Education
MFA, painting, Burren College of Art, National University of Ireland Galway
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, printmaking and painting graduate classes, USA
BFA cum laude, painting and drawing, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Selected Exhibitions (*solo show)
2022 35th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI, USA
Biosphere, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
59th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, USA
2021 77th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, USA / Michael D. Buzash Annual Award of Merit
12th Annual Figurative Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, PA, USA
43rd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Indiana University East, IN, USA
Americas 2021, Walter Piehl Jr. Gallery, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, ND, USA
Figures of Speech, Anderson Museum of Art, Anderson, IN, USA
110th Annual Exhibition, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, CT, USA
Real or Imagined, Ottmar Gallery, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, USA
Aberdeen Artists Society Summer Exhibition, Aberdeen, Scotland
Anxiety in a Time of Pandemic, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
2020 42nd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Indiana University East, IN, USA
159th Annual Open Exhibition, Society of Women Artists, London, UK
Collective Cure, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, IN, USA
Narrating the New Normal, Birr Arts Festival, Offaly, Ireland
Figures of Speech, Anderson Museum of Art, Anderson, IN, USA / Honorable Mention Award
Minerva: Harmony to Hollywood, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, IN, USA
Detour, University of Maine Farmington, ME, USA
Creating Joy, Lehr Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Calamity, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA
2019 4th Annual Group Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford City, Ireland
Cairde Visual, Cairde Visual Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Let's Talk About the Anthropocene, Grand Parade Gallery, University of Brighton, UK
Popular Opinions: A Cultural Discussion, Corridor Gallery, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, USA
Moving Forward, Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Poets in the Gallery, Jodee Harris Gallery, Greensburg, PA, USA
2018 Blot, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA
Nostalgia, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
2018 Open Competition, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, USA
Artist Statement #3, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Nefelibata, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
Something Called Home, King Street Studios, Lancaster, UK
13th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Future Former, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2017 154th Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Halcyon Days, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland
Original 200, Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2nd Annual Group Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford City, Ireland
(dis)placement, Jacaranda, Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Time To Change, Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
(dis)placement, Ugly Duck, Off Quay Space, London, UK
Compendium, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA, USA
2016 *Borderline, Feves Gallery, Pendleton, Oregon, USA
50x50 Exhibition, 2020 Gallery, The Cornstore, Galway City, Ireland
A Response to the Proclamation, Cruthú Arts Festival, Longford, Ireland
100: Artistic Responses to the 1916 Rising Centenary, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland
Galway 1916 Exhibition, Connacht Tribune Print Works, Galway City, Ireland
2015 *Melancholia, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford City, Ireland
Puzzles, Riddles, & Enigmas, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
*Undercurrent, The Ivy House, Dublin City, Ireland
Papergirl Belfast, Paragon Studios Project Space, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Understrøm, Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Peep, Hive Emerging Gallery, Waterford City, Ireland
2014 Convergence, Museum of Shark Jörundur, Hrísey, Iceland
Painting Now: A Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Florence Quater Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Unintended Consequences, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Surface Tension, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland
The Burren Annual: The Middle of Everywhere, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
Residencies and Awards
2020 Cel del Nord Residency, Spain
2018 Greywood Arts Residency, Killeagh, Co. Cork, Ireland
2017 BLOOOM Award by Warsteiner, Düsseldorf, Germany, longlist
McCanna Residency, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
2016 The Cill Rialaig Project Residency, Ballinskelligs, Kerry, Ireland
Jackson's Open Art Prize, London, UK, longlist
2015 Kunstnarhuset Messen Residency, Ålvik, Hardangerfjord, Norway
2014 Gamli Skóli/Old School Residency, Hrísey Island, Eyjafjörður, Iceland
Old School Akureyri Grant, Nordanbál, Reykjavík, Iceland
Shankill Castle Residency, Paulstown, Kilkenny, Ireland
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
Dale Metternich Memorial Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, USA
2013 Valerie Earley Residency Award, Visual Artists Ireland
2012 Royal Hibernian Academy Residency, Dublin, Ireland
2011-13 Michael Greene Memorial Scholarship, Burren College of Art, Ireland
Publications
2020 Art Habens: Contemporary Art Reviews, Biennial Edition XX, London, UK, pgs. 50-73.
Detour, University of Maine Farmington, exhibition catalog, pg. 13.
Under The Bridge: Painting, Winter 2020 issue, pg. 18.
2019 WOMEN: Inspiring Quotes and Artistic Responses, Wild House Publishing UK, pgs. 64-65.
2018 Nostalgia, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, Greece, exhibition catalog, pg. 8.
The Oakland Review, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Volume XLIII, Spring 2018, pgs. 42-43.
Artist Statement #3, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, CICA Press, pgs. 26-27.
2017 Halcyon Days, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland, exhibition catalog, pg. 12.
Studio Visit Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, issue 38, pg. 129.
(dis)placement, London, UK, exhibition catalog, pgs. 32-35.
2016 100, Luan Gallery, Ireland, exhibition catalog, pgs. 8-9.
2015 Qualia Dublin Art and Culture Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, issue 2, pgs. 11-12.
HeadSpace Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, issue 4, pgs. 19, 27.
Puzzles, Riddles & Enigmas, Work Gallery, Michigan, USA, exhibition catalog, pg. 50.
2014 Unintended Consequences, Work Gallery, Michigan, USA, exhibition catalog, pg. 46.
“What Lies Beneath”, Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, Dublin, Ireland, Issue 2, March/April 2014. 15.
MFA, painting, Burren College of Art, National University of Ireland Galway
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, printmaking and painting graduate classes, USA
BFA cum laude, painting and drawing, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Selected Exhibitions (*solo show)
2022 35th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI, USA
Biosphere, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
59th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, USA
2021 77th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, USA / Michael D. Buzash Annual Award of Merit
12th Annual Figurative Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, PA, USA
43rd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Indiana University East, IN, USA
Americas 2021, Walter Piehl Jr. Gallery, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, ND, USA
Figures of Speech, Anderson Museum of Art, Anderson, IN, USA
110th Annual Exhibition, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, CT, USA
Real or Imagined, Ottmar Gallery, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, USA
Aberdeen Artists Society Summer Exhibition, Aberdeen, Scotland
Anxiety in a Time of Pandemic, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
2020 42nd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Indiana University East, IN, USA
159th Annual Open Exhibition, Society of Women Artists, London, UK
Collective Cure, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, IN, USA
Narrating the New Normal, Birr Arts Festival, Offaly, Ireland
Figures of Speech, Anderson Museum of Art, Anderson, IN, USA / Honorable Mention Award
Minerva: Harmony to Hollywood, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Southern Indiana, IN, USA
Detour, University of Maine Farmington, ME, USA
Creating Joy, Lehr Gallery, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Calamity, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA
2019 4th Annual Group Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford City, Ireland
Cairde Visual, Cairde Visual Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Let's Talk About the Anthropocene, Grand Parade Gallery, University of Brighton, UK
Popular Opinions: A Cultural Discussion, Corridor Gallery, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, USA
Moving Forward, Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Poets in the Gallery, Jodee Harris Gallery, Greensburg, PA, USA
2018 Blot, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA, USA
Nostalgia, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, Greece
2018 Open Competition, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI, USA
Artist Statement #3, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Nefelibata, Downtown Gallery, Indiana University Kokomo, IN, USA
Something Called Home, King Street Studios, Lancaster, UK
13th Annual Emerging Artist Exhibition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Future Former, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2017 154th Annual Open Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland
Halcyon Days, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland
Original 200, Cupola Contemporary Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2nd Annual Group Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford City, Ireland
(dis)placement, Jacaranda, Villa Aymoré, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Time To Change, Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
(dis)placement, Ugly Duck, Off Quay Space, London, UK
Compendium, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA, USA
2016 *Borderline, Feves Gallery, Pendleton, Oregon, USA
50x50 Exhibition, 2020 Gallery, The Cornstore, Galway City, Ireland
A Response to the Proclamation, Cruthú Arts Festival, Longford, Ireland
100: Artistic Responses to the 1916 Rising Centenary, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland
Galway 1916 Exhibition, Connacht Tribune Print Works, Galway City, Ireland
2015 *Melancholia, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford City, Ireland
Puzzles, Riddles, & Enigmas, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
*Undercurrent, The Ivy House, Dublin City, Ireland
Papergirl Belfast, Paragon Studios Project Space, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Understrøm, Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Peep, Hive Emerging Gallery, Waterford City, Ireland
2014 Convergence, Museum of Shark Jörundur, Hrísey, Iceland
Painting Now: A Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Florence Quater Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Unintended Consequences, Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Surface Tension, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland
The Burren Annual: The Middle of Everywhere, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
Residencies and Awards
2020 Cel del Nord Residency, Spain
2018 Greywood Arts Residency, Killeagh, Co. Cork, Ireland
2017 BLOOOM Award by Warsteiner, Düsseldorf, Germany, longlist
McCanna Residency, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
2016 The Cill Rialaig Project Residency, Ballinskelligs, Kerry, Ireland
Jackson's Open Art Prize, London, UK, longlist
2015 Kunstnarhuset Messen Residency, Ålvik, Hardangerfjord, Norway
2014 Gamli Skóli/Old School Residency, Hrísey Island, Eyjafjörður, Iceland
Old School Akureyri Grant, Nordanbál, Reykjavík, Iceland
Shankill Castle Residency, Paulstown, Kilkenny, Ireland
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
Dale Metternich Memorial Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ox-Bow, USA
2013 Valerie Earley Residency Award, Visual Artists Ireland
2012 Royal Hibernian Academy Residency, Dublin, Ireland
2011-13 Michael Greene Memorial Scholarship, Burren College of Art, Ireland
Publications
2020 Art Habens: Contemporary Art Reviews, Biennial Edition XX, London, UK, pgs. 50-73.
Detour, University of Maine Farmington, exhibition catalog, pg. 13.
Under The Bridge: Painting, Winter 2020 issue, pg. 18.
2019 WOMEN: Inspiring Quotes and Artistic Responses, Wild House Publishing UK, pgs. 64-65.
2018 Nostalgia, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Athens, Greece, exhibition catalog, pg. 8.
The Oakland Review, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Volume XLIII, Spring 2018, pgs. 42-43.
Artist Statement #3, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, CICA Press, pgs. 26-27.
2017 Halcyon Days, Glór Gallery, Ennis, Ireland, exhibition catalog, pg. 12.
Studio Visit Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, issue 38, pg. 129.
(dis)placement, London, UK, exhibition catalog, pgs. 32-35.
2016 100, Luan Gallery, Ireland, exhibition catalog, pgs. 8-9.
2015 Qualia Dublin Art and Culture Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, issue 2, pgs. 11-12.
HeadSpace Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, issue 4, pgs. 19, 27.
Puzzles, Riddles & Enigmas, Work Gallery, Michigan, USA, exhibition catalog, pg. 50.
2014 Unintended Consequences, Work Gallery, Michigan, USA, exhibition catalog, pg. 46.
“What Lies Beneath”, Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, Dublin, Ireland, Issue 2, March/April 2014. 15.
