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Born in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick - BA in European
Studies
Crawford College of Art, Cork - Diploma in Fine Art
University of Ulster, Belfast - MA in Fine Art
Fulbright Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
Lecturer in Fine Art, N.C.A.D, Dublin
G. P. A. Emerging Artists Award Winner
Leaves N.C.A.D to work full-time as an artist
22nd Sao Paolo Bienal, Brazil
(representing Ireland with Ciáran Lennon and Philip Napier)
Residence at Centre d'Art d'Ivry sur Seine, Paris
Elected member of Aosdána
Nominated for Glen Dimplex Award
Travelled extensively in Mexico
Lives and works in Dublin
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Alice Maher, RHA Gallery, Dublin
Alice Maher and Joyce Pensato, Schmidt Contemporary Art,
St. Louis, MO
Natural Artifice, Brighton and Hove Museum Djanogly Art Centre
Nottingham
Garden, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
Orsola, Oratorio di San Ludovico; Galleria di Nuova Icona,
Venice, Italy
Portraits Mestni Muzej, Ljubljana, Slovenia
You had to be there... Civic Centre, Ballymun, Dublin
Portraits Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
Portraits - Photoworks & Drawings Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Mnemosyne Fr.Matthew Hall, Dublin
Portraits Green
on Red Gallery, Dublin
The Axe (and the waving girl) New Art Centre Sculpture Park,
Roche Court, Sailsbury
The History of Tears Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; The Butler
Gallery, Kilkenny
& Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Gorget and Other Works Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York
Knot The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
Le Chemin École Vincent Van Gogh, Paris
New Work South Tipperary Art Centre
Acre Green on Red Galleries, Dublin
Femmes-Fontaines Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
L'Arpent River Clain, Poitiers
Alice Maher Todd Gallery, London
Swimmers Le Credac Centre d'Art, Ivry sur Seine, France
Familiar Newlyn Gallery, Penzance; The Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Dublin;
The Orchard Gallery, Derry & Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
Works on Paper Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Keep Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
Recent Work touring Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; Project Arts
Centre, Dublin; Orchard Gallery, Derry & Limerick Municipal Art
Gallery
Tryst Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
Transfiguration On The Wall Gallery, Belfast
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'inter-changes', Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios,
Dublin, Ireland
'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
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
Locale, Lough Derg, Tipperary, Ireland
In the Time of Shaking Irish Museum of Modern Art
Country Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
L'Art d'etre au Monde International Festival of Contemporary
Art Melle, France
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition R.H.A., Dublin
(invited artist)
Prints Purdy|Hicks Gallery, London
Metamorphing curated by Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell:
Science Museum, London
Something
Else Turku Art Museum; Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki,
Oulu City Art Museum, Joensuu Art Museum
The Holy Show Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Mask and Metamorphosis Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
Tipperary V Kilkenny Fenton Gallery, Cork
Locws
International Swansea, Wales
Ierse Kunst Stedelijk Museum, Brussels
Object Letterkenny Arts Centre
Shifting Ground: Selected works of Irish Art 1950 - 2000
I.M.M.A. Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Chicago Art Fair & London
Contemporary Art Fair
Contemporary 2000 The Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Snapshot Contemporary Museum of Baltimore
Secret Garden Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
End Papers Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
The Double with James Reilly, Thomas Ruff & Lindsay Seers,
The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays
Art on Paper Royal College of Art, London
An Artists' Century RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Irish Art Now - From the Poetic to the Political McMullen
Museum of Art, Boston; Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador,
Canada; Chicago Cultural Center and I.M.M.A.
The Sky Chair A Performance with Composer Trevor Knight,
Project @ the Mint, Dublin
Terrains Vagues - Between the Local and the Global École
des Beaux Arts, Rouen & Herbert Reed Gallery, Canterbury
International Print Show Temple Bar, Dublin
Nettle Coat The Square, Tallaght, Dublin
Reverend Todd's Full House College Green, Belfast
Multiples x 1 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Return to Sender Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art,
Dublin; Next Wave Festival, Sydney; Tlestra Adelaide Festival, Melbourne;
Darwin Festival & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Spirit of the Times The Bowes Museum, Durham
Drawing Thinking RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Monumental Drawings Exit Art, New York
Fauna Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
Drawings Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York
Art 1999 Green on Red Gallery, Dublin & Chicago Art Fair
London Contemporary Art Fair
Artifacts The West Cork Arts Centre
The Challenge of Power Limerick City Gallery
Monumental Drawings Exit Art, New York
Alice Maher and Tim Davies Oriel Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno;
Edinburgh Art Centre; Triskel Arts Centre, Cork & Ormeau Baths Gallery,
Belfast
Lines of Desire Oldham Art Gallery, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
& Wrexham Arts Centre, Wales When Time Began to Rant and Rage
Berkeley Art Museum, California; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool &
Gray Gallery, NY University, New York
Art into Art: A Living Response to Past Masters The National
Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
A Century of Irish Painting Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery,
Dublin; touring Japan
Re-Dressing Cathleen McMullen Museum, Boston
Cruelty Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Digital Dimensions Arthouse, Dublin
Art into Art: A Living Response to Past Masters The National
Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
A Century of Irish Painting Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery,
Dublin; touring Japan
Re-Dressing Cathleen McMullen Museum, Boston
Cruelty Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Digital Dimensions Arthouse, Dublin
l'lmaginaire Irlandais École des Beaux Arts, Paris
Glen Dimplex Awards Irish Museum of Modern art, Dublin
EV+A 96 Limerick City Gallery of Art
Art Grandeur Nature Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris
Tír Alice Maher and Alanna O' Kelly, Gavle Center
for the Arts, Sweden
Irish Group Show E.U. Headquaters, Brussels
Irish Arts Festival of Arhus Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark
Distant Relations Ikon Gallery, Birmingham & Camden Arts
Centre, London
IMMA; Santa Monica Museum of Art; Museo de arte Contemporaneo
de Carillo Gil, Mexico
12 Young Artists from Ireland Itami City Museum, Japan
EV+A 95 Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
On Paper Todd Gallery, London
Compulsive Objects Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
A - Dress Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Art As the Object of Desire Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Four Artists Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
The Conversation Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick
Keep Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
22nd Sao Paolo Bienal, Brazil (representing Ireland with
Ciáran Lennon and Philip Napier)
From Beyond the Pale Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Small World - Small Works Galerie + Edition CAOC, Berlin
Cologne Art Fair
Irish Days II Baltic Art Gallery, Ustka, Poland
Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique Orchard Gallery, Derry and
touring Ireland Spain and France
EV+A 93 Limerick City Gallery of Art
Relocating History Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's University,
Belfast & Orchard Gallery, Derry
Euro-Threshold Contemporary Irish Art Exhibition, Millstreet,
Cork
Artists for Somalia Irish Life Centre, Dublin
In a State Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
Strongholds - New Art from Ireland Tate Gallery, Liverpool
& Sara Hilden Museum, Finland
GPA Awards for Emerging Artists RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Irish Art of the Eighties Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Alice Maher & Louise Walsh Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Art Beyond Barriers Frauenmuseum, Bonn
Issues Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Celebration Robes (with Joyce Wieland) Limerick City Gallery
of Art
Cotter, Maher, Walsh Showntell Gallery, San Francisco
GPA Awards for Emerging Artists Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Basquait, Clemente, Coombes, Maher, Wilson Kerlin Gallery,
Dublin
Six Artists On the Go Derry, Dublin, Cork
Celebration Robes City Gallery, Limerick with Joyce Wieland
Alice Maher & Raine Bedsole Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
The Popening, 8 Artists The Lab Gallery, San Francisco
EV+A 87 Limerick City Gallery of Art
Eight Artists from Ireland Oxford
Graduate Print Exchange University of Peking
CAN '85 Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
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Alyce Mahon, Eroticism & Art, Chapter 10: 'Erotic Fragmentation
and Abjection' p.274 & 275 (2005)
Portraits Catalogue (Millennium Court Arts Centre, 2003)
Mask and Metamorphosis: aspects of surrealism in contemporary
art, Shirley Madill, Art Gallery of Hamilton, National Library
of Canada Cataloguing in Publication (2002)
Something Else Catalogue with essays by Valerie Connor, Declan
McGonagle
& Maija Koskinen (Turku Art Museum, 2002)
Alice Maher: Necklace of Tongues Butler Gallery, Kilkenny;
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (Coracle
Press, 2001)
Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950-2000 by
Caoímhín MacGiolla Leith (Dublin, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, 2001)
End Papers by Judy Collischan (New York; Neuberger Museum
of Art, NYU, 2000)
The Double - Alice Maher, James Rielly, Thomas Ruff, Lindsay
Seers (Manchester, Lowry Press, 2000)
Eire-Ireland 1999 Adele Dalsimer, Vera Kreilkamp & Alston
Conley (Irish American Cultural Institute, 1999)
Contemporary Cultures on Display by Nick Webb, Emma Barker
Fiona Barber (Open University, Yale University Press, 1999)
Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political by Declan
McGonagle and Fintan O'Toole (I.C.I. New York in association with
the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 1999)
Knot - Alice Maher Draws from the Collection (Hugh Lane Municipal
Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1999)
Alice Maher and Tim Davies by Sue Hubbard (Llaududno, Wales,
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, 1998)
Re-Dressing Cathleen edited by Jennifer Grinnell and Alston
Conley (Mc Mullen Museum of Art, Boston, 1997)
Alice Maher by Medb Ruane (Gandon Books, 1997)
A Century of Irish Painting (Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal
Gallery, 1997)
Alice Maher - Swimmers (Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine) l'lmaginaire
Irlandais, essays by Dorothy Walker et al (Hazan / AFAA, Paris,
1996)
Alice Maher - Familiar Essay by Fiona Barber & Interview
by Cecile Bourne (Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Orchard Gallery,
Derry, 1995)
Distant Relations edited by Trisha Ziff, Introduction by
Lucy Lippard (Smart Art Press, New York, 1995)
Strongholds - New Art from Ireland edited by Penelope Curtis
(Tate Gallery, London, 1994)
22nd São Paulo International Bienal by Nelson Aguilar
& Declan McGonagle (1994)
A New Tradition: Irish Art of the 80's (The Douglas Hyde
Gallery, 1991)
Issues (Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Arts Council
/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon)
Alice Maher Introduction by Fiona Barber (Triskel Arts Center,
Cork; Project Arts Center, Dublin, 1991)
Recent Work, Touring Exhibition: Fionna Barber, Triskel Cork
(1990)
Alice Maher Introduction by Emer McNamara (Arts Council of
Northern Ireland, Belfast, 1990)
Art Beyond Barriers (Marianne Pitzen, Frauemuseum, Bonn,
1989)
GPA Awards Catalogue by Dorothy Walker (1989)
Golden Garter by Cary Zaff (1988)
Irish Women Artists by Joan Fowler (Dublin, Douglas Hyde
Gallery, 1987)
EV+A by Ida Panacelli (Limerick, EV+A, 1987)
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David Bonetti. Schmidt Contemporary Art: Charcoal Artists, St.
Louis Post Dispatch, 4 March,. (2007)
Billy Leahy, The art of the poetic, The Village, 26 August - 1 September,
Issue 48.(2005)
Cristin Leach, Beauty and the beech, The Sunday Times, 21 August.(2005)
Aidan Dunne, A show that turns the world upside down, The Irish
Times, 17 August.(2005)
Marianne Hartigan, Strange Fruit and Helmet of Snail, The Sunday
Tribune, 27 April.(2003)
Kieran Owens, Memories Are Made of This, The Event Guide, 3 April
- 12 May.(2003)
Anna Murphy, The Nature of Things, Day & Night, Irish Independent,
25 April.(2003)
Aidan Dunne, Alice Maher, The Ticket, The Irish Times, 17 April.(2003)
Aidan Dunne, Portrait of an artist, with a twist, The Irish Times,
April. (2003)
Roisin Ingle, Daytrippers: Seven Things To Do This Week, The Irish
Times Magazine, 12 April.(2003)
Ros Drinkwater, Nature's Storyteller
, The Sunday Business
Post, 19 January.(2003)
Kieran Owens, The Event Guide, (Dublin, 2 May 2001)
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, (Dublin, 16 May 2001)
Medb Ruane, The Sunday Times, (Dublin, 15 April 2001)
Billy Leahy, In Dublin, (Dublin, 5 April 2001)
Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, (Dublin, 12 April 2001)
Kay Sheehy, The Irish Times, (Dublin, 10 January 1995)
Aidan Dunne, The Sunday Tribune, (Dublin, 8 January 1995)
Aidan Dunne Sunday Tribune, ( 3 October 1995)
Aidan Dunne, The Sunday Tribune, ( Dublin, 13 October 1991)
Henk Strabbing, De Volkskrant, (Germany, 19 July 1991)
Rolf Sotschek, Die Tageszeitung, (Germany, 29 May 1991)
Paddy Woodworth, The Irish Times, (Dublin, 1 May 1991)
Sasha Craddock, The Guardian, (London, 28 February 1991)
Brian Fallon, The Irish Times, (Dublin, 31 October 1990)
Brian McAvera, The Irish News, (3 March 1988)
The Sunday Tribune, (Dublin, 15 February 1988)
Rattlebag, RTE One (23 August 2005)
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Tempus, a residency with Olwen Fouere and Trevor Knight, Sirius
Arts Centre, Cork
Marten Toonder Award, An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council
Elected Member of Aosdana
An Chomhairle Ealaion Bursary
GPA Emerging Artist Award
Irish Arts Council 'Artist in Residence' Schools Bursary
L.S.A.D. Teaching Fellowship, Limerick
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Bursary
Fulbright Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
Peter Moore's Foundation Bursary
National Council for Education Awards / Student of the Year
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Full Nettle Jacket: Alice Maher and the Language of Clothes, lecture
at the National
Museum for Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland
Presented a paper for 'Irlande; Passerelles et Impasses' a conference
at the University of Rennes, France.
Commission by Ballymun Regeneration Group You had to be there. 21
drawings for a book edited and facilitated by writer Lia Mills.
Presented a paper at "Metamorphing: Changing Bodies, Altered
States" - a critical debate jointly organised by the Wellcome
Trust and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Presented a paper at "The Visibility of Women's Practice",
Tate Britain, London
Public Commission Landmark for Athlone Institute of Technology,
Athlone
Public Commission The Fairytale Wall, Great Victoria Hospital, Belfast
Public Commission Le Chemin, Ecole Vincent Van Gogh, Ville de Mitry-Mory,
Paris
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An Chomhairle Ealaion/The Arts Council
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Cork County Council
Crawford Municipal Gallery Cork
Deutsche Bank
Fogg Musem, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
National Self-Portrait Collection, Limerick
Office of Public Works
University of Ulster, Belfast
University College, Cork
Contemporary Arts Society
Oldham Art Gallery
Private Collections : Ireland, England, Germany, Japan & U.S.A.
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