Gary Coyle

http://www.garycoyle.ie
Gary Coyle was born in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin in 1965, where he now lives and works having spent nearly a decade living in New York and London. He works in a variety of media, drawing, film, photography and, more recently, performance. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad; his work has been included in Shows at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, The Sainsbury Gallery, Norwich and The Tate Liverpool. He has received many awards including The Henry Moore Fellowship from the RCA & The Henry Moore Foundation 1995, RHA Drawing Prize 1999, Projects Award 2006 & a Visual Arts Bursary 2008 & 2009 Both from the Arts Council of Ireland. His most recent show At Sea, a spoken word performance based on his daily swimming ritual jointly commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Project was staged in the Project in February 2009. He is currently working on a major exhibition which will be held in the RHA Gallery Dublin in March 2010.