Siobhán Hapaska

Hapaska was born in Belfast and studied art at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1985 to 1988 before completing a master's degree at Goldsmiths College in 1992. Hapaska has exhibition nationally and internationally since the 1990s. In 1993 she won a Barclays Young Artist Award and had her first solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1995. She received the IMMA Glen Dimplex Award in 1998 and represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Hapaska’s work is represented in many major institutional collections including: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA;American University Katzen Museum of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA;Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Magasin III, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China.