Biography
Willie Doherty (b. 1959 Derry, Northern Ireland). Doherty's work has, since he began exhibiting in the early 1980's, consistently addressed problems of representation, territoriality and surveillance, and the politics and rhetoric of identity, especially in his native Northern Ireland. Much of his early photographic work incorporated text and since the mid-90's he has increasingly worked in film and video installation. He has had solo exhibitions at venues in many different countries, including False Memory at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and De Appel Institute, Amsterdam, True Nature at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, Somewhere Else, at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and Dark Stains at the Koldo Mitexelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Kunstalle, Bern, the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Doherty represented Ireland at the 1993 Venice Biennale and Northern Ireland at the 2007 Venice Biennale, and won the 1995 Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Artists Award. He was also nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994 and 2003. Major exhibitions in which he has participated in recent years include Wounds at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Cocido y Crudo at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, Face a l'Histoire 1933-96, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, No Place Like Home, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Being & Time at the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, I.D. at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the 1999 Carnegie International. He is represented in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, the Dallas Museum of Modern Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Tate Gallery, London, the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Weltkunst Foundation, London and Sammlung Goetz, Munich. Willie Doherty is represented by Alexander and Bonin, New York and Matt’s Gallery, London.

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