James ‘Shay’ Gilna is a multimedia artist currently based in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a regular exhibitor of oil paintings and etchings over the years; these days his work is primarily digital and comprises both visual and sound elements.
This website documents selected work from the past decade.
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 Crypto Crypt, Somnium Space, Metaverse
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