Timeline

1979
Born in Dublin, Ireland
1998–1999
Senior College, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, Ireland
1999–2003
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Exhibitions

2013
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin, Germany
2013
Aleana Egan I Lucia Nogueira I Bojan Sarceviv, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
2013
The Line of Beauty, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2013
Drawing: Sculpture, The Drawing Room, London, England
2013
The Sensitive Plant, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2012
day wears, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2012
Drawing: Sculpture (curated by The Drawing Room, London), Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
2012
A Reader of Materials and a Writer of Forms, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Lucy MacDonald)
2011
nature had an inside, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2011
Aleana Egan (At intervals. while turning), The Drawing Room, London
2010
The Alchemy of Material. Landesmuseum Munster, 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) Green Light, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, England
2009
Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009, Jerwood Space, London & touring
2009
Working Space, Dublin, Ireland
2009
Sunday Night. Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2009
Space for the man whose keys I rescued, Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2009
Nina Canell I Aleana Egan I Marzena Nowak, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
2008
Gracelands Festival, Ireland
2008
5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2008
Scala Paradisi, Schurmann, Berlin, Germany
2008
Wilkommen to reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin, Germany
2008
Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
2008
War Atlas Yachting & Nautical Cuttings, Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2008
We sat down where we had sat before, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2007
Eccentric Growth, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin, Germany
2007
Our affects fly out of the field of human reality, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin, Germany
2006
Mantua Arts Festival, Ross Common, Ireland
2006
Peaton House, Cove, Argyll & Bute
2006
Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2005
Doldrums, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2005
Flounder 2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005
Take it further (Part 2), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, England (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini)
2004
Aleana Egan I Lee O'Connor, Mary Mary Project Space, Glasgow, Scotland
2004
GSS Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2003
Royal Scottish Academy, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
2003
Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2002
Collaborative work with John Egan, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2002
Group Show, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2001
Aleana Egan - Robert Hardy, Assembly Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Literature

2012
Hutchinson, John, day wears, Aleana Egan – Douglas Hyde Gallery publication
2011
Moloney, Ciara, like a cracked kettle, Aleana Egan (At intervals, while turning) – Drawing Room publication
2010
Bono, Melanie, New Alchemy, Contemporary Art After Beuys, exhibition catalogue
2008
Stein, Lucy, Aleana Egan – Kunsthalle Basel catalogue
2008
Neuenschwander, Simone, Aleana Egan – Kunsthalle Basel catalogue
2008
Lowndes, Sarah, Aleana Ehan – Kunsthalle Basel catalogue
2008
When things cast no shadow, 5th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art Catalogue