Joe Walker and Pat Walker are twin brothers who began collaborating as Walker and Walker in 1989. They co-represented Ireland at the 51st International Venice Biennale in 2005 with their film installation Nightfall and have exhibited widely nationally and internationally. In 2019 they held a solo exhibition Nowhere without No(w) at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Contact: joewalkerw(at)gmail(dot)com
2021 Threshold, Madonna del Pozzo, Spoleto, Italy (solo)
2019 Nowhere without No(w), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo, catalogue)
2017 Every Day is a Good Day, Magazin4, Bregenz, Austria
Wider than the sky, Artspace Boan1942, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Bookish, Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
I Went to the Woods: The artist as wanderer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2015 Return Inverse, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria (solo, catalogue)
2014 Punctum, Reflections on Photography, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Austria
Gracelands: The Dark Thoughts that Surround Neon, IMMA Dublin
2013 Super 8, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
In the air, LSC, Leitrim, Ireland (solo)
2012 The Owl of Minerva, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane Dublin (solo)
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Künstlerhaus Berlin, Germany
Circling the square, curated by Vaari Claffey Gracelands, EVA Limerick
2011 The dissolution of time and space, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany,curated by Andrea Wolter-Abele
Substance abuse, Gracelands, Dromahair, Leitrim curated by Vaari Claffey
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, LA, USA curated by Christopher Grimes
2010 Mount Analogue Revisted, Mothers Tankstation, Dublin (solo)
I’m Spartacus, Gracelands Dromahair, Leitrim, curated by Vaari Claffey
Anal, curated by Lee Welch, http://www.scribd.com/doc/39624374/ANAL
2009 Folly, Gracelands Dromahair, Leitrim, curated by Vaari Claffey
2008 Ill heard, ill seen, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, USA curated by Marji Vecchio, (solo, catalogue)
Gracelands, Dromahair, Leitrim curated by Vaari Claffey
2007 Northern Lights, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy curated by Filippo Maggia (cat.)
‘Til I Die, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York curated by Mark Orange
The garden of eden has vanished, they say, Ballyjamesduff Museum, Cavan curated by Cliodna Shaffrey
2006 Looking In While Looking Out, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, USA Blake and Sons: Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (cat.)
Ireland at Venice, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
Feint magazine, The commitment issue, Dublin
2005 Ireland at Venice, Irish National Pavilion, Scuola di San Pasquale,
51st Venice Biennale, commissioner Sarah Glennie. (cat.)
Presence, Gimpel fils London, UK
Time’s Arrow, Rotunda Gallery New York curated by Janine Cirincione
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Four Now, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (curated project)
2004 Until now, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo, catalogue)
Do something Floating ip, Manchester UK, curated by David Beech and Graham Parker
Under Italian skies, The Return, Goethe Centre, Dublin, curated by Vaari Claffey and Grant Watson (solo)
Retreat Citylights Melbourne Australia
How things turn out Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin curated by Annie Fletcher (cat.)
Arranged Marriage Outer Space(s) Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago USA,curated by Marji Vecchio (cat.)
2003 Floating IP, Manchester, UK (solo)
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2001 Are we there yet?, Glassbox Paris curated by David Blamey and Paul O’Neill
The Last Lines of Waiting, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
Above, Fenton Gallery Cork
Propositions, Locks Gallery Philadelphia USA
(In)Consistency Arthouse Dublin curated by Paul O’Neill
1999 Uriel-fallen angels, Light Leak Gallery San Francisco USA (solo)
Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin (cat.)
(In)Consistency, Arthur R. Rose Gallery London UK
Inscriptions on Stone and Inscriptions of Stone, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
Shadows, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
White, Kunsthalle San Francisco USA
White Cubes, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Ireland (solo)
1998 EVA, City Gallery of Art, Limerick
1997 White Cubes, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, Ireland (solo)
1995 Kerlin Gallery
1990 EVA, City Gallery of Art, Limerick
City Arts Centre, Dublin
1989 GPA Emerging Artists Awards Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1987 S.A.D.E., Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
Living Arts Exhibition, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beech, David. Allegories of Reverie, Until now, catalogue 2005
Daly, Fergus. Senses of Cinema, Issue 57, December 2010
Daly, Fergus. Unfilmed Mountain: Walker and Walker's Mount Analogue Revisited, Asymptote July 2013
Daigle, Claire, Two Point(s) North, Ill seen, ill heard, catalogue 2008
Fletcher, Annie. How things turn out, IMMA, Dublin catalogue 2002
Fox, William L, Re-reflecting Romanticism, Ill seen, ill heard, catalogue 2008
Glennie, Sarah. La Biennale de Venezia, 51st Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte, catalogue, 2005
Glispin, Terry. Looking In While Looking Out Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, USA, catalogue 2006
Hartigan, Marianne. Review, The Sunday Tribune, October 31, 2004
Hlavajova, Maria. Four provinces, one divided, IMMA, Dublin catalogue 2002
Hutchinson, John. Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, catalogue,1999.
Leahy Bill. Review Villager magazine, October 23, 2004
Maggia, Filippo. Northern Lights, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, 2007
McKee, Francis. The End of Light, Until now, catalogue 2005
Morley, Simon. Walkers above the sea of clouds, Until now, catalogue 2005
Porter, Amy Jean. Review CIRCA 91, Spring 2000, p. 50.
Vecchio, Marji. Arranged Marriage Outer Space(s) Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago catalogue 2002
2019 Nowhere without No(w), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo, catalogue)
2017 Every Day is a Good Day, Magazin4, Bregenz, Austria
Wider than the sky, Artspace Boan1942, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Bookish, Thomas Park Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
I Went to the Woods: The artist as wanderer, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2015 Return Inverse, Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria (solo, catalogue)
2014 Punctum, Reflections on Photography, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Austria
Gracelands: The Dark Thoughts that Surround Neon, IMMA Dublin
2013 Super 8, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
In the air, LSC, Leitrim, Ireland (solo)
2012 The Owl of Minerva, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane Dublin (solo)
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Künstlerhaus Berlin, Germany
Circling the square, curated by Vaari Claffey Gracelands, EVA Limerick
2011 The dissolution of time and space, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany,curated by Andrea Wolter-Abele
Substance abuse, Gracelands, Dromahair, Leitrim curated by Vaari Claffey
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, LA, USA curated by Christopher Grimes
2010 Mount Analogue Revisted, Mothers Tankstation, Dublin (solo)
I’m Spartacus, Gracelands Dromahair, Leitrim, curated by Vaari Claffey
Anal, curated by Lee Welch, http://www.scribd.com/doc/39624374/ANAL
2009 Folly, Gracelands Dromahair, Leitrim, curated by Vaari Claffey
2008 Ill heard, ill seen, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, USA curated by Marji Vecchio, (solo, catalogue)
Gracelands, Dromahair, Leitrim curated by Vaari Claffey
2007 Northern Lights, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy curated by Filippo Maggia (cat.)
‘Til I Die, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York curated by Mark Orange
The garden of eden has vanished, they say, Ballyjamesduff Museum, Cavan curated by Cliodna Shaffrey
2006 Looking In While Looking Out, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, USA Blake and Sons: Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (cat.)
Ireland at Venice, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
Feint magazine, The commitment issue, Dublin
2005 Ireland at Venice, Irish National Pavilion, Scuola di San Pasquale,
51st Venice Biennale, commissioner Sarah Glennie. (cat.)
Presence, Gimpel fils London, UK
Time’s Arrow, Rotunda Gallery New York curated by Janine Cirincione
Red, White, Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Four Now, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (curated project)
2004 Until now, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo, catalogue)
Do something Floating ip, Manchester UK, curated by David Beech and Graham Parker
Under Italian skies, The Return, Goethe Centre, Dublin, curated by Vaari Claffey and Grant Watson (solo)
Retreat Citylights Melbourne Australia
How things turn out Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin curated by Annie Fletcher (cat.)
Arranged Marriage Outer Space(s) Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago USA,curated by Marji Vecchio (cat.)
2003 Floating IP, Manchester, UK (solo)
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2001 Are we there yet?, Glassbox Paris curated by David Blamey and Paul O’Neill
The Last Lines of Waiting, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
Above, Fenton Gallery Cork
Propositions, Locks Gallery Philadelphia USA
(In)Consistency Arthouse Dublin curated by Paul O’Neill
1999 Uriel-fallen angels, Light Leak Gallery San Francisco USA (solo)
Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin (cat.)
(In)Consistency, Arthur R. Rose Gallery London UK
Inscriptions on Stone and Inscriptions of Stone, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
Shadows, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
White, Kunsthalle San Francisco USA
White Cubes, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Ireland (solo)
1998 EVA, City Gallery of Art, Limerick
1997 White Cubes, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, Ireland (solo)
1995 Kerlin Gallery
1990 EVA, City Gallery of Art, Limerick
City Arts Centre, Dublin
1989 GPA Emerging Artists Awards Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1987 S.A.D.E., Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
Living Arts Exhibition, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beech, David. Allegories of Reverie, Until now, catalogue 2005
Daly, Fergus. Senses of Cinema, Issue 57, December 2010
Daly, Fergus. Unfilmed Mountain: Walker and Walker's Mount Analogue Revisited, Asymptote July 2013
Daigle, Claire, Two Point(s) North, Ill seen, ill heard, catalogue 2008
Fletcher, Annie. How things turn out, IMMA, Dublin catalogue 2002
Fox, William L, Re-reflecting Romanticism, Ill seen, ill heard, catalogue 2008
Glennie, Sarah. La Biennale de Venezia, 51st Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte, catalogue, 2005
Glispin, Terry. Looking In While Looking Out Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, USA, catalogue 2006
Hartigan, Marianne. Review, The Sunday Tribune, October 31, 2004
Hlavajova, Maria. Four provinces, one divided, IMMA, Dublin catalogue 2002
Hutchinson, John. Utopias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, catalogue,1999.
Leahy Bill. Review Villager magazine, October 23, 2004
Maggia, Filippo. Northern Lights, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, 2007
McKee, Francis. The End of Light, Until now, catalogue 2005
Morley, Simon. Walkers above the sea of clouds, Until now, catalogue 2005
Porter, Amy Jean. Review CIRCA 91, Spring 2000, p. 50.
Vecchio, Marji. Arranged Marriage Outer Space(s) Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago catalogue 2002