Biography
Stephen Burke is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator working between London and Dublin. He graduated with an MA in painting from the Glasgow School of Art in 2018 and is the most recent recipient of the Unit 1 Gallery Workshop residency. More recently, Stephen co-founded the London based curatorial collective Pigeon Park, which organizes exhibitions in industrial spaces. This project was created in response to the post-pandemic threat posed to artists’ working conditions in the wake of the Covid crisis. Burke is the founder of the social media platform Post Vandalism which explores the academics/aesthetics of graffiti mark-making processes and fosters support from a wide international community. He is also the managing director of Unruly Gallery in Amsterdam.
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2023 Everyday Disquiet w Wasted Rita, Ainori Gallery, Lisbon, PT. Dec 2023
2022 Vestige, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, IRE, Feb 2022
2021 Driving on a Sponge w Ronan Dillon, Atelier Now, Dublin, IRE, Sept 2021
2021 Antenna, Unit 1 Gallery / Workshop, London, UK, July, 2021
2019 Utility, Atelier Maser, Dublin, IRE, June 2019
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Ingram Prize, Cromwell Place, London, UK, Nov 2023
2023 Brut Reverie, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, IT, Sept 2023
2023 Grit Between my Teeth, Atelier Now, Dublin, IRE, Sept 2023
2023 Made you look, Helm Gallery, Brighton, UK, Sept 2023
2022 Familia, Atelier Now, Dublin, IRE, Nov 2022
2022 Post Vandalism, Omni Gallery, London, UK, Oct 2022
2022 Pigeon Park 2, Manor Place, London, UK, Sept 2022
2022 Storytellers, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK, July 2022
2022 Do you dream?, The Space Between, Dublin, IRE, July 2022
2022 Páipéar, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, IRE, July 2022
2022 Where the rubber meets the road, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE, June 2022
2022 RHA Annual Exhibition 192nd, RHA, Dublin, IRE, May 2022
2022 Interconnection, First Day Gallery, Dublin, IRE, April 2022
2021 Driving on a Sponge w Ronan Dillon, Atelier Now, Dublin, IRE, Sept 2021
2021 Antenna, Unit 1 Gallery / Workshop, London, UK, July, 2021
2021 Winter Print Show, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, IRE, Dec 2021
2021 Post>andalism, Het HEM, Amsterdam, NL, Oct 2021
2021 RHA Anual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, IRE, Sept 2021
2021 Pigeon Park, Manor Place, London, GB, Sept 2021
2020 Quarantine Show, Malagacha Gallery, Strasbourg, FR, June 2020
2020 Fresh Air, 90 Bulowstrasse, Berlin, DE, March 2020
2019 Utility, Atelier Maser, Dublin, IRE, June 2019
2019 Vue, RHA, Dublin, IRE, Nov 2019
2018 Graduate Degree Show, The Tontine building, Glasgow, UK, Sept 2018
2018 Chroma, Dornoch St Project Space, Glasgow, UK, June 2018
2018 Close By, 39 Trongate, Glasgow, UK, April 2018
2018 No Safe Haven, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK, March 2018
2018 Bua, Mount Florida Gallery & Studios, Glasgow, UK, March 2018
2018 Skarrach, Crown Point Studios, Glasgow, UK, February 2018
2017 Collision, The Law Society of Ireland, Dublin, IRE, November 2017
2017 Buff, The Library Project, Dublin, IRE, August 2017
2017 New Release, SO Fine Art, Dublin, IRE, June 2017
2017 D24: A User’s Manual, Rua Red, Dublin, IRE, May 2017
2017 The Tara Launch, The Tara Building, Dublin, IRE, April 2017
2017 Nua, The Fumbally Exchange, Dublin, IRE, February 2017
2017 Young 3, SO Fine art, Dublin, IRE, February 2017
2016 Inplace, 12 Tara St, Dublin, IRE, September 2016
2016 The End, Soma Waterford, Waterford, IRE, September 2016
2016 Dia Dhuit, The Mart, Dublin, IRE, August 2016
2016 NCAD Graduate Showcase, Dublin, IRE, June 2016
2015 Shia LaBeouf, The Box, NCAD, Dublin, IRE, October 2015
2015 Haptic Press, Pallas Project Studios, Dublin, IRE, May 2015
2015 South, South Studios, Dublin, IRE, April 2015
Residencies & Awards
Shortlisted for The Ingram Prize, Cromwell Place, London, UK, Nov 2023
Agility Award – Arts Council of Ireland, IRE, June 2023
Open Fund for Individuals – Creative Scotland, UK, Jan 2023
Agility Award – Arts Council of Ireland, IRE, May 2022
Solo Residency at Unit 1 Gallery & Workshop, London, UK, April – July 2021
Art Matters Award – Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE, April 2021
Residency at Urban Nation X Stiftung Berliner Leben, Berlin, DE, October – March 2020
Residency at Atelier Maser, Dublin, IRE, June 2019
Appointed Artist Curator, Creative Campus, RUA RED, Dublin, IRE, January – May 2017