Sleep Walker, Oil on canvas, 160 x 170cm, 2019, Collection of Hugh Lane Gallery
b. 1969, Limerick. Lives and works in Dublin and New York
Education
1999-2000 Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona, MA European Fine Art
1992-94 National College of Art & Design, BA Hons Painting
1987-92 Limerick School of Art & Design, NCEA Diploma Painting
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2027 (Upcoming), Solo exhibition, The Model, Sligo
2026 The Only Thing is The Everything, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2025 Elegant Gesture, Diane Copperwhite and Liliane Tomasko, Day01 Gallery, Sydney
2024 Born in the Echoes, Howard Hodgkin and Diana Copperwhite, Day01 Gallery, Sydney
ONOMATOPOEIA, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK
2023 Sounding of Silhouettes, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
ONOMATOPOEIA, Galway International Arts Festival
ONOMATOPOEIA, Limerick City Gallery of Art
ONOMATOPOEIA, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda
2022 Reflections in a Darker Mirror, Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2021 Vanishing Apertures, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2021 Pathos, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
2020 Lock Down Series, works on paper, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2019 Proto Fiction and the Sleep of Reason, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2019 The Clock Struck between time, Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2017 Crooked Orbit, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2016 Depend On The Morning Sun, Gallery Thomas Jaeckel New York
Driven By Distraction , Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2015 A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2015 Solo Booth at Pulse, New York Thomas (nominated for the pulse prize)
2014 Shadowland, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2013 Loose Ends, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2013 Solo Booth at VOLTANY, New York, Kevin Kavanagh Dublin
2011 An Island from the day before, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2009 Perfect Near Miss, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Eclipse of a Title, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda
Eclipse of a Title, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2008 Eclipse of a Title, West Cork Arts Centre
2007 BLIND SPOT, Limerick City Art Gallery
2006 In a certain light, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2005 Midnight, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2001 Galleri Kakelhallen, Aland, Finland
2000 Panorama Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona
Group Exhibitions
2026 (Upcoming) Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles
The UCC Art Collection, Glucksman Gallery Cork
The Artists of Henrietta Street, Assembly Rooms Dublin
Encounters: IMMA Collection at Dublin Castle
Art Rotterdam, with Diana Copperwhite, Geraldine O’Neill and Paul Nugent presented by Kevin Kavanagh
2025 Existential License, curated by Shawn McDowell and Halime Özdemir di Larusso, 88 Friary Rd, SE15 London
Art Rotterdam, with Gemma Browne, Diana Copperwhite, Margaret Corcoran, presented by Kevin Kavanagh
TRUE COLOUR, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Melbourne Art Fair, with Marisa Purcell, Heidrun Rathgeb, Ingvar Kenne, presented by Day01 Gallery, Sydney
2024 Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh Dublin
Born in the Echos, Howard Hodgkins and Diana Copperwhite, Day 01., Gallery, Sydney
In a Dream in a Happy House, Shell/ter Artists Collective, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Supernova, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK
2024 Summer Exhibition 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2024 Time and Time Again, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2024 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Small is Beautiful: XLI, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK
2023 The ladder is always there, Shelter Collective, Draiocht, Dublin
2023 Shelter (with the Shelter Collective), Curated by Ann Hodge, National Gallery of Ireland
2023 It Took a Century, Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland
2023 ANARENE, Curated by Danny Rolph, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2023 RHA Ballinglen Fellows Exhibition, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Mayo
2023 RHA West, Ballina Civic Office, Ballina Mayo
2023 200 years of the Royal Hibernian Academy
Annual Exhibition
2022. Who do we say we are, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Indiana
2022 The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
2022 Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, Curated by Sean Scully, Flowers Gallery, London
2022 Small is Beautiful, Flowers gallery, London
2020 Autumn Breeze, Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2019 Vision X, The RHA Gallery, Dublin
2018 Double Vision, w/Shirly Copperwhite, dlr Lexicon, Co. Dublin
2017 Last Picture Show, w/,Mary Heilmann, Chris Ofili, Danny Rolph, Vanessa Jackson, Elio Rodriguez, Jill Levine, Rebecca Smith, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
Virtú, inc. Picasso, Giacometti, Henry Moore, Elizabeth Magill, Sean Scully, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
2016 Winter Salon, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2015 The Art of a Nation, from the collections of AIB, Mall Galleries, London
2014 Inside the Palace, with Danny Rolph, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
New Acquisitions, RHA, Dublin
Paintings, Limerick City of Culture, Limerick, Ireland
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council-60 Years of Supporting the Arts Crawford Art Gallery, Cork*
Anna Bjerger, Diana Copperwhite and Oliver Comerford, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Painting Now, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Making Familiar; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, curated by James Merrigan and Group show and Symposium: Temple Bar Gallery
VOLTA 8 Basel, Switzerland