Myra Jago
Oil Painter
Contemporary Artist
About


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
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