Erin Quinn is an Irish-Canadian award winning multi-disciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice includes fine art photography, conceptual olfactory projects and utilises Artificial Intelligence tools in her Visual Artworks. She explores themes of climate, popular culture, feminism, memory and human connection. Winner of the 2023 Royal College of Physicians Climate and Health Arts Award and Gold in the Budapest International Foto Festival 2023 - both for her series "An Tuile/The Flood" (AI/Photography)
Group Exhibitions/Commissions:
2023/2024 The Wrong Biennale https://thewrong.org/Biennale - AI Visual Art in The Exphygit Corpse, The Scrapbook Enigma
2023 Royal College of Physicians "Climate and Health" Exhibition, Dublin - AI/Photographic work, 1st Prize Winner, "An Tuile/The Flood"
2023 Budapest International Foto Festival, Gold Winner for "An Tuile/The Flood"
2023 National Gallery Ireland Shop - conceptual scent based on a chapter in Ulysses by James Joyce, "Molly" Eau De Parfum
2021 Lost and Found Exhibition, Universal Space, Dublin -Olfactory installation, "Outside"
2021 National Gallery Ireland Shop - conceptual Olfactory based on the painting "Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederic William Burton, "Páis" Eau De Parfum,
2020 Irish Museum of Modern Art Shop 8 conceptual scents
2020 Oscar Wilde House, Dublin Conceptual scents "Salome" and "Lilac Wine" based on Oscar Wilde's writings, "Salome" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey"
2019 Moon Landing Exhibition, A4 Sounds Gallery - Olfactory installation "Portrait of a Landing"
2016 RHA Annual Exhibition, “Untitled” from “When I started Again series”
2015 “Untitled”, Foundation 15 Arts Festival, Tullamore, Winner of Critics Choice Award - Photography
2014 “Adam” Breaking Point series Hennessy Portrait Prize Shortlist, National Gallery, Dublin (November) - Photography
2014 “Breaking Point”, Block T Visual Arts Showcase Exhibition, Dublin - Photography
2014 “Surveillance”, United Photo Industries “Secrets&Lies”, Dumbo, New York, USA - Photography
2014 “Surveillance”, United Photo Industries “Secrets&Lies”, Cambridge University, UK - Photography
2013 “Breaking Point”, New Living Artists Show IV, IMOCA, Steambox, Dublin - Photography
2013 “Breaking Point”, Royal Ulster Academy’s Annual Show, Ulster Museum, Belfast - Photography
2013 “Unfolded”, ESC Zine show as part of PhotoIreland 2013, Eight Gallery, Dublin - Photography
2013 “Unfolded”, VUE Art Fair in the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin - Photography
2013 “Unfolded”, MOPLA (Month of Photography, Los Angeles, USA) - Photography
2011 “Surveillance”, Manifest Gallery, Ohio, USA - Photography
2011 “Surveillance”, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin - Photography
2011 “Breaking Point #2”, Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Show 2011 - Winner of Curtin O'Donohue Photography Prize - Photography
2011 “Surveillance”, AGallery, Chelsea, New York, USA - Photography
2011 “Breaking Point”, UPSTART Dublin poster campaign/exhibition during elections - Photography
2010 “Surveillance”, PhotoIreland Festival, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland - Photography
Solo Exhibitions:
2016 “Inside the Void”, Talbot Gallery & Studios Dublin - Photography
2011 “Dreaming”, Alliance Francaise, Bangladesh, Chobi Mela International Photography Festival - Photography
2010 “Surveillance”, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, Ireland - Photography
Press/Online:
Winter 2023 - Irish Arts Review Magazine
Oct 2023 Totally Dublin Magazine - Cover and Feature - AI/Photography
April 2020 The Gloss Magazine https://thegloss.ie/working-from-home-erin-quinn-artist-perfumer/ - Olfactory
March 2020 The Gloss Magazine https://thegloss.ie/the-surprising-new-place-to-discover-perfumes/ - Olfactory
February 2020 Totally Dublin Magazine https://www.totallydublin.ie/more/roadmap-sniff-it-out-erin-quinn/ - Olfactory
Oct 2014 “Adam” (Breaking Point) cuckoomagazine.com - Photography
Oct 2014 “Surveillance” lookatme.ru (Russian) - Photography
29May2011, (Breaking Point #2) The Sunday Times, Culture Magazine, Pg. 15, Cristin Leach - Photography
25May2011, (Breaking Point #2) The Irish Times, Culture, “Creativity Overcomes Commerce”, Aidan Dunne - Photography
April/May2011, (Surveillance) Gallery&Studio Magazine, New York, “Art Contest Winners Forecast Trends to Come” - Photography
12Aug2010, (Surveillance) The Irish Times, Arts, “Captured by Unseen Spies”, written by Maggie Armstrong - Photography
9Aug2010, (Surveillance) Live Radio Interview on Newstalk with George Hook - Photography
14Aug2010, (Surveillance) Live Radio Interview on Phantom FM with Nadine O’Regan - Photography
Jan2011, “Breaking Point” Photovolume.org - Photography
Oct2010, “Surveillance” Visionexposed.com - Photography
Oct2010, “Surveillance” Wooloo.org, Shortlisted for artist of the month - Photography
Awards:
2023, First Prize Winner, Royal College of Physicians Ireland, Climate and Health Visual Art Exhibition (AI)
2023, Gold Winner, Budapest International Foto Festival (AI)
2015, Critics Choice Award, Foundation15, Tullamore
2014 Hennessy Portrait Prize Shortlist, National Gallery, Dublin, “Adam”
May2011, The Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Prize, RHA Annual Exhibition, "Breaking Point 2"
May2011, Imagine Ireland Grant (Culture Ireland Initiative) to fund New York exhibition/travel
Books/Publications:
2014 “Breaking Point”, SAND Berlin’s English Literary Journal Issue 9
2012, “Breaking Point”, International Photography Annual, Manifest Gallery USA