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Duncan Ganley is a British artist based in London. Working with still and moving-image media, his work is shown internationally. Film screenings include; 14th London Short Film Festival, ICA, UK; NMASS, Austin, USA; Artpace, San Antonio, USA; and Museum de Art Moderno, Medellin, Columbia. Solo exhibitions include: Duncan Ganley: Inventory of Empty Streets, Neidorff Art Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA; midnight, mid-Atlantic… & Location Shots, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA; Millennium Panic, Firestation 3, Houston, USA; Endless Filmset 2, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA and Opening Shots/End Titles, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. Group exhibitions include: RE:PRINT/RE:Present, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge, UK; Second Nature, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; I Am Not So Different, Art Palace, Austin, USA; Learning by Doing, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA; Impossible Exchange, Lawndale Artcenter, Houston, USA; A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA; Character Studies, UTSA Gallery, San Antonio, USA; and EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK. From 1999 - 2001 he was a recipient of the Core Program Studio Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Until 2008 he was Head of the Digital Imaging Department and a faculty member in Photography at the Glassell School of Art, Houston. He is currently Senior Lecturer for BA Photography and MA Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art / Anglia Ruskin University(ARU), UK. He is the co-editor of the book ‘Re:Print’, published by Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, London. He is the author of the journal article ‘Reading vs. Scanning: Notes on Re:Print’ published in AI & Society Journal. A catalogue of his Inventory of Empty Streets project was published in 2022 to coincide with the solo exhibition of his work at the Neidorff Art Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio USA.
Film Screenings
2017
artefacts from an imagined documentary (proposed): three (14th London Short Film Festival 2017 – ICA, London)
2016-2017
artefacts from an imagined documentary (proposed): two (SET Project – various venues in 2016-17 including: ArtPace, San Antonio, USA; NMASS, Austin, USA; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City; Metro State University, Denver, USA; Lugar a Dudas, Cali, Columbia; Museo de Art Moderno, Medellin, Columbia).
2009-2014
midnight, mid-Atlantic… (Various venues from 2009-14 including: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK; Testsite, Austin, USA).
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Duncan Ganley: inventory of empty streets, Neidorff Art Gallery, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA (November 3rd - December 10th, 2022)
2007
midnight, mid-Atlantic…, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
2004
Location Shots, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
2002
Millennium Panic, Firestation 3, Houston, USA.
Duncan Ganley – Endless Filmset 2, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA.
1999
Opening Shots/End Titles, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
1997
Closing Credits, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
1996
Shots in the Dark, Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany.
Shadow of a Doubt Atkinson Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
RE:PRINT / RE:Present, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art / Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
2011
Second Nature: Contemporary Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
2009
I Am Not So Different, Art Palace, Austin, USA.
2008
Learning by Doing, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
Inman Gallery at PULSE, PULSE-New York, New York, USA.
2007
Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
2006
Impossible Exchange, Lawndale Artcenter, Houston, USA.
2005
A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
Inman Gallery at ART:LA, Art:LA, Los Angeles, USA.
2004
Character Studies, UTSA Gallery, San Antonio, USA.
Faculty Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Houston, USA.
2003
Siting Sculpture, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, USA.
Projections: Allegories of Cinema, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA.
2002
False Emotion, Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich, Germany.
Millennium Panic, Firestation 3, Houston, USA.
Texas Photographers, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, USA.
Real Time, Arthouse, Austin, USA.
Tech Support, Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
2001
Duncan Ganley / Gesine Braun, Maxwell Freeman, Houston, USA.
Core 2001, Glassell School of Art, Houston, USA.
2000
Videoshop, Vogue Video, Edinburgh, UK.
Docudrama, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds, UK.
Site/work/s, Chenevert Green Warehouse Space, Houston, USA.
Core 2000, Glassell School of Art, Houston, USA.
1998
Browsing 2, Changing Room, Stirling, UK.
Humour, Artsway, New Forest, UK.
EAST International 98, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK.
Family Credit, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
Residencies and Fellowships
2006
Artist Residency, (SÍM) / Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Candidate for Artpace Artist Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, USA.
1999-2001
Core Program Studio Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
1998
Candidate for the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA.
Candidate for the Henry Moore Fellowship, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
1996
Artist Residency (Photography), Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany.
1992
Erasmus Program, Ecole Pilote Internationale, Villa Arson, Nice, France.
Public Lectures / Papers / Articles
2024
Inventory of empty streets, (talk) Fine Art Research Unit (FARU), Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), Cambridge, UK.
2022
Inventory of empty streets (Artists talk),Trinity University, San Antonio, USA.
2021
Reading vs. Scanning: Notes on Re:Print (peer reviewed journal article), AI & Society Journal, Springer, UK.
2019
Creating the Re:Print book: (paper), Fine Art Research Unit (FARU), Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Creating the Re:Print book: (paper), Re-thinking Repetition, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, UK.
2018
Re:Print: (panel discussion), Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Re:Print: (panel discussion), Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, UK.
2017
Re:Print: (panel discussion), University of Northampton, UK.
2011
Duncan Ganley (Artist Talk), University Campus Suffolk, UK.
2008
The Artist’s Eye: (Artist talk) Menil Collection, Houston, USA.
Archiving for Artists (Lecture & Workshop), (with Jill Wood), Diverseworks, Houston, USA.
2007
midnight, mid-Atlantic…: Duncan Ganley in conversation with Dr. Kelly Baum (Artist Talk), Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
2004
Fotofest 2004: (Panel Discussion), Diverseworks, Houston, USA.
Location Shots: (Artists Talk), Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.
2002
Real Time: (Panel Discussion), Arthouse, Austin, USA.
Duncan Ganley – Recent work: (Lecture) Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA.
2001
Core 2001: (Panel Discussion), Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA.
Slide Jam: (Artist Talk), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA.
2000
Core 2000: (Panel Discussion), Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA.
1999
Opening Shots / End Titles: (Lecture), Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
Duncan Ganley – Recent work: (Lecture), Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich, UK.
Awards / Funding
2022
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Research & Innovation Fund, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
2021-22
Anglia Ruskin University Sabbatical Scheme, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
2016
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (ACE) Joint award: Véronique Chance / Duncan Ganley for Re:print book.
2006
Faculty Travel Grant, Glassell School of Art, Houston, USA.
2001
Eliza Randall Prize, The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
2000
Eliza Randall Prize, The Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
1999
Artist Award, Scottish Arts Council, UK.
Research Grant, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK.
1995
Artist Grant, Edinburgh District Arts Council, Edinburgh, UK.
1994
Artist Award, Bancroft Clark Trust, Somerset, UK.
1993
Watt Club Medal, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
Education
1995
Master of Fine Arts Degree (MFA), Edinburgh College of Art / Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
1993
BA Hons (Drawing & Painting) - first class, Edinburgh College of Art / Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
2012
Post Graduate Certificate - Learning & Teaching (HE), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Work in collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, USA
Deutsche Bank, USA.
Minute Maid Corporate Collection, USA.
Private Collections.