
2003
2001
1999

“Art Wall”, Commission for the new Civic Chambers, Limerick County Council, Ireland
“Object”, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Ireland
“Millennium Post”, with Glenn Howells Architects, London

 

selected group shows
2004
2001 - 05


2001
1993
1992

1991
1990

“Contemporaries”, Ecology Building ,London, Uk
“Bungalow Bliss” , MoDA, London,
Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada
Light House, Glasgow, Scotland
“Poof”, National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland
“Other Borders”, Gray Gallery N.Y.U., New York
Barclay Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London
“Lux Europea”, City of Edinburgh, City of Culture
“Young Contemporaries”, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
“Sexuality and Gender”, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

 

selected reviews

Caoimhín Mac Goilla Léith, “Andrew Kearney”, exhibition review in Art Forum, No.7, March 2002, pp150-151
Jim Savage, “Andrew Kearney”, exhibition review, CIRCA: Visual Culture in Ireland, no.98, winter 2001, pp.44-45
Colin Coyle, “Bliss or Blitz?” in The Sunday Times, (Irish Edition) 23/09/01, Section 3, pp.1-2.
Alessandra Paudice “Bungalow Mania” in Vogue Italia, No.61, pp.261-262
John Walsh, “Living in a Box” in The Independent Magazine, 15/09/01, pp. 2, 42-44.
Austin Williams, “Single-storey saga” in The Architects Journal, Nov. 2001, pp.44-45.
Alan Powers, “A Touch of nature” in The Spectator, 29/09/01
Tim Hilton, “Art School that is glad to be grey” exhibition review, The Guardian, 13-01-92, p.36
Aidan Dunne, “A Seductive Journey to the Underworld” exhibition review, Irish Times, 22/5/94
Emer Maloney, “Temporal Change” exhibition review, The Sunday Times, 29-5-94
Brian Sewell, “Hanging is too Good for Them” exhibition review, The Evening Standard, 13/02/92,p.26

 

selected catalogues and publications

Mike Fitzpatrick, Andrew Kearney, Profiles Series, Cork: Gandon Press, 2001
Peter Murray, 0044, exhibition catalogue for group show, New York: Albright Knox, 1999
Jenny Lomax, Mark Leahy, The Policing of Pleasure,
exhibition catalogue, London: Camden Arts Centre, 1995