Willie Doherty

Willie Doherty (* 1959 in Derry , Northern Ireland ) is an Irish artist (photography, video and sound installation).

Life

As a child, Doherty witnessed Bloody Sunday . His later works deal with the Northern Ireland conflict . From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast. In 1999 he was a DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin.

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In 1995 Doherty received the Irish Museum of Modern Art Glen Dimplex Artists Award. In 1994 and 2003 he was nominated for the Turner Prize .

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Doherty creates political and aesthetic images of Ireland in his video works.

Public collections

Germany

• Goetz Collection , Munich
• New gallery , Kassel

France

• Regional Art Contemporain Fund - Lorraine, Metz
• Kadist Art Foundation , Paris

Ireland (Republic)

• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery , Cork
• The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaion, Dublin
• Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane , Dublin
• Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin

United Kingdom

• Arts Council of Northern Ireland , Belfast (Northern Ireland)
• Dundee Contemporary Arts - DCA, Dundee (Scotland)
• Tate Liverpool , Liverpool (England)
• Hiscox Art Projects , London (England)
• Tate Britain , London (England)
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery , Wolverhampton (England)

literature

• Yilmaz Dziewior , Matthias Mühling: Willie Doherty - anthology of time-based works. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 3-7757-1929-6

Web links

• Materials by and about Willie Doherty in the documenta archive
• Willie Doherty at artfacts.net
• Interview (English)