Sara (Damaris) Muthi
curator & writer
Education
2019 - 2021 (MPhil) Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
2017 - 2018 (MA) (Hons) Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD
2013 - 2016 (BFA) (Hons) Fine Art Painting & Visual Culture, NCAD
First class honours, commended in Visual Culture
Work Experience
2025 Assistant Curator, Irish Museum of Modern Art (present)
2025 - 2027 Curatorial Collaborator, Kunstverein Aughrim (present)
2024 - 2025 Curatorial Fellow, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2023 - 2024 Curatorial Assistant, Irish Museum of Modem Art
2025 Guest Education Curator, The Hugh Lane
2023 Curator of Visual Art, Brown Mountain Diamond, Kilkenny (present)
2022 Gallery Manager, Hang Tough Contemporary
2020 - 2023 Gallery Assistant, Douglas Hyde Gallery
2019 Communications Assistant, Block Universe, London
2019 Gallery Assistant, Hang Tough Contemporary
2014 - 2015 Curatorial Intern, Artbox Gallery
Awards
2025 Visual Art Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
2025 Public Arts Grant, Kilkenny County Council
2024 Travel Grant, Culture Ireland
2023 Writer Award, Pallas Projects Studios/ PVA
2023 Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland
2022 Emerging Curator Award, Black Church Print Studios
2019 - 2025 Fingal County Council Artists Support Scheme Funding
Residencies
2025 Curator in Residency, Sirius Arts Centre
2020 Student Forum II, Douglas Hyde Gallery
2019 INCUBATE Residency, Draoícht
Teaching
2025 Visiting Lecturer, MFA, Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS
2024 Visiting Lecturer, MFA, Technical University Dublin
2023 Visiting Lecturer, BFA, Technical University Dublin
2020 - 2023 Teaching Assistant, BA, Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Exhibitions
Commissions:
2024 Sermon of the Body Only, Free Space: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, ROI
2024 Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut, Bucharest, ROM
2023 Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut, Dublin, ROI
2022 Hot glue, Platform, Belfast, NI
2022 Hot glue, The Complex, Dublin, ROI
2021 .pptx, Void, Derry, NI
2020 Foreignments, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, ROI
2019 POST-DANCE, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, ROI
Guest Curation:
2023 T(here)'s Past Meeting Present, Embassy of Romania in Ireland
2023 I, The Dean Art Studios
2023 Material parables, Draíocht
2023 Will we go look for a mole hole?, The Dean Art Studios
2023 Love you my sweaty, Black Church Print at the Library Project
2022 you breath differently down here, Associate Curator, Draíocht
2022 Páipéar, Project Manager, Hang Tough Contemporary
2018 Anticipation: Actualisation, NCAD Gallery
2015 The Anti-Room, Artbox
IMMA Exhibitions:
2025 Staying with the Trouble
2025 Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields
2024 Hamad Butt: Apprehensions
2024 Take A Breath
2024 Redux: Contemporary Irish sculptors at Venice
2024 Hilary Heron: A Retrospective
2023 Howardena Pindell: A Renewed Language
IMMA Performances:
2025 Joseph Noonan-Ganley, The Cesspool of Rapture, Artist’s Texts 2012-2024
2025 Eoghan Ryan, Venus Patel, Leánn Herlihy, Sam Keogh, Bea McMahon, Terrapolis
2024 Frank Wasser, SPLIT
2024 Lisa Freeman, Slipped Part 2
2024 Irina Gheorghe, A Guided Tour Through the Distant Future
2023 David Sherry, The Spark that rethinks
Writing
Member of AICA | International Association of Art Critics
2025 Essay, The Price of Expression: Artistic Freedom, Capital and the Republic, An Clogán
2025 Editor, Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields, IMMA. Distributed by D.A.P.
2025 Review, Bea McMahon & Conor McFeely, GOD, Enclave Review
2025 Review, Marielle MacLeman, The Visitors, PVA
2025 Review, Paul Pfeiffer, Prologue to the Return of The Real, OVER Journal
2024 Editor, Hilary Heron: A Retrospective, IMMA
2024 Contributing Essay, Archiving Plurality, NCAD/ NIVAL
2023 Commissioned Essay, Maslow’s Hammer, Periodical Review 13, PVA/ Pallas Project Studios
2023 Publication, Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut Irland
2023 Essay, Working Class Romanian Pentecostals in Ireland, Mirror Lamp Press, No. 7
2022 Review, Harsh Salvation, OVER Journal, Vol. III
2021 Catalogue Co-Editor, 39th EVA International (Phase 2)
2021 Catalogue Essay, Meet me on the astral plane, Alley Arts Centre, Strabane, NI
2020 Catalogue Essay, Breaking The Rule of Silence,...the lives we live', Grangegorman Public Art
2020 Catalogue Essay, Materialgerechtigkeit, Sophie Gough digital catalogue
2019 Exhibition Review, As She Climbed Across The Table, Circa Art Magazine
2019 Catalogue Essay, ESTUARY, Draíocht
2019 Critique Article, Making Art: Painting, Draíocht, VAN
2018 Exhibition Essay, Homo Ludens (Man at Play), Black Church Print Studio
2018 Co-Author, The Inexquisite Corpse, NCAD, distributed at The Library Project
2017 Managing Editor, in:Action (inaction.ie) (on-hiatus)
Talks + Public Engagement
2025 Curator, Summer School: Burdening the Image, The Hugh Lane
2025 Critical Mapping Workshop with PVA/ Nathan O’Donnell, Douglas Hyde Gallery
2024 Symposium Presentation & Panelist: Hilary Heron Ireland’s Most Promising Sculptor, Trinity Long Room Hub x IMMA
2024 In-conversation book launch with Jessica Daly, Clancy Quay Studios
2023 Speed Curating, Angelica Network, TBG+S
2023 In-conversation with David Sherry, FIX ’23, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2023 Speed Curating, Chronic Collective: Connections, Fire Station Artist Studios
2023 Speed Curating, Critical Practice Reviews, PhotoIreland
2023 Curator Talk, Post college trajectory towards professional practice, NCAD
2023 BASIC TALKS, Hugh Lane Gallery
2021 Guest Lecturer, Metaphysical Society, Trinity College Dublin
2021 Panelist, Adaptation, Graduate event, NCAD
2021 Panel Chairperson, Intergenerational Legacies Conference, NCAD
2020 Panel Chairperson, Performing Acculturation, The Lab Gallery
2020 Research presenter, IAAH/ARTEFACT SYMPOSIUM, UCD
2019 Documentary Speaker, ESTURAY, Documentary, Fingal County Council
2018 Panel Chairperson, PLATFORM’18, Draíocht
Press
2024 The Irish Times, Una Mullally: From farmhouse to arts house. 27 May 2024. Link