CV
b. 1978, Mayo (IE)
Lives and works in Callan (IE)
Solo Exhibitions
2023
this appear, GRIMM, London (UK)
2022
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IE)
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, The Model, Sligo (IE)
Solid Gone, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (IE)
2020
there, there now, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
Hundreds of Nature, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
Plainsight, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2014
A Particular Nothing, GRIMM Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL)
2013
A Round Now, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Paradise, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE)
2011
Equipment, GRIMM Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
All That’s Air Melts Into Solid, GRIMM Keizersgracht 82, Amsterdam (NL)
Ciarán Murphy, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE)
2009
March, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (IE)
2008
Ciarán Murphy, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
Ciarán Murphy, Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2007
Ciarán Murphy, GRIMM Keizersgracht 82, Amsterdam (NL)
2006
15 single-word Titled Paintings, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (IE)
Group Exhibitions
2022
192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IE)
2021
Interludes, Workplace, London (UK)
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2019
The Periodical Review #9, Pallas Projects, Dublin (IE)
Away in the Hill, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
2018
Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2017
Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
Soul-Beating, Gorey School of Art, Gorey (IE)
2014
Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IE)
2013
In the line of beauty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
2011
Interlude (Aspects of Irish landscape painting), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Aperture & Anxieties, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IE)
2010
New Paintings, GRIMM Keizersgracht 82, Amsterdam (NL)
2009
Something Else, Rothe House, Kilkenny, Ireland (IE)
2007
Solo presentation, Mother’s Tankstation at Zoo Art Fair, London (UK)
2006
Ciarán Murphy & Petri Ala-Maunus, Gallery Massimo Carassi, Milan (IT)
Mother’s Ruin – dangerous obsessions and the culture of excess, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin (IE)
2005
Here Comes Everybody, Project, Dublin (IE)
Eurojet Futures Anthology, RHA Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Remote Access, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (IE)
2004
Eurojet Futures, RHA Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Work in progress, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (IE)
2003
50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Crawford Open, Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork (IE)
Contemporary European Art, Cella Muille, Eisenstadt (AT)
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (IE)
Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo (IE)
2001
NCAD Degree Show, Dublin (IE)
RDS Student Award Scheme, Dublin (IE)
Frozen Pipes, Illac Centre, Dublin (IE)
Shoplifter, Illac Centre, Dublin (IE)
2000
Sensationless, Vicar St, Dublin (IE)
1999
National Portrait Award, Dublin (IE)
Selected Collections
Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin (IE)
Defares Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin (IE)
Sanders Collection, Haarlem (NL)