Closure (still)
2005
DVD
courtesy of the artist, Alexander and Bonin, New York and
Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid

WILLIE DOHERTY Northern Ireland
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery

Willie Doherty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1959, where he still lives and works. In 2006, Doherty's work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective Out of Position, Labortatorio Arte Alamdea, Mexico City. Other recent solo exhibitions include self-titled shows at De Appel, Amsterdam, 2003 and Q Gallery, Derby, 2005; as well as Non-Specific Threat, at Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and Alexander and Bonin, New York in 2004, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade in 2005. He also showed Apparatus, at Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin in 2005 and Empty, at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich in 2006.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, Doherty's work was exhibited in Re-Run: 25th Bienal de São Paulo, 2002; Poetic Justice: 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003; 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2004; and in The Experience of Art, Italian Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005. Other recent major group exhibitions include Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 2004; and Reprocessing Reality, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, 2006. A major text on the artist is Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Willie Doherty: False Memory, 2002.

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