June 2009
Michelle Deignan is exhibiting 'America Strikes Back' in FOR YOUR EYES ONLY an exhibition of films by young artists based in the UK at Mains d'OEuvres, Paris. Other particpants in the exhibition include Sam Curtis, CutUp Collective, Katie Davies, Ben Judd, Claire Hope, Heather Phillipson and Laure Prouvost.

May 2009
Group exhibition 'Free Association' at Area 53, Vienna from May 20 until June 19, with artists Jo Addison, Paul Buck, Michael Curran, Michelle Deignan, Edward Dorrian, Rochelle Fry, Mathew Hale & Alexander Haßenpflug, Beth Harland, Marc Hulson, Dean Kenning, Cedar Lewisohn, Louisa Minkin, Sally Morfill, Susan Morris, Esther Planas, Claudia Plank & Hans Werner Poschauko, Paul Sakoilsky, Alex Schady, Francis Summers, Alice Walton, Emma Wolf Deraze.

February 2009
The launch of S. E. Barnet and The Kit Collaboration's photographic and sound installation project at Five Years 'Does God Live In The No-Fly Zone' is on Friday 20th February. Exhibition runs untils 8th March. Check gallery website for details.

The exhibition was preceded by 'The Empty Gallery Interviews'. This was the first in a series of live conversation pieces. Art writers Claire Nichols and Altair Roelants spoke with artist S.E. Barnet and the exhibition's curator Michelle Deignan about the upcoming exhibition on Tuesday 17th Feb at Five Years.

This month's Shimmer: 'Angela in Green'.

January 2009
New essay 'What's New?' by writer/curator Chris Fite-Wassilak on Michelle Deignan's recent video works.

transmediale.08 video selection at the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria on the 29th of January.

December 2008
Wound Magazine Winter 2008 Issue, features and article by Ken Pratt on Michelle Deignan's work entitled 'Red Cheek'.

On 12th December Five Years is launching a new project, 'A4 Editions', dedicated specifically to small scale works on paper and artists' publications.

November 2008
transmediale.08 video selection at lab.30, Kulturhaus Abraxas, Augsburg from the 13th-15th and at the Goethe Institute, Madrid, on the 26th. and Cimatics Audiovisual Festival, 28th-29th, Media Ruimte, Brussels.

October 2008
Issue 9 of /seconds features 'America Strikes Back'.

Group Exhibition 'Fake ID' with Michelle Deignan, Jemima Brown, Morten Viskum Risk Hazekamp and Simon Willems, Angie Reed and Caron Geary at Vegas Gallery, London. Show runs from 16 October - 9 November.

transmediale.08 video selection in 'Manifesto', Toulouse, on the 8th, 'Fotografest' in Cuernavaca, Mexico on the 21st, and at the Sri Lanka Television Training Institute in Colombo on the 28th and 29th.

September 2008
Screening of transmediale.08 video selection at Media Depo, Lviv, Ukraine on 18th of the month.

3 months Artist's Residency in Berlin at Milchhof studios from September to December '08. Residency was awarded by Artquest and ACAVA. Go to Blog "Arm aber Sexy".

July 2008
transmediale.08 video selection at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City from 2nd July until the 4th August. The programme will presented by the curator, Thomas Munz, on the 1st July at 7.30pm. Programme will also be screened on the 4th July at Fundacion Ludwig de Cuba, Havana.

Five Years Periodical Volume 1, publication launch and exhibition, 11th - 14th July. The exhibition features new works by; aas, Jo Addison, Michelle Deignan, Edward Dorrian, Rochelle Fry, Alexander Haßenflug, Marc Hulson, Cedar Lewisohn, Louisa Minkin, Sally Morfill, Susan Morris, Esther Planas, Alex Schady, Francis Summers and Alice Walton.

June 2008
transmediale.08 video screening featuring 'Il Cittadino' at Media Art Lab, Moscow on the 25th June and at the Centro de Arte y Nuevas Tecnologias, San Luis Potosi, Mexico on the 28th.

May 2008
Video work 'Il Cittadino' screened at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, in Film Program Part 1 on May 14th. Curated by Marcel Schwierin the programme includes works by Christian Jankowski, Ambrosio, Gianfranco Baruchello & Alberto Grifi.

New video work 'Ourland' in 'Interference' group exhibition at Red Stables Gallery Dublin. Exhibition runs from 16th - 25th May.

May 9th, 'Il Cittadino' in 'Rhymes of an hour' a screening programme at Loop Art Fair Barcelona, featuring moving-image works by artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, London, including Alsopp and Weir, Alexander Heim and Yaron Lapid. This screening is preceeded with a round table discussion with, Julia Scher, KHM, Köln; Pia Lindman, Yale University; Teresa Blanch, Fine Arts University of Barcelona; Suhail Malik, Goldsmiths College.

April 2008
'Il Cittadino' in transmediale.08 video selection at Athens Video Art Festival on the 11th of April.

transmediale.08 video selection also screened at Amantes Art Space, Torino, Italy on the 29th.

March 2008
Micheal O'Connell reviews transmediale.08. for Interface.

'I don't think I can fit it in' a new exhibition by Alex Schady opens at Five Years on Friday 7th March 6-9pm. Exhibition runs 8th - 30th March.

January/February 2008
Deignan's video work 'Unmaking and Redoing' screened on the 31st January at House of Cultures, Berlin as part of the Sudden Intervention film programme at transmediale.08. 'Il Cittadino' also screened at the festival, in the Test Patterns film programme on February 2nd.

November 2007
Single channel video 'Il Cittadino' is one of six films being screened on the 28th November at Konstall Malmo as part of the preview programme of transmediale.08.

'Il Cittadino' also being screened every Sunday from the 18th November until the 13th January at Milton Keynes Gallery in the UK.

'Present State' at Five Years gallery, London from November 24th until December 2nd. The exhibition, curated by Michelle Deignan, features works by the artists Jasmina Cibic and Pete Moss. See flyer. Download Press Release.

Single channel video, 'Red Cheeks' in 'The Sleep of Reason' at Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. Selected by Frances Morris, Head of International Collections at Tate and Enrique Juncosa from The Irish Museum of Modern Art the exhibition runs from 30 November '07 until 8 February '08.

October 2007
'Red Cheeks' and 'Il Cittadino' screened on the 25th of October at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. This is part of a screening event called 'New Work UK: Trust Yourself', curated by Lina Dzuverovic. Artists also in the screening programmes are Chia-En Jao, Yaron Lapid, Flávia Müller Medeiros, Harold Offeh and Uriel Orlow.

Michelle Deignan is exhibiting at Zoo Art Fair London with Colony Gallery.

July 2007
Michelle Deignan is taking part in 'Viewtube' a panel dicussion at Campbell Works, London as part of the Autonomous series of exhibitions, screenings and discussions curated by Alli Beddows. Panelists include Malcom Le Grice, Simon Pope and John Summers. 'Viewtube' will use youtube.com as a vehicle for discussion dealing with issues of selection, resonsibility, collaboration, free sharing and peer to peer networks. This event coincides with John Tiney's solo exhibition 'Joyride'. Starts 7pm, Wednesday the 4th of July.

June 2007
A selection of Michelle Deignan's video work will be screened at Scolt Head, London on June 3rd. This is one of six Sunday screening evenings where an artist has been invited to present work alongside a feature film of their choice. The feature film Deignan has chosen is 'Trust' by Hal Hartley. Other artists who are screening their work in this series include, Vittorio Santoro, Shezad Dawood and Emily Wardill.

May 2007
Deignan's solo exhibition 'Il Cittadino' will be open at Five Years in London from 26th May until 2rd June. PV 6-9pm 25th May. See flyer.

April 2007
Deignan's video work 'Red Cheeks' is screened as part of 'Artmapping' public screenings and artworks sited in and around Fluc in Vienna. Artmapping continues until the end of August 2007.

A review of 'After the fact' by visual arts critic, Aidan Dunne is featured in The Irish Times Wednesday 11 April edition. Read the review.

A panel discussion will be held at The LAB on Monday 16th April at 6.15pm which will consider both current exhibitions, Michelle Deignan's "After the fact" and Doireann Wallace's "a whole new architecture of reality". Discussion is entitled "Media Methods and Creation of Meaning" and the panel is Valerie Connor, lecturer and visual arts consultant for the Irish Arts Council; Tim Stott, critic and lecturer; and the artists Michelle Deignan and Doireann Wallace.

March 2007
'After the fact' Michelle Deignan's solo exhibition at The LAB in Dublin, opens on the 14th of March and continues until 17th of April. This show features recent video works plus a new work 'Il Cittadino'.

Deignan is exhibiting 'Red Cheeks' in 'Black Light', the forthcoming group exhibition at 'Colony' in Birmingham. This show is part of 'The Event', a series of city wide artist run activities in permanent and temporary spaces throughour central Birmingham. Opening event is on the 31st of the month.

Michelle Deignan is taking part in Hen Weekend at the De La Warr pavilion on the south coast of England. Hen Weekend is a new format networking event set-up by artist Ellie Harrison. It aims to facilitate discussion and encourage collaboration between its 16 selected participants from the UK and abroad.

'There is no future for us now' opens at Five Years gallery London, from the 2nd of March until the 11th.

February 2007
Michelle Deignan is one of ten artists who programme Five Years project space in London. The inaugural exhibition in the new gallery, 'Goo Goo Muck', opens 2nd of this month in Regent Studios, Hackney, London. 'Art for Everyone' by Edward Dorrian opens at the gallery on the 17th and continues until the 24th of this month.

For information about earlier projects click here.