Oliver Durcan

Education

2017 Chisenhale Art Place
Into the Wild Artist Development Programme
2013 University of East London, London, UK Fine Art BA (Hons)
2010 Central St. Martins (Byam Shaw), London, UK Fine Art Foundation Diploma

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions and Projects
L21 x Fundación Camper Curatorial Residency Program, L21, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (6 " 12 May 2019)
Ghost Town, Coherent Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (Until 25 May 2019)
Shipment: Mum, I Don’t Want to Be an Artist Anymore by Karolina Magnusson- Murray (curator) (Until 18 May 2019)
Past Exhibitions and Projects (selected)
2019 Shipment: No Motion Occurring, Many Hands, London, UK (exhibitor + curator)
Shipment: It’s Not Too Late To Seek a Newer World, You Know?, Many Hands, London, UK (curator)
Mission to Touch The Sun: Sun Burnt, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK (Curated by William Noel Clarke & Kelly P. Culver)
2018 Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (curated by Kristian Day)
IKO: HTTPS://, Vision (Sluice), London, UK (curator) (15 September " 6 October 2018)
Night Shade, The Boy’s Club Secret Open House, London, UK
Mission to Touch the Sun, Enclave, London, UK (curated by William Noel Clarke and Kelly P. Culver)
Splash, Shelf Spanish City, Newcastle, UK
IKO: Dreamworks, Limbo, Margate, UK (curator)
Duty Free, Chelsea Collage of Arts, London, UK (curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight)
Home Alone, house in Shoreditch, London, UK (curated by Dat Eagle Art)
Lounge Arrival, Arebyte City Island, London UK
The Finder, Offsiteproject.org, Online (curated by Wade Wallerstein) IKO: byIKO, Subsidiary Projects, London, UK (exhibitor + curator) URL / IRL Love, Muddy Yard, London, UK
IKO & Is This It?: If a Tree Falls in a Forest and No One is There to Instagram it, Does it Really Happen?, Online writing project (curator)
2019
Home Alone, house in Shoreditch, London, UK (curated by Dat
Eagle Art)
Lounge Arrival, Arebyte City Island, London UK
The Finder, Offsiteproject.org, Online (curated by Wade Wallerstein)
IKO: byIKO, Subsidiary Projects, London, UK (exhibitor + curator)
URL / IRL Love, Muddy Yard, London, UK
IKO & Is This It?: If a Tree Falls in a Forest and No One is There to Instagram it, Does it Really Happen?, Online writing project (curator)
2017 The Fear is Back, Chisenhale Art Place, London, UK
IKO: The Worst Seats in the House, SET Capstan House, London, UK (curator) IKO & Milk: Ultra Sunrise, SET Alscot Rd, London, UK (exhibitor + curator) IKO: Blue Sky Thinking, SET Capstan House, London, UK (exhibitor + curator)
2016 Meander, Carousel Spaces, London, UK (Two-person show) Trumped, CNB Gallery, London, UK
The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating #2, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Awards and Collections
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant
Mark Hix Collection
Private collections in UK, Belgium, Switzerland and USA
Winsor & Newton Painting Prize (2015 Shortlisted, 2012 First Prize) RBA Rome Scholarship, (2015 Shortlisted)
Hix Art Award (2013 Shortlisted)
UEL Arts & Digital Industries, Tutors Choice Award (2013)