UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2022/2023 Solo Exhibition, TM Galleria, Helsinki, Finland (12.12.2022 – 15.1.2023)
2021 Camouflage, with Mari Mäkiö and Laura Böök, Galleria Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo, Finland (29.10.2021 – 21.11.2021)
Born 1984 in Ireland. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
Contact: info@janehughes.ie ◊ instagram ◊ twitter
EDUCATION
2009 – 2012 M.A. Environmental Art, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
2010 – 2011 M.A. Art in Context, Universität der Kunst (University of the Arts), Berlin, (Erasmus)
2002 – 2006 B.A. Degree in Fine Art Painting, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
2005 B.A. Degree in Media, AKI Academy of Art & Design, The Netherlands, (Erasmus)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU, Galleria Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
2020 The True Believer, Laikku Kulttuuritalo, Tampere, Finland
〉 Someone else’s stories, in collaboration with Taru Kallio, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
〉 Place, Histories and Other Matters, Toradh 2, Old Courthouse, Kells, Ireland
2019 Place, Histories and Other Matters, Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne, Ireland
2018 Architecture of Emotions, Custom House Studios, Westport, Ireland
2015 Gods & Demons of the forest II, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany
2014 Gods & Demons of the forest I, Detroit Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Vulpicide / Citycide, in collaboration with Taru Kallio, Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Imagining Other Worlds, XL Art Space, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Estranged Relations, Ptarmigan Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
〉 Attachments, Werkstadt e.V, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Pop up Exhibition, 3 Artotheques, Galleria Aarni, Espoo, Finland
〉 Spring salon (KEVÄTSALONKI) Kosminen, Helsinki
2020 The Road Chosen, Wiurila Summer exhibition, Wiurila Manor, Salo, Finland
2019 Night of the Arts, Grey Garden Studios, Helsinki
2018 Winter Exhibition, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland
〉 Summer Exhibition, Galleria Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki, Finland
〉 WerkStadt 10 years anniversary festival, WerkStadt, Berlin, Germany
〉 Rasi637, Kouta Gallery, Kouvola Art Museum, Finland
〉 Figure [out], Idiotopie, 14 Grande Rue, Nancy, France
2017 Surveyor Exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland
〉 Window Screenings, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
〉 Transitions Ep.2: Excavations, Dada Post, Berlin
2016 Faraway Longing, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin
2015 Landscape – Metropolis, Rathenau Hallen, Kunst am Spreeknie festival, Berlin
〉 Identity & other Myths, Garage Theatre, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
2014 Young Artist’s Triennale, Culture Centre Poleeni, Pieksämäki, Finland
〉 Metamorphilia-Metamorphobia, Kaņepes Kulturas Centrs, Riga, Latvia
〉 Threshold, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2013 Neither here nor there II, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
〉 Financial Times, Mustarinda, Finland
〉 Vulpicide (Mediabox), Galerie Toolbox, Berlin, Germany
〉 Neither here nor there: Contemporary Irish, Grimmuseum, Berlin
2012 Künstler Salon Murid Bosh, Kunsthalle M3, Berlin
〉 Master of Arts Show, Moa ’12, Aalto University, Jätkasaari, Helsinki
〉 New Horizons:Landscape & the Contemporary Romantic, Kunstraum T27, Berlin
2011 Social Movement Generator, Dr. Fahimi, Boheme Precaire, Dortmund, Germany
〉 Destruction-construction, TM20, Tape Modern, Berlin
2010 Borders, Neukoelln Import, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
〉 Kipu (Pain), Kereva Art Museum, Finland
〉 Checkbounds, Stattbad, Wedding, Berlin
〉 Vereslihalla, Galleria Kandela, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Made in Berlin, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Russia
〉 Made in Berlin, German-Russian House, Kaliningrad, Russia
〉 Light as a feather stiff as a board, SIM A.i.R, Reykjavik, Iceland
2008 Kiss, Cuddle, Torture, Scherer8 Hausprojekt, Wedding, Berlin
〉 Rot, RGB, Brunnenstrasse 65, Berlin
2007 Evidence of Existence, One Gallery, Dublin
〉 Plastic Relations, 7 Hours, Haus19, Berlin
2005 New Irish Painting, Context Galleries (CCA), Derry, Northern Ireland
〉 Villa Electrique II Aki MediaKunst, Villa de Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
2021/22 Tyrone Guthrie Award for artist residency, Meath County Council, IE
2021 Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oirr Island, Co. Galway, IE (upcoming August 2021)
〉 Tuulensuu Ateljeetalo, Viitasaari, Finland (upcoming June 2021)
2020 Aspan Ateljee, (SKJL) Lohja, Finland
2019 Achill Island residency award, Achill Heinrich Böll Association, IE
2016 RASi637, Artist in Residence, Tirva, Finland
2015 Ateljé Stundars, Artist in Residence awarded by KulturÖsterbotten, FI
2014 RASi637, Artist in Residence, Tirva, Finland
〉 RUD, Artist in Residence, Bengtsfors, SE
2013 Mustarinda, Artist in Residence, FI
2010 Environmental Art TAIK (now Aalto university) & BioArt society, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station,FI
2009 SIM Artist in Residence, Reykjavík, IS
GRANTS & AWARDS
2020 TAIKE, Arts Promotion Centre, (covid-19 grant) FI
〉 TAIKE, Arts Promotion Centre, (covid-19 grant) FI
〉 VISEK Centre for the Promotion of Visual Art, FI
〉 Embassy of Ireland, Finland (exhibition support)
2017 Professional Artist Bursary, Meath Co. Council, IE
2015 Travel & Training Award, The Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2013 Culture Ireland Grant, IE
〉 Professional Artist Bursary, Meath Co. Council, IE
2012 Culture Ireland Grant & Ireland’s EU presidency cultural project grant for Germany
2010 Aktion! KMS Aktionaersfond, Grant for public art project HALBTISCH, Berlin, DE
〉 Professional Artist Bursary, Meath County Council, IE
2010 Culture Ireland Grant, IE
SELECTED PRESS
2020 Upcycling images from the past, The Meath Chronicle, IE, 22.2.2020
2019 Catalogue text, Place, Histories and Other Matters, Exhibition by Aedin McGinn
2018 Article Architecture of Emotions, Custom House Studios, The Mayo News, IE, 22.5.2018
2018 Introduction by artist Tinka Bechert, Architecture of Emotions, Custom House Studios
〉 Irlantilaisen Jane Hughesin abstraktit maalaukset..., Kouvolan Sanomat, FI, 27.3.2018
2013 Vulpicides at Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki Sanomat, 13.6.2013
〉 Irish art on Berlin’s blank canvas, The Irish Times, 18.5.2013
〉 Foxy Jane, Hoe een lerse kunstenares in Berlijn belandt, Belgian magazine Coupon, p10-12
2010 Interview Artist Studio Visits, Berlin Art Link, (online contemporary art magazine) 10.12.2010
2009 Made in Berlin, Kalaningradsky Pravda, (Russian newspaper), 15.3.2009
〉 Looking at the End of the World, Strana Kaliningrad, 24.3.2009
CURATING
2015 Landscape-Metropolis, Kunst am Spreeknie Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin (co-curated with John Power, Anu Miettinen, Eeva-Liisa Puhakka)
2013 Neither here nor there, Grimmuseum, Berlin & Galway Arts Centre, Ireland (co-curated with Enda O’Donoghue)
2010 – 2013 Curator (co-curated with Jason M. Benedict) at Werkstadt e.V, Neukoelln, Berlin
COLLECTIONS
Finnish State Art Deposit Collection, Finland
Arts Council of Ostrobothnia, Finland
HUS (Helsinki University Hospital) Art Collection, Finland
National Irish Visual Artist Library (nival), National College of Art & Design, Ireland