.
Kasia Kaminska is an artist living in Co. Kilkenny. Her photographic projects and publications have been included in exhibitions (Axis Ballymun, TULCA) and book fairs (Limerick International Publishers Salon, Dublin Art Book Fair) throughout Ireland. She has been awarded artist residencies at Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Cow House Studios in Co. Wexford and Grizedale Arts in the UK. She is co-founder of Read That Image photobook collective with whom she has co-led book design projects (shortlisted for the Unseen Dummy Award, Kassel Dummy Award and awarded the FEP European Photobook Award) and facilitated workshops in partnership with Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Gallery of Photography, The Library Project, RHA, NCAD, TUDublin and Ulster University, amongst others. Recent projects include 'Leave The Long Grass Grow' in collaboration with The Acorn Project, Kilkenny (2023-2024), 'Human Lab' at Electric Picnic curated by Aisling Murray (2022), ‘Community Vaults’ at Axis Ballymun curated by Maeve Stone (2021-2022), and ‘How do we start?’ (2021), a climate art magazine commissioned by Project Arts Centre and curated by Maeve Stone. She holds a BA in Photography from TUDublin and an MA in Social Practice from the Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS with First Class Hons.
CONTACT
|e| kasiadkaminska@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2020 - 2021 MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland
2009 – 2013 BA Photography, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Leave the Long Grass Grow, Kilkenny
2023 Solidarity Supper, Rothe House, Kilkenny
2022 Community Vaults, axis Ballymun, Dublin
2013 Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Festival Gallery, Galway
2013 Re/Turn, Studio 8, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2013 RDS Student Art Awards Travelling Exhibition, Luan Gallery, Westmeath
2013 RDS Student Art Awards, RDS, Dublin
2013 DIT Photography Graduate Exhibition, National Photographic Archives, Dublin
2013 Limerick International Publishers Salon, Ormston House, Limerick
2012 Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
PUBLICATIONS
2022 ‘How do we start?’, Project Arts Center
2022 Fiailí Fiáin Bhaile Munna, artist booklet
2020 Crooked Bridge, artist book
2013 Ón Bhonn Aníos | From The Bottom Up
FACILITATION
2024 The Glimmering Tide, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow
2024 Middle Woods Summer School X Science Week, Another Love Story Festival
2024 Leave the Long Grass Grow, Kilkenny
2024 Youth Ecology Arts, Kilkenny
2024 BLAST Residency, Johnswell NS, Kilkenny
2023 What the tide brings: seaweed foraging and cyanotype workshop, Mermaid Arts Centre,Wicklow
2023 Leave the Long Grass Grow, Kilkenny
2023 How the light gets in: an urban foraging and anthotype workshop, MART Gallery, Dublin
2023 Youth Ecology Workshop, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2023 TAP Residency, Queen of the Universe, Carlow
2023 TAP Residency, CBS Primary, Kilkenny
2022 Anthotype Workshop, Visual, Carlow
2022 The Human Lab, Electric Picnic
2021/22 Community Vaults, axis Ballymun
2021 Seeds of the Future, KK School of Food
2021 Ste Murray, One-on-One Workshop, Rua Red, Dublin
2019 Imagined Landscapes, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2019 Stitching Sessions, Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2019 Make a Photobook, RTI Studio, Dublin
2019 FUSE X MAP, D-Light Studios, Dublin
2018 Stitching Sessions, Facebook, Dublin
2018 Stitching Sessions, Cabinteely Library, Dublin
2018 Artists’ Bookmaking Workshop, Abbey Road Studios, Westmeath
2018 Make a Photobook, WCFE, Waterford
2017 Stitching Sessions, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2017 Stitching Sessions, Facebook, Dublin
2017 Stitching Sessions, Gallery of Photography
2016 Dara McGrath, One-on-One Workshop
2016 Stitching Sessions, Halftone, TLP
2016 Collab Booklab, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2016 Make a Photobook, Cork Photo HQ, Cork
2016 Make a Photobook, RTI Studio, Dublin
2016 Collaborative Workshop, University of Ulster, Belfast
2015 Collaborative Workshop, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
2015 Make a Photobook, Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland
2015 VAI Visual Artists Cafe Workshop, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast
2015 Bookmaking Workshop, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
DESIGN
2020 Beacons, Daragh Muldowney, photobook, edition of 750
2019 Project Cleansweep, Dara McGrath, photobook, edition of 1000
2018 Dublin Salt, Peter Gordon, photobook, edition of 1000
2016 Me in place and the place in me, Sophia Vigne Welsh, photobook, dummy edition
2016 Everything is within reach, Ethna O’Regan, photobook, dummy edition
2015 A Bower for Sisters, Aisling O’Rourke, photobook, edition of 500
2015 The Whistle Blowing, Lorraine Tuck, photobook, edition of 1000
2015 Midlands, Martin Cregg, photobook, edition of 200
2015 Facade, Robert McCormack, photobook, dummy edition
2015 Contours, Shane Lynam, photobook, dummy edition
2014 Out of Thin Air, Daragh Muldowney, photobook, edition of 1000
2014 Burning Down the House, Norman Behrandt, zine, edition of 10
2013 Skyline, Eoghan Kavanagh, photobook, edition of 1000
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2024 Butler Gallery Cruinniu na nOg Residency
2023/24 Artlinks Bursary
2023/24 Cow House Studios Open Residency
2023 TAP Residency, Kilkenny & Carlow
2022/23 Gypsy Ray Photography Residency, Butler Gallery
2022 KilkennyETC TAP Programme
2022 Kilkenny Visual Artists Mentoring Programme
2022 Arts Council Agility Award
2022 Cow House Studios Open Residency
2022 Create AIC Mentor Panel Award2021 Grizedale Arts Volunteering Residency
2019 Arts Council Travel & Training Award