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Buttner is an artist of emphatic morphology. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working in sculptural form, painting, performance and film, a recent recipient of the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award, PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award, Draíocht Incubate Residency Award, RHA Residency Award.   

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PUBLIC COLLECTION 

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Arts Council Collection, Ireland

Department of Defence, Ireland

Visual Artists Ireland, Ireland 

Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow 

 

The artist's work is held in Corporate and Private collections in Ireland, Britain, throughout Europe and the USA

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​AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

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2024 Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2023 Fingal Artist's Support Scheme Award

2023 Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency, Paris

2023 Loughshinney Residency Award, Fingal County Council

2022 Carlow Arts Festival Bursary Award

2022 PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award

2022 Fingal County Council Bursary Award

2022 SIM Residency Award, Iceland

2021 Arts Council Ireland Visual Artists Bursary Award

2021 Arts Council Ireland, Agility Award

2021 Fingal County Council Bursary Award

2021 Fingal County Council Loughshinney Residency Award

2020 Arts Council Ireland Visual Artists Bursary Award 

2020 Inaugural Janet Mullarney Prize Award (Highly Commended)

2020 Fingal County Council Bursary Award

2020 Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award, Covid Response

2020 Draíocht Incubate Studio Residency Award

2019 RHA Peer Residency Award

2018 RDS Visual Art Awards

2018 Selected for the RHA student access class, Mark Clare

2017 Selected for the Apprentice Master, Kunstodium T

2016 Shortlisted for the Basic Space Artist Residency Award 

2016 RDS Visual Art Awards

2016 Selected for the RHA student access Master Class, Blaise Smith

2015 Fingal County Council Bursary Award  

 

 

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2024 Pallas For Palestine Exhibition, The Bank, Digital Hub, Dublin

2024 RHA 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2023 Love You My Sweaty, curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project, Dublin

2022 Court House Gallery Annual Exhibition, Clare

2022 RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2022 Recognition of the Connections Between Events, SIM Seljavegur, Iceland

2021 Orphaned from Belonging, curated by Carmel Duffy, Luan Gallery, Athlone

2021 RHA 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2021 PLATFORM 21, Worlds of Their Own, curated by Sharon Murphy, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin

2020 Lismore & Beyond, curated by Paul McAree, Lismore castle Arts, Waterford

2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast

2020 Highlanes Gallery Open Submission Exhibition, curated by Joy Gerrard, Sean Kissane, Jerome ODrisceoil, Drogheda

2019 ARRANGEMENTS (Orphans6), curated by James Merrigan, Pallas Projects Studios, Dublin

2019 Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo 

2019 RHA 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin 

2018 Periodical Review #8, curated by James Merrigan, Aisling Prior, Gavin Murphy, Mark Cullen, Pallas Projects Studios, Dublin 

2018 PeripheriesOpen, Gorey School of Art, Wexford

2018 Strange Foreign Bodies, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow

2018 RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition, curated by Amanda Coogan, Dublin

2018 Royal Ulster Academy 137th Annual Exhibition, Belfast

2018 ​Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power, MFA Exhibition NCAD, Dublin

​2017 Half Baked, Eblana House, Dublin

2017 Detached, curated by Niamh McCann, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan

2017 Untitled, live installation/performance by Celina Muldoon, curated by Roisin Bohan, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin

2017 Hermione Exhibition, curated by Aisling Prior, Dublin

2017 Report to the Academy, Marabouparken Show, Stockholm 

2016 RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition, curated by Alice Maher, Dublin

2016 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, curated by Richard Wilson, London

2016 Social Exercise, Marrowbone Lane Gallery, Dublin 

2016 Collapse of Narrative, Live Performance Solo Exhibition, Eblana House Gallery, Dublin

2015 Royal Ulster Academy 134th Annual Exhibition, Belfast

2015 Coyote Versus Roadrunner, Live Performance Solo Exhibition, NCAD, Dublin

2015 Road Runner, Re-position, Exhibition, The Mart, Dublin

2014 Something Close to Nothing, Studio & Beyond Exhibition, Marrowbone Lane, Dublin

2014 Cairde Visual, Sligo

2014 Socially Constructed Looking, Fifteen Exhibition, The Joinery, Dublin

2013 Royal Ulster Academy, 132nd Annual Exhibition, Ulster

2012 Socially Constructed Looking, NCAD, Dublin 

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SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO LIVE PERFORMANCE 

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2023 Combinations of Disquiet Faux, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, Studio 10, Pallas

Projects Studios

2023 An Invitation to Love Unconditionally, Live Public Participation Performance, 

Marina Abramović, Royal Academy, London

2022 Response to Place, Outward Looking, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, SIM, Iceland

2021 Orphaned from Belonging, Live Collaborative Performance, Luan Gallery, Athlone

2019 Sirens Part III, Live Performance by Celina Muldoon, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2018 Floats in the Aether, Live Performance by Amanda Coogan, National Gallery of Ireland

2018 Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, ICFE, Inchicore, Dublin 

2017 Untitled, Live Performance by Celina Muldoon, curated by Roisin Bohan, TBG/S, Dublin 

2017 Authoritarian Architecture, Body in Movement, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan

2017 A Star Called Henry, 1916, A Boy Called Paddy, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, NCAD Dublin

2016 Collapse of Narrative, Solo Exhibition/Live Performance by Susan Buttner, Eblana House, Dublin

2015 Coyote Versus Roadrunner, Solo Exhibition/Live Performance by Susan Buttner, NCAD, Dublin

 

       

EDUCATION

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2016 - 2018 MFA Fine Art Sculpture (Distinction), NCAD

​​2013 - 2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture (First class honours), NCAD 

​​2009 - 2010 Diploma in Fine Art and Design (H21), NCAD

​​2007 - 2008 Certificate in Visual Art Practice (H21), NCAD

 

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