NIAMH O'MALLEY
Niamh O’Malley was born in County Mayo in Ireland (1975). In 2022, Niamh O’Malley represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale in the solo exhibition, ‘Gather’. After its success in Venice, her work travelled across three institutional locations in Ireland in the spring of 2023: Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (2023); The Model, Sligo (2023); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2023). Recent solo institutional exhibitions include Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IE (2019); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2019); Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IE (2019); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT (2018); Bluecoat Liverpool, UK (2015); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE (2017). O’Malley has been recipient of multiple residencies and awards, including Funen Art Academy, DK (2014); HIAP, Helsinki, FI (2008); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE (2008); Firestation Artists Studios (2005-8); International Studio Programme Residency at PS1, MoMa, USA (2003/04); and the Northern Irish Fellowship at The British School at Rome, IT (2000). Niamh O’Malley’s work is included in numerous private and public collections such as the The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery; Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Arts Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works, Ireland; Stefan Stolitzka Collection, Graz; FRAC Méca-Nouvelle Aquitaine, France and Galleria Arte Moderna, Turin.
Publications include, ‘Gather’ (monograph) 2022, texts by Eimear McBride, Lizzie Lloyd, Brian Dillon, Niamh O’Malley, Published TBG+S, Dublin. ‘Niamh O’Malley’ (monograph) 2019, texts by Claire Louise Bennett, Isobel Harbison, Published Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. ‘Niamh O’Malley’ (monograph) 2015 foreword by John Hutchinson, essay by Rebecca O'Dwyer, ‘Niamh O’Malley’(monograph) 2013 essays by Luke Gibbons, Matt Packer, Patrick Murphy, published Linenhall Arts Centre, Co Mayo, Ireland; ‘Viewfinder’, essay Chris Fite-Wassilak published Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Torch (monograph) 2008, essay Brian Dillon, design Robin Watkins, published TBGS, Dublin; ‘Window’ (monograph) 2006, essay Maeve Connolly, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Niamh O’Malley, Grimm Gallery, New York (USA)
2023
Niamh O’Malley, Grimm Gallery, New York (USA)
Niamh O’Malley, Vardaxoglou Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Gather, Belfast, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (United Kingdom)
Gather, Dublin, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (Ireland)
Gather, The Model Sligo, Sligo (Ireland)
2022
Gather, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice (Italy)
2021
Niamh O’Malley, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (United Kingdom)
2020
Transaer House, Garda National Immigration Bureau & Dublin Airport Garda Station (Ireland)
Mother’s tankstation, Dublin (Ireland)
2019
Solo Exhibition & Publication, RHA, Dublin (Ireland)
Solo Exhibition, St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts (Ireland)
2018
Foiled Glass, curated by Kate Strain, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (Austria)
2017
Rests’, Solo Exhibition, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
2016
Views, curated by Aoife Tunney & Colin Graham, Illuminations Gallery, NUI Maynooth (Ireland)
2015
Glasshouse, curated by Marie-Anne McQuay, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
2014
Solo Exhibition, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Canopy, Permanent Public Art Commission, Dun Laoghaire VEC & Blackrock Library, Dublin (Ireland)
2013
Garden, curated by Tessa Giblin, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (Ireland)
The Mayo Collaborative, Contemporary Survey of Niamh O’Malley in 5 venues, Aras Inis Gluaire, County Mayo (Ireland)
House Westport, Linenhall Arts Centre, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballinglen Arts Foundation (Ireland)
2012
Solo Exhibition, Hå Gamle Prestegard (Norway)
2011
Model, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
2010
Island, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturune, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
Frame, glass, black, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (France)
Echo, Gaain Gallery, Seoul (South Korea)
2009
Frame, glass, black, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
No Distance, VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland
Solo Exhibition, Galleri Flach-Thulin, Stockholm (Sweden)
2008
Flag, HIAP Project Space, Helsinki (Finland)
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Redux: Contemporary Irish sculptors at Venice, curated by Sara Damaris Muthi, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Ireland)
RHA Annual Exhibition Summer 2024, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin (Ireland)
The Middle Voice, Shtager&Shch, curated by Maria Hinel, London (United Kingdom)
Le Vernissage, Partie Deux, Brigitte Mulholland, Paris (France)
2023
Correnti IV - Sublimare, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Artopia Gallery, Milan (Italy)
193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin (Ireland)
It Took a Century: Women Artists & the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland (Ireland)
Flower in the Wind, Belmacz Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Fly Floor, curated by Mark O’Gorman & Niamh O’Malley, The Complex, Dublin (Ireland)
2022
Nucré: Dove la terra incontra il cielo, curated by Giulia Bortoluzzi, Ceglie Messapica (Italy)
2021
Making & Momentum: In Conversation with Eileen Gray, Roquebrune (France), National Museum of Ireland (Ireland)
2020
Curated by …, curated by Seamus Kealy, Galerie Mam, Wien (Austria)
Online Exhibition Glasshouse, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (United Kingdom)
2019
In the Age of Conscious Makers’, Group Exhibition, NCAD Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Shaping Ireland: Intervention and Representation in Irish Landscape Art’ Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London
2018
Group Exhibition, La Tannerie, Brittany (France)
Group Exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (United Kingdom)
Group Exhibition, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (France)
2017
Invited Artist - Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, curated by Peter Taylor
Surface Tensions, Group Exhibition, , curated by Jaki Irvine, Blackchurch Print Workshop, Dublin (Ireland)
Golden Record, Group Exhibition, curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway International Arts Festival (United Kingdom)
Gathering Space, online essay project, curated by Rebecca O’Dywer
A Name Unmade, Group Exhibition, curated by Sabina McMahon, Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, touring to Nerve Centre in Derry (Ireland)
Augmented Geology’, Group Exhibition, curated by Laura Köönikkä, KARST, Plymouth (United Kingdom)
Song of the Open Road, curated by Nigel Prince, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Public View, Group Exhibition, curated by Bryan Biggs, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
Drawing Biennial 2017, Group Exhibition, Drawing Room, London (United Kingdom)
RHA Annual, Invited artist, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (Ireland)
Forecast of the next century, Group Exhibition, Eli & Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan (USA)
2016
Doors of Perception, curated by Lee Welch & Paul Hallahan, Temple Bar, Dublin (Ireland)
Some thing as a line, curated by Brian Fay, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda (Ireland)
A Conversation on Drawing, curated by Mary-Ruth Walsh, RHA Dublin (Ireland)
2116, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (Ireland)
RHA Annual, Invited artist, Contemporary Arts Society Prize-winner, work of distinction, RHA, Dublin (Ireland)
Source, Group Exhibition, curated by Rowan Sexton, Dublin (Ireland)
Two birds/One stone, Farmleigh, Dublin, curated by Janet Mullarney
IMMA Collection: A Decade, Group Exhibition, IMMA, Dublin (Ireland)
Deadeye, 3-person exhibition, (with Rua Red, Tallaght), curated by Paul McAree
I see a darkness, Group Exhibition, curated by Davey Moor, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dunamaise Arts Centre (Ireland)
2013
Island, curated by Fiona Kearney, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena (Italy)
2012
Into the Light, Arts Council Collection Exhibition, 60 Years, Crawford Gallery, Cork (Ireland)
Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin (Ireland)
TULCA, Visual arts festival, curated by Gregory McCartney, Galway (Ireland)
At the Still Point, Irish women artists working in film, curated by Josephine Kelleher, Kilkenny Arts Festival (Ireland)
EVA International 2012, curated by Annie Fletcher, Limerick City Gallery (Ireland)
All humans do, group exhibition, curated by Aoife Tunney, White Box, New York & The Model, Sligo (Ireland)
Ached, grew, print, jot, curated by Lee Welch, The Drawing Project, Dublin (Ireland)
2011
Kooperation, Screening Room: Dublin, Film Screening curated Regina Barunke, Cologne Kunstverein (Ireland)
Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin (Ireland)
The Dissolution of Time and Space, Irish Video Art, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg (Germany)
Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Ireland)
The Ha-Ha Crystal, curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak, Maria Stenfors, London (United Kingdom)
Fine Lines, Limerick City Gallery of Art (Ireland)
2010
Collective Histories VII, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (United Kingdom)
2009
Whathiver, Event, Temple Bar Studios, Dublin (Ireland)
Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery touring to AkkuH, Hengelo, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (France)
2008
Fantasmata, Arge Kunst, Bozen (Italy)
Process Room, Solo Exhibition, Artists Residency Programme, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin (Ireland)
Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin (USA)
Journey to the End of the Night, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
About Seeing..., Kenworthy-Ball, Zurich (Switzerland)
a situation, a situation, and a story, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
The eye of the beholder, VOLTA NY, New York (USA)
Next Art Fair, Bea McMahon & Niamh O’Malley, Chicago (USA)
Chronoscope, curated by Ian Russell, World Archaeological Congress, Newman House, Dublin (Ireland)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
Review: thisistomorrow, mother’s tankstation limited, by Aidan Kelly Murphy. http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/niamh-omalley-placeholder
2019
Monograph: Niamh O’Malley, Essays Claire-Louise Bennett, Isobel Harbison, Design Peter Maybury, Published RHA, Dublin
Review: Irish Times, Aidan Dunne. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/an-absorption-with-substance-and-finish-as-antidote-to-a-fast-paced-world-1.4017108
Art in Focus: Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/art-in-focus-untitled-barrier-and-shelf-2019-niamh-o-malley-1.3976856
Book: Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome: An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014 by Kaspar Thormod, pp. 35-38
Catalogue: Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Donal Maguire
2017
Essay: ‘This is the situation’. Augmented Geology, KARST, Plymouth, by Lizzie Lloyd
Academic Article: Journal of Contemporary Painting, Volume 3, Numbers 1-2, Niamh O’Malley by Lizzie Lloyd
2016
Essay: Project Arts Centre, Dublin, ‘Garden’ by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith. http://projectartscentre.ie/forms-imaging-publications-available-now/
Reflective Text: IMMA, Memorial Gardens, 2008, by Sue Rainsford. http://www.imma.ie/en/subnav_150.htm
Review: Frieze, Niamh O'Malley, Bluecoat, Liverpool by Brian Dillon. http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/niamh-omalley/
2015
Highlights 2015. http://blog.frieze.com/highlights-2015-brian-dillon/
Review: ArtMonthly, Niamh O'Malley, Bluecoat, Liverpool by Lizzie Lloyd. www.artmonthly.co.uk
Review: Corridor8, Niamh O’Malley: Glasshouse by Jack Welsh. www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-niamh-
Feature: Art in Liverpool, Artist of the Week: Niamh O’Malley by Sinead Nunes. www.artinliverpool.com/artist-of-the-week-niamh
Review: Art in Liverpool, Niamh O'Malley at the Bluecoat, Liverpool by Kyle Nathan Brown. www.artinliverpool.com/review-niamh-omalley
Critics Pick: The Guardian ‘Weekend’ by Robert Clark. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/09/this-weeks-new-exhibitions
Review: Paper Visual Art Journal, Niamh O’Malley, DHG by Nathan O’Donnell. www.papervisualart.com/?p=11055
Review: Enclave Review, Niamh O’Malley, DHG by Rory Prout. www.enclavereview.wordpress.com/
Review: ArtReview, by Chris Fite-Wassilak. www.artreview.com/magazine/2015/march_2015/
Interview: thisistomorrow, Douglas Hyde Gallery’ Online Interview, Maeve Connolly. www.thisistomorrow.info/articles/interview-niamh-omalley
Review: Irish Times, Niamh O’Malley’ by Aidan Dunne, print & online. www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/
Critics Pick: Artforum ‘Niamh O’Malley, Douglas Hyde Gallery, by Gemma Tipton. www.artforum.com/picks/section=ie#picks49744
2014
Monograph: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Niamh O’Malley essays by John Hutchinson and Rebecca O’Dwyer, published Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2013
Review: Artforum ‘Niamh O’Malley, Mayo, Various Venues’ by Declan Long
Monograph: ‘Niamh O’Malley’ essays by Matt Packer and Luke Gibbons, published Linenhall Arts Centre
Profile: Visual Artists’ News Sheet, by Jason Oakley
Feature: The Irish Times, O’Malley takes on Mayo: five galleries, one vision, by Aidan Dunne
Review: The Sunday Times, Culture, Niamh O’Malley, ‘Garden’ by Cristin Leach
Review: theartblog, Niamh O’Malley; on looking and materiality’ by Andrea Kirsh. www.theartblog.org/2013/06/
Review: Billion Art Journal ‘Half Empty/ Half Full’, by James Merrigan, www.billionjournal.com/time/51c.html
Feature: RTE TV, John Kelly
2012
Review: Paper Visual Art Journal, Model by Niamh Dunphy, www.papervisualart.com/?p=7899
2011
Review: thisistomorrow ‘Dublin Contemporary’ by Ruth Hogan www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=982
Review: showerofkunst, ‘Dublin Contemporary’ by Darren Caffrey, www.showerofkunst.com/2011/12
Catalogue Essay: Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain ‘Island’ by Chris Fite-Wassilak,
Review: m-Kos, The Ha-Ha Crystal by Oli Sorenson and Miwa Kojima, www.m-kos.net/archives/1705
Review: The Irish Times, ‘Why twenty deserves its personal touch’ by Aidan Dunne
2010
Feature: Space, ‘Striking up a conversation in the memorial garden’, by Kim Yong-min, Issue 509
2009
Review: Huma, ‘Frame, glass, black’ by Slavka Sverakova, www.huma3.com/huma3-eng-reviews-id-412.html
Review: Paper Visual Art Journal, ‘Frame, glass, black’ by Miranda Driscoll www.papervisualart.com/?p=124
Review: Art Pulse Magazine, ‘Frame, glass, black’ by Maria Minguez, www.artpulsemagazine.com/niamh-o-malley-frame-glass-black/
Catalogue: ‘Into Irish Drawing’ Catalogue, by John Berger & Caroline Hancock
Review: ‘Niamh O’Malley’ Galleri Flach-Thulin, by Susanna Sloor, www.omkonst.com/09-sevart-i-maj.shtml
2008
Monograph: ‘Torch’, Niamh O’Malley, essay by Brian Dillon, design Robin Watkins, published TBGS, Dublin
Catalogue: ‘Chronoscope’ Catalogue, Newman House, Dublin, World Archaeological Congress
EDUCATION
2000-03
PhD, Split studio and theoretical research, University of Ulster, Belfast (United Kingdom)
1992-96
BA Hons Combined Studies in Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast (United Kingdom)
SELECTED AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2017 | Elected member of Aosdana, the affiliation of creative artists in Ireland
2014 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award (Ireland)
2010-11-13-15 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary (Ireland)
2009 | Project Award, Centro Cultural Monthermoso Kulturune, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
2009 | The Arts Council of Ireland, New Work Project Award (Ireland)
2008 | Mayo County Council & Liam Walsh Award (Ireland)
2008 | HIAP, Helsinki International Artist in Residence Programme (Finland)
2008 | Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artists Work Programme (Ireland)
2008 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary (Ireland)
2007 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Commission Award (Publication) (Ireland)
2006 | Irish American Arts Awards Shortlist
2006 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary (Ireland)
2005 | Firestation, Artists Residency Award, Dublin (Ireland)
2005 | The Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary (Ireland)
2003/04 | PS1 Fellowship, New York, The Arts Council (Ireland)
1999/00 | The British School at Rome, Northern Irish Fellow (Italy)
RECENT TEACHING / LECTURES / PANELS
2024 | IMMA Talks Symposium: Hilary Heron Ireland’s Most Promising Sculptor, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Ireland)
2023 | Gather: Niamh O’Malley in conversation with Eva Rothschild, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (Ireland)
2023 | Sonia Boyce in conversation with Niamh O’Malley, The Model, Sligo (Ireland)
2021/22 | Ireland at Venice, conversations and interviews. https://irelandatvenice2022.ie/press
2020 | In Conversation, Niamh O’Malley with Dr Sarah Hayden (University of Southampton) and Dr Daniel Cid (Winchester School of Art). https://jhg.art
2020 | The Hoosac Institute: a curated platform for text and image. https://hoosacinstitute.com/Niamh-O-Malley
2019 | DABF19 Book Launch: Niamh O’Malley and Claire Louise Bennett, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (Ireland)
2019 | Invited Speaker: Collaborative symposium ‘Borders’ with Paper Visual Art Journal and National Gallery of Ireland
2018 | DABF18 Panel Discussion: Why I love libraries, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
2018 | Visiting Lecturer: FH| Joanneum, University of Applied Sciences
2017 | Public Lecture: Drawing as Practice Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA Schools
2017 | Visiting Lecturer: NCAD MA Fine Art
2016 | Invited Speaker: Visual Arts Workers Forum, Glucksman Gallery Cork, UCC, VAWF
2016 | Presentation/Seminar: Artists’ Professional Development, Malahide Castle, Fingal, Visual Artists Ireland
2016 | Visiting Professor: Royal Academy Schools, London (United Kingdom)
2013 | Visiting Professor, Funen Art Academy, Odense (Demark)
2012-2018 | Lecturer, Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology (TU Dublin)