Born 1978 in Mayo, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin
EDUCATION
2005 - MA in Visual Arts Practices (MAVIS), IADT, Dublin
2003 - BA National College of Art & Design, Dublin
AWARDS
2012 - Tony O'Malley Studio Residency, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2009 - Arts Council Bursary
2007 - Irish Museum of Modern Art, residency and artist work programme
2007 - Travel Award, Culture Ireland
2007 - Arts Council Bursary
2005 - Arts Council Travel Award
2005 - Arts Council Bursary
2003 - Cella Muille, Eisenstadt, Austria
2002 - Scholarship to the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Connecticut, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
'THE PARADISE'
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011
‘Equipment’
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
2010
‘All That’s Air Melts Into Solid’
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
‘Ciarán Murphy’
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2009
‘March’
Mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2008
Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
‘CEREALART’
Philadelphia
2007
‘Ciarán Murphy’
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
2006
‘15 single-word titled paintings’
Mother’s tankstation, Dublin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2011
'Apertures & Anxieties'
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
‘Interlude (Aspects of Irish landscape painting)’
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2010
‘New Paintings’
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam
2009
‘Something Else’
Rothe House, Kilkenny, Ireland
2007
Solo presentation
Mother’s tankstation at Zoo Art Fair, London
2006
‘Ciaran Murphy & Petri Ala-Maunus’
Gallery Massimo Carassi, Milan
‘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
‘Flix’
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
‘Iontas’
Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
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