Cecilia Danell is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (Montreal, CA 2025), the 2022 RHA Hennessy Craig Award for painting, the 2024 Merrion Plinth Award, the ESB Keating Award at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, a 2017 Arts Council Next Generation Award and the 2011 Wexford Arts Centre Emergence Award and has received several bursary and project awards from the Irish Arts Council. Recent exhibitions include: ‘These Magnetic Magnitudes’ (solo) Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Curated by Brenda McParland (2025), ‘Abu Dhabi Art Fair’ The Childe Gallery (Abu
Dhabi, 2025), ’In Bloom’ 532 Gallery Jaeckel (Basel, 2025), ‘Salong Östergötland’ at Linköping Konsthall (Sweden, 2025), ’What the Plants Know’ Galway International Arts Festival, 126 Gallery (2024), ‘Kevin Kavanagh Presents: Cecilia Danell’ (solo) Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise (2024),
'‘Following Threads’ Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2023) ‘A Stillness Expanded’ (solo) Claremorris Gallery (2023), ‘Brush Lightly Through Fireweed Forests’ (solo) Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2022), ‘GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting’ Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022), ‘Parklife’ The Glucksman, Cork (2022), ‘Tactile Terrain’ (solo), Luan Gallery, Athlone (2022), The Hennessy Craig Award Exhibition, RHA, Dublin (2022), ‘I Trust The Quiet’ (solo), Burren College of Art Gallery, Co Clare (2021), ‘Mise en scène’, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2021), I set a Bait for the Unknown’ (solo), Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2020), ‘In a Landscape’ (solo) Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin (2019), ‘Winter Wanderer’ (solo), Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2019) and ‘Futures – Series 3 Episode 2’, RHA, Dublin (2018). Residencies include Monson Arts, Maine USA (2024), Áras Eanna
Arts Centre, Inis Oirr (2024), Interface Inagh, Connemara (2024), Ballinglen Arts Foundation (2021), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2020) and the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway (2016). Her work is in several public collections including the Irish Arts Council, the Irish State, Trinity College Dublin,
University College Cork, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Galway City Council, Wexford County Council, Region Kalmar, Sweden and Motala Municipal Council, Sweden as well as private collections in Ireland,
UK, Sweden, Canada, France, Spain and Norway. A book on Danell’s work, ‘A strange Familiar Place’,
with an essay by Cristín Leach was published by Kevin Kavanagh in 2021 and a new hardcover book on her work with essays by Aidan Dunne and Charity Coleman was published by Solstice Arts Centre following her exhibition there in 2025.