EDUCATION

2005

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

2003

BA, National College of Art & Design, Dublin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

Hundreds of Nature, GRIMM, New York, NY

Plainsight, GRIMM, Amsterdam

2014

Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013

'A round now' Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

'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

2019

Resort Revelations, Linders Mobile Home Park, Portrane, Co. Dublin

2018

Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels

2017

Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Soul-Beating, Gorey School of Art, Gorey

2014

Fieldworks: Animal Habitats in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

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

2010

New Paintings, GRIMM Keizersgracht 82, Amsterdam

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

Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo

2001

NCAD Degree Show, Dublin

RDS Student Award Scheme, Dublin

Frozen Pipes, Illac Centre, Dublin

Shoplifter, Illac Centre, Dublin

2000

Sensationless, Vicar St, Dublin

1999

National Portrait Award, Dublin

AWARDS

2012

Tony O Malley residency award, Callan, Co. Kilkenny

2011

Residency at Trinity College, Dublin

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

2018

John Gayer, ‘Ciarán Murphy, Plainsight, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam’, Paper Visual Art, 8 May

Edo DIjksterhuis, ‘Ierse Krachtschilder’, Het Parool, January 19

2017

‘Mayo artist's work to feature in national collection’, Connaught Telegraph, 15 June

‘Mayo artist chosen for IMMA Collection 2017’, The Mayo News, 14 August

‘What Lies Beneath: Hare by Ciarán Murphy’, Independent Ireland, 14 August

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

Marianne van Dijk, ‘Ciarán Murphy’, Kunstbeeld, June

Kate Butler, ‘Ciarán Murphy', The Sunday Times, 28 March

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, ‘Ciarán 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, ‘Ciarán Murphy at Kavi Gupta Gallery’, badatsports.com, June 25

2006

Luke Clancy, ‘Ciarán 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

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin

Defares Collection, Amsterdam

Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin

Sanders Collection, Haarlem