Bio
Mateja Šmic is a Dublin based artist, who graduated from NCAD in 2019 in fine print and critical cultures and is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin. Šmic works with gelatine and other, often non-traditional materials, chosen by a principle of association with her subject matter. Smic’s work combine philosophical and psychological questions of experience, the phenomenon of Othering and tensions between the real subject and its mediated representations. Šmic’s reflexive and multi-layered art practice consists of intensive cycles and processes of intuitive and experimental engagement with her materials.
Solo exhibition:
Aesthetics of a split subject - Engage Art Studios, Galway - 2019
Residency:
What Could / Should Curating Do? - International curatorial residency led by Biljana Čirić, Belgrade, Serbia (awarded funding by i-Portunus) - 2019
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:
Cabinet Award 2018, Black Church Printmaking Studio, Dublin, Ireland - 2018
‘Clo after Brian O’Doherty’, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland: Response to Brian O’Doherty’s show ‘Language and Space’ in Irish Museum of Modern Art - 2018
Heed, to the Mound, Fringe Festival - The Complex, Dublin - Performance led by Emma Brennan - 2018
Graduate Exhibition, NCAD, 2019
‘ECHOES - Clo after Kate Mac Donagh and Maria Simonds Gooding’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin - 2019
The Office for Common Sound - led by Sven Anderson - a nomadic space devoted to working with the public to explore the everyday soundscape. NCAD Gallery, Dublin - 2019
Cairde Visual, Sligo, Ireland, 2021
Human Signature group exhibition with Paul Cabena, Anna Leask, Sarah Sexton curated by Barry Mc Hugh for Cairde Festival, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo - 2020
Silence - group exhibition at Graphic Studio Dublin, curated with Anne Hodge of NGI and Angela Griffith of Trinity College Dublin, 2021
Expanded - group exhibition at Graphic studio Dublin curated with Dr Andrew Folan, 2021
The Art of Home - group exhibition, collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community - 2021
Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, Dublin - 2022
Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, CHQ Dublin - 2022
The Art of Belonging - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, RHA Dublin - 2023
Annual Summer & Winter Exhibitions at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin (2019 - 2023)