Recognized by his nation as a “living national treasure”, Graham’s profound impact as an artist has been credited by art historians with changing the face of Irish painting, from academic and English-centric, to an expansive, neo-expressionism that plumbs the depths of personal consciousness and the memories, songs and poetry of his childhood in the Irish countryside. His paintings have been in numerous museum exhibitions.
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.