Education
2009 - 2011 MFA, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, The Liberties, Dublin 8
2005 - 2009 BFA (Hons), Painting, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, The Liberties D8
Awards | Residencies | Commissions
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Highly Commended Award, The Hennessy Portrait Prize, The National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
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RHA School Studio Award, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin 2, 2015
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Cover to Canvas Commission, The Honourable Society of Kings Inns' Law Library, Henrietta St., Dublin 2015
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Professional Development and Arts Practice Support Grant, DLRCOCO, 2011, 2012, 2015
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Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan, 2013
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Residency and exhibition, De-Appendix, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, March-May, 2013
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Project Grant, Dublin City Council, for Absolut Fringe Festival installation, 2009
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The European League of Institutes of the Arts Bloom! Award, Residency & Commission, 2008
Collections:
The Deloitte Art Collection, AXA Insurance Collection, Central Bank and FSAI Collection, Office of Public Works Collections: St. Stevens Green, Athlone and Roscommon; Scor Global Irl., Kildare County Council Collection, Hotel Bloom Belgium, Green8 Tokyo and private collections throughout Ireland, Belgium, China, Italy, Japan, UK & USA.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Now Islands, Ashford Gallery, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin September 6th - October 6th.
2017 Subliminal, Easter Snow Gallery, TSEAC, Naul, Co. Dublin
2014 Learning to Fly, Eight Gallery, Dawson St., Dublin
2014 Learning to Fly, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo
2014 This, Somewhere Else, Feb-July, The National Centre for Arts and Health, AMNCH, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin
2013 Arrested Development, deAppendix, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Group Exhibitions
2020
190th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Covid Stories, Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford
Opera Festival Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Selskar, Wexford
Among School Children, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Celebrating Eva Gore Booth, Museum of Literature of Ireland (MoLI), UCD Naughton Joyce Centre, 86 St Stephens Green Dublin 2
Four Elements: Water, ArtNetDLR
2019
Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
Utopia / Dystopia, Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Wexford Opera Festival Art Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
FIRE, ArtNetDLR link
189th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
2018
188th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Rua Red Winter Open, Rua Red Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin
Ranelagh Arts Centre Winter Exhibition, Ranelagh County Dublin
Greenacres Christmas Fare, Green Acres Gallery, Selskar, Wexford
2017
The Hennessy Portrait Award Shortlist Exhibition 2017, The National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin
Festival Opera Exhibition, Green Acres Gallery, Selskar, Wexford
136th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast
187th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
139th Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Exhibition, Dún Laoghaire Town Hall
Summer Exhibition, Green Acres Gallery, Selskar, Wexford
2016
RARE Art Gallery, Castle Market, Dublin 2
135th Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast
Festival Opera Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Selskar, Co. Wexford
186th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
The Interaction Project, Eblana House, Eblana Ave., Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
Window to Eden, St. Monica's Community Council, Edenmore, Dublin 5
Summer Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Selskar, Co. Wexford
Summer Exhibition, Dún Laoghaire Art Gallery, Georges St., Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2015
185th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Imirt le do Thoil, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Co.Clare
Cover to Canvas, The Honourable Society of The Kings Inn's Law Library, Dublin 1.
Vanishing Art, Carton House, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Annual Exhibition Wexford Festival Opera, Greenacres Gallery, Co. Wexford
Sol Gallery, Hong Kong Convention Centre, China
Illuminations, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare
2014
184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
VUE with Eight Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
Imirt le do Thoil, Yeats Society Gallery, Sligo
Revitalize, Sol Gallery, Dawson St., Dublin
2013
Copy.right: the art of appropriation, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago. Curators: Jennifer Moore, Sergio Gomez
Rua Red Winter Exhibition, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin Curators: Paul McAree, Grace McEvoy, Karen Phillips, Claire McAree
Selection Box, Talbot Gallery, Dublin 1 Curators: Elaine Grainger, Aimee Nolan
University of the Air: A Thousand Words, Ulster Hall, Belfast
Art in the Eastside Exhibition, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
Art in the Eastside / Creative Exchange Studios, Outdoor Art Billboard, 356 Woodstock Rd., Belfast
Still Life and Interiors, Gormley's Fine Art Dublin 2. Curator: Bernadette Madden
The Irish Scene, Gormleys Fine Art Dublin 2. Curator: Bernadette Madden
KRF:2 Artists Notebook Project 2012, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth
2012
Future Perfect, The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin 1 Curator: Jim Ricks
Fast Moving Consumer Goods. Talbot Gallery, Dublin Curators: Elaine Grainger, Claire Halpin
KRF:2 Artists Notebook Project 2012, The Riverbank, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Austerity/Binge with 5 On a Day Out (5OADO), Talbot Gallery, Dublin 1 Curator: Jennette Donnelly
Éigse Festival, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Co. Carlow Curators: Barbara Dawson, Brian Duggan
Art and Style, Brown Thomas, Grafton St., Dublin 2 Curator: Stephen Morris
Art’n Bloom! On The Cover, Brussels, Belgium
2011
ArtNow, Dublin Contemporary Circle Event, KT Contemporary, Dublin 4 Curator: Katie Tsouros
Sculpture In Context, Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 11
RDS Student Awards, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 and Farmleigh House, Co. Dublin
Manifest: Emerging Artists, Kinsale, Co. Cork. Curator: Katie Tsouros
Level, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Curator: Bernadette Madden
Masters Show, NCAD, Thomas St., The Liberties, Dublin
Unit 35, (NCAD/GSA initiative), Gorey, Co. Wexford
2010
R.D.S. Student Awards and Travelling Exhibition, R.D.S. Ballsbridge, Dublin
Autumn Collective, Clyne Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin
The Xmas Exhibition, Waterfront, Belfast
200, Canvas Gallery, Belfast
Pen Pal Pears, Little Ghost Gallery, Kilkenny
Check Point, Unit 14, Smithfield Plaza, Dublin
2009
Autumn Exhibition, The Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin 2. (3-Graduate Show) Curator: Patricia Clyne-Kelly
Wake Up! You’re in a Meadow, Barnardo Square, Dame Street, Dublin
Graduate Show, National College of Art and Design, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin
2008
Dún Laoghaire Visual Arts Open, Dún Laoghaire Town Hall
ELIA Bloom! Project, Brussels, Belgium
RDS Student Awards & Travelling Exhibition, R.D.S. Ballsbridge, Dublin
INDECISION, NCAD 3rd yr Undergraduate Show, Broadstone Studios
5 On A Day Out, (5OADO) Thisisnotashop, Dublin
2007
The Art of Nurture, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Margin, OPW, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Group, AVA Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Publications | Articles
• A Moment in Time, by Jennette Donnelly on This, Somewhere Else, Myra Jago's solo exhibition at AMNCH, VAI News Sheet, Sept-Oct 2014, p 25.
• ‘Learning to Fly’ short story by Brendan McLoughlin in response to the solo exhibition: Learning to Fly, 2014.
‘• Back the Way I Came’ short story by Brendan McLoughlin in response to a billboard painting reproduction of All this has happened before and it will All happen again, 2013.
• Future Perfect, The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
• Sarah Reilly: Who knew ’50 Shades of Grey’ had anything to do with laundry colour-catchers?
• Art & Style Brown Thomas issuu:
• Vernon Steel: Le Cool online arts and culture magazine review of Austerity/Binge at Talbot Gallery:
• Monika Heck: How young Irish artists are fighting the recession (posted Feb 21, 2012)
• 5OADO and other stories..., Exhibition Catalogues 2012 and 2008
• Absolut Fringe Catalogue, 2009
• Oh Francis Oh Fringe, Wake Up! You've Been Colonised Season 1: Issue 3.1
• Evening Herald, Katie Byrne: This is Fringe, Sept 3rd, 2009
• Art of Nurture Exhibition Catalogue, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2007
