EDUCATION
2002-2004 MA Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1997-2001 BA Degree Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2023 "I must walk towards Oregon", Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2021, Tribuna, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2018, Lost Highway Guy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2017, The living and the dead, Temple Bar gallery and Studios, Dublin
2014, Hinterlands, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2012, Mosaic, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford.
2010, Perennial, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford
2009, Flying crooked, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2007, Mark Swords, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2006, Mark Swords, John Martin Gallery, London
2004, Mark Swords, Ashford Gallery, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Group (Selected)
2021, Portico (with Tanad Aaron), The Complex, Dublin
2019, Tauchgang, Gallerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
2016, Mystery Ewer, Artbox, Dublin, a two-person show with Jane Fogarty
2013, I won't say I will see you tomorrow, Mermaid, Wicklow curated by Aoife Tunney
2012, Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin curated by James Merrigan and Robert Armstrong
Painting Now, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam
After Dark, Mermaid Arts Centre, a two-person show with Caoimhe Kilfeather
2010, Building Sights, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2009, Futures, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin selected by Patrick T. Murphy
Look Again, Purdy Hicks, London curated by Aidan Dunne
2008, Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2007, Thirty Two Thousand Years Later: Painting at Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
2006, Utopias, Eigse, Carlow (Invited Artist), curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey
COLLECTIONS
Trinity College Dublin, Irish Office of Public Works, Wesley College Dundrum, Martin Asbaeck Copenhagen
AWARDS
AIB Art Prize (2011)
PUBLICATIONS
Mosaic, 2012, Mark Swords and Atelier Projects