We all yearn for certainty but nothing is certain
— Aleana Egan
Aleana Egan is an Irish artist working across sculpture, film, and painting. Her practice explores psychological experience and the mutability of form, blending interior states with observations of the external world. Deeply informed by literature and cinema, Egan uses these sources as atmospheric entry points rather than narrative references.
Her sculptural works combine restrained, architectural elements with domestic materials such as plaster, cardboard, fabric, and matte paint. Forms function as traces or impressions—intuitive responses to memory, place, and perception that exist prior to verbal articulation. A sense of fluidity and openness connects her work across media.
Egan had her first exhibition with Konrad Fischer in 2015. She has exhibited at SculptureCenter, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; Leeds Art Gallery; Lismore Castle Arts (2024); the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and IMMA, Dublin, and has participated in the Berlin Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021), NICC Vitrine, Brussels (2020), and Farbvision, Berlin (2019).
Her work is held in public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; FRAC des Pays de la Loire; the Dallas Museum of Art; and The Arts Council of Ireland. She lives and works in Dublin.