selected solo exhibitions from 1997 - 2022
2022
Original Sins, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Three Rivers, Twelve Stars Gallery, London
2021-22
Deep Water and the Architecture of Memory, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2019-20
Time, Tide and the Memory of the House, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2018
Scorched Earth, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2017
The Tempest: Ireland; Memory; Identity, Belfast International Arts Festival
2016-17
The Red Earth, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow
2016
Seven Halts on the Somme, Leighton House Museum, London
One Hundred Years and Four Quarters, Galway International Art Festival, Galway
2015
Permanent Green, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2014
The Measure of all Things, The Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, London
Seven Halts on the Somme, Verey Gallery, Eton College, Windsor
2013
A Need for Gardens, The Hunt Museum, Limerick
A Need for Gardens, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2012
Painting/Memory, Artist’s Laboratory 05, Royal Academy, London
Vivid Field, Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal
A Moments Liberty, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2011
Road, Dox Museum, Prague
Excavations, Trinity Hall, Cambridge
2010
Last Days on the Islands, Oliver Sears Gallery
2009
The Journey, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
Hughie O’Donoghue, Recent Paintings and Selected works from the American Ireland Fund Donation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Spirit of the Figure, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University
Lost Histories; Imagined Realities, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Parables, Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris
2007
Last Poems, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin
2006
Souvenir of St. Valery, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Parable of the Prodigal Son, Fenton Gallery, Cork,
Venice Project: The Drunkenness of Noah, Purdy Hicks Gallery
2004
Fiume, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Crucifixions, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, off site project at Duiske Abbey Graiguenamanagh and Callan Friary, Callan. Ireland
2003
Painting Caserta Red, Imperial War Museum, London; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
2002
Course of the Diver, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Course of the Diver, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich
2001-03
Richer Dust, Carborundum Prints and Related Paintings, touring exhibition opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge travelling to the Djanolgly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
2001
Naming the Fields, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2000
Ancient Music, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Smoke Signals, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1999
Niobe’s Children, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich
Episodes from the Passion, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Corp, Paintings and Drawings of the Human Body 1984-1998, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
1998-99
Corp, Paintings and Drawings of the Human Body 1984-1998, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Crossing the Rapido: An Italian Campaign, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1997
Via Crucis, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
A Line of Retreat, Paintings & Carborundum Prints, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
selected group exhibitions from 1997 - 2022
2022
Seafaring, Hastings Contemporary
2021
Hockney to Himid: Twenty Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Art Makes Art, Bankside Gallery, London
2014
The Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2012
The Mechanical Hand, Kings Place Gallery, London
Borrowed Memories, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland
2011
Afterlife, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2010
Retrospective, Visual, Carlow, Ireland
2008
Night, A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy
2007-08
I’m Always Touched by your Presence, Dear – New Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2007
Then and Now, James Hyman Gallery, London
2006
Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art Gallery
2005
Ljubljana International Graphic Biennale representing Great Britain. Ljubljana, Slovenia
Eye of the Storm, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2004
Views from an Island, Contemporary Irish Art from the Collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Millennium Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Gallery, China
2003
Past Memory/Present Feeling, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, USA
Contemporary Prints, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Journey, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
2000
Geschichte und Erinnerung Kunst der Gegenwart (History and Memory in Contemporary Art) Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Five Centuries of Genius: European Master Printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
An Artist’s Century, Masterworks and Self Portraits of 20th Century Irish Artists, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
The Times of Our Lives: Endings, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
1999
Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Last Dreams of the Millennium: The Re-emergence of British Romantic Painting, University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus; Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton; University of Hawaii
1997-98
When Time Began to Rant and Rave: Figurative Painting from 20th Century Ireland, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: University of California Art Museum, Berkeley; Grey Art Gallery & Study Centre, New York; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Andata e Ritorno: British Artists in Italy 1980-96, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
British Museum
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Cleveland County Museums, Middlesbrough
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham
Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane, Dublin
Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
Hunt Museum, Limerick
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
The Imperial War Museum, London
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Mayo General Hospital
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
National University of Ireland, Cork
National University of Ireland, Galway
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
The National Gallery, London
The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
St John’s College, University of Oxford
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven