CV
RECENT + FORTHCOMING
Hammerheads Curated by Brenda Mc Parland, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland (2023) Group
Review: ‘Claí na Péiste’ at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, John Graham Mirror Lamp Press, Issue 6, (2023)
‘Claí na Péiste’ (Worm’s Ditch), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2022) Solo
Review: ‘A Different Cloth’ Irish Arts Review Sean Kissane November 2022
The Narrow Gate of Here and Now – Social Fabric, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2021-22) Group
IMMA Collection Acquisition Fund 2023, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
‘4Ever Chemical’ Profit & Loss (Part 5) – Screening with AEMI at Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2021) Solo
Review: SELF SOOTHERS Cristín Leach reviews Sibyl Montague’s SELF SOOTHERS at VISUAL (Oct 2020)
IMMA Collection Acquisition Fund 2020, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021)
Profit & Loss – AEMI (Online) Screening and interview with artist/critic Morgan Quaintance (2020)
SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland 23 July – 18 October (2020) Solo
Artist in Residence: Visual Contemporary Carlow, IE (2020)
Artist Talk: TULCA 2020 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online) (2020)
The Law is a White Dog Curated by Sarah Browne TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Galway, Ireland (2020)
Irish Arts Council Collection Acquisition (2019)
IMMA 1000 Residency Award Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) May – Nov. 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 ‘Claí na Péiste’ (Worm’s Ditch), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2020 SELF SOOTHERS, VISUAL, Carlow
2018 Saplings, Pallas Projects, Dublin
2018 Practice, Curated by Alice Butler, New Spaces Project, the Fashion and Textile Hub, Derry
2016 Beyond Violet Emergence Award, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
2012 Disco Drinker, Mother Studios, Hackney Wick, London, UK
2012 Arm Around You Oriel Davies, Powys, Wales, UK
2008 TWO: George Polke London, UK
SELECTED 2 person + GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hammerheads Curated by Brenda McParland, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
2023 Material Parables Curated by Sara Muthi Bassam Issa, Sibyl Montague, Alice Rekab & Marcel Vidal.; Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
2020 The Law is a White Dog Curated by Sarah Browne TULCA Festival of Visual Art, Galway, Ireland
2020 Blue, Arts Council Collection, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
2019 Display, Link, and Cure, Curated by Mark O’ Gorman and Paul McGrane the Complex, Dublin
2018 My Fears of Tomorrow are Melting Away, (2 person) Les Arcades, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2017 Pallas Periodical #7, selected by RGKSKSRG + PP/S, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Open Collectif, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2017 Nasty Women, PP/S, Dublin, Ireland
2017 drop Atrium Space, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Illusions of Beloved Objects, Basic Space, Dublin, Ireland
2016 This is Public & Sexy curated by RGKSKSRG, Studio 468/Common Ground, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Woman Flew Home The Black Mariah, Cork IE
2012 Bringing the Art Home, Deptford X, Deptford, London UK
2012 Domestic Temples 2, Canary Wharf, London UK
2012 MA Degree show, Chelsea College of Art, London UK
2011 Hamster, Chelsea Space, London UK
2010 RE-Animate, Oriel Davies, Selectors: Ceri Hand, Alex Boyd, Wales, UK
2010 Diploma Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design London UK
2010 Push Up Monkey! Mother, Hackney Wick London UK
2010 Postgraduate Diploma Show, Chelsea College of Art London UK
EDUCATION
2012 Chelsea College of Art and Design London UK Masters of Fine Art (MFA)
2010 Chelsea College of Art and Design London UK Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art (PG DIP)
2003 Limerick School of Art & Design Ireland Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA)
2001 Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Tilburg Holland
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS
IMMA Collection Acquisition Fund 2020, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021)
AEMI Online: ‘Profit and Loss’ (part 1-4) with interview with artist/critic Morgan Quaintance (2020)
Artist in Residence 2020, VISUAL, Carlow, IE (08 February – 18 October 2020)
Irish Arts Council Collection (2019)
IMMA 1000 Residency Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) 2019
TBG+S Studio Award (Temple Bar Gallery + Studio), Dublin IE (2018-2021)
Visual Artist Bursary Award, Irish Arts Council IE (2017, 2019, 2021)
Laureate of Institut Francais Residency Program at Cité internationale des Arts, Paris (2017)
Create | National Development agency for collaborative arts | Research Grant (2017)
Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE (2015-16)
Fire Station Sculpture Award, Dublin, IE (2015)
Emergence Award Wexford Arts Centre IE (2012)
The Red Mansion Award Shortlist UK (2012)
Worlds End | Invited artist, The Guesthouse Cork IE (2011)
Oriel Davies Open Award (selected by Ceri Hand and Peter McLuskie) UK (2010)
People’s Choice Award, Oriel Davies, Powys, Wales UK (2010)
Visual Artist Bursary Cork City Council IE (2010)
Bill Drummond’s ‘In you we Trust’ curated by VOID, Derry, Curfew Tower N.IRL (2009)
Commission; MONA (Museum of Old & New Art) Tasmania, Australia (2008)
Screenings
2020 Profit and Loss (part 1-4) AEMI Online Screening
2020 2K x 1 Min (online) The Complex Dublin IE
2014 How does the Group Function? LUX 13, Enclave Projects, Deptford, London UK
2014 What Does Nothing Do? CCA, Glasgow UK
2014 Chelsea Salon Series, Peckham, London UK
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Cristín Leach reviews Sibyl Montague’s SELF SOOTHERS at VISUAL (2020)
AEMI Online; Profit & Loss; interview with artist/critic Morgan Quaintance (2020)
Online: a flash in the small night James Merrigan (2019)
‘Dublin’s new creative hub The Complex is a perpetual work in progress’, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times Sept (2019)
Tennis | Brown review | I am not a painter | James Merrigan (2018)
Visual Artists To Watch Out For: Sibyl Montague | Hotpress (2019)
Immaterial – Pallas Projects | text by Rachel Donnelly | TotallyDublin (2018)
Frieze Critic’s Guide, Dublin Gemma Tipton (2017)
Almost Tribal | Shower of Kunst | text by RGKSKSRG (Kate Strain & Racheal Gilbourne) September 2016
Studio Visit Radio Show | Contemporary Artists in Dublin | Morgan Quaintance, Resonance FM (2015)
IAR Irish Artist Review (September- November Issue) 2012
A-N | Sibyl Montague, Sean Vicary & Pia Borg | Liz Buckley (2012)
A-N | TWO: Montague + Del Paso/Starosta | George Polke | Holly Pester (2008)
Circa 121 | Autumn edition 07 | Treasa O’Brien (p.97) (2007)
Re-Animate Oriel Davies Publication Wales (2010)
‘Representing Art in Ireland‘ Fenton Gallery Publication (2008)
Claremorris Open Curatd by Ingrid Swenson (PEER) Exhibition (catalogue) 2007
CORK CAUCUS: On Art, Possibility & Democracy. Ed. Trevor Joyce & Shep Steiner National Sculpture Factory Publication (2006)
Contemporary Art C2. Crawford Art Gallery Gandon Editions (2005)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS | TALKS | LECTURES
TULCA 2020 Artist Talks Series | GMIT CCAM (Online) 2020
National Drawing Day: Drawing in My Practice, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2020)
Cruinniú na nÓg AN ARTISTIC EYE The Douglas Hyde Gallery Trinity, Dublin IE (2020)
Open Studio IMMA 1000 Residency Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (July 2019)
‘Covers’ (2018) Whitechapel London Art Book Fair, UK (2019)
Pallas Projects (PP/S) artist talk with curator Rachael Gilbourne (IMMA/RGKSKSRG) (2018)
Basic Talks – Basic Space Artist Series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (Sept. 2018)
Reparage #3, curated by Marianne Derrien, Cité internationale des Art, Paris, France (2017)
Studio Visit Radio Show | PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image | Morgan Quaintance, Resonance FM (2017)
PLASTIK, Panel discussion with Benjamin Cook (LUX) Temple Bar Gallery +Studio, Dublin (2017)
Artist Talk + Presentation Temple Bar Gallery +Studios, Dublin (2016)
Co-founder & co-curator of PLASTIK Festival of artists’ moving image in partnership with LUX (London), Irish Film Institute (IFI) and Temple Bar Gallery+Studio (TBG+S), Dublin (2015, 2017)
Visiting Lecturer GMIT Galway School of Art Ireland (2020)
Visiting Lecturer Chelsea College of Art London UK (2012)
Visiting Lecturer Crawford College of Art Cork Ireland (2011)
