Oisín Byrne

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Oisín Byrne
Oisín Byrne (b. 1983, Dublin) is an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. He studied at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin and Goldsmiths, University of London. Byrne's multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, film, music and writing, and explores themes of language, identity and the complexities of selfhood. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at institutions such as the Salzburger Kunstverein, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunstinstituut Melly, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, EVA International, Paris Internationale and Princeton University. In 2024, he presented Smell the Book (Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland), his first solo exhibition in Scotland, featuring new paintings inspired by Gaelic and Irish texts in the Mount Stuart archives, alongside sound and film works. His writing has been published in books by Pilot Press, Ma Bibliotheque, Eros Press and BookWorks.
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Oisín Byrne

Oisín Byrne (b. 1983, Dublin) is an Irish artist, writer and filmmaker based in London. Working across painting, film, performance, sound and text, Byrne’s practice explores language, identity and the layered construction of selfhood. He studied at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, and Goldsmiths, University of London.


Byrne’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Salzburger Kunstverein, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunstinstituut Melly, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, EVA International, Paris Internationale and Princeton University. In 2024, he presented Smell the Book at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute — his first solo exhibition in Scotland — featuring new paintings inspired by historic Gaelic and Irish texts, alongside sound and film works. The same year, his painting Finbar was shown in Irish Art Now at the Embassy of Ireland in London.


His writing has been published by Pilot Press, Ma Bibliotheque, Eros Press and Bookworks, and he has collaborated with writers and artists including Dennis Cooper, Isabel Nolan and Ghalya Saadawi. 

 
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