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Born in Donegal, 1978

  • 2022: Elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
  • 1997 – 2000: BA Degree in Fine Art / Painting, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
  •  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annquinnartist/

AWARDS

  • Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2024, 2020, 2009
  • Anita Young Bursary, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2024
  • Ulster Watercolour Society Prize, Royal Ulster Academy, 2024
  • Artist Bursary, Donegal County Council, 2009 – 2024
  • Thomas Dammann Travel Award, 2022, 2019, 2017, 2015
  • Decade of Centenary Award, Donegal Museum, 2021
  • Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2016
  •  K & M Evans Prize for Painting, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2012
  • National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick, 2012
  • Per Cent for Art Scheme Commission, Health Service Executive, 2011
  • Tyrone Guthrie International Exchange Bursary, 2010
  • Hennessey Craig Award, Royal HIbernian Academy, 2009
  • Shortlisted, the Golden Fleece Award, 2009
  • Dublin City Council, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary, 2008
  • Shortlisted, Hennessey Craig Award, RHA, 2008
  • Glenveagh National Park Residency Award & Bursary, 2007

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025 – The Last Wolf, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
  • 2024 – Northern Light, mid-career retrospective, Regional Cultural Centre, Co. Donegal
  • 2023 – Twilight Time, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
  • 2023 – Northern Light Vision, Hjelmelandsvagen, Hjelmeland, Norway
  • 2021 – North Calling, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
  • 2019 – Ann Quinn Paintings, Custom House Gallery & Studios, Mayo
  • 2018 – The Human Presence, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
  • 2016 – The Place Where I Stand to Look Out Over This World, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
  • 2016 – Sky’s Windows, Jack House Gallery, Old Portsmouth, England
  • 2013 – Metamorphosis Created by Distance, The Dock Arts Centre, Leitrim
  • 2011 – She would argue a crow is white, Cross Gallery, Dublin
  • 2010 – The Lunacy is Safely a Field Away, Mullan Gallery Belfast
  • 2010 – Fields of Vision, Cavanacor Gallery, Co. Donegal
  • 2009 – Different Silences, Ashford Gallery, RHA Gallery, Dublin
  • 2008 – Autumn in Middle East, Summer in West, Cross Gallery, Dublin
  • 2006 – Settlers and Warriors, Cross Gallery, Dublin
  • 2006 – Night Too Bright, South Tipperary Art Centre
  • 2005 – I’m Wearied Treeless, Irish Arts Centre, New York
  • 2002 – Blue Heavens, Appleloft Gallery, Sligo

RESIDENCIES 

  • Ballinglen Arts Foundation,  Co. Mayo, 2027
  • Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, 2025, 2008
  • Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, United States, 2023
  • Ragdale Foundation, Illinois, United States, 2023, 2016
  • Andøy, Norway. Organised by Donegal County Council Cultural Services & Vesterålen          Cultural Council, 2018
  • Fundación Valparaíso, Almeria, Spain, 2016, 2008
  • Centre d’ Art I Natura, Catalonia, Spain, 2015, 2010
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, United States, 2014
  • Independent Studio Artists Ltd, Temple Bar, Dublin, 2011 – 2014
  • Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island, Co. Mayo, 2010
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, Studio Residency, Dublin, 2009
  • Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr, Aran Islands, Co. Galway, 2009
  • The Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2014
  • Glenveagh National Park, Co. Donegal, 2007

COLLECTIONS 

  • Trinity College Dublin
  • National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, UL
  •  Office of Public Works
  • Donegal Museum
  • Health Service Executive
  • Donegal County Library
  • AXA Insurance
  •  Glenveagh National Park
  •  Donegal County Council
  •  Four Seasons Hotel Group
  • Carlton House, Kildare
  • Kelly’s Resort Hotel, Wexford

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 194th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Invited Artist: Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon

2023 It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland. 193rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Invited Artist: Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon

2022 192nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2020 190th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, curated by Cristín Leach, Glebe Gallery, Donegal. 189th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Regard X: Celebrating the Outstanding Contribution made by women to the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick. Other Worlds, Two person exhibition with Robert Ryan, Claremorris Gallery, Co Mayo. Irish Art Now, Contemporary Art Auction, Pallas Projects, Dublin. Invited Artist, Legacy, 30th Anniversary of the Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon

2018 Invited Artist, 188th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Invited Artist, Gathering, The Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon

2017 Invited Artist, 187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. ‘Nasty Women Dublin‘, Pallas Projects, Dublin. Facing West, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon. 4 person show, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo

2016 186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Pallas Projects Gala Benefit Auction with Whytes at the Georgian Society, Dublin. VUE: National Contemporary Art Fair, with Taylor Galleries, RHA, Dublin

2015 185th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Claremorris Open, Co. Mayo. VUE: National Contemporary Art Fair, with Taylor Galleries, RHA, Dublin

2014 184th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2013 VUE: National Contemporary Art Fair, with Taylor Galleries, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. 183rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Subtle Correspondence, three person show, Taylor Galleries, Dublin. Three Person Exhibition, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo

2012 182th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, with Taylor Galleries, RHA, Dublin. National Portrait Collection of Ireland, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick

2011 181st Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2010 180th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Inscape, four-person exhibition, Galway Arts Centre. Bizarre Bazaar, Pallas Projects, Dublin

2009 Invited Artist, 179th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon. Eigse Arts Festival, Co. Carlow

2008 178th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. The Plinian Sponge, maybe?, Ashford Gallery touring exhibition : Johnston Central Library, Cavan; Ballina Art Centre; West Cork  Art Centre; Roscommon Art Centre. Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.Timbuktu, Pallas Projects, Dublin. Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon

2007 177th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Thirty Two Thousand Years Later, Pallas Projects, Dublin.

2006 176th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Four Lights, Letterkenny Art Centre, Co. Donegal

2005 175th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. End of Year Painting Exhibition, Ashford Gallery, Dublin

2004 174th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Full Circle, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Northern light, review by Margarita Cappock, 40 Years Anniversary edition of Irish Arts Review, 2025
  • Meet the Artist: Ann Quinn telling a story to the viewer, chapter by chapter, by Philip Carton, Business Post, 13th October, 2023
  • What Lies Beneath, by Niall MacMonagle, Sunday Independent, 15th October, 2023
  • Twilight Time, Visual Artists News Sheet, September – October Edition, 2023
  • 10 paintings you wish you’d bought at the 193rd RHA Annual show, by Cristín Leach,
    RTE Culture, 23rd June, 2023
  • Art is thriving in a time of cultural disruption, Year in Cultural Review, by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 8th December, 2018
  • The Human Presence, review by John P. O’ Sullivan, Ireland’s Sunday Times, Sunday 16th September, 2018
  • Art in Focus, ‘Don’t Be Afraid’, review by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 1st September, 2018
  • Interview with Sean Rocks on Arena, RTÉ Radio One, September, 2018, https://www.rte.ie/radio1/arena/programmes/2018/0910/992902-arena-monday-10-september-2018/?clipid=102922602
  • Artistic License : Ann Quinn, by Penny McCormick, The Gloss Magazine, 22nd August, 2018
  • Interview, Culture File, Lyric FM, January 2018, https://m.soundcloud.com/soundsdoable/sets/anne-quinn
  • Painting selected by critic and broadcaster Cristín Leach for RTE Culture as one of 21 artworks that define Modern Ireland. https://www.rte.ie/culture/2017/0830/901026-21-century-ireland-in-21-artworks/
  • 5 Star Review by Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 27/09/2016
  • What Lies Beneath by Niall MacMonagle, Sunday Independent, 09/10/2016
  • The Eye of the Storm: Ann Quinn Charts the Development of Her Painting Practice, Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, May-June Edition, 2014
  • Subtle Correspondence, review by Cristín Leach Hughes, Culture Magazine, Ireland’s Sunday Times, 30/06/13
  • New Horizons, review by Denise Ferran, Summer Edition, Irish Arts Review, June 2013
  • The Ticket, Aidan Dunne, 12/10/12
  • National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Catalogue, University of Limerick, 2012
  •  What Lies Beneath, Niall MacMonagle, Sunday Independent, http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/mary-by-ann-quinn-26863535.html ,10/06/12
  • Painting featured on cover of poetry collection by Kerry Hardie, The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree, The Gallery Press, 2012            
  • Serious work that will bring a smile to your face, The Irish Times, 25.03.09, review by Aidan Dunne                                                                            
  • Expressions of Past Tranquility, The Irish Times, 23.01.08, review by Aidan Dunne
  • Picturing Tehran and Donegal, The Irish Times, 12.01.08, by Fiona McCann
  • Circa Online Review, by Laura McGovern, 2008 http://www.recirca.com/cgi-bin/mysql/show_item.cgi?post_id=1800
  • Splendid Isolation, The Visual Artist’s News Sheet, VAI, Jan-Feb 2008
  • The Plinian sponge, maybe ?, Ashford Gallery, Catalogue, 2008
  • Shining in Glenveagh, CRANN Magazine, Winter Edition, 2007
  • Lifelines, New and Collected: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poem, Town House, 2006
  • Poetry Now 2005, two paintings used to illustrate two Leaving Certificate books, Celtic Press, 2005
  •  The Irish Times, 17.01.01, by Sue Carter
  •  The Irish Times, 14.06.00, review by Aidan Dunne