Exhibitions/Bio

BIOGRAPHY:

1943 Born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland

1960-64 National College of Art, Dublin

1986 Elected member of Aosdána

Lives and works in Dublin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1974 Notes from a Mental Hospital, The Emmet Gallery, Dublin

1976 The Emmet Gallery, Dublin

Mews Gallery, Dublin

1981 Lincoln Gallery, Dublin

1982 Painting ’82, Lincoln Gallery, Dublin

1983 Lincoln Gallery, Dublin

1984 Lincoln Gallery, Dublin

The Octagon Gallery, Belfast

1986 Hendricks Gallery, Dublin

1987 Coffeeville Arts Center, Kansas City

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1988 Bring Flowers, Bring Candles,

Fischer Fine Arts, London

Hendricks Gallery, Dublin

1989 Patrick Graham: Paintings and Drawings, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Traveled to: Muhlenberg Center for the Arts, Allentown, PA (exhibition for the National Conference of the Mid‑Atlantic Art Museums Association)

Patrick Graham: Paintings and Drawings, Arts Triskel Centre, Cork, Ireland

1991 Patrick Graham: New Paintings and Drawings, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles Pasadena Community College Arts Center (work chosen for permanent exhibition at the New College Library of Art)

1993 Patrick Graham: Selected Works, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1994 Patrick Graham: The Lark in the Morning,

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin

Traveled to: The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Plain Nude Drawings/Studies for the Blackbird Suite,

Galway Arts Festival, Ireland

1995 Patrick Graham: Paintings, Belfast International Arts Festiva Fenderesky Gallery,Queens University, Belfast

1996 Somewhere Jerusalem, The Green on Red Gallery, Dublin

1997 Patrick Graham: Continuum, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, L.A. International Art Invitational

1998 Patrick Graham: Continuum, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California

2000 Patrick Graham: New Work, The Green on Red Gallery, Dublin,

Patrick Graham: New Work, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

2001 Breath: An Exhibition of Painting and Drawing,

The Civic Arts Centre, Tallaght, Ireland

2002 Looking Back to Now: A Retrospective and Contemporary Work, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Patrick Graham, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin

2003 Patrick Graham: Recent Work, Vangard Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Patrick Graham, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

2007 Patrick Graham, The Civic Arts Centre, Tallaght, Ireland

Patrick Graham, Vangard Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Patrick Graham, Alternative Entertainment, Dublin Ireland

2008 Patrick Graham: CRIT, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2009 The Quick and the Dead, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland (One of four solo exhibitions: see Group Exhibitions)

2010 Fact of the Matter, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

• Patrick Graham: Thirty Years –The Silence becomes the Painting,

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco . February 4 – April 14, 2012

Traveled to: American University Museum, Wash., D.C.

Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, MO

2013 Patrick Graham, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany

The Silence Becomes the Painting, The Cole Art Center, Reavley Gallery, Stephen F. Austin University, TX

Awards

1959‑1963 National Three Year Scholarship ‑ National College of Art, Dublin

1960‑1962 Prize for Drawing, Royal Dublin Society

1964 Diploma in Fine Art,

National College of Art, Dublin

1966 1916‑1966 Commemorative Exhibition,

Prize winner, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin

1981 Independent Artists,

Award for Painting of Outstanding Merit

1988 Silver Medal: Baghdad International Festival of Art

Gold Medal: Oireachtais Exhibition, Dublin

Patrick Graham has been the recipient of numerous Travel Awards and Purchase Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland.