Langan, Clare
Clare Langan studied Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and with a Fulbright Scholarship, completed a film workshop at NYU. In 2019 she was nominated membership of Aosdana by The Arts Council of Ireland. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from The National University of Ireland. She has represented Ireland in numerous international Biennales, including the 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2002 Brazil; The Liverpool Biennial - International 2002, Tate Liverpool: Sounds and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, 2009, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv; Singapore Biennial 2008, curated by Fumio Nanjo touring to Dojima River Biennale 2009, Osaka Japan; Busan Biennale 2010, South Korea. In 2003 Langan presented A Film Trilogy at MoMA in New York and at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
In 2019 she had a retrospective show of her work at The Dock in Carrick-on-Fergus. Also in 2019 her work was included in the exhibitions The Gifts of Tony Podesta, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center; Moving Women, Magda Danysz Gallery; Shaping Ireland at The National Gallery of Ireland; Of Music and Making , Solstice Gallery, Navan; Physical Cinema Festival, Reykjavk, Iceland and Ritratti Di Poesia, Poetry Festival, Rome.
In 2017 she exhibited her film The Human Flock at Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford. The film travelled to Dirimart, Istanbul July 2018, as part of The Best of Kino der Kunst curated by Heinz Peter Schwerfel. Her film The Winter of 13 Storms was exhibited at the B3 Biennal of the Moving Image Frankfurt 2017 curated by Anita Beckers and Kelly Gordon. The Floating World had its world premiere at Kino Der Kunst 2013, Munich. The film went on to win the Prix Videoformes 2014 | Conseil Général du Puy de Dôme at VIDEOFORMES 2014, Clermont-Ferrand, France. It was exhibited as a 3-screen installation in VISUAL Center of Contemporary Art in 2015, and has since been exhibited in Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany and The Tom Tompson Art Gallery, Canada, where she also exhibited The Winter of 13 Storms.
Her film Metamorphosis, 2007 won the Principle Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany. In 2007 it was exhibited at the Lyon Biennale; Houldsworth Gallery, London; Loop, Barcelona; NCA Gallery, Tokyo; Pratt Art Gallery New York and the Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona. She participated in the Glen Dimplex Artists’ Award 2000 at The Irish Museum of Modern Art. The Wilderness 2010 was exhibited in the RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2010.
Her film Flight from the City premiered at the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image 2015 in Frankfurt, before touring to Beijing and Shanghai. Jóhann Jóhannsson went on to use Flight from the City to launch his 2016 album Orphee.
Her films and photographs are in a number of international public and private collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, the Tony Podesta Private Collection, Washington, and the Hugo and Carla Brown Collection, UK.
She is represented by Galerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt.
