RHIZOMATIC: AN ECOFEMINIST PUNK-URBAN ACTION
2024, Photo credit Louis Haugh. Curtesy the LAB Gallery, Dublin.
Cecilia Bullo makes sculptures and multidisciplinary installations. Her work is grounded in research and collections of experiences from the visceral labyrinth of the mind, its dysfunctional beauty and horrors; to mythological, psychoanalytic, and ecofeminist theories.
Classically trained, she engages in an expanded sculptural practice where materiality is both symbolic and sensorially charged. Her works integrate elements such as aloe vera extract, anxiety relief medication, and dust from sacred sites, layering physical substance with historical, ritualistic, and psychological resonance.
Adopting a Rhizomatic approach, Bullo describes her process as ‘chaos-magick making’ constructing non-linear, interwoven narratives seeking to foster restorative connections between ecological wounds and human scars.
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Forever Becoming: Cecilia Bullo’s Invocation of Ancient Feminisim by Erin Joyce (2023)
Practical Magic, Periodical Review 12 by Sarah Kelleher (2023)
Amongst the Daughter-Offsets Spilling Forth, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Nov-Dec 2021. by Jennie Guy (2021)
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CECILIA BULLO
(IE/IT)
Education
2009 MFA in Sculpture, National College of Art and Design, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland
2005 BFA, Academy of Brera, Milan, Italy
2003 Fine Art Academy of Athens, Erasmus Mobility Award, Athens, Greece
Upcoming
2026 Invited two-person exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin (CAGA/Gallery Weekend), Nov. 2026, IE
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2023 Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?
Curated by Patrick T. Murphy, Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA, Dublin, IE2023 Leigheas-Liminalis: Antidotes for Melancholic Gestures
Curated by Sarah Searson, The Dock, IE2021 Bleach Those Tongues: Dystopian Assemblages
Essay by Jennie Guy, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, IEGroup Exhibitions (Selected)
2025 Together in Commune, RUA RED, Dublin, IE
2025 Connections: OPW State Art Collection Cross-Border Touring Exhibition, Farmleigh (Dublin); Luan Gallery (Athlone); Down Arts Centre (Downpatrick); The Braid (Ballymena), IE/NI
2024 In–DREAMS, Two-Person Show: Cecilia Bullo & Arno Kramer
Esker Arts, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, IE2024 DISTINCT
Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE2024 Endlessnessnessness
Curated by Julia Mustacchi, The Lab, Dublin, IE2023 Periodical Review 12—Practical Magic
Curated by Julia Mustacchi, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE2023 Infinite Possibilities
Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran, Galway International Arts Festival, IE2023 Vox Magicae
Curated by Suzanne Walsh, Kirkos Ensemble, Dublin, IE2022 Material Stories
Curated by Helen Carey, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, AU2022 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Curated by Stef Van Bellingen, Kunsten Platform WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE2018 Hermione 2018
Curated by Aisling Prior, Alexandra College, Dublin, IE2018 Artrooms Fair Roma
Selected by Gianluca Marziani, International Contemporary Art Fair, Rome, IT2018 Ex-Voto the Body + Institution
Curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre, IE2017 SITE WORKS '17
Curated by Emma-Lucy O’Brien, Carlow, IE2017 Transgender, Gender & Psychoanalysis
Curated by Mandy Wax & Spencer Rowel, Freud Museum/Draper Hall, London, UK2011 54th Venice Biennale Italian Institutes Of Culture in collaboration Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy and Italian Cultural Institute, Dublin, IE
2010 NEU/NOW Visual Art Festival
Curated by Anthony Dean & Paula Crabtree, L’Atelier, Nantes, FR2010 An Eire of the Senses
World Expo, Irish Pavilion, Shanghai, P.R. ChinaAwards (Selected)
2025 CCI Paris Residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2025 Visual Arts Bursary Award, (including 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020), Arts Council of Ireland
2024 Mid-Career Studio Artist Award, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, IE
2024 1st prize winner: Sculpture in any medium, Solomon Fine Art Award, RHA Annual Exhibition, IE
2023 Arts and Disability Connect Award, Arts Council/Arts & Disability Ireland
2022 Creative Ireland Award, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland
2022 ArtConnect’s ARTIST to WATCH ‘22, GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2022 Grant Award, (including 2020, 2010), Culture Ireland
2021 DCC Visual Art Award, Dublin City Council, Ireland
2013 1st prize winner: Stone-Carving category, RDS Awards, RDS, Dublin, IE
2010 Neu/Now Festival, ELIA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Public Commissions / Public Art (Selected)
2025 Percent for Art Scheme (currently), St. Joseph’s College, Lucan, curated by Aisling Prior
2025 Christy Brown Memorial Commission (longlist), Dublin, IE
2024 Business to Arts Award Sculpture (2nd runner-up), IE
Publications (Selected)
Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist?
Artist book featuring an essay by Sinéad Gleeson, published by RHA, 2023Channel Cover Issue 10, Channel Magazine, Ireland, 2024
Galway International Arts Festival Critique, Visual Artists Ireland, VAN Special Issue, Nov. 2022, Dr. Lucy Elvis
Amongst the Daughter: Offset Spilling Forth, Visual Artists Ireland, VAN, Nov/Dec 2021 Issue, Jennie Guy
Practical Magic: Periodical Review 12, Paper Visual Art (PVA), June 2023, Sarah Kelleher
Artist Talks and Lectures (Selected)
2024 Guest Lecturer, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland
2023 Commentator, WARP Artist Village, Make Eindhoven, Netherlands
2023 Commentator, Art, Disability & Climate Change, Webinar by Alan James Burns
2023 Artist Talk, in-conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Artist Talk, Dublin Learning City Festival, in-conversation with Prof. Martin Worthington, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Guest Lecturer, National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland
2020 Artist Talk, Basic Talks Series, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Representation and Studio Contact
Gallery: Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland (hillsborofineart.com)
Studio: Studio 6, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre (ruared.ie)