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Willie Doherty
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Derry, Northern Ireland
NationalityNorthern Irish
ElectedAosdána[1]

Willie Doherty is an artist from Northern Ireland, who has mainly worked in photography and video throughout his career. Doherty has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994[2] and 2003.[3] His work is strongly informed by daily life in Northern Ireland as is structured by its history of geopolitical struggles. More broadly, Doherty engages with questions of memory and forgetting, and the effects of media and images thereof.

Life and work

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Willie Doherty was born in 1959 in Derry. As a city with deep roots in sectarian divisions between Protestants and Catholics, Derry was one of the major sites of conflict during The Troubles (also known as the Northern Ireland conflict). As a child, Doherty witnessed the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. He went on to study art Ulster University in Belfast from 1978-1981 amidst growing tensions and conflicts in the region. During his final year of school, for instance, Bobby Sands died during the 1981 hunger strike while Doherty and his classmates' final exhibition was nearing completion.[4]

Doherty's early work depicted landscapes overlaid with text. Since the late 1980s, however, his practice has expanded to incorporate video, sound, and installation works as ways of exploring surveillance, media, and their political effects. As Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev writes:

In the late 1980s Doherty was acutely aware of the ways in which the media, and the state through the media, were constructing — and isolating — the image of a 'stranger', a 'wild native', an 'unfathomable terrorist' in Northern Ireland, thus disseminating paranoia within society. The Media Broadcast Ban of 1988 had made it illegal for organizations such as Sinn Féin to have a voice on television or the radio. This is when Doherty began to create audio/slide installations, such as Same Difference (1990) and They're All the Same (1991), that gave a 'voice' back to the silenced. These works explore opposite views, often mimicking the dualistic and binary structure of conflict.[5]

Doherty was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 for his work The Only Good One is a Dead One (1993), a video piece in which a narration oscillates between stalker and stalkee as two video streams, installed at right angles, play simultaneously.[5] He was again nominated in 2003 for his piece RE-RUN (2002), a two-channel video depicting a man running towards the viewer, on one screen, and away, on the other, in a perpetual loop.[3]

Since 1998 he has worked at Ulster University and has been a Professor of Video Art since 2005 [6]

Selected exhibitions

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Selected solo exhibitions

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  • 2017: Willie Doherty: Home, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
  • 2015: Again and Again, CAM-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
  • 2013-15: UNSEEN, City Factory Gallery, Derry; Museum De Pont, Tilburg
  • 2012: Secretion, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
  • 2012: One Place Twice, Photo/Text/85/92, Alexander and Bonin, New York; Matt’s Gallery, London
  • 2011-12: Traces, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
  • 2010: LACK, Alexander and Bonin, New York
  • 2009: Passages, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
  • 2007: Ghost Story, 52nd Venice Biennale, Northern Ireland Pavilion
  • 2004-05: NON-SPECIFIC THREAT, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Alexander and Bonin, New York, Q Gallery, Derby, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
  • 2002: False Memory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • 2000-01: extracts from a file, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Alexander and Bonin, New York
  • 1999: True Nature, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
  • 1998: Somewhere Else, Tate Liverpool
  • 1996: The Only Good One is a Dead One, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Windsor; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Fundaçáo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
  • 1990: Same Difference, Matt's Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

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Selected collections

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Selected bibliography

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  • Willie Doherty: HOME. ex cat. Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar, 2016 ISBN 978-3864421785
  • Willie Doherty: Again and Again. ex cat. (essays by Isabel Carlos and Declan Long), CAM-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon ISBN 978-9726353041
  • UNSEEN, ex. cat. (essays by Robin Klassnik, Jean Fisher, Colm Tóibín and Susan McKay), London: Matt’s Gallery; Derry: Nerve Centre, 2013 ISBN 978-0907623922
  • Wylie, Charles. Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance. ex. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0300152555
  • Willie Doherty: Buried, ex. cat., Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery, 2009 ISBN 978-0947912741
  • Willie Doherty: Anthology of time-based works, ex. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007 ISBN 978-3775719292
  • Willie Doherty: False Memory. London: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2002 ISBN 978-0947912741
  • Willie Doherty: extracts from a file. DAAD, Berlin, 2000 ISBN 978-3882432343
  • Somewhere Else. Liverpool: Tate Liverpool, in association with the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), 1998 ISBN 978-1854372789

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Aosdána".
  2. ^ "Turner Prize 1994 artists: Willie Doherty".
  3. ^ a b "Turner Prize 2003 artists: Willie Doherty".
  4. ^ Doherty, Willie; Dziewior, Yilmaz & Mühling, Matthias (2007). Willie Doherty. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3775719292.
  5. ^ a b Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn (2002). "A Fallible Gaze: The Art of Willie Doherty". In McParland, Brenda; Ross, Iain (eds.). Willie Doherty: False Memory. Merrell Publishers. pp. 11–18. ISBN 978-1858941790.
  6. ^ http://williedoherty.com/information/bio
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Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Northern Ireland Category:Video artists from Northern Ireland Category:Irish video artists Category:Irish artists Category:Irish contemporary artists Category:Aosdána members Category:People from Derry (city) Category:Alumni of Ulster University


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