AILEEN MURPHY
b.1984, Sligo, Ireland.


EDUCATION
2014-2018: Meisterschuelerin (Postgraduate), Fine Art Painting, (class of Amy
Sillman/Monika Baer) HFBK Staedelschule, Frankfurt am main, Germany
2009-2010: Diploma in Contemporary Dance and Choreography, Sunnhordland FHS,Norway
2003-2007: BA Fine Art Painting (honours), NCAD, Dublin, Ireland
2006: Erasmus exchange, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Germany

 

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

food that I would feed my lover, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany (2022)

WET TALK, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2022)

face not her own her hair (online), Amanda Wilkinson, London, U.K. (2021)

Flush, Amanda Wilkinson, London, U.K. (2020)

PANTING, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2019)
Bounty, with Diana Copperwhite, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland (2018)
Naked Cheerleaders in My Chest, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany (2017)
Summertime Witchcraft, with Anders Dickson, The Fort, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A (2016)

Stuffing, with Bradley Davies, Johanne, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015)

Guano Fruit, Ormond Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2013)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  

Interior Acts, Clages, Cologne (2023)

Drawing Biennial,Drawing Room, London, UK (2021)

We Can Dance, Castlefreke, West Cork, Ireland (2021)

Pathos, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland (2021)

Female Gaze, Badr El Jundi, Malaga, Spain (2021)

Fables of Resurrection, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany (2020)

La Box, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges, France (2020)

Jahresgaben 2020 / 2021, Kunstverein Munich, Germany (2020)
Vision X, curated by Diana Copperwhite, RHA, Dublin, Ireland (2019)
Silver, curated by Kevin Kavanagh, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland (2019)
High Day, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland (2018)
Winter Exhibition 2018, Custom House Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Island Life, Kevin Kavanagh at Custom House Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland (2018)
Various Others, hosting Project Native Informant, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, Germany (2018)
THE SAME AS EVER, BUT MORE SO, curated by Miriam Bettin, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (2018)
After Rubens, Staedelschule graduate exhibition, The Staedel Museum, Frankfurt am main, Germany (2018)
Staedelschule Rundgang 2018, Frankfurt am main, Germany
Staedelschule Rundgang 2017, Frankfurt am main, Germany
And Creatures Dream... A new Language, curated by Catherine Bowe and Helen Gaynor, Wexford County Council Buildings and Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland (2017)
Pressing your face in wet grass, curated by Henning Strassburger, Private Of Space, Frankfurt am main, Germany (2017)
Düsseldorf Jahresgaben 2016/2017, curated by Eva Birkenstock, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
Comfort, One Foot in Door, with Nolico Taki/Sathit Sattarasart, Frankfurt am main,
Germany (2016)
Opals, curated by Vincent Honore, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway (2016)
Die Marmory Show III, Guilty Pleasures, with Eva Birkenstock, Deborah Schamoni,
Munich, Germany (2016)
Staedelschule Rundgang 2016, Frankfurt am main, Germany
The Limited Sphere, organised by Peter Brock, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A (2016)
Here 'n' Now, curated by Anne Hendrick, Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh and Chanelle Walshe, Greenacres Fine Art, Wexford, Ireland (2015)
Panorama, curated by Chanelle Walshe and Kathy Tynan, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland (2015)
Staedelschule Rundgang 2015, Frankfurt am main, Germany (2015)
Stranger Shores, curated by Peter Burns, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2014)
Patient Staring, curated by Paul Doran, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland (2014)
Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo, curated by Davey Moore, Kevin Kavanagh,Dublin, Ireland (2010)

NCAD Graduate Exhibition, Dublin Ireland (2007)


ART FAIRS
2019
Paris Internationale, group, Deborah Schamoni, Paris, France
Frieze, group, Amanda Wilkinson, London, U.K.
2018
Art Cologne, collaboration with Arcadia Misia, group, Cologne, Germany 2017
Vue Art Fair, group, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin Ireland
Frieze, with Judith Hopf, Deborah Schamoni, London, U.K.

 

Awards and Residencies 

Travel and Training Award, The Arts Council, Ireland (2015)

SÍM Residency, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, Iceland (2009) 

 

Talks 

Making connections seminar, The Artists Way, Aileen Murphy and Lucy Stein in conversation, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2019) 

Frankenthaler, Frankenstein, Feelings, Artist Talk, NCAD, Dublin, Ireland (2019)

Hands Laid On, Ingrid Lyons in conversation with Aileen Murphy  and Kathy Tynan, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland (2016)

Patient Staring, Paul Doran in conversation with Aileen Murphy, Emma Roche, Anne Hendrick, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland (2014)