EDUCATION

2005

Masters in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS), IADT, Dublin

2003

BA, National College of Art & Design, Dublin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013

'A round now' Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

2013

'Paradise Series', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

2011

'Equipment’, Grimm gallery, Amsterdam

2010

All That’s Air Melts Into Solid’, GRIMM, Amsterdam

‘Ciarán Murphy’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

2009

March, mother’s tankstation, Dublin

2008

Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. USA

CEREALART, Philadelphia, USA

2007

Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006

15 single-word titled paintings, mother’s tankstation, Dublin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

'The Line of Beauty', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2011

'Interlude', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

Apertures & Anxieties, TCD Medical school collaboration, RHA gallery, Dublin

2009

‘Something Else’, Rothe House, Kilkenny, Ireland

2007

Zoo Art Fair, London, solo presentation, mother’s tankstation

2006

Ciarán Murphy & Petri Ala-Maunus, Gallery Massimo Carassi, Milan, Italy

Mother’s Ruin – dangerous obsessions and the culture of excess, mother’s tankstation, Dublin

2005

Here Comes Everybody, Project, Dublin

Eurojet Futures Anthology, RHA Gallery, Dublin

Remote Access, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

2004

Eurojet Futures, RHA Gallery, Dublin

Work in progress, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

2003

50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

Crawford Open, Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork

Contemporary European Art, Cella Muille, Eisenstadt, Austria

AWARDS

2012

Tony O Malley residency award, Callan, Co. Kilkenny

2009

Arts Council Bursary

2007

Irish Museum of Modern Art, residency and artist work programme

Travel Award, Culture Ireland

Arts Council Bursary

2005

Arts Council Travel Award

Arts Council Bursary

2003

Cella Muille, Eisenstadt, Austria

2002

Scholarship to the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Connecticut, USA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2013

'A round now', Taymour Grahne Gallery, 48 oage hard-back. Fully illustrated

2011

Apertures & Anxieties TCD Medical school collaboration, Exhibition Catalogue

2010

Ciarán Murphy, Douglas Hyde Gallery Publication, 36 page hard-back. Fully illustrated

Aidan Dunne, ‘Finding a way to look anew’, The Irish Times, 10 Febuary

2009

John Gayner, Ciarán Murphy ‘March’ review CIRCA 127

Lucy White, ‘Art Round-Up’, Metro, 19 January

Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Art: Ciarán Murphy’, The Irish Times, 5 February

2008

James Yood, ‘Ciaran Murphy, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago’, Artforum: issue XVLII, No. 2, October

Alan G. Artner, ‘What’s up with this monkey?’, Chicago Tribune, June 27

Lisa Boyle, ‘Ciaran Murphy at Kavi Gupta Gallery’, badatsports.com, June 25

2006

Luke Clancy, ‘Ciaran Murphy, mother’s tankstation, Dublin’, ArtReview, issue 6, December

Eimear McKeith, ‘Beautiful, intriguing and haunting’, The Sunday Tribune, 1 October

Billy Leahy, ‘Pictures before profit’, The Village, 14–20 September

2005

Ciara Healy, ‘Eurojet Futures 2004 at the Royal Hibernian Academy’, Circa, Spring

2004

Ruth Carroll, Eurojets Futures 2004, RHA, Dublin