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Marguerite O’Molloy is a curator and writer based in Dublin. Since 1999 she has worked Assistant Curator Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) where she has curated a number of exhibitions, organized international touring exhibitions and loans from the IMMA Collection, and coordinated innovative conservation projects and major storage moves. Her curatorial projects include: Rose Finn Kelcey: Bureau de Change; Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection; Tir na nÓg: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection; Eye of the Storm; Outdoor works from the IMMA Collection and Contemporary Drawings from the IMMA Collection. In 2005 she was co-curator of Precaution, an exhibition of work by emerging artists based in Ireland, which included a number of site-specific and ephemeral works. Marguerite was Stage Manager for Marking the Territory a season of Performance Art curated by Marina Abramovic and was Project Co-ordinator for Gerard Byrne, Ireland at Venice, 2007. In 2005 Marguerite edited the first major full colour publication on the IMMA Collection, and wrote many of the 180 texts in the book. She is editor of the publication 10,000 to 50, Contemporary Art from the Members of Business to Arts, 2008. Marguerite has a master’s degree from MA Visual Arts Practices in Dublin. She is currently curating an experimental exhibition titled What Happens Next? due to take place at IMMA in February 2009.

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