Group Shows
- Drawing a New World
purdy, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London - The 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia / In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh
Giardini Pavilion, Arsenale, Venice
- Visiting Artist 1985–1995
Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland - 18th Prix de Dessin 2025
Fondation D'Art Contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Palais Brongniart Paris
- Art as Agency 2025
irish, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- Kunstkammer 2025
Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore Castle
- OFF-Biennale 2025
Budapest
- Soft Power 2025
RWA, Bristol
- The Map and The Mantle 2025
The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon
- Footfalls 2024
Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich
- The Map: Untying the Knots. with Rachel Fallon 2024
IAC, New York
- Divine Narratives; with Celine Bodin 2023
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London - Drawing Time 2023
RHA Gallery, Dublin
- It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA 2023
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
- Le Sentiment du Dessin: Pareidolie 2023
Musee MAC, Marseilles
- Vox Hybrida: with Chloe Austin & Emma Brennan 2023
The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
- Vox Hybrida: with Emma Brennan and Chloe Austin 2023
The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
- Collage: A Political Act 2022
The Ulster Museum, Belfast
- Memento Civitatem: with Jamie Murphy 2022
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
- Soul Noir 2022
Irish Georgian Society, Dub, Dublin
- Who Will Write The History Of Tears? 2022
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw
- Double Estate 2021
Pearse Museum, Dublin - Drawn Out 2021
The Drawing Room, London
- Drawn Out 2021
The Drawing Room, London
- The Map: with Rachel Fallon 2021
Rua Red, Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Dublin
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire 2020
Limerick, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick - As Kingfishers Catch Fire 2020
Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick
- Drawing Biennial 2019
The Drawing Room, London - Elliptical Affinities 2019
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
- IMMA Archive: 1990's from the Edge to the Centre 2019
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- MUSIC + MAKER 2019
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
- Seen, Not Heard 2019
Crawford, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork - The Keeper: to have and to hold 2019
The Model, Sligo
- fair is foul & foul is fair 2019
Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
- 38th Eva International: Ireland's Biennial 2018
Cleeves Factory, Limerick - BUT STILL, LIKE DUST, I'LL RISE 2018
Galway Arts Centre, Galway
- Double Take: Collections and Context 2018
The Glucksman. University College Cork
- Encountering the Land 2018
Visual Carlow, Carlow
- Naked Truth 2018
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
- Hybrid 2017
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
- EVA International 2016
- Eva International 2016
Limerick
- Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter 2016
RWA, Bristol
- RHA Annual 2015
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
- The Desire for Freedom 2014
Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesnej MOCAK, Cracow, Poland
- Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art and the Francis Bacon Studio 2013
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
- The Desire for Freedom 2013
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
- The Desire for Freedom 2013
Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
- Motion Capture 2012
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- The Desire for Freedom 2012
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Poetry Beyond Text 2011
Visual Research Centre Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK - The Family in British Art 2011
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
- The Surreal in Irish Art 2011
F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, Co.Down
- Annual Exhibition 2010
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
- Dust in the air suspended 2010
South Tipperary County Museum, Tipperary, Ireland
- Eigse 2010
Carlow, Ireland
- Inner Lives 2010
Town Hall Gallery, Macroom, Ireland
- Kinsale Arts Week 2010
Cork, Ireland
- Line Exploring Space 2010
The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland
- The Woods 2010
LCAG Off-site, Istabraq Hall, Limerick, Ireland - Altered States 2009
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Altered States 2009
Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo, Ireland
- Drawing Itself - A Survey of Contemporary Practice 2009
Brattleboro Museum, Vermont, USA
- Flower Power curated by Andrea Busto 2009
Craa Centre de Ricerca Arte Actuale, Italy
- Into Irish Drawing 2009
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
- Into Irish Drawing 2009
AkkuH, The Netherlands
- Into Irish Drawing 2009
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
- Into Irish Drawing 2009
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland
- Paper Work 2009
Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland - To Have and Have Not 2009
KAW Gallery, Kinsale - 7 Leagues More 2008
Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland - Alternative Nature 2008
Cavan County Museum, Cavan, Ireland
- Chronoscope 2008
Sixth World Archaeological Congress Newman House, Dublin, Ireland
- Darkness Visible 2008
Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
- In Drawing 2008
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
- My Space and I 2008
West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland - Animal Rites 2007
David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, United States
- inter-changes 2007
Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- A Summer Show Part I 2006
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Art in State Buildings 1995 – 2005 2006
Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Cross Section; Seventeen Artists from the Arts Council Collection 2006
Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland - Drawing Inspiration 2006
Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK - Drawing Inspiration 2006
Gorgel Koninklijk Museum voor Shone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium - FRESH Re-imagining the Collection 2006
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
- Forest Dreaming 2006
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter, UK - Group Show 2006
Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York, USA - Masters; 25 Years On 2006
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Passing Through 2006
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- The Art of Looking 2006
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference 2006
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
- You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference 2006
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
- Bread Matters III 2005
West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
- Cherrypicking 2005
Wicklow County Council, Wicklow, Ireland
- New Sculpture from Ireland 2005
New Art Centre, Roche Court, UK
- Siar 50; Fifty years of contemporary Art 2005
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland - Corpus 2004
Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick, Ireland - Country 2004
Galerija Equrna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Impressions 2004
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaois, Ireland - In the Time of Shaking: Irish Artists for Amnesty International 2004
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Locale 2004
Lough Derg, Tipperary, Ireland
- Tír na N-Óg 2004
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland - Views from an Island 2004
Millenium Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Views from an Island 2004
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- Annual Exhibition 2003
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland - L’art d’etre au monde 2003
International Festival of Contemporary Art, Melle, France
- Re-Imagining Ireland 2003
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, United States
- Drawn from a Family 2002
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, United States
- Ierse Kunst 2002
Stedelijk Museum, Brussels, Belgium - Locws International, site specific work 2002
Swansea, Wales
- Mask and Metamorphosis: Aspects of Surrealism in Contemporary Art 2002
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Metamorphing (Marina Warner and Sarah Bakewell) 2002
Science Museum, London, UK
- Print Fair 2002
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK - Something Else: Irish Contemporary Art 2002
Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
- Something Else: Irish Contemporary Art 2002
Joensuu Art Museum., Joensuu, Finland
- Something Else: Irish Contemporary Art 2002
Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
- Something Else: Irish Contemporary Art 2002
Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
- The Holy Show 2002
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland - Tipperary vs Kilkenny 2002
Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
- Object 2001
Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland - Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950-2000 2001
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- An Artists Century 2000
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Art 2000 2000
Green on Red Gallery Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA - Art 2000 2000
Green on Red Gallery London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK - Art on Paper 2000
Royal College of Art, London, UK - Contemporary 2000 2000
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - End Papers 2000
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA
- Secret Garden 2000
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
- The Double with James Reilly Thomas Ruff and Lindsay Seers 2000
The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, UK
- Art 1999 1999
Green on Red Gallery Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA - Art 1999 1999
Green on Red Gallery London Contemporary Art Fair, London, UK - Artifacts 1999
West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland - Drawing Thinking 1999
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Drawings 1999
NolanEckman Gallery, New York, USA
- Fauna 1999
Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- Irish Art Now: from the Poetic to Political 1999
McMullen Museum, Boston, USA
- Irish Art Now: from the Poetic to Political 1999
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Johns, Newfoundland
- Irish Art Now: from the Poetic to Political 1999
Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA
- Irish Art Now: from the Poetic to Political 1999
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Monumental Drawings 1999
Exit Art, New York, USA
- Multiples x 1 1999
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Nettle Coat 1999
The Square, Tallaght, Ireland
- Objects in Time 1999
West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen, Ireland - Return to Sender 1999
Hugh Lane Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Return to Sender 1999
Tlestra Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia - Return to Sender 1999
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia - Return to Sender 1999
Darwin Festival, Sydney, Australia - Return to Sender 1999
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - Reverend Todd's Full House 1999
College Green, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Spirit of the Times 1999
The Bowes Museum, Durham, Ireland
- Temple Bar International Print Show 1999
Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland - Terrains Vagues - Between the Local and the Global 1999
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
- Terrains Vagues - Between the Local and the Global 1999
Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
- The Challenge of Power 1999
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
- The Grotesqueness of Desire 1999
Inside Art Gallery, Chicago, USA
- The Sky Chair - A Performance with Composer Trevor Knight 1999
Project @ The Mint, Dublin, Ireland - Alice Maher and Tim Davies 1998
Oriel Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
- Alice Maher and Tim Davies 1998
Edinburgh Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Alice Maher and Tim Davies 1998
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
- Alice Maher and Tim Davies 1998
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Art into Art: A Living Response to Past Masters 1998
The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- Lines of Desire - Drawing 1998
Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK
- Lines of Desire - Drawing 1998
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- Lines of Desire - Drawing 1998
Wrexham Arts Centre, Wrexham, Wales
- When Time Began to Rant and Rage 1998
Berkeley Art Museum, California, USA - When Time Began to Rant and Rage 1998
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK - When Time Began to Rant and Rage 1998
Gray Gallery New York University, New York, USA - A Century of Irish Painting 1997
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - A Century of Irish Painting 1997
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan - A Century of Irish Painting 1997
Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Japan - A Century of Irish Painting 1997
Yamnshi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan - Art 1997 1997
Green on Red Gallery, Basel, Switzerland - Cruelty 1997
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Digital Dimensions 1997
Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland
- Eva International 1997
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
- Re-Dressing Cathleen 1997
McMullen Museum, Boston, USA
- Art Grandeur Nature 1996
Seine Saint-Denis, Paris, France
- IMMA / Glen Dimplex Awards 1996
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Irish Arts Festival of Arhus 1996
Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark - Irish Group Show (to coincide with Ireland's EU Presidency) 1996
EU Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
- L 'Imaginaire Irlandais 1996
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- Tir: Alice Maher and Alanna O'Kelly 1996
Gavle Centre for the Arts, Sweden
- A-Dress 1995
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
- Art as the Object of Desire 1995
Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Compulsive Objects 1995
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Distant Relations 1995
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- Distant Relations 1995
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- Distant Relations 1995
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Distant Relations 1995
Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, USA
- Distant Relations 1995
Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
- EV+A 1995
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
- Eigse 1995
Carlow, Ireland
- Irish Group Show 1995
EU Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium - Keep 1995
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- On Paper 1995
Todd Gallery, London, UK - The Conversation 1995
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland - Twelve Young Artists from Northern Ireland 1995
Itami Museum, Kyoto, Japan
- Visiting Artist 1985–1995 1995
Butler Gallery Kilkenny, Kilkenny, Ireland - Visiting Artists 1985–1995 1995
Graphic Studio, Dublin, Ireland - Visiting Artists 1985–1995 1995
Armagh County Museum, Armagh City, Ireland - Visiting Artists 1985–1995 1995
L'Imaginaire Irlandais, Paris, France - 22nd Sao Paolo Bienal (representing Ireland with Ciaran Lennon and Philip Napier) 1994
Brazil
- From Beyond the Pale 1994
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- Irish Days II 1994
Baltic Art Gallery, Ustka, Poland - Small World-Small Works 1994
Galerie + Edition CAOC, Berlin, Germany - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Northern Ireland - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
L'Escola de Belles Artes, Lleida, Spain - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
La Rectoria, Barcelona, Spain - Un Pelerinage Kaleidoscopique 1994
Le Musee d'Art Moderne, Toulouse, France - EV+A 1993
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick - Euro-Threshold 1993
Contemporary Irish Art Exhibition, Millstreet, Cork, Ireland
- Gateway 1993
Terminal 1, Dublin Airport, Ireland - Relocating History 1993
Fenderesky Gallery at Queens, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Relocating History 1993
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
- Artists for Somalia 1992
Irish Life Centre, Dublin, Ireland - In a State 1991
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland
- Strongholds: New Art from Ireland 1991
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- Alice Maher and Louise Walsh 1990
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland - G.P.A. Emerging Artists Exhibition 1990
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Irish Art of the Eighties 1990
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Art Beyond Barriers 1989
Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany - Celebration Robes with Joyce Wieland 1989
City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland - Issues: Four Artists 1989
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Basquiat Clemente Coombes Maher Wilson 1988
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Cotter Maher Walsh 1988
Showntell Gallery, San Francisco, USA - Fort Mason Firehouse 1988
San Francisco, USA - G.P.A. Awards Show 1988
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - San Francisco University Club 1988
San Francisco, USA - Alice Maher & Raine Bedsole 1987
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA - EV+A 1987
Municipal Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
- Five Belfast Artists Draw the Line 1987
Grafton Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Irish Women Artists 1987
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Six Artists ‘On the Go…’ 1987
Derry, Northern Ireland - Six Artists ‘On the Go…’ 1987
Dublin, Ireland - Six Artists ‘On the Go…’ 1987
Cork, Ireland - The Popening 1987
The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, USA - Eight Artists from Ireland 1986
Oxford, England - Graduate Print Exchange 1986
University of Peking, Peking, China