Alice Maher
Solo Exhibitions
2019 6SKIN, film installation. Galway International Arts Festival. Co-directed with Aideen Barry
2018 Vox Materia, The Source Arts Centre Thurles and Crawford Art Gallery Cork
2017 Zephyr, Claremorris Gallery, Ireland.
2016 The Glorious Maids of the Charnel House, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Glorious Maid; Watercolours, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2015 Reservoir, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2012 Becoming: Alice Maher, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2011 Godchildren of Enantios, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Godchildren, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2010 Godchildren of Enantios, Galway Arts Centre
2009 The Music of Things, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
2008 Hypnerotomachia, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2007 The Night Garden, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Drawings and an Object Alice Maher and Recent Drawings Joyce Pensato, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA
Alice Maher: Natural Artifice, Brighton and Hove Museum Djanogly Art Centre Nottingham
2006 Garden, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Orsola, Oratorio di San Ludovico; Galleria di Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy
2005 Rood, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Portraits, Mestni Muzej, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 Portraits, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland
Mnemosyne, Green On Red Gallery (Father Mathew Hall), Dublin, Ireland
Portraits, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Portraits, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
The Axe (and the waving girl), New Art Centre Sculpture Park, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
2001 The History of Tears, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Butler
Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
2000 Alice Maher: Gorget and Other Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, US
1999 Coma Berenices, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art,
Dublin, Ireland
1998 New Work, South Tipperary Art Centre, Ireland
1997 Acre, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Femme-Fontaines, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
L'Arpent (The Long Acre), River Clain, Poitiers, France
1996 Alice Maher, Todd Gallery, London, UK
Swimmers, Le Credac Centre d'Art, Ivry sur Seine, France
Growths, Todd, Gallery, London, UK
1995 familiar, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; travelling to Orchard Gallery, Derry;Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK
Works On Paper, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1992 Keep, Old Museum Arts Centre. Belfast, Northern Ireland
1991 The Thicket, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; travelling to Project Arts Centre. Dublin; Orchard Gallery, Derry; Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
Tryst, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
1987 Transfiguration, On the Wall Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 (Upcoming) The 18th Drawing Prize, Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation, Salon de Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris
2023 Drawing Time, RHA Gallery Dublin
2023 Divine Narratives; with Celine Bodin 2023, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2023 It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland
2022 Memento Civitatem: with Jamie Murphy, The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
2021 The Map: with Rachel Fallon, Rua Red, Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Dublin, Dublin
2020 As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Animals & Imagination. Limerick City Art Gallery
Elliptical Affinities, Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, Limerick City Art Gallery
2019 fair is foul & foul is fair: Alice Maher & Aideen Barry, Katzen Centre for the Arts, Washington DC
6SKIN: a film co-directed with Aideen Barry. Screened at Oaxaca Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, Scotland, BF Artist Film Festival, London, Aesthetica Film Festival, York UK, Filmakers Cooperative New York, Dance on Film Fest, New Jersey USA.
Seen, Not Heard, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Drawing a New World, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Music and Maker; Artists & Composers, Solstice Arts Centre Navan
2018 6SKIN: a film, co-directed with Aideen Barry. Premiere @ Cork Film Festival
Eva International; with the Artist’s Campaign to Repeal the Eight Amendment,
curated by Inti Guerrero
Aisteach, curated by Jennifer Walshe, Model Arts Centre Sligo.
‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’, curated by Vivienne Dick, Galway Arts Centre
Naked Truth, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Double Take: Collections and Context, Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2017 Hybrid, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2017 Bristle: Hair and Hegemony, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
2016 Eva International: (Still) the Barbarians curated by Koyo Kouoh. Limerick. Ireland
Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter, RWA, Bristol, UK
Hurt, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2015 Approaches to Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Patrons, Prizes, Paradigms, Bourne Vincent Gallery, Limerick
2014 Re-framing the Domestic, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
The Artists Eye, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2013 Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art and the Francis Bacon Studio, BOZAR, Centre for Fine
Arts, Brussels
Long Drawn Out, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast
Art in the Eastside, billboard project for Creative Exchange, Belfast
Art Basel Miami
2012 The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Motion Capture, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2011 Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Norwich Castle Museum,
Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Tate Britain
Radical Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery London
The Surreal in Irish Art, F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio
Poetry Beyond Text, Visual Research Centre Dundee Contemporary Arts
2010 The Woods, LCAG Off-site, Istabraq Hall, Limnerick City.
Dust in the air suspended, South Tipperary County Museum
Inner Lives, Town Hall Gallery, Macroom.
Eigse, Visualise, Carlow
2009 Drawing Itself – A Survey of Contemporary Practice, Brattleboro Museum, Vermont, USA
Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin.
To Have and Have Not, KAW Gallery, Kinsale
Altered States, Clonmel Museum, Ballina Arts Centre,, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery, AkkuH, The Netherlands, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Millenium court Arts Centre, Northern Ireland
Flowerpower, Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
2008 In Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
7 Leagues More, Wexford Arts Centre
My space and I, West Cork Arts Centre
Darkness Visible, Galway Arts Centre
Journey to the End of the Night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Chronoscope, Newman House, Dublin
2007 inter-changes, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
Alternative Nature, Cavan County Museum
Forest Dreaming Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter England.
Drawing Inspiration Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England.
Gorge(l) Koninklijk Museum voor Shone Kunsten Anthwerp Belgium.
A Summer Show Part I, green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Art in State Buildings 1995 – 2005, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
FRESH Re-imagining the Collection, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
Group Show, Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, touring exhibition including
Hayward Gallery, London and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Cross Section; Seventeen Artists from the Arts Council Collection, Sligo Art Gallery,
Sligo, Ireland
Drawing Through It, David Nolan Gallery New York
Masters; 25 Years On, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Cherrypicking, Wicklow County Council, Wicklow, Ireland
2005 ++++++++, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Bread Matters III, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
New Sculpture from Ireland, New Art Centre, Roche Court, England
Siar 50; Fifty years of contemporary Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Locale, Lough Derg, Tipperary, Ireland
Country, Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tir na N-Og, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
In the Time of Shaking: Irish Artists for Amnesty International, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Corpus, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
2003 L’ art d’ etre au monde, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Melle, France
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, R.H.A., Dublin (invited artist), Ireland
2002 Metamorphing, Science Museum, London (curated by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell),
Inside Drawing, Gemeentmuseum, Den Haag, Holland
Locws International, site specific work, Swansea, Wales
Something Else: Irish Contemporary Art, Turku Art Museum, Finland. Travelling Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki; Oulu City Art Museum; Joensuu Art Museum.
Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Mask and Metamorphosis: Aspects of Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ierse Kunst, Stedelijk Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Tipperary vs Kilkenny, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
The Holy Show, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950-2000, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Object, Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland
2000 Contemporary 2000, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Secret Garden, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
End Papers, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, US
Art 2000, Green on Red Gallery, Chicago Art Fair, US
Art 2000, Green on Red Gallery, London Contemporary Art Fair, UK
The Double, with James Reilly, Thomas Ruff and Lindsay Seers, The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, UK
Art on Paper, Royal College of Art, London, UK
An Artists Century, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland