About

Barry Kehoe is an Independent Curator and Art Writer. He has worked in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) as a Heritage Researcher and Historian and facilitates talks, tours and workshops for the museum’s various education programmes. He has delivered major heritage projects for the IMMA and the Royal Hospital Kilmainham such as the audio poscast series  IMMA Past Futures and he played a key role  in developing the Dublin City Council Archaeology illustration Project with illustrator Stephen Conlin to reconstruct the lost Priory of the Knights Hospitaller Kilmainham. He was instrumental in getting a geophysical Survey completed of Bully’s Acre Cemetery that revealed traces of early monastic settlement at the RHK.

Barry holds a BA in English and History (UCC); an MA in Drama and Theatre Studies (UCD); a higher Diploma in Arts Administration (UCD); A Certificate in Journalism (City and Guilds) ; A Certificate in Drawing and Visual Investigation (NCAD); and an MA in Visual Culture – Art in the Contemporary World (NCAD).

Barry has written for various visual art publications and galleries including the Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)- News Sheet, Art in the Contemporary World (ACW) Blog, Critical Bastards zine, the NCAD Gallery, the MART Gallery, the Oonagh Young Gallery, the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and the IMMA Blog.

He was a delegate at the Former West Congress run by BAK – basis voor actuele kunst, in Berlin in 2013 and was a selected writer for the inaugural Iran/Ireland Art critical Writing Exchange between Kooshk Artist Residency Tehran and IMMA Artist Residency Programme Dublin 2015. Barry Curated the first exhibition in Ireland of the the acclaimed German Artists Nina Fischer and Maroan El Sani at the MART Gallery, Rathmines in 2014.

The featured image Reading Ulysses (2006) comes from a solo exhibition of Barry’s drawings shown in the Signal Arts Centre in Bray, Co. Wicklow in 2006.