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Myra Jago was an invited artist at last year's 192nd RHA Annual, also exhibiting at Luan Gallery's Breaking Borders in 2022.

She studied Fine Art Painting at The National College of Art & Design, Dublin before completing her Masters in Fine Art in 2011. She has undertaken a  six month studio residency at The Royal Hibernian Academy School in 2015 along with a number of residencies at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Jago was a selected Highly Commended Prizewinner for The Hennessy Portrait Awards at The National Gallery of Ireland in 2017 and presented her solo exhibition Now Islands at Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy in 2019. On the island of Ireland, her work has shown at The National Gallery of Ireland, The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Hugh Lane Gallery, The Central Bank of Ireland, Áras Inis Gluaire, The Honourable Society of King's Inns' Law Library, NUI Maynooth, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Ulster Hall, a Billboard in East Belfast and The Séamus Ennis Gallery.

Her paintings have exhibited internationally in Chicago, New York, Brussels, Tokyo, Hong Kong and The UK.

Articles

2022 The Artist's Well interview with Alan Keane

2021 Studio talk for DLR Arts available on YouTube 

The Royal Hibernian Academy's Ashford Gallery

The Royal Society of Kings Inns Law Library

Artists in their studios, ArtNetDLR

Public Collections                                        

Northern Ireland Civil Service Art Collection

Business to Arts 

Killeen Motor Holdings

Activate Capital Ireland

The Deloitte Art Collection 

Central Bank and FSAI Collection

The Irish State Art Collection

Scor Global Ireland

Kildare County Council Collection

Hotel Bloom Belgium

Green8 Tokyo

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