Geraldine O’Neill
b. 1971 in Dublin. Lives and works in Dublin. Elected Associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 2013. Elected to Aosdana, 2015.
EDUCATION
2008 MA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1993 BA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
EXHIBITIONS
Selected Solo
2023 Shelter, with the STAC Collective, The National Gallery of Ireland
2023 It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, The National Gallery of Ireland
2022 The Sunset Belongs to You, with Mick O’Dea, The Model, Sligo
2022 Solastalgia, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2017 Many-worlds interpretation agus rudaí eile nach iad, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2012 Reciprocal Space, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2010 Horopter, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2008 Luan an tSléibhe, Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
2006 Slí na Fírinne, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Slí na Fírinne, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Co. Laois
2003 Snab Smaointe, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2000 New Paintings, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Selected Group
2022 Golden Fleece Award 21 Years, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2021 Ground_Zero_360, Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas, USA
2021 New Perspectives, The National Gallery of Ireland
2020 Blue, Garterlane, Waterford
2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, (2019) Glebe House
2019 MAKing Art PAINTing, Draíocht
2017 Many Worlds, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2015 Volta Basel, with Kevin Kavanagh, Switzerland
Hold to the Now, SLAG Contemporary, New York
2014 Hennessy Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Beyond Measure, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Northern Ireland
New Acquisitions, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Member’s Drawing Exhibition, City Assembly House, Dublin
2013 RHA Annual, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 OAK, Killenure Castle, Tipperary
2011 Point to Point, Kinsale Arts Week, Curated by Gemma Tipton, Cork
Life Room, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, Limerick
2010 Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Something tells me it's all happening at the Zoo, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2009 Above the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Visiting Artists Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
Summer Group Exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal
RHA Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin
Dunamaise Arts Centre 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, curated by Gemma Tipton
2008 Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Fis 2008, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
MFA Degree Show, Digital Hub, Dublin
2007 Group show, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2006 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Reality Bites, curated by Gemma Tipton, Siamsa Tire, Tralee
2005 Seeing is Believing, Curated by Jacqui McIntosh, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
2004 Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
2003 RHA Banquet Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin
2001 Eigse (Invited Artist), Carlow
SELECTED AWARDS
2016 The National Gallery of Ireland specially commissioned portrait of John Rocha
2015 Elected to the Aosdana
2015 Irish - US Council/Irish Arts Review Portraiture Award
2013 Elected as member of the RHA
2013 Gerry Tornsey Prize for Portraiture
2006 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary
2005 Golden Fleece Merit Award
2004 Shortlisted for Hennessy Craig Scholarship, RHA Annual Exhibition
K&M Evans Painting Award, RHA Annual Exhibition
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Bank of Ireland
Office of Public Works
The National Lottery
Central Bank of Ireland
European Central Bank
University College Cork
Dublin City University
Publications and Reviews
2017 Mark O’Kelly, Visual Artists Ireland, August, 2017.
Christín Leach, Matters of Life and Death,The Sunday Times, February 26th 2017.
Angela Griffith, Irish Arts Review December 2016 – February 2017
2012 Ruairí Ó hUiginn and Liam Mac Cóil, Bliainiris 10,
2011 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Graphic Studio 50 Years in Dublin,
2010 Robert O’Byrne, Dictionary of Living Irish Artists,
Aidan Dunne, Still life in a child’s eye, December 10th,
2008 Aidan Dunne, Exhibiting a Studied Lust for Life, Luan an tSléibhe, 12th November
Medb Ruane, Luan an tSléibhe, Kevin Kavanagh & Draíocht, Dublin
Jane Humphries, Judgement Day, Irish Arts Review, Autumn
Sandra Gibson, Fis2008,The Nerve, August
Ruth Osborne, Old Woman Cooking Eggs, UCC News, March
2006 Aidan Dunne, Things fall apart, in slow motion, Irish Times, May
Dr. Yvonne Scott, Sli na Firinne, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Liz Aders, How to buy contemporary art, Prudence Magazine, June
Arran Henderson, Totally Dublin, May
Jacqui McIntosh, The Studio, Visual Arts Newsletter, Jan/Feb Edition
Catherine Leen, Seeing is Believing, Sunday Times, 8th January
2005 Aidan Dunne, Different ways of seeing things, Irish Times, December
Jacqui McIntosh, Seeing is Believing, November
Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank,
Claire Shoesmith, Irish Times, 4th June
2004 Aidan Dunne, Boyling Over, Irish Times, 30th July
Aidan Dunne, All Changes but Stays the Same, Irish Times, 23rd April
2003 Jane Humphries, Up and Coming, A Buyers Guide to Irish Art, 3rd Edition,
John Turpin, Geraldine O’Neill at Kevin Kavanagh, Circa 104, Summer
Marianne Hartigan, Best in Show, Art Life Sunday Tribune, 25th May
Marianne Heron, Personal Space Artist Geraldine O’Neill, Irish Independent, 6th May
Aidan Dunne, Snabsmaointe, The Ticket, Irish Times, 24th April
2001 Annette O’Meara, Brush Up on Life in Art World, The Star, 29th August
Aidan Dunne, Eigse Continues to Deliver the Goods, Irish Times, 2nd July
Marianne Hartigan, Mayo Fields his Dreams, Sunday Tribune, 17th June
2000 Marianne Hartigan, Twelve of the Best, Sunday Tribune, 15th October
Aidan Dunne, Still-Lifes and Deep Waters, Irish Times, 11th October
Gerry Watson, The Art of Business, Decision, February/ March
Ciara Ferguson, Irish Artists Pick up the Prizes at Italian Show, Sunday Independent, 9th January
1988 Angeline Morrison, Cake Sale, Circa 84, Summer
Aidan Dunne, Art Reviews, Tribune Magazine, 8th March
1995 Luke Clancy, Reviews, Irish Times, 5th September
Lecturing
O’Neill has lectured in the Fine Art Department of the Dublin Institute of Technology the Visual Art Department of St Patrick’s College of Education and she was an external tutor for an MFA at the Massachusetts Institute of Art in 2011.