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