NATASHA PIKE - BIO & CV
Natasha Pike is an Irish artist with an MA in Art & Process from Crawford College of Art and Design, IRL (2019), a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University, UK (2007) and a Foundation Diploma from Manchester Metropolitan, UK (2002). With residencies at The Cill Rialaig Project and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, as well as in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Berlin (assisted by the Irish Arts Council Travel and Training award 2014), Natasha worked in Berlin for several years before returning to base herself in Ireland, working in abstract painting, made object, and drawing.
Recipient of the Lismore Castle Arts Graduate Award solo exhibition 2020, with a downloadable CATALOGUE with a text by Ciara Healy-Musson. Long-listed for RDS Visual Arts Graduate Awards Exhibition 2020. Participated in IMMA Art and Politics Summer School, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2019
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2020
'And almost I am back again' at Lismore Castle Arts St Carthage Hall, Lismore, Co Waterford
2018
2016
2015
‘Tonight there is no God’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
‘Lost in the chaos’ at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St upper, Dublin
‘Oh Mama, are we now’ pop up show at ‘The Bandroom’, Melchiorstrasse, Berlin, Germany
2015
'Oh Mama' at Street Kabinett, window street gallery at Linnen Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
2009
‘Todos Los Dias’ at Mise Artspace, Galway, Ireland
Joint
2019
2015
Michael Mcswiney and Natasha Pike at Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co Cork
‘So Oder So – Diversity rather than Singularity’ Curated by Christina Schrauwers in collaboration with photographer Michael Nordmeyer at The Showroom Voltapark, Oranneindamm 71, Berlin, Germany
Group
2019
‘PUSH’ group show for MA in Art & Process (MA:AP), The Gallery No 46 Grande Parade, Cork
2019
2018
2016
‘The Collectables’ Group show at Origin Gallery, 37 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin
Selected for Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin
48 Stunden Neukolln, ‘May the art be with you’ collaborative exhibition with Sylvia Souffriau and Thomas Schmitt, city funded 48hour open art show across Neukolln, Outside Pluto project space, Silberstein Str, Berlin, Germany
2016
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2012
2011
‘Art Bomb’ at Galerie Dr Holz-bein Schmitt, Kopernicker Str, Berlin, Germany
Werkstadt Project, Emser Str, Berlin, Germany
Lange nacht Lichtenberg, ‘long night of art’ festival, Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany
Moabit Kulture Days, Ortstermin Kunstverein Tiergarten, Moabit, Berlin, Germany
Art Kreuzberg festival, Dr Neidhardt studios, Kreuzberg, Paul-linke ufer Berlin, Germany
Art 250 show, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry, Ireland
Open studios, Fellini Gallery and Art Studios, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Selected for Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
‘Drawing The Line’ Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Collections
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
The Twelve Hotel. Barna, Galway
Work held in private collections in Ireland, UK, Holland, Germany, New Zealand, Australia and USA