Born Dublin, Ireland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 The Pane Fly’s Tune, mother’s tankstation/ London, UK
2023 Light, Spells, Enter, P420 Gallery, Bologna, IT
2020 Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, IRL
2018 Irises in the Well, mother’s tankstation, London, UK
2016 Blackbirds in the Garden of Prisms, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, IRL
2014 Gallery 2, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2013 Art Statements: Art 44 Basel with mother’s tankstation, Basel, CH
2012 The Sky was Yellow and the Sun was Blue, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, IRL
2011 via An Lár, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2011 Whisper Concrete, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IRL
2008 Co. Summer, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Home Rules, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, IRL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Swallowing Geography/ Regional Cultural Centre/ Glebe House & Gallery, Donegal, Ireland
2022 WE ARE HERE, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, IRL
2021 Di Semplicità e di brivido, P420 Gallery, Bologna, IT
2021 Dubliners, The International section of the 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb, HR
2020 Ghosts From The Recent Past, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IRL.
2019 Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition 2019 – 2020, Leeds Museum and Art Gallery, Leeds; The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, United Kingdom
2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, Glebe House and Gallery, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
2019 Legacies, A Painter’s Life, Stephen McKenna. Visual, Co.Carlow, IRL
2019 Shaping Ireland: Intervention and Representation in Irish Landscape Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, IRL
2018 The Horse, curated by Noel McKenna, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, AUS
2018 Encountering the Land, VISUAL, Carlow
2018 An Act of Hospitality can only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, Co.Louth,IRL
2017 A Painter’s Doubt: Painting & Phenomenology, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2017 Málverkasýning, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, ISL
2016 Coup de Ville Contemporary Art Festival, WARP, Sint‐Niklaas, BE
2016 2116: Forecast of the next century, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2016 The Mud of Compound Experience, mother’s tankstation in collaboration with Leo Xu Projects, HK
2015 What Is and What Might Be, Drogheda Arts Festival, Highlanes Gallery, Louth
2012 Up the Walls, The Model, Sligo, IRL
2012 Into the Light: The Arts Council – 60 Years of supporting the Arts, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, IRL
2011 Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin, IRL
2011 Interlude (Irish landscape painting), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2009 Fantopia – A state of impossible perfection. Or, how to live with perfect people (and not kill them) mother’s tankstation, Dublin, IRL
2008 A Loaf of Bread, A Carton of Milk and a Stick of Butter, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Visual Fictions, Fenton Gallery, Cork, IRL
2006 Utopias, Éigse, Carlow, IRL
2005 The Happiest Country In The World, Oireachtas Exhibition, Dublin, IRL
2005 Millennium Scholar’s Trust Exhibition, Bank of Ireland, Dublin, IRL
2004 Night Gallery, London, UK
2003 Made in the UK, London, UK
2001 East International, Norwich, UK
2001 EV+A International, Limerick, IRL
2001 Focus on Drawing, Crawford Gallery, Cork; Limerick City Gallery
Limerick, IRL
COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, IRL.
National Gallery of Art, Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2, IRL.
Trinity College Dublin, IRL.
Arts Council of Ireland.
Office of Public Works, IRL.
AMC Collezione Coppola, IT.
EDUCATION
2004 MA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK
2000 BA National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRL
AWARDS
2020 Aosdána, elected member.
2020 Studio Residency Award, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2018 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2012 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2009 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2006 Studio Residency Award, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2006 RHA Studio residency award, Dublin, IRL
2003 Bank of Ireland Millennium Scholar’s Trust Award, IRL
2001 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2000 Thomas Dammann Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland