Biography
Portrait by Jason Schmidt
- Born
- Ireland
- Lives and works
- New York City
- Education
- St. Joseph’s College, Manorhamilton, Ireland
- Balinafad College, Ireland
- Art Students League, New York
- National Academy of Design, New York
Solo exhibitions
- 2011One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY
- 1995Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- 1993Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1993Rachel Stella Gallery, Paris
- 1988Russell Gallery, New York, Belfast
- 1988Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York, NY
Group exhibitions
- 2020McCoy Gallery, New York, NY. Drawing Challenge XIV
- 2020McCoy Gallery, New York, NY. Drawing Challenge IX
- 2016dm contemporary, New York, NY. This One Is For You
- 2015dm contemporary, New York, NY. Summer 2015
- 2015dm contemporary, New York, NY. Seduced
- 2013One Mile Gallery, Kingston NY. Strange Landscapes
- 2011McCoy Gallery, New York, NY. 70 Years of Abstraction Painting-Excerpts. Curated by Stephanie Buhmann
- 2009Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. In With the New: 21st Century Abstraction. Curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
- 2008The Studio School Benefit Auction, NY Studio School, NY
- 2007McCoy Gallery, New York, NY. Options within Realism
- 2007Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York. INCONTEXT: collage+abstraction (catalog)
- 2006John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University, NY. Faculty Show
- 2005Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY. Expressive Gesture. Curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulous
- 2004Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY. A Coat Of…
- 2004The Studio School Benefit Auction, NY Studio School, NY
- 2003The Writer’s Room, New York, NY
- 2002/3Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
- 2001Pavel Zoubok Inc., New York, NY. Rupture & Revision: Collage in America
- 2000Trish Collins Fine Art, New York, NY. Summer
- 1998McKee Gallery, Absolut Secret, New York, NY
- 1996Elise Goodheart Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York
- 1995Art in Progress Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 1994Cavaliero/Navarro Gallery, New York, NY
- 1993Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
- 1992Rachell Stella Gallery, Paris
- 1992Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH
- 1992Salon des Arts Grafique, Paris
- 1991The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 1990Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY
- 1989Gallery Anya von Gosseln, Wexford, Ireland
- 1988City University, New York. Habitats
- 1987National Academy of Design, New York
- 1986Gallery Eulalia, Barcelona, Spain
- 1982Five Towns Arts Festival, Long Island, NY
- 1982New Brooklyn School of Art, New York
- 1979Hollywood Arts Center, Los Angeles. European Painting
Collections
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- The Frances Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
- Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
- Agnes Gund
- United States Library of Congress
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- New York Public Library
- Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
- International Center for the Disabled, New York, NY
- Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
- CitiBank, New York, NY
- Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
Professionally related activities
- 2010Co-curated Henri Matisse: Writers on Paper, Selected Drawings from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. La Maison Francaise, NYU, November 2 to December 21.
- 2010Artist’s Resale Royalties. Organized and moderated panel discussion at La Maison Francaise, NYU; paper published in IFAR Journal Vol.12 No.4 2011.
- 2010Producer and story consultant, Hidden Histories, documenting the Hide/Seek exhibition at The National Gallery, aired on PBS Television.
- 2006Developed the curriculum for and taught Global Issues in Art Crime at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
- 2005/7Developed and curated MEET A MUSEUM, an exhibition program which hosted exhibitions from world-renowned museums, funded by The Park Avenue Bank, New York, NY.
- 2006The New School, New York. Organized and moderated panel discussion, Cultural Genocide: Keys to Political, Economic, Religious and Cultural Dominance.
- 2003-presentArtist In Residence, Women’s Interart Center, New York, NY
- 2004Artists Talk: Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
- 2004-presentNY Cultural Correspondent for www.nthposition.com
- 2000Interviewed Hector Feliciano, author of The Lost Museum, foreignTV.com
- 2000Art Consultant to ABC Sunday Morning with Lee Goldberg
- 1998Collaborated on Art Attack, Houghton Mifflin, with author Marc Aronson
- 1989-1991Contributing writer, The Journal of Art
Bibliography
- Ratcliff, Carter. The Brooklyn Rail, April 2012, illus.
- Hourican, Emily. Life Magazine, Sunday Independent, Ireland, August 12, 2012
- Naves, Mario. City Arts New York’s Review of Culture, April 19, 2011, illus.
- Kaufman, Jason Edward. The Art Newspaper, December 2006, illus.
- Bleyer, Jennifer. The New York Times, January 7, 2007, illus.
- Taylor, Kate. The New York Sun, January 17, 2007
- New York Magazine, January 19, 2007
- Long, Coleen. Yahoo News, January 19, 2007
- Gardner, James. The New York Sun, December 28, 2006
- Robinson, Walter. ARTNET, November 16, 2006
- New York Daily News, January 20, 2007
- Real Estate Weekly, November 1, 2006, pp 34, illus.
- American Banker Magazine, interview by B. McGeer, October 2006
- Double Exposure, Robert Schaefer interviews Ellen Ruth Levy, February 2006
- Friends and Family, feature film, Director Kristen Coury, 2003
- Hone, Kathryn. The Irish Times, January 30, 1993
- Scarborough, James. Circa Magazine, Fall 1993
- Laserow, Bill. ArtScene Magazine, June 1993, front cover illus., review p9
- Brody, Jackie. Print Collectors Newsletter, illus., March-April 1992-1993
- Morning Edition, National Public Radio, Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, October 1992
- The Journal of Art, June-July 1991, Letter From Dublin
- 7 Days, Spring 1990, illustrated