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Reflection – Billy Dante

MART — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:22:37 +0000

Reflection – Billy Dante

Opening Reception: Friday 20th March at 6-8pm

Opening Hours: Friday March 20th 1pm -8pm | Saturday March 21st & Sunday 22nd : 11am – 6pm

Venue: The MART Gallery, 190a Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6

Reflection is a solo exhibition from Billy Dante at MART Gallery, Dublin. This exhibition explores inner reflection and wider themes of connectivity with the immediate space around us but also to global situations. The macro and the micro are depicted as a means of examining the thread that ties us all together and the cyclical nature of events great and small. Looking at the self, surrounding space and the collective – the paintings challenge and equally lean into the natural flow.

In the act of painting one is tasked with (like in life) navigating light and dark. Reflecting the world around us and how it is experienced – a painting is a reflection of an action placed on a canvas but not passing through it, it sends it back to show a version of who we are. We are but reflections of experience and how will the experience of today reflect?

Everything I look upon

I make

A mirror of

Wherein to see my soul in all its seasons.

Mirrors, P. Kavanagh

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About the artist

Billy Dante is an Irish contemporary artist and a studio member of MART. He works primarily in painting and creates abstract observational images that reexamine how our view of the world around us. Billy has exhibited both internationally and nationally, with notable recent solo exhibitions at The Lane Way Gallery Cork, St. Peter’s Cork and St. John’s Listowel. Billy regularly participates in group exhibitions, most notably representing Ireland at the New Now exhibition for emerging artists in Amsterdam, 2015.

https://billydanteart.wixsite.com/billydante

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This Exhibition is operated by Hatch Space DAC (formerly MART Gallery & Studios DAC).

The Irish Contemporaries {v}

MART — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:00:01 +0000

THE IRISH CONTEMPORARIES {V}

CIACLA in partnership with MART Gallery & Studios, 18th Street Arts Center, and Angels Gate Cultural Center proudly presents The Irish Contemporaries {V}, a dynamic group visual arts exhibition.

Featured Artists: Deirdre Mulrooney & Gearóid O’Dea, with full line up of artists to be announced soon.

The Irish Contemporaries will take place across two venues in 2026:

18th Street Arts Center | Opening Friday 15th May @1pm

Runs: 15th May – June 6th

Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday: 12-5pm

Location: 18th Street Arts Center, 1639 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404 https://18thstreet.org/

Angels Gate Cultural Center | Opening Saturday 16th May 1pm

Runs: 16th – June 6th

Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday: 10am-5pm

Location: Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro, CA 90731 https://angelsgateart.org/

The Irish Contemporaries 5 continues CIACLA’s acclaimed series celebrating the breadth and innovation of contemporary Irish visual art. This fifth edition brings together a diverse range of practices and perspectives, offering audiences in Los Angeles an opportunity to experience the vitality of Ireland’s artistic voice today. Through painting, sculpture, installation, film, and new media, the exhibition reflects the energy and ambition of Irish artists working across disciplines and across the world.

Ireland is undergoing a powerful cultural reawakening, a return to story, language, and landscape. This revival has been deeply shaped by the work and spirit of Manchán Magan, whose voice bridged worlds, reminding us that myth and memory are still alive beneath the surface of everyday life. He invited us to see Ireland’s ancient wisdom not as something closed or exclusive, but as an open, inclusive way of being and a bridge between cultures. In a world that’s increasingly divided, where borders are hardened, people are displaced, and wars are waged, Manchán spoke instead of connection and unity, showing how Ireland’s ancient wisdom can offer compassion, belonging, and understanding across all boundaries.

Irish Contemporaries 5 explores the Irish tradition of storytelling that binds community, identity, and imagination. Artists were encouraged to explore how stories, both ancestral and new, continue to shape our sense of belonging.

Curated by Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan

Presented by CIACLA – Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles, the exhibition builds on the success of previous editions, reaffirming our commitment to showcasing the best of Irish contemporary culture in an international context.

Supported By:

The Irish Contemporaries {V} is made possible through the generous support of CIACLA, 18th Street Arts Center, Angels Gate Cultural Center, MART Gallery & Studios, Culture Ireland, the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme, Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.

“This multi site exhibition highlights how Irish-connected artists continue to reinvent how we understand story, culture, and visual language, no matter which side of the Atlantic they’re working from.” — Matthew Nevin

MART PROJECTS 2026

MART — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:48:29 +0000

MART PROJECTS 2026

MART Project Residencies 2026
February – March 2026
The MART Gallery, Rathmines
www.mart.ie

MART Gallery is delighted to announce a new series of Project Residencies taking place throughout February and March 2026. This initiative provides artists with a one-week period of dedicated access to The MART Gallery to experiment, create, and produce new work within a supportive environment.

The 2026 participating artists are: F4G.NET, Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Fatoumata Gandega.

The programme offers time and space for artists to test ideas, explore new processes, and develop their practice in dialogue with MART’s curatorial team, while utilising the large gallery space. Each project includes a period of research, studio-based experimentation, or the early experimentation of new work, contributing to MART’s mission of supporting contemporary artists in Ireland to take risks and expand their practice.