EDUCATION
PhD in Fine Art Painting Glasgow School of Art 2015 - 2018
Masters in Fine Art Byam Shaw College of Art, University of the Arts London, 2004
BA Hons Degree Fine Art (Painting) Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, 2002
Erasmus Athens School of Art, Greece, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo
2012 Life Drawings, Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin
Shimmering Synthetic Appearances; I Want to Put You Back In, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
2011 Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
2010 Blue Studio Project Exhibition, Takt Gallery, Berlin
Comparatively Peculiar, Alley Arts Centre, Tyrone, NI
2008 Appropriately Strange and Disciplined, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
2006 Symptoms of Fetishism, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
Transmission Members Show, Glasgow
2016 Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow
Collective Memory curators Anna Bauer & Benjamin Lee Sperry. International exchange between
Celine Gallery Glasgow & Brunswick Studio New York
2015 RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Periodical Review #4, Ormston House, Limerick
Lonely Planet, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2014 Periodical Review #4, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
Winter Open, Rua Red, Dublin
Eigse Open, Visual, Carlow
RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2013 Still Life and Interiors, curator Bernadette Madden, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
RHA Annual, Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Eigse Open Submission, Visual, Carlow
Positions, curator Dermot Browne, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork
2011 NEXT/Art Chicago, Chicago
Drawing Thursday, RHA Drawing Exhibition, Bourne Vincent Gallery, Limerick
2010 Winter Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Roscommon
Dunamaise Open Submisson, selector Geraldine O Neill, Dunamaise Arts Centre Laois
RHA Annual, invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Open Studios, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin
2009 Dunamaise Open Submission, selector Martin Gale, Dunamaise Art Centre Laois
New Irish Art: Group Exhibition curator Aidan Dunne, Purdy Hicks Gallery London
2008 Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
Subjected Galway Arts Festival
Eigse Annual, juried competition, Carlow
2007 Modern Exotics with Jack Donovan, Brian McMahon, John Collins. Limerick
2004 Currents: travelling exhibition by the OPW Ireland
Gin or Tonic, Empire Gallery, London UK
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2015 Scholarship from the Wellcome Trust UK
2014 Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, IRE
2013 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, IRE
2012 Royal Hibernian Academy Residency, IRE
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
Merit Award, Golden Fleece Award
2010 Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, DE
Travel and Training Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2008 Draíocht Art Centre Residency, IRE
CURATING
2016 Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Keehan, A. 2018 'Propositions Prosthetics and Painting' in Physical or Otherwise: Suggestions and Encounters Glasgow
Keehan, A. 2013 Life Drawings 2010 - 2012
Keehan, A. 2010 Blue Studio Project Berlin
Aidan Dunne, Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, The Irish Times- Tues, September 23, 2014
Cristin Leach Hughes, Seeing is Believing, Sunday Times Culture, November, 2013
John Graham, Life Drawings Review, Critique, Visual Artists Ireland Newsheet, July, 2012
Aidan Dunne, Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, The Irish Times - Friday, March 25, 2011
Aidan Dunne, Contriving a Striking Absence on Canvas, The Irish Times, Wed 02 Feb 2008
Aidan Dunne, A Very Desirable Joint Venture, The Irish Times, Wed 09 Sep 2006
Shan Kelly, Objects of Desire, Artists and Illustrators, March 2011
PhD in Fine Art Painting Glasgow School of Art 2015 - 2018
Masters in Fine Art Byam Shaw College of Art, University of the Arts London, 2004
BA Hons Degree Fine Art (Painting) Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland, 2002
Erasmus Athens School of Art, Greece, 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo
2012 Life Drawings, Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin
Shimmering Synthetic Appearances; I Want to Put You Back In, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
2011 Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
2010 Blue Studio Project Exhibition, Takt Gallery, Berlin
Comparatively Peculiar, Alley Arts Centre, Tyrone, NI
2008 Appropriately Strange and Disciplined, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
2006 Symptoms of Fetishism, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
Transmission Members Show, Glasgow
2016 Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow
Collective Memory curators Anna Bauer & Benjamin Lee Sperry. International exchange between
Celine Gallery Glasgow & Brunswick Studio New York
2015 RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Periodical Review #4, Ormston House, Limerick
Lonely Planet, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2014 Periodical Review #4, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
Winter Open, Rua Red, Dublin
Eigse Open, Visual, Carlow
RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2013 Still Life and Interiors, curator Bernadette Madden, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
RHA Annual, Invited Artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Eigse Open Submission, Visual, Carlow
Positions, curator Dermot Browne, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork
2011 NEXT/Art Chicago, Chicago
Drawing Thursday, RHA Drawing Exhibition, Bourne Vincent Gallery, Limerick
2010 Winter Show, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Roscommon
Dunamaise Open Submisson, selector Geraldine O Neill, Dunamaise Arts Centre Laois
RHA Annual, invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Open Studios, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin
2009 Dunamaise Open Submission, selector Martin Gale, Dunamaise Art Centre Laois
New Irish Art: Group Exhibition curator Aidan Dunne, Purdy Hicks Gallery London
2008 Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
Subjected Galway Arts Festival
Eigse Annual, juried competition, Carlow
2007 Modern Exotics with Jack Donovan, Brian McMahon, John Collins. Limerick
2004 Currents: travelling exhibition by the OPW Ireland
Gin or Tonic, Empire Gallery, London UK
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2015 Scholarship from the Wellcome Trust UK
2014 Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, IRE
2013 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, IRE
2012 Royal Hibernian Academy Residency, IRE
Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
Merit Award, Golden Fleece Award
2010 Takt Kunstprojektraum Residency, Berlin, DE
Travel and Training Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2008 Draíocht Art Centre Residency, IRE
CURATING
2016 Whereabouts you are, co-curators Allyson Keehan and Viviana Checchia (CCA), Reid Gallery Glasgow
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Keehan, A. 2018 'Propositions Prosthetics and Painting' in Physical or Otherwise: Suggestions and Encounters Glasgow
Keehan, A. 2013 Life Drawings 2010 - 2012
Keehan, A. 2010 Blue Studio Project Berlin
Aidan Dunne, Further Complications of Hybrid Notions, The Irish Times- Tues, September 23, 2014
Cristin Leach Hughes, Seeing is Believing, Sunday Times Culture, November, 2013
John Graham, Life Drawings Review, Critique, Visual Artists Ireland Newsheet, July, 2012
Aidan Dunne, Lookie Likie, Mimetic Protagonist, The Irish Times - Friday, March 25, 2011
Aidan Dunne, Contriving a Striking Absence on Canvas, The Irish Times, Wed 02 Feb 2008
Aidan Dunne, A Very Desirable Joint Venture, The Irish Times, Wed 09 Sep 2006
Shan Kelly, Objects of Desire, Artists and Illustrators, March 2011