Born Mayo 1978, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin

EDUCATION

2005       Masters in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS), IADT, Dublin
2003       BA, National College of Art & Design, Dublin

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2009
Something Else, Rothe House, Kilkenny, Ireland
March, mother’s tankstation, Dublin (solo)
2008           
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago. USA (solo)
CEREALART, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
2007 
Zoo Art Fair, London, solo presentation, mother’s tankstation
Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2006
15 single-word titled paintings, mother’s tankstation, Dublin (solo)
Ciaran 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
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 / EXCHANGES

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

ARTICLES/REVIEWS

2009
Lucy White, ‘Art Round-Up’, Metro, 19^th January
Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Art: Ciaran Murphy’, The Irish Times, 5^th 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