CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in 1977, Dublin, Ireland.
Email: studionimhaonaigh@gmail.com
Website: sineadnimhaonaigh.com
Instagram: sineadnimhaonaigh
EDUCATION
2023 MA Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design
2023 Elected Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy
2018 Elected Associate Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy
2001 BA Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin (forthcoming)
2023 Dwelling Series, Ard Bia, Galway
Stack, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
Deep Mapping: Unseen Landscapes, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2022 Vessel, Rathfarnham Castle, County Dublin
The Atrium, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Structure, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
Struchtúr, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2021 Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin Cnuasach,
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Cork
Dúil Series, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2020 Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, The Dock, County Leitrim, curated by Sarah Searson
Macalla, Mermaid Arts Centre, County Wicklow
Teorainn, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2018 Achar, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2016 Galway University Hospital, Galway
Dúil, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, VOLTA NY, New York
Ardán, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2015 Imlíne, The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
Anthony Slayter-Ralph Fine Art, Los Angeles
Imlíne, Mermaid Arts Centre, County Wicklow
2014 Triskel Arts Centre, Christchurch, Cork
The Motorhouse Gallery, Farmleigh, Dublin
Contours, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013 LUAN Gallery, Athlone
2012 Eatramh, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Living Room Gallery, New York
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
2011 An tImeall – Peintures, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Untitled, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2010 Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Cork
Ard Bia, Galway
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois
The Living Room Gallery, New York
Ryan’s Electrical, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny
2009 Paintings, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Wexford Arts Centre, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2008 Orange, Weiss, Gelb,
Ard Bia, Berlin Ard Bia, Galway
Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr, Galway
Platform, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2007 Áras an Chontae, County Buildings, County Wicklow
2006 An tImeall, Mermaid Arts Centre, County Wicklow, curated by Pádraic E. Moore
Eatramh, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2004 Deoraíocht, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2001 The Chapel, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Group Show, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
RHA West, The Municipal Gallery, Ballina Civic Offices, Ballina
Polyphonic Textures, Church Gallery, Limerick
School of Art and Design, Limerick
TRAce, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Anarene, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, curated by Danny Rolph
It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland
21, Mermaid Arts Centre, County Wicklow
RHA: Ballinglen Fellows Exhibition, The Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, County Mayo
The Collection, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon, curated by Sarah Searson
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Consulate General of Ireland, New York Anemoia, Church Gallery, Limerick
School of Art and Design, Limerick 80th Anniversary Collection
Show, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, curated by Anna O’Sullivan
St. Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2022 Behind the scenes: Collection at work, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Övergäng, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
GENERATION 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, curated by Anna O’Sullivan
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
St. Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2021 Artform Annual 44 Art Exhibition, 44 The Quay, Waterford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
We Can Dance, Castlefreke, West Cork
Pathos, Rathfarnham Castle, County Dublin, curated by Diana Copperwhite Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery Drogheda Awakening, Pablo’s Birthday, New York
Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, The Glucksman, Cork, curated by Christopher Clarke and Fiona Kearney
John Moores Painting Prize 2018, digital presentation, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
Meditations in Time of Civil War, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2020 RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Highlanes Open, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
RHA Collection, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, curated by Eithne Jordan, RHA Keeper Eva Gore-Booth, The Museum of Literature Ireland, UCD Newman House, Dublin
2019 Utopia / Dystopia, Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, curated by Aoife Ruane Peripheries,
Periphery Space, Gorey Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin Silver, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Legacy, 30th Anniversary of the Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Dearly Beloved, ARTWORKS 2019, Carlow
Arts Festival, VISUAL, Carlow
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, touring exhibition, Hamilton Gallery and The Yeats Building, Sligo; Irish Consulate, New York RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin St. Brigid’s Day, touring exhibition, 12 Star Gallery (London); Hamilton Gallery (Sligo); The Department of Food and Marine (Dublin); Irish Embassy (Berlin)
2018 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Group Show, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
Cairde Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo
Island Life, Westport
Arts Festival, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
Peripheries, Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2017 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist
2016 Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Informed Painting, Pablo’s Birthday, New York
The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Block 336, London
Hermione Art Exhibition, ALEX 150, Alexandra College, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2015 Hold to the Now, S L A G Gallery, New York
Group Show, S L A G Gallery, New York
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford Here and Now, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist PANORAMA, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Cú Chulainn Comforted, Basic Space, Dublin, curated by Joshua Sex Home, Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire
2014 Colección olar VISUAL, Museu d’Art de Cerdanyola MAC, Barcelona, Spain
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Chancery Lane, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois
Instant Crush, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013 40/40/40, Office of Public Works touring exhibition to the following venues: Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, Spain); Biblioteka Universidad (Warsaw, Poland); Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Palazzo della Farnasina, (Rome, Italy); Rathfarnham Castle (Dublin); OPW Headquarters (Trim, Meath).
Selective Perspectives, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
2012 Into the Light, 60th Anniversary of the Arts Council, Crawford
Art Gallery, curated by Dawn Williams Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Assembly, Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Group Exhibition, Ron Mandes, Amsterdam
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
MIND HEAD, JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, curated by Rose Burlingham
2011 Room Outside, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Pink Show, Harlem Townhouse, New York, curated by Rose Burlingham
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Unfolding Collections, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2010 UNBUILDING, two-person exhibition with Bea McMahon, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey and Rosie Lynch Recent Acquisitions, Drogheda
Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Regarding Painting, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Group Show, Living Room Gallery, New York
Preview, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2009 Above the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, curated by Patrick T. Murphy and Ruth Carroll AIB Art Prize, AIB Headquarters, Dublin
2008 Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Theo Dorgan
2007 Emerging Artists (and some old friends), Boyle Arts Festival, Invited Artist RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist Group Exhibition, Wicklow
County Buildings, County Wicklow Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey
2006 Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Amanda Ralph
2004 Living Landscape, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, curated by Therry Rudin
2000 DIT Group Exhibition, The Atrium, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
1999 DIT Group Exhibition, The Atrium, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Group Show, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
RHA West, The Municipal Gallery, Ballina Civic Offices, Ballina
Polyphonic Textures, Church Gallery, Limerick
School of Art and Design, Limerick
TRAce, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Anarene, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, curated by Danny Rolph
It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland
21, Mermaid Arts Centre, County Wicklow
RHA: Ballinglen Fellows Exhibition, The Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, County Mayo
The Collection, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon, curated by Sarah Searson
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Consulate General of Ireland, New York Anemoia, Church Gallery, Limerick
School of Art and Design, Limerick 80th Anniversary Collection
Show, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, curated by Anna O’Sullivan
St. Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2022 Behind the scenes: Collection at work, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Övergäng, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
GENERATION 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, curated by Anna O’Sullivan
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
St. Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2021 Artform Annual 44 Art Exhibition, 44 The Quay, Waterford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
We Can Dance, Castlefreke, West Cork
Pathos, Rathfarnham Castle, County Dublin, curated by Diana Copperwhite Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery Drogheda Awakening, Pablo’s Birthday, New York
Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, The Glucksman, Cork, curated by Christopher Clarke and Fiona Kearney
John Moores Painting Prize 2018, digital presentation, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, China
Meditations in Time of Civil War, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2020 RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Highlanes Open, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
RHA Collection, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, curated by Eithne Jordan, RHA Keeper Eva Gore-Booth, The Museum of Literature Ireland, UCD Newman House, Dublin
2019 Utopia / Dystopia, Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, curated by Aoife Ruane Peripheries,
Periphery Space, Gorey Winter Open, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin Silver, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Legacy, 30th Anniversary of the Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Dearly Beloved, ARTWORKS 2019, Carlow
Arts Festival, VISUAL, Carlow
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, touring exhibition, Hamilton Gallery and The Yeats Building, Sligo; Irish Consulate, New York RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin St. Brigid’s Day, touring exhibition, 12 Star Gallery (London); Hamilton Gallery (Sligo); The Department of Food and Marine (Dublin); Irish Embassy (Berlin)
2018 John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Group Show, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
Cairde Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo
Island Life, Westport
Arts Festival, Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport
Peripheries, Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2017 Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist
2016 Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Informed Painting, Pablo’s Birthday, New York
The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Block 336, London
Hermione Art Exhibition, ALEX 150, Alexandra College, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2015 Hold to the Now, S L A G Gallery, New York
Group Show, S L A G Gallery, New York
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford Here and Now, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist PANORAMA, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Cú Chulainn Comforted, Basic Space, Dublin, curated by Joshua Sex Home, Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire
2014 Colección olar VISUAL, Museu d’Art de Cerdanyola MAC, Barcelona, Spain
Wexford Opera Festival, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Chancery Lane, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Laois
Instant Crush, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013 40/40/40, Office of Public Works touring exhibition to the following venues: Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, Spain); Biblioteka Universidad (Warsaw, Poland); Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Palazzo della Farnasina, (Rome, Italy); Rathfarnham Castle (Dublin); OPW Headquarters (Trim, Meath).
Selective Perspectives, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
2012 Into the Light, 60th Anniversary of the Arts Council, Crawford
Art Gallery, curated by Dawn Williams Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Assembly, Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda
Group Exhibition, Ron Mandes, Amsterdam
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
MIND HEAD, JiM Contemporani, Barcelona, curated by Rose Burlingham
2011 Room Outside, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Pink Show, Harlem Townhouse, New York, curated by Rose Burlingham
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Unfolding Collections, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2010 UNBUILDING, two-person exhibition with Bea McMahon, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey and Rosie Lynch Recent Acquisitions, Drogheda
Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Regarding Painting, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Group Show, Living Room Gallery, New York
Preview, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2009 Above the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Futures, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, curated by Patrick T. Murphy and Ruth Carroll AIB Art Prize, AIB Headquarters, Dublin
2008 Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, County Roscommon
Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Theo Dorgan
2007 Emerging Artists (and some old friends), Boyle Arts Festival, Invited Artist RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Invited Artist Group Exhibition, Wicklow
County Buildings, County Wicklow Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey
2006 Greenstar Open, Mermaid Arts Centre, curated by Amanda Ralph
2004 Living Landscape, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, curated by Therry Rudin
2000 DIT Group Exhibition, The Atrium, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
1999 DIT Group Exhibition, The Atrium, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
ART FAIRS
2024 Art Rotterdam, Netherlands (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2023 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York (with 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel) Art Rotterdam, Netherlands (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2022 CONTEXT Miami, Miami USA (with 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel) Hamptons Fine Art Fair, New York (with 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel) Art Rotterdam, Netherlands (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2018 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2017 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2016 VOLTA NY, Solo Presentation, New York (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2015 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) VOLTA 11, Basel (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2014 ArtMarket, Budapest (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) VOLTA 10, Basel (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2012 VOLTA 8, Basel (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2011 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2010 Art 2010, RDS Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2009 Art 2009, RDS Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2008 Preview Berlin (with Ard Bia Berlin) Art 2008, RDS Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) Art Cologne (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
2007 Aqua Art 07, Miami USA (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) Year_07 Art Projects, County Hall, London (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery) Art 2007, RDS Dublin (with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery)
AWARDS
2022 Wicklow County Council Art Bursary
2020 The Dock Summer 2020 Commission Highlanes Open (shortlist)
2019 The Hotron ARTWORKS Award Wicklow County Council Art Bursary
2018 The John Moores Painting Prize (shortlist) 2016 The Marmite Prize for Painting V (shortlist)
2014 The Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary Award
2010 The Hennessy Craig Scholarship Royal Hibernian Academy Studio Award Wicklow County Council Art Bursary
2009 AIB Prize (shortlist)
COLLECTIONS
Ahern & Co Aspen Insurance (purchased by The Contemporary Arts Society, London)
Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection
Boyle Civic Collection
Butler Gallery Collection
Coláiste Íosagáin Contemporary Irish Arts Society
Crawford Art Gallery Collection
Cuisle Centre, Portlaoise General Hospital
Culturel Centre Irlandais, Paris
Drogheda Municipal Art Collection
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin City University
Dunamaise Arts Centre
Ernesto Ventós, Barcelona
Irish Art at Churchill
Iverna Collection
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
Mermaid Arts Centre National Centre for Youth Mental Health
O’Brien Art Collection, Chicago
O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects Office of Public Works
Portlaoise Prison
Royal Hibernian Academy
Scoil Chríost Rí, Portlaoise
The Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
University College Dublin
Private collections worldwide