Bio.
Ciarán Murphy (b.1978 in Mayo, Ireland) received his BA at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (IE) in 2003 and his MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS), IADT, Dublin (IE) in 2005.
Solo exhibitions include Solid Gone, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; The Model, Sligo and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IE); there, there now, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Hundreds of Nature, GRIMM, New York, NY (US);Plainsight, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); A Round Now, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (US); Solo show, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (IE); All That’s Air Melts Into Solid, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Ciarán Murphy, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
(IE); Ciarán Murphy, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (US).
His work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin (IE); Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin (IE); Sanders Collection, Haarlem (NL);
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN), among others.
Image: Ciarán Murphy , Sleep on it, 2021, Oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm, courtesy of the artist
