Fiona
MURRAY

Fionna Murray was born in London and studied at Chelsea college of Art from1991 to1995. She obtained an MFA from University of Ulster, Belfast in 1997. She currently lives and works in Co. Clare and teaches part-time on the Fine Art Degree course at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology.
She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and is included in a number of public and private collections in Ireland, Europe and the USA.
Fionna Murray’s work is concerned with the way in which perceptions of the past are interpreted in the present, and how physical and psychological distance from one’s place of origin can make the notion of home an uncertain one.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007
upcoming, The Dock, Carrick on Shannon,Leitrim

2001
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

2000
Galway Arts Centre

1998
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2006
126 Presents, Galway Arts Centre

2005
Remote Access, Flix Artists, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

2004
Four Painters, Catherine Hammond Gallery, W. Cork
Boyle Visual Arts Festival, Boyle, Roscommon

2003
Painting without Numbers, Galway Arts Festival

2002
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Fair, London

2001
Focus on Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

2000
Art 2000, Contemporary Art Fair, London

Emerging Art II, Office of Public Works Collection, Kilkenny

1999
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Fantastic Overload, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Iontas Small Works, Sligo Art Gallery

1998
Glebe Open, Glebe Gallery, Donegal

1997
Wet Paint, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Reading Rooms, Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Works on Paper, Proposition Gallery, Belfast

1995
Elemental, Blue Gallery, London


RESIDENCIES

2002
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

2001 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo

2000
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo


COLLECTIONS

Office of Public Works, The London Institute, KMPG, NUI Galway, The Merrion Inn, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and other corporate and private collections in Ireland, Europe and the USA.