Enya Zia Fortuna
Curriculum Vitae
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BIOGRAPHY
1992 – Born in Kranj, Slovenia
2016 – Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015 – 1st Class Honours Degree, Bachelors in Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
Currently works and lives in Glasgow
AWARDS/BURSARIES
2017- Teaching Graduate Bursary, Creative Scotland & House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2016- Young Talent Award- shortlisted, Rome, Italy
2015- Top Honours Graduate CIT Degree Student, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Art Fest Award, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Best Moving Image and Solo Show Award – Cork Film Centre, Ireland
Development Bursary Award – Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Lismore Castle Arts Graduate Award-shortlisted, Ireland
2012 – Barr Bua, Best Student Award, Art and Economics, St.Peter’s Community School, Co. Cork, Ireland
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
2018 –Art Fest Award, James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork Ireland
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017
Live Now, Audi International Dublin Feature Film Festival, featuring in film Live Now, by Paddy Cahill.
2016
The Lion is a Diamond; Solo Show: Cork Film Centre Best Moving Image, Ballincollig, Ireland
A Pink Capital; Rome meets Glasgow, A collaboration between Glasgow School of Art and Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Marco Tesstacio Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
The River is a Swamp and we are up to our Necks, The Glasgow School of Art Masters Show, Trongate, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Escapement, as part of The Glasgow School of Art Curatorial Masters Degree Show, curated by Skaiste Klantuie, The Art School, Glasgow, United Kindgdom
I Dreamed of you so much, in context with group show Oscillate me Widely, The Whisky Bond, Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, United Kingdom
The Pace between Your Hands and My Breath, GSA Sculpture Open Studios, Collaboration with Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Tontine, Glasgow, United Kingdom
45 Minutes, performance curated by Skaiste Klaniute, Curatorial Project Space, Tontine, Trongate, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Resist To Follow Where The Good Half Wanders, Curated by Aoife Power and in collaboration with The Royal Conservatoire, House for an Art Lover, Studio Pavilion Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015
When the Mothership Calls you Home, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, United Kingdom
The Private Collection, The Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Spit, Spit, Scrub, Scrub, In accordance with Amanda Coogans I’ll Sing you a Song from Around the Town, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Lismore Castle Arts: 2015 Origins Exhibition, Lismore Castle; St Carthages Hall, Waterford, Ireland
Culture Night Cork: Top Graduates 2015, The Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
Overtures 2015, Group exhibition launching works with the top graduates of Ireland, Damer House Gallery, Tipperary, Ireland
When White Egrets Spawn, In accordance with We Do Not Leave Pyramids, Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Show, Cork, Ireland
Smoking In Bolero, Live Collision Festival, Live performance in collaboration with Amanda Coogan, Meeting House Square, Dublin, Ireland
The Performance Caravan, in accordance with LEVEL Exhibition and Mart, Mart Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
2014
An Investigation into Female Performance Art, Nest Performance Art Festival, Parliament Square, Kilkenny, Ireland
The Performance Caravan Performance Screenings by filmmaker Dervla Baker, Culture Night Cork, Sample Studios, Co.Cork, Ireland
The Katalog Exhibition, curated by Victoria Evans, CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Co.Cork., Ireland
Things/Daktai Exhibition, CCAD and Kaunas Art Institute Textiles Collaboration, CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Co.Cork, Ireland
2013
The Performance Caravan, curated by artist Amanda Coogan debut performance, A Performance Caravan’, TACTIC, Co.Cork. , Ireland
2010
The Ship of Seven Murders, Exhibition of the Illustrations of the novel, Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Co.Cork, Ireland
CURATED EXHIBTIONS
Gucci Vz Jail, Group exhibition by eight artists, curated by Enya Fortuna and Clarinda Tse, Bralline Prison, Glasgow, United Kindgdom
RESIDENCES
House for an Art Lover Residency MLitt Sculpture, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Big Rock Bothy Residency, The Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
WORKSHOPS PARTAKEN
2014 – Performance Art Workshop in accordance with performance artist Amanda Coogan, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
2013 – Performance Art Workshop, in accordance with Fire Stations Artists Studio Programme with performance artist Kira O’Reilly, Fire Stations Artists Studio, Dublin, Ireland
WORKSHOPS TAUGHT
2017- Performance Workshop; Creative Therapies, Kelvin College, Glasgow, United Kindgdom Performing & Play, Performance Workshop, House for an Art Lover, supported by Creative Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2016- Film and Photography Tutor HMP Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, United Kingdom
COLLECTIVES
The Performance Caravan – A collection of Cork based artists whose mutual oddity in Performance Art has brought them together in their aspirations of creating live performances throughout Ireland
The Katalog – The Katalog is a national and international database of emerging talent; which create a platform for the interexchange of multi dispensary art practices across a network of possible opportunities.
WRITTEN PUBLICATION & ARTICLES
2016
The Glasgow School of Art Masters Show, ‘Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice 2016’, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Amanda Coogan’s Exhibition presents, ‘I’ll Sing You a Song from Around the Town’, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
RADAR, The Glasgow School of Art’s digital archive of research and enterprise, author Enya Fortuna, ‘Gaining Authorship of your Legacy: an Examination of Robert Wilson and Marina Abramovic Institutions in the Light of Tadeusz Kantor’s Influence’, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2015
Irish Arts Review Magazine Autumn Edition: ‘Artist’s New Wave’; Top Irish Graduates, Ireland
The Guardian, ‘Exhibition in Roscrea Highlights Work of Emerging Artists’, The Nenagh, Ireland
Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Exhibition Catalogue, ‘We Do Not Leave Pyramids’, Cork, Ireland
2014
’Performance Art In Ireland: A History’, edited by Aine Philips, United Kingdom
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