MOIRA TIERNEY
www.moiratierney.net
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EDUCATION:
1992-1997 Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France:
Diplome Nationale d’Expression Plastique 1997 (Felicitations du Jury)
Diplome Nationale d'Arts Plastique 1995
1986-1989 University College Dublin, Bachelor of Arts 1989 (Honours)

FILMOGRAPHY:
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RESIDENCIES / WORKSHOPS:
2010 L'Entreprise Culturelle, Paris
2009 Folkatronica Media Arts Residency at Visual Artists Ireland
L'Entreprise Culturelle, Paris
Le Polygone Etoile, Marseille
2008 Grace Space Annex, Brooklyn, New York
Academia Non Grata, Parnu, Estonia
2007 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Universidad Iberoamericano, Tijuana, Mexico
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst Virginia
Grace Space, Brooklyn, New York
2005 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Brooklyn Community Access Television (Rotunda Gallery)

SELECTED SOLO SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Video Lounge at the Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
2009 Verksmidjan a Hjalteyri Arts Centre, Iceland
2008 Le Polygone Etoile, Marseille, France
Les Inattendus Film Festival, Lyon, France
Spazio Arka Centro Culturale Polivalente, Sardinia
TekFestival, Rome, Italy
2007 Non-Grata Film and Video Festival, Parnu, Estonia
Feminism(s) Film Video Politics, University of Hartford, Connecticut
ON Film Festival, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
The Tank, Tribeca, New York
2005 Anthology Film Archives, New York
2002 4eme Festival des Cinemas Differents, Paris
L'Alternativa 2002 IX Independent Film Festival of Barcelona
 
AWARDS:
2009 Culture Ireland Award (Iceland screening)
  Arts Council of Ireland Bursary Award
2008 Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award (Italian and Baltics screenings)
2007 Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award (French and Italian screenings)
2006 Non-Grata Award, Non-Grata Film and Video Festival, Parnu, Estonia
2005 New York City Dept of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council Community Grant
1998 Roinn an Taoisigh Award
Fulbright Scholarship
1997 Arts Council of Ireland Film Award

COLLECTIONS:
Museo De Arte Y Diseno, Costa Rica
Jon Di Benedetto (Private Collection, New York)

OTHER:
1998-present Co-founder and member of Solus, Irish independent film collective
1998-present Freelance programmer, Anthology Film Archives, New York
1999-2007 Programmer and head projectionist, Ocularis Film Collective, Brookyln, New York

SELECTED GROUP SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland
Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris
Festival Internationale de Films de Femmes, Paris
O'Donovan Rossa Society, New York
Spazio Arka, Assemini, Sardinia
Super-8 Shots Festival, Galway, Ireland
2009 Transcultural Montage International Conference, Aarhus, Denmark
Hilltown New Music Festival, Westmeath, Ireland
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
Dublin Electronic Arts Festival
Chigago Underground Film Festival
Kratkofil Festival, Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Collective Shorts, DCTV, New York
Cote Court Film Festival, Paris
Rites of Return, Nublu, New York
2008 Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Fine Art Faculty, South Valley University, Luxor, Egypt
Academia Non Grata, Parnu, Estonia
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada
15th & Final New York Underground Film Festival (Best of the Festivals Retrospective Program)
45 Festival del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro, Italy
Irish Arts Centre, New York
2007 Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
Boxcar Film Series, Detroit Film Center, Michigan
San Diego International Women's Film Festival, San Diego, California
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
EXIS Film and Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
Mostravideo, Itau Cultural Institute, Belo Horizonte & Belem, Brazil
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Our Dark Heroes, Secret Project Robot, New York
XXIX Edicion, Semana Internacional del Cortometraje de San Roque (Cadiz), Spain
2006 Radiant, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
35th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Evolution Media Arts Festival, Leeds, UK
Director’s Lounge, Berlin
2005 Cine Haiti, Artepolis, Madrid, Spain
The Autumn Marathon, SKIF Modern Art Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia
Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris
Video-Babes, Bandung, Indonesia
Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
Emerging Film-Makers Series, Rochester, New York
Festival Internacional de Cine El Ojo Cojo, Madrid
Biennale de Saint-Etienne, France
Rush Arts Gallery, New York
2004 Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Invisible Film Series Millenium New York
Naples Independent Film Show
38th Annual Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
11th Annual New York Underground Film Festival
58th International Edinburgh Film Festival
2003 Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paolo
Rio International Film Festival
Wilno - Nueva York (visa para),CAC Vilnius Lithuania
Drop Dead NY, Andrew Kreps gallery, New York
17eme Rencontre Video Art Plastique, Centre d'art Conemporain de Basse-Normandie, France
Homeland, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
City Lights, Video-Ex, Zurich
Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
To Free the Cinema: Film & Video from New York Galeria Capacete, Rio de Janeiro
Espacios a la Experimentacion, Museo de Arte & DIseno, Costa Rica
2002 4eme Festival des Cinemas Differents, Paris
International Festival of Short Film & Video, Bilbao
Mostra Curta Cinema- Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
Unknown Quantity, Fondation Cartier Paris
2001 3eme Festival des Cinemas Differents, Paris
CinemaTexas Film Festival, Austin Texas
45th London Film Festival
Watching People Watching You, Warsaw Centre for Contemporary Arts
Obscure Love & Death, Lux Centre London & AFA & Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco
Splice This at the San Francisco Art Institute
30th Rotterdam International Film Festival
2000 Avant-Garde Alternatives: American experimental film, Cinema Museum, Moscow, Russia