Above: Installation view The Most Recent Forever, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, 2022.
Solo Shows
2023
The Most Recent Forever, A touring survey show, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
2022-23
The Most Recent Forever, A touring survey show, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Drogheda and Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
2021
A Mobile Living Thing, DLR Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2018
To Something That Went Before (C.S.deK), Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2016
X (IR), nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2014
Of the Survival of Images (and Objects), nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2011
Broken Images or When does Posterity Begin?, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
2007
Some Time Now 1 -3, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow, Ireland, Solstice Arts Centre,Navan, Ireland.
2005
Web, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
Encoded, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
Encoded, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland.
2004
Encoded, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland. Winner of the Sound and Vision Award, Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland and the Context Galleries.
2000
Morse, Proposition Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1998
Still, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland.
Above: Installation view After an Act, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018.
Group Shows
2025
Laurence Fagan: Pen and Ink, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
Director’s Cut, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
An Artist’s Presence, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
2024
Stories of Art: Selected works from the UCC Art Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Invited artist Visual Presence, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland.
2023
Invited artist 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Invited artist Connections, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland.
J+1, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin, Germany TRAce, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland.
2022
Drawing Room, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
2021
Second Summer, The Dock, Leitrim, Ireland.
Treee, Online exhibition, Commonage Projects, London, England.
National Collection of Contemporary Drawing 30 Years, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
2019
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Drawing Out, Damer House Gallery, Tipperary, Ireland.
2018
After an Act, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Concerning the Other, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Akroma, National Museum Arsenals Riga, Latvia.
2017
Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland The Space Between, Selection from The OPW and Northern Ireland Collections, Oriel Gallery, The Pearse Museum, Dublin, Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Vue Art Fair, Oonagh Young Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
2016
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition (Invited Artist), RHA Gallery, Dublin.
Open Studio: A Conversation on Drawing, RHA Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Conversations at the Casino, Casino Marino, Dublin, Ireland.
Portraits of a Nation, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2015
Drawings: National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.
Paper Table Wall and After, Gallery North, Newcastle, England.
Finders and Keepers: An exhibition of artworks from the State Art Collection, Municipal Gallery, DLR Lexicon, Dublin, Ireland.
Construct, Luan Gallery, Westmeath, Ireland.
2014
Pull Bite Rally, National College of Art and Design Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Derwent Art Prize, Mall Gallery, London, England.
Palimpsest II, The Pearse Museum, Dublin, Ireland.
2013
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Region Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
The Palimpsest Project, Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia.
Re/TURN, Studio show, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
nag offsite, Private House, WickIow, Ireland.
2012
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Projet Gutenberg, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, France.
Launch, nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2011
The 43 Uses of Drawing, Rugby Art Museum, England.
Pencil to the Plough, Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Fine Lines: a selection from the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
Essomenia, The Tea Rooms, Dublin, Ireland.
Outside the Lines Contemporary Drawing Practices, The Town Hall Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.
New Directions in Drawing symposium and exhibition, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada.
2010
Touchstone, Salisbury Art Museum, Salisbury, England.
Ventral Surface, Oliver Holt Gallery, Dorset, England.
2009/10
Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Gallery Of Art, Ireland, Civic Arts Centre in Hengelo, Holland, Irish Cultural Institute Paris, France and Millennium Arts Centre Northern Ireland.
2008
Other Mens Flowers, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Ireland.
Drawing Stonehenge, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England.
Ábhar agus Meon, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Without the Walls, University of Northampton Gallery, England.
Recent Acquistions, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Fokatronica, The Sugar Club, Dublin, Ireland.
2007
(C)Artography, Map Making as Artform, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Flatfiling, ArtNews Projects, Berlin, Germany.
Still Moving, Siamsa Tire, Kerry Film Festival, Kerry, Ireland.
2006
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Flatfiles Drawings, Pierogi Gallery, New York, USA.
Seconds: The Imperfect Artwork, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland.
2005
All Yesterdays Parties, Multimedia event, Whelans, Dublin, Ireland.
2004
Drawing the Line, Orleans House Gallery, London, England.
COE 04, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Mayo, Ireland.
2003
Perspective 03, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Haunted, Civil Arts Inquiry, City Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
Recontres Internationales, Podweil Contemporary Art Centre, Berlin, Germany.
On Main Street, Laois Arts Festival, Laois, Ireland.
Curation
2017
GradCAM@Venice: The Utopia of Access (co-curation with Dr Noel Fitzpatrick), The Research Pavilion, The 57th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
Surveyor: Solstice Visual Arts Award, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Meath, Ireland.
2016
Some thing as a line, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland.
2011
Imaging Madness, Mieke Bal, Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2009
Lost and Found, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland.
2007
Milestones, (with Andrew Folan) Black Church Print Studio, OPW Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Pleasures and Days (with Sheena Barrett), Group Show, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland.
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