susan leen
‘I am a visual artist working in expanded drawing, printmaking, social practice and ephemeral installation. My work interrogates place and how the topography and geography of a site can inform and create culture.’
CV
EXHIBITIONS
2024- Jan 2025: Rinn Aun, The National Print Museum, Dublin
2023: River & Ridge, solo show, DCU, Cregan Library
2023: DCU & Firestations Artist Studio Open studio event, All Hallows Campus, DCU
2020: Petits Grandes Actions , Le Feu Caché, Le 6B, Saint Denis, Ile de France, France
2020: Portes Close, Le Wonder, Nanterre, Ile de France’ France
2019: Bouger, solo exhibition, Galerie Ethiopiques, Saint-Louis, Senegal.
2018: MxAxC, Le 6B, 6 rue de la Legion d’honneur, Saint Denis, France.
2017: Here be Monsters, solo exhibition, Gallerie les Moulins, Ile-de-France, France
2016: Lines that Meet, solo exhibition, Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2016: Places of Fiction, Fictions of Place, solo exhibition, Kreatori, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2016: The Noble Island, Largo das Artes/Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016: We Are Native, Hoxton Gallery, London, U.K.
2016: Et si on s’etait trompé?/What if we got it wrong? ( France & Ireland)
Ireland Tour: F.E Mc Williams Gallery & Studio,Banbridge, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co.Cork
2015: Et si on s’etait trompé?, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris, 75005, France
2015: Relational geographies, UAL Gallery, High Holborn, London, U.K.
2015: Ce n’est pas une heure pour les histoires de revenants, Rentrons!, Villa Belleville, Paris
2014: Carnet de Reves III, Gallery Les Moulins, Ile-de-France, France
2014: Young: Emerging Artists, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Ireland
2013: Describing Architecture: Work in Progress, The Octagonal Room, Dublin, Ireland
2013: Carnet de Reves II, Gallery Les Moulins, Ile-de-France, France.
2013: La Belevedere, Subjective Mapping, Parc du Belleville, Paris.
2012: Describing Architecture: scale and medium, Architectural Association of Ireland, Dublin.
2011: Genius Loci, Axa in Action, AXA, Prague, Czech Republique
2011: Roots and Radicals: The Elysian Tower Art Centre, Cork, Ireland
2011: Make Yourself at Home?, U.N. International Migrants Day, Paris, France.
2011: Rest your head: Lifes no Picnic on the Streets : The Atrium, Dublin, Ireland
2011: Rest your head, Electric Picnic Festival, Stradbally, Co.Laois, Ireland
2010: Lungs, Focus on Nature, The Centre for Creative Practice, Dublin, Ireland
2011: Prison?, performance & film by director Charlie Ryder, London, U.K.
2010: Tarpetti dei Sogni, Site specific performance, ‘INteatro’, Polverigi, Italy
2009: Experiment A, The White Space, Central Saint Martins, London, U.K.
2009: The Strange Situation, The White Space, Central Saint Martins, London, U.K.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024-Jan 2025: An Tochail, Creative Places,Iveragh Peninsula,Co. Kerry, Ireland
2024: Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2022/3: DCU & Firestation Artist’s Studio, Artist in Residence
2022: Maynooth University, Artist in Residence in collaboration with the Dept.of English
2019: Waaw, Artist Residency, Saint Louis, Senegal.
2016: Largo das Artes, Artist Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015: Joya Arte y Ecologia Residency, Andalucia, Spain
2015: Food, Water, Life, Residency, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
2013/5: Artist in Residence, La Villa Belleville, Paris.
2010: Studio Internship with Studio-Orta, Paris.
EDUCATION
2008/9: M.A. Performance Design & Practice, Central Saint Martins, London, U.K.
2000/4: B.Des, Visual Communications, N.C.A.D., Dublin, Ireland
AWARDS
2024: Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, National Print Museum exhibition as part of Design Week
2024: Creative Work Development Bursary 2024, Kerry County Council
2023: Irish Museums Trust, Project Development Grant to develop a project with The National Print Museum
2023: Arts Council Ireland, Agility Award
2019: Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award
2017: Culture Ireland Grant Award: Here be Monsters, Gallery Les Moulin, France
2016: Culture Ireland Grant Award: Places of Fiction, Fictions of Place, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015: The Banff Centre Artist Award
2013: Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award
2010: Central Saint Martins’ studio Internship award Studio-Orta, Paris.
2003: Erasmus student printmaking award; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
PROJETS & COLLABORATIONS
2023/4: Education Team,(part-time) at The National Print Museum, design and facilitation of workshops in house & outreach
2023: ERASMUS +, workshop with visitors to DCU from Malta on urban regenration.
2023: Climate Stories, Maynooth University, imagemaking and print workshops on theme of Climate Change
2023 : Wild in the City, AFU, DCU, printmaking workshops with older learners
2023: Heritage Week, Town Hall, Kells, Co, Meath, Printmaking with the National Print Museum
2023 : Building Stories, Culture on Prescription Europe, Social Prescribing workshops for socially isolated people
2023: Wild Neighnorhoods, artmaking with Grace Park, Educate Together N.S.
2022: Lost World’s, Maynooth University, eco journalling, visual art workshop facilitator
2022: Beyond the Pale, Grasshopper events, workshops and site specific installation
2021: Le Feu Caché, Drawing Social justice, collaborative project
2020: Drawing Lab, Paris, drawing workshops with Studio-Orta
2019: Art & Activism, workshop and conference, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France.
2017/8: Concrete Pleasures, UCL, London avec ZU-UK, London.
2016: Finding Common Ground, projet with new communities, Siamsa Tire, Ireland
2015: Ville Imaginaire, cartographiques workshops , Paris Habitat & La Ville de Paris.
2010 : ArtCube, Public installation commissioned by DLR Co.Co.,Irlande
2010: The People’s Park, The Festival of World Cultures, Dublin, Ireland
2009: Diversity Toolkit, 3 Montague St., Dublin 2 , Ireland
2008: StoryWorld, D.C.T.V., Digital Hub.,Dublin Ireland
2007: Spirasi livre d’illustration pour Spirasi, Dublin,Ireland
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2017: Visual Artists Ireland New Sheet; Lines that Meet, May/June 2017
2015: Et si on s’etait trompé?, conférence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.
2015: Et si on s’etait trompé?, entretien radio, Aligre FM, Paris, France
2011: Vulnerability in the Public Domain, essay pour DePaul Ireland for Electric Picnic
2011: Phantom f.m., The Kiosk, Dublin; Rest your Head projet pour DePaul Ireland
2004 : Erskin Nicol and the representation of a post Famine nation, Thoughtlines 7; N.C.A.D.,
ADDITIONAL INFO:
2009-2023: Studio artist at Studio-Orta, Le Moulin, Seine et Marne, France
2021: Studio artist at Studio Marianne Guèly, paper sculpture creations, Paris, France
2009-ongoing: Studio artist at Studio-Orta, Le Moulin, Seine et Marne, France
2020/21: Illustration & Arts Narratives, C.E.S.A.N., Paris, France
2020/21: Illustrator & Photoshop for Illustration, CMAP, Paris
2019: CIFACOM Paris, enseignante in Audiovisuel Studies.
2017/8: Teaching: La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. Modules: ‘Biography of London’ & ‘Cinema & Crisis’
2015/6: Collaboratrice with La Fin des Cartes?,research project at La Sorbonne, Paris.
Member of the Dublin City Council’s Culture Comapny artist panel.
