Born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland; Lives and works in Paris
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 1995
Institut Supérieur des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1993
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France, 1992
2011
Slave to the shit, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris
2010
La Famille Farrell, Mains d'oeuvres, Saint Ouen, France
La Famille Farrell - Maison populaire de Montreuil, Montreuil
2009
The Shops are Closed, Abrons Art Center/Henry Street Settlement, New York
Strange Fruit in the Street Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York
Gaz Killers, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Strange Fruit in the Street, Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi, France
2007
La Gégène, Museum of Contemporary Art, Val-de-Marne/Vitry, Vitry, France
Malachi Farrell, EROA, collège Boris Vian de Coudekerque-Branche, Dunkerque, France
P5, Recruiting Station, CCC Tours, Tours, France
2005
Nothing Stops a New Yorker, Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York
2004
O'Black : Atelier Clandestin, organized by IN EXTENSO at La Tolerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Nothing Domestic, Armymuseum, Delft, Netherlands
Nothing Domestic, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Nothing Domestic, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
2003
Viens ! j'te fais un bon prix ! (Nothing Domestic), Galerie Xippas, Paris
Nothing Domestic, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Manipulation, Stadt Backnang, Backnang, Germany *
2001
AÏE !, Galerie Municipale Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
2000
Qu'est-ce qui se passe chez Xippas ?, Galerie Xippas, Paris *
Back from America: The Judgement, La Ferme du Buisson, Marne la Vallée, France *
Back from America: merci, merci, merci , La Maison des Arts, Malakoff, France
1999
Malachi Farrell, capcMusée, Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
POW, Emanuel Walter Gallery, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Global Motion Part 2: Malachi Farrell, The University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Malachi Farrell, attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
1998
Das Dorf, (with Seamus Farrell), Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany *
Malachi Farrell, The Theater Festival, Rennes, France
1997
Hooliganism, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Brèves rencontres, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris
Donegal Arts Festival, (with Joyce Pensato), Galway, Ireland *
1996
Fin de Siècle, Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands *
2011
Strange Fruit, Outdoor Projects, FIAC, Jardin des Plantes, Paris
2010
Dreamlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris *
2009
Nuits Blanches, Gaz Killers, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2008
Malachi Farrell/Delphine Reist, Espace Blank, Paris
Oriente Dessin, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Money, Le Plateau, Paris
Happy Vacation, Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York
Too Early for Vacation, e v+ a 2008, Limerick, Ireland
Good Morning Paranoia, Galerie Motte et Rouart, Paris
DEKOR, Galerie du Bellay, Rouen, France
2007
We are the robots, Galerie Louis Scheer, Paris
capcMusée, Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
Collapsible Monuments , Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, New York
2006
The Last Generation, Jousse Entreprise, Paris
2005
La collection en 3 temps et 4 actes, MAC Marseille (Museum of Contemporary Arts), Marseille, France
The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York, NY
Shortcuts between Reality & Fiction : Video, Installations and painting, Bass Museum, Miami, FL *
Dionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris *
Permanent collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Val-de-Marne/Vitry, Vitry, France
2004
Moving Parts , Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria; travels to Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland *
L'art fait école / Kunst Macht Schule , Musée de Sarrebruck,
Sarrebruck, Germany ; travels to Caves Saint Croix, Metz, France *
The Giants, The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, Netherlands *
Water, FOTOFEST, Houston, TX *
Collection Etapes 02/03, Museum of Contemporary Art, Val-de-Marne/Vitry, Vitry, France *
Nuits Blanches, Cité Université, Paris
Le Ludique, Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole - Villeneuve d'Asq, Lille, France
2003
Nos Troubles, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon Sète, France
2002
Thug Life, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Panorama 3, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France *
Culture Meets Culture, Busan Biennial, Busan, South Korea
Money and Value / The Last Taboo, Expo Swiss 2002, Artplages, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Simulis, Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil, Blanc-Mesnil, France
2001
Festival Access, Pau, France
Économie de Moyens, MAC Marseille (Museum of Contemporary Arts), Marseille, France
Le Ludique, Museum of Quebec, Canada *
Maschinen Theater - Figurative Kinetic Art , Städtische Museen Heibronn, Heibronn, Germany & Museen Magdeburger, Magdeburger, Germany *
The Cork Arts Festival, Cork, Ireland
Bricolages , organized by attitudes, Geneva at the Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kunstmuseum des Kantos Thurgau, Ittingen/Warth, Switzerland & Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany *
2000
Épiphanie , curator: Jan Höet S.M.A.K., Ghent at the Heverlee Park, Leuven, Belgium *
Big Torino , Turin Biennial, Turin, Italy *
SansSouci , Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany *
1999
EXTRAetORDINAIRE, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France *
Les grands réservoirs Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris
Le Donjon de Vez, Vez, France
Propice, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris *
1998
You talk, I listen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Taipei Municpal , Children's Recreational Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Traveled to La Ferme du Buisson, Marne la Vallée, France *
Do Oceans have Walls? , Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany *
Jeux de Genres , Espace Electra, Paris *
Jardin d'Artiste: de mémoire d'arbre , Musée Zadkine, Paris *
Bruits Secrets, CCC, Tours, France
Gare de l'Est , Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg *
100 Years of the Sucession , The Sucession, Vienna, Austria and Helsinki *
1997
L'Extra c'est Exquis , Galerie Municipale Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
Chant d'Art 97 , Château de Fajac, Marquein, France *
Transit : Collection du FNAC , Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris *
Produire - Créer - Collectionner , Collection de la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris *
Perpetuum Mobile , La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
International Museum for Contemporary Arts, Moscow*
MAC (Museum for Contemporary Arts) Marseille, France
City Pity , Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
1996
High Hoch Times Zeiten , The Secession, Vienna*
Le temps pour nous... 24 images/seconde , CapcMusée Contemorary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
Galerie du placard, St Briac, France
Austerlitz autrement , Grande verrière de la gare d'Austerlitz, Paris
Natura Mortua , 5th International Triennal "Ecology & Art", Umetnostna, Galerija Maribor, Solvenia. Selected Artists from France : M. Farrell, F. Hybert *
Dessein de dessins , Galerie Jorge Alyskewycz, Paris
1995
Open Studios , Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
De Uitvinders , Arti & Amicitiaie, Amsterdam
Tu parles, J'écoute , Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris and Espace Jet-Lag K, Malakoff, France
"Morceaux Choisis" du Fonds national d'art contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France *
1994
Ateliers 94, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris*
The laughing Army, Capitain smile and Admiral laugh at Lokaal 01 , Breda, Netherlands
Open Studios, Rijskakademie, Amsterdam
1993
La question irlandaise, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
La grandeur inconnue, Domaine de Kerguéhennec Contemporary Art Center, Brittany, France *
1992
Galerie de l'école des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
* exhibitions with published catalogue
2007
These boots were made for walkin, FRAC Alsace, Strasbourg, France
2007
La Gégène, MAC VAL, Vitry, France
2005
O'Black: Atelier Clandestin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2004
Fish Flag Mourant, FRAC Corse, Corsica, France
2003
The Electric Chairs (Still-life), Museum of Vitry, Vitry, France
2001
Interview (Paparazzi), National Foundation of Contemporary Art (FNAC), Minister of Culture, Paris
1998
The Shops are Closed, National Foundation of Contemporary Art (FNAC), Minister of Culture, Paris
1997
Hooliganism, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris; on loan to the MAC Marseille (Museum of Contemporary Arts), Marseille, France
1994
It Didn't Have To Be That Way (A Million Ways To Die, Choose One), National Foundation of Contemporary Art, Minister of Culture (FNAC), Paris
1993
Bubbles (air survival), Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany, France