BIO
Originally from the Donegal Gaeltacht, Myrid Carten studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London and Central Saint Martins UAL. Using documentary and fiction, and often a playful combination of both, her work interrogates both the struggle for intimacy and the ways we are compromised by our pasts. She has screened and been broadcast internationally.
Recent solo exhibitions; Preta Act 2, Mother’s Tank Station, London (2023). Preta (Hungry Ghost), Mother’s Tank Station, Dublin (2022).
Recent group exhibitions; In the Same Breath, Freelands Foundation, London (2023). Bones in the Attic, Hugh Lane Gallery (2022). A Different Horizon, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford Ireland (2022). My Body is an Exhibition, Sadler’s Wells London (2021). The Yalta Game, RCC Donegal (2020). Urgencies, selected by Willie Doherty, CCA Derry (2019).
Recent residencies: ISCP NYC 2020-21, Hospitalfield 2020-2021, Artlink Dunree 2020 and British Council’s and ACNI International artist residency in India 2017-18.
Recent awards: Arts Council of Ireland’s Commission Award 2020-21, DocsIE Pitch Award 2019, TBG&S Project Studio Award 2018-19, Fire Station Artists Studio Digital Media Award 2018, and the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19.
Her work is in the Arts Council of Ireland’s and Arts council of Northern Ireland’s national collections.
