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Close-up of hands electronics
Close-up of hands electronics

Adam Gibney is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland, working across electronics, coding, sound, and digital fabrication.

Solo exhibitions include Cybernetic Reorientations of Being: NOVA (Mermaid Arts Centre, 2024), Can you breathe for me? (Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, 2021; The Dock, 2022), and Projective Verse 9: Deep Breadths (Daegu Foundation of Art, South Korea, 2017). In 2016, he represented Ireland at the V Moscow Biennale for Young Art. Other selected exhibitions include presentations at Solstice Arts Centre (Navan), The Lab Gallery (Dublin), The Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Rua Red (Dublin), Catalyst Arts (Belfast), The Bomb Factory (London), and CB1 Gallery (Los Angeles).

Public art commissions include Tidal Composition 1: Fall and Rise (Fingal Arts Office, 2025), Graft (The Glucksman Gallery and The National Sculpture Factory, 2021), and Your Seedling Language (St. Catherine’s National School, Rush, 2019).

Awards include the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award (2018, 2023), the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Residency (2017), the Aileen MacKeogh Award, and the Siamsa Tíre Emerging Artist Award. He was shortlisted for the Frieze Artist Award in 2019.

He is a lecturer at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, where he teaches across media and interaction design. He leads the Digital Making Diploma in the Creative Futures Academy, NCAD, and has also lectured at Technological University Dublin and the University of Limerick. He completed a practice-based Research Master’s Degree at TU Dublin in 2022, and has been invited to adapt his thesis for a forthcoming book on Performance Research in the Visual Arts.