Killian Dunne is a Lecturer in Printmaking, Publishing, and Editions at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.
In 2009 he completed his BFA in Printmaking at The National College of Art and Design, Ireland. Upon graduating he won the Black Church Print Studio Student Award and the Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award. In 2011 he won the Prix Invitation Award at the 7th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Between 2012 and 2017 he worked as a Printmaker, Illustrator, and Designer in Vancouver, Dublin, and Berlin.
In 2019 he completed his MFA at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where he was awarded The SAIC New Artist Society Scholarship 2017 and The SAIC International Graduate Scholarship 2018. During his time at SAIC he worked as a teaching assistant in advanced typography and identity system. From 2019 until 2020 he taught printmaking at the Universidad Central del Ecuador.
His artist books are part of a number of collections including; Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Yale University Library, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Columbia University, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Michigan Library, Michigan State University Libraries, University of California Irvine Libraries, Franklin Furnace Artists’ Books Collection, The Artists' Books Collection Dundee, Glasgow School of Art Library Services, Edinburgh College of Art Library, The Royal College of Art’s Special Collections Books, The British Library’s Artists’ books and fine press collection, Chelsea College of Arts Library’s Artists' Books Collection, University of Leeds University Library’s Special Collections Artists’ Book Collection, Special Collections Museum The Manchester Metropolitan University, Baltic Artists’ Book Collection, The National Irish Visual Arts Library, The UBBKD Library University of Bergen Library, Bruce Peel Special Collections University of Alberta, and Artexte.
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