about Naomi Sex

Naomi Sex is an Irish artist, she writes scripts and works with actors and scenographic elements, prop-objects and video to produce theatrical gallery-based events and exhibitions. In 2019, Sex was awarded The Arts Council Bursary Award which led to the recent solo show at The Complex, entitled SPEAK BACK, September 2024. Recent commissions include Small Night Projects Zine (curated by Laura Fitzgerald, Alan Phelan and James Merrigan), in response to The Andy Warhol Exhibition at The Hugh Lane Gallery and “A Matter of Time”, curated by Dawn Williams at Crawford Art Gallery, 2024. Sex was awarded The Artscouncil Visual Arts Bursary, 2024. 

She has been working for twenty years in the arts sector. Past awards include The Arts Council of Ireland’s “Visual Art Project Award, 2013” and The Dublin City Council’s “Incubation Space Award” to produce The Synchronised Lecture Series; a performative event that featured in nine key Irish educational institutions simultaneously. In 2014 she was selected for The Artist in Residency Program at The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) where she presented performance work at The Project Space and curated The 6iX Degrees event. In 2016, she produced a touring performance entitled Cheek By Jowl which was awarded The Artscouncil Visual Arts Touring and Dissemination Award and The Fingal County Council Artist’s Work Scheme. The performance toured to Limerick City Gallery (LCG), Crawford Art Gallery, (CAG) and completed the tour at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art). In 2017, Sex presented a solo exhibition entitled “Surface and Silence” at The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, Ireland.  Naomi was on the board of Directors at The Blackchurch Print Studio (and served as Chair and Secretary), she was elected as a Director on the Board of Visual Artist’s Ireland (VAI). Sex is a full time Lecturer in the Fine Art Department at TU Dublin and works across undergraduate and post graduate courses.