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James 'Shay' Gilna

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Biography

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James 'Shay' Gilna is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Dublin, Ireland. Having trained in a variety of media his work is now primarily digital and comprises both visual and sound elements. He currently lives in Germany where he co-founded XYZ Technical Art Services GmbH, a provider of Virtual Art Department services to film and media production companies.

This website documents selected work from the past decades.

Gilna's work is held in various private and public collections including the Office of Public Works of the Irish Government, the Irish Film Institute Archive, the National Irish Visual Arts Library and Archive, the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Waterford Institute of Technology, and the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland.

Solo Exhibitions

2020
'Tokin Heads' - Somyam's Crypt, Somnium Space, Virtual Reality Platform
2019
'The Windward Mark' - National Maritime Museum of Ireland, Dublin, IRL
2015
'Forms of Complicity' - Steambox Gallery, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL
2010
'The Improbable Portrait' - SolArt Gallery, Dublin, IRL

Group Exhibitions
2016
'Ice Tuxedo' - Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

2015
'Strangers; Our Selves' - Steambox Gallery, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL
'Quantum Leap' - Foundation15 in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Offaly, IRL
'Chromatic' - Linus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'HUE' - Hive Emerging, Waterford, IRL
'POP Living' - Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

2014
'Autumn & the Perpetual Machine' - Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL

2013
'Hot One Hundred' - Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
'BIMPE VII' - University of British Colombia, B.C., CAN
SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, CAN

2012
Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, UK
'BIMPE VII' - Federation Gallery, Vancouver B.C., CAN
Studio 10, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
The Poly Arts Centre, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

2011
'NSA Print' - The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
'Open Portrait' - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, UK
Etching and Intaglio Exhibition, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, UK
Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IRL
Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, UK
Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Annual Open, Clinton Centre Gallery, Fermanagh, UK

2010
Annual Exhibition, CEAD, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRL
'Imagine' - Waterford Arts Festival, various venues, Waterford, IRL
A4 Print, Open Space Galleries, Penryn, Cornwall, UK

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