Tommie Soro is an artist and researcher. He works with installation, performance, video, and print to explore a spectrum of cultural and political ideas. Currently an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at TU Dublin, his research examines how hierarchies take shape through the things we say and the technologies we use to say them.
Group Shows
Lapdogs of War
Proyectos Raúl Zamudio, Empty Circle, 499 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
Cloud Nine Pavilion
Bangkok Biennial, Thailand, 2020
The Digital Aesthetic in Utopia of Access
GradCAM @The Research Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2017
Homeland Video Loop
Damer House Gallery, Tipperary, Ireland, 2016
Using the Museum
Van Abbemuseum , Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2014
Dublin Live Art Festival
MART, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland, 2014
Doors Reclaimed
Ranelagh Arts Festival, Dublin, Ireland, 2014
Summer School Marfa
The Lumber yard, Marfa, Texas, USA, 2014
Mamuska
La Cat Salons, The Back Loft, Dublin 8, Ireland, 2013
Step 111
Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 1, 2011
Invoke Street Art Competition
Merchant’s Quay, Dublin, 2008
Artistic Research
Art and Politics 2: Statecraft. Irish Museum of Modern Art Summer School, 2020
Summer School Marfa with TAAK. Marfa, Texas, 2014
Collective Struggle of Refugees: Lost. In Between. Together. New World Academy with Jonas Staal and BAK, Utrecht, 2013
Awards
Best Presentation Award - International Conference of Contemporary Art Theory and History 2018
Fiosraigh Dean of Graduate Students Award 2015
Image Now Award for Best Use of New Media 2012
Journal Publications
Soro, Tommie. 2023. ‘How Online Discourse Networks Fields of Practice: The Discursive Negotiation of Autonomy on Art Organisation about Pages’. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Soro, Tommie. 2021. ‘How Symbolic Value Is Constructed through Utterances: Discursive Power and Performances of Reputation in the Field of Online Art Magazines’. Poetics 89 (2021): 101572.
Soro, Tommie, Tim Stott, and Brendan K. O’Rourke. 2019. ‘The Rules of the Game: Discursive Norms and Limits in the Field of Online Art Magazines’. Social Semiotics, July, 1–21.
Conferences & Other Academic Outputs
Conference Paper. “Discursive Power and Discursive Markets” DiscourseNet 24, Université Saint-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
Reviewer. Palgrave Journal of Communication, Springer, 2019
Secondment. Real Smart Cities– A Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE Action Programme. University of the Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2019
Seminar. “Reputational Discourse in the Artworld”. University of the Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2019
Conference Paper. Discursive Norms in the Artworld's Reputational Economy, European Art Research Network (EARN) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2018
Conference Paper. The Discursive Construction of Artists, Giessen Graduate Center Annual Conference, Giessen, Germany, 2018
Conference Paper. A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Artists' Reputation, 20th International Conference for Contemporary Art Theory and History, Venice, Italy, 2018
Conference Paper. Reputational Discourse in the Field of Contemporary Art, Research Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2017
Seminar. Reputational Discourse in Online Artworlds, Discourse Analysis Group, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, 2017
Education
PhD (no corrections).
Technological University Dublin
Master of Fine Arts
Dutch Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Art (1st class)
Dublin Institute of Technology
Higher National Diploma Animation (Distinction)
Colaiste Dhulaigh