CORMAC O'LEARY
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Born
Cork City, Ireland, 1969. Lives in Co. Leitrim, Ireland Education
Sligo
Regional Technical College; 1987 - 1991 (National
Diploma in Fine Art) Selected
Solo Exhibitions
1999/01/03/05/08 The Hallward 2007 The Barbara Stanley
Gallery, London 2004/06 Vangard Gallery, Cork 2000/05 Clotworthy Arts Centre,
Antrim 1999/01/03 Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Selected
Group Exhibitions 2008
Tripod - A Slice of Art; Fairgreen House, Galway; 2
' Square, Lavit Gallery, Cork 2007 Journeys,
Castletown House, Co.Kildare; (Toured to Louvain, Belgium; University of
Ulster; Waterford; Derry) 2006
Tribute to Beckett, Vangard Gallery, Cork; Aspects of
Irish Landscape, City Hall, London 2005
3 Person Show, (with Caitriona O'Leary & Philip Lindey) Barbara
Stanley Gallery, London; 1 in 4, Art Auction, RHA, Dublin; Waterways,
Lavit Gallery, Cork 2004
Iontas Prizewinners Exhibition 1996-2001, Sligo Art Gallery
(Toured); C2, Contemporary Art from Cork, Crawford Municipal Art
Gallery, Cork; Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival (Invited Artist) 2003 – 07 Affordable
Art Fair, Battersea, London
2003/04/07 Wexford
Arts Festival
2002
Poems on Board, Sligo Art Gallery; Cormac O'Leary /
Caitriona O'Leary, Lavit Gallery, Cork 2001
The Art of Hurling, Kenny Gallery, Galway
2000/02/04/07/08 CASe,
Lavit Gallery, Cork 2000
Works on paper, LeMoyne Art Foundation, Talahassee, USA; Postcard
Art, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork; Aer Rianta- Gateway to Art,
Dublin Airport 1999
Coast to Coast, Lavit Gallery, Cork; A Salute to the New
Millennium, Sligo Art Gallery 1999 – 2008 Summer
& Christmas Show, (Annually) Hallward
Gallery, Dublin 1998
On Board, Sligo Art Gallery; A
Platter of Art, Lavit Gallery, Cork 1997
Works on Paper, The Cat & the Moon, Sligo; Masks at
the Hawkswell, Hawkswell Theatre, Sligo 1996
1,2,3 O'Leary, Carroll Gallery, Longford; Dermot Healy's
Writing, The Factory Space, Sligo 1995 Generation,
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin 1994 Monaghan
Open Exhibition 1993
3 of a Kind, McCanny Building, Sligo 1992 Beginings,
Sligo Park Hotel 1991 Diploma
Show, Sligo Art Gallery 1990/94/95/99/2001 Iontas,
National Small Works Open Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery (Toured)
1990/91/94 Claremorris
Open Exhibition, Mayo 1989 Impressions,
Print exhibition, Spanish Arch, Galway; International Mini-print Show, RHA,
Dublin Awards/Residencies
2007 Artist's Bursary, Leitrim
County Council 2001 First Prize, Iontas
Painting Award 2000 Milliken Bros. Art
Material Award 1999 / 2001 / 04 Studio
Residency, Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat, Co.Kerry 1999 Studio Residency, Triskel
Arts Centre, Cork 1993 / 94 Arts Council Grant
Awards 1991 O'Sullivan Graphics Ltd.
Best Student Award Public
Collections
Nazareth
House, Sligo; Sligo General Hospital Collection Cork
County Library Collection; Sligo County Library Collection Crawford
Municipal Art Collection, Cork Allied
Irish Banks; I.I.B Bank Ireland Office
of Public Works Dept.
of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; Dept. of Finance & Personnel,
Northern Ireland Royal
Hospital, Donnybrook, Dublin Setanta
Communications, Dublin Wellwoman
Centre, Dublin Shay
Cleary Architects, Dublin UniCredito
Italiano, IFSC, Dublin Represented in private collections in Ireland, UK, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, USA and Australia. |