Timeline

1951
Born in Dublin
Lives and works in Dublin
Artist in Residence
2000 Portalice Prison, Bydgosch, Poland
1999 Long Kesh Belfast
1998 Casa del Cultura, Favela Prudenta, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998 Curragh Camp Jail, Co Kildare
1997 O'Moore's Restaurant and Gas Station, Port Laoise (NRB)
1995 Fort Mitchell, Spike Island, Co Cork
1993 Orchard Gallery, Derry
1993 Arthur Kill Correction Center, Staten Island
1993 Bayview Correction Center, Manhattan
1992/93 Limerick Jail, Limerick
1992/93 Portlaoise Jail, Laois
1991 Cerebral Palsey Ireland, Dublin
1991 Virginia Centre for the Arts, Sweetbriar, USA
1991 Fort Mitchell Prison, Spike Island
1991 Masqui Prison, Vancouver, Canada
1990 Cork Prison, Cork
1988 Mountjoy Jail, Dublin
1987 Portlaoise Jail, Laois

Exhibitions

2008
‘Hidden Islands: Notes from the war on the poor’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2008
The Beijing Biennale, Beijing, PR China
2003–2008
Citizen, Openbaar Psychiatrisch Zorgcentrum, Geel, Belgium (solo)
2005
Galway Arts Centre, in collaboration with The Fairgreen Shelter (solo)
2005
Living Art, OSB, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow
2005
‘After the Thaw: Recent Irish art from the AIB Art Collection’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
2005
Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Ireland
2004
In the time of Shaking, IMMA
2004
IMMA touring show, China
2004
Works from 5 Projects, Meulensteen Art Museum, Danubiana (solo)
2003
‘When Love is buried in the Attic’, Fenton Gallery, Cork (solo)
2003
‘Favela Vila Prudente’ Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2002
‘The Bayview Project’, White Box, New York (solo)
2002
‘Vila Prudente’ Ram Gallery, Rotterdam (solo)
2002
Galerie Forsblom, Turku, Finland (solo)
2002
Something Else, Turku Art Museum, Finland
2002
Vangard Gallery, Cork
2002
RAM Foundation, Rotterdam
2002
‘Sight Specific’, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny
2002
‘Race-Face’, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Korea
2001–2002
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2001–2002
Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork (solo)
2001
‘Visage’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2001
‘Preview/Vooruitblik’ Ram, Rotterdam
2001
Fenton Gallery, Cork (two person show with Barrie Cooke)
2001
Venice Biennale ‘Markers’, curated by Ryszard Wasko
2000–2001
‘Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2000
Summer Exhibition, Trist Ann’s Gallery, Dundalk
2000
‘The Earth is a Flower’, Bydgosh, Poland
2000
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (solo)
2000
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (solo)
2000
X Gallery, Harlem, New York (solo)
1999
Ormeau Baths, Belfast (solo)
1999
'When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth Century
1999
‘Ireland', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Grey Art Gallery, New York
1998
'Building a Collection', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1998
Irish Representative, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo
1998
'Not an Island', Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (solo)
1997
'Observations', Trist Anns Gallery, Dundalk (solo)
1997
'Violence in Ireland', Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, Washington (solo)
1997
'Recent Acquisitions', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1997
'A Century of Modern Painting', Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1997
'Prejudicial Portraits' video, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1997
'Meitheal', Installation, Artist Museum, Lodz, Poland
1997
'Twenty Years', Monch Gallery, Berlin
1996
Brian Maguire/Alanna O'Kelly, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
1996
'The Skin of the White Lady' Atctic Foundation, Eindhoven
1996
'Art, Resistance and the English Garden', Project for Europe, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
1996
'Terezine Project' Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Centre Malreux, Sarajavo
1996
The Blue Gallery, London (solo)
1996
'Body-Politic', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1995
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995
'Bridges and Crossroads', Irish Life Centre, Dublin
1995
'Irish Art 1770-1995', Fuller Museum, Boston, USA
1995
‘Irish Art’, Gallerie Monch, Berlin
1995
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1995
'Dawn', Trist Ann's Gallery, Dundalk, Co Louth
1995
'Portraits', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1995
International Zeigist Part II, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow
1995
'Poetic Land, Political Territory', curated by the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art Sunderland, touring to Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
1995
Aberystwyth Art Centre, Barbican London, City Art Gallery Stoke on Trent, Art Gallery, Stirling
1994
The Orchard Gallery, Derry (solo)
1994
D'Arte Galleria, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
1994
Model Arts Centre, Sligo (solo)
1994
City Art Gallery, Limerick (solo)
1994
IMMA Glen Dimplex Award Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1994
'Gateway to Art', Aer Rianta, Dub,in Airport
1993
'Images and Insights', Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
1993
'Aspects of Irish Painting', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1993
'Eurotreshold', Co Cork
1993
'Dublin Graphics', Harmonia Gallery, Finland
1993
'Hope in Houston', Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1993
'Works from a Room', Brinkman Gallery, Amsterdam
1993
'American Paintings', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1993
'Prejudicial Portraits', Dundalk & Drogheda (solo)
1993
Carroll Gallery, Longford (solo)
1992
'Prejudicial Portraits', Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (solo)
1992
'Panorama Europeo del Videoarte' Association of Ideas, Madrid
1992
'Welcome Europe', Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Jutland, Denmark
1991
'In a State', Kilmainham Jail, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1991
'Parable Island', Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1991
'Irish Art in the Eighties - Politics', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1991
'Inheritance and Transformation', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1991
'Behind Bars Public and Private', Alternative Entertainments, Tallaght, Dublin (solo)
1990
Irish Pavilion: 11 Cities/11 Nations, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (solo)
1990
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1990
'Images from Ireland', - EC Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
1990
'Irish Art in the Eighties - Sexuality', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1990
'Gateway' to Art' Fesival, Aer Rianta, Dublin
1990
'Exchange', Timm Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany
1989
Barbazon Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
1989
'Exchange', Stadtische Galerie, Wurzburg, Rheeinishes Landesmuseum, Bonn; Kunsterverein Ingolstadt, Germany
1989
'People at Work', ICTU Exhibition, Dublin
1988
'Irish Art', Marginealla Gallery, Turin, Italy
1988
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin (solo)
1988
Orchard Gallery, Derry (solo)
1987
'Edge', Aorta, Amsterdam, Netherland
1986
'Four Irish Expressionists', Boston University & Northeastern University
1986
Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford (solo)
1985
'11 European Painters, National Gallery, Athens, Greece
1985
'Some New Irish Art', Lucy Lippard, USA, Canada, Finland
1985
Pentonville Gallery, London - Two Person
1984
November Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1984
Two person show - Octagon Gallery, Belfast
1984
'Short Stories', Hendriks Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1982–1983
'Making Sense', Arts Council Touring Show
1982
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (solo)
1982
Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1981
Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (solo)

Literature

2000 Brian Maguire: Inside/Out, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, texts by Barbara Dawson, Patrick T. Murphy, Valerie Connor
1999 Portraits from a Day Room, published by the Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1999, in association with Foyle Health and Social Services Trust