Patrick Graham Biography


1943: Born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
1959-63: Studied, National College of Art, Dublin
1986: Elected member of Aosdana
Lives and works in Dublin

Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Awards | Seminars | Bibliography


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
Hendriks Gallery, Dublin

1987
Coffeeville Arts Center, Kansas City
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1988
Bring Flowers, Bring Candles, Fischer Fine Arts, London
Hendriks Gallery, Dublin

1989
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Muhlenberg Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania, (exhibition for the National Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Art Museums Association)
Paintings and Drawings, Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland

1991
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 Festival
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: Paintings, 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 Center, Tallaght, Ireland

2002
The Paradise, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
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
Requiem for War: Paintings by Hans Burkhardt, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Patrick Graham: Recent Work, Vangard Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2005
Patrick Graham, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland

2007
Patrick Graham, The Civic Arts Centre, Tallaght, Ireland
Patrick Graham, Vangard Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2009
The Quick and the Dead, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

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


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1965
Group 65 and Matrix Shows

1966
1916-1966 Commemorative Exhibition,
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin

1967
The Undersigned, Irish Times Gallery, Dublin

1977
The Mews Gallery, Dublin

1978
The Emmet Gallery, Dublin
The Keaneys Gallery, Dun Laoghaire
Independent Artists, Sir Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin

1979
Independent Artists, Project Arts Center, Dublin

1980
Independent Artists, Sir Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin

1981
Gorey Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland
Making Sense - Ten Irish Artists, Arts Council Touring Exhibition

1983
Independent Artists, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

1984
Independent Artists, Bank of Ireland, Dublin
The October Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Brian Maguire/Patrick Graham, Octagon Gallery, Belfast

1985
Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
Pentonville Gallery, London

1986
Four Irish Expressionists, Northeastern University Gallery, Boston
Boston College Gallery, Boston
Richards Gallery, N.U.B., Boston
Festival Celtique, Lorient, France
Edinburgh, Dublin Exchange, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland

1987
International Contemporary Arts Fair, Los Angeles
Vincent Price Contemporary Drawing Collection, Statewide U.S.A (touring exhibition)
The Edge, Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

1988
Invitational International Cultural Festival, Baghdad, Iraq (prize winner)

1990
Censorship USA, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, (exhibition including Mapplethorpe, Rops, Hesketh, Burkhardt)
Irish Art: The European Dimension, RHA Gallery, Dublin
A New Tradition: Irish Art of the Eighties, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

1991
Integration and Transformation (opening exhibition),
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, catalogue
Death as a Creative Force, Chapman College, Orange, California
Parable Island: Some Aspects of Recent Irish Art, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, catalogue
In a State, Kilmainaham Gaol, Dublin
The Fifth Province: Some Contemporary Art from Ireland, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada (touring), catalogue

1993
In Memory of Vincent Price, Vincent Price Gallery, East Los Angeles College

1993-94
Images and Insights, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, catalogue

1995
Famine, The George Moore Society, Claremorris, Ireland, (and international touring), catalogue
The Spring Collection, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1995-96
Visiting Artists 1985-1995 Touring Exhibition, Graphic Studio, Dublin (touring), catalogue
Acquisitions, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1997
Irish Twentieth Century Art from the Municipal Gallery, Dublin.
Traveled to: The Hokkaido Museum, Hokkaido, Japan, The Mitaka Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The Yamanashi Prefecture Museum
Skin Deep, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Evidence of Love, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1998
When Time Began To Rant and Rage - Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, October 16 - January 10, 1999
Art into Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

1999
Kilkenny Arts Festival, Freshford, August 15 - August 22
Drawing Thinking, The RHA Gallery, Dublin
When Time Began To Rant and Rage - Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland,
Traveled to: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 10 - May 2, 1999
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, May 25 - July 24, 1999
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Sept 25, 1999 - January 2, 2000

2000
Shifting Ground: Selected Works of Irish Art 1950 - 2000, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

2001
Patrick Graham, Patrick Hall, Chung Eun Mo, Michael Warren, Vanguard Gallery, Cork, Ireland
International Offerings, Los Angeles International, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2002
Images of Women, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Eight Painters, Kilkenny International Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland

2005
On Reflection B Modern Irish Art 1960s - 1990s: A Selection from the Bank of Ireland Art Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Exhibition Catalogue: Illustrated Color Plate p.46.
Art of Engagement, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Nineteen Plus 1: Artists-in-Residence Retrospective Exhibition,
Visual Arts & Media Studies Division, Pasadena City College
The West as a Metaphor, RHA Gallery, Dublin

2006 Drawings and Etchings, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
Inaugural Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin, Ireland
International Artists, Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin, Ireland

2008
Other Men’s Flowers, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Good Friday, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, MO
Leaves and Papers, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Footfalls: Patrick Graham and Michael Warren, Hillsboro Fine Arts, Dublin, Ireland

2009
Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, MO
The Quick and the Dead, Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

2009
Modern & Contemporary Works, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles.

2010
Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, MO
Connected/Disconnected/Re-connected: The art of Patrick Graham and John Philip Murray, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland. Catalogue.




SELECTED AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

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.


SEMINARS

1989
Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania, seminar on artist's work by Donald Kuspit
Fresno Museum of Modern Art, seminar on the artist’s work

1991
Pasadena City College, California, seminar on the artist's work. Artist-in-Residence, Pasadena City College.
Forum on the artist's work moderated by Howard Fox, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1974
"The Judas Suite,” Structure, Magazine of Art and Thought

1978
Blaithin O'Ciobhain, "Impressions," The Irish Press

1981
Emmanuel Keogh, "The Price of Our Souls." Sunday Press
Henry J. Sharpe, "Making Sense - 10 Irish Artists"

1982
Mairead Byrne, "Souvenirs of Survival," Magill Magazine

1983
Aidan Dunne, "Images of Change," In Dublin

1984
Aidan Dunne and Henry J. Sharpe, The Octagon Catalogue
Michael O'Loughlin, Metropolis, Amsterdam
"The Irishness of Irish Art," Circa, 14
Lucy Lippard, The Village Voice, New York

1985
Michael O'Loughlin, Diary of a Silence
T. Aiken, "Four Irish Painters," Boston College
Tim Norris, International Arts, Boston

1986
"Patrick Graham, Brian Maguire, Patrick Hall, Tim Hawkesworth," Seminar Publication, Boston College, MA
Donald Kuspit, publication/tape, Boston College, MA
"Boston Museum of Modern Art and 1988," The Irish Review
"Art and Artists," New York Times
"Galleries and Artists," Art in America Annual
Art News
Art in America

1987
ArtNews
Fischer Fine Art, London
Jim Lynch, "Brian Maguire/Patrick Graham", The Octagon Gallery, Belfast
Cover Artist: UCLA Extension Annual

1988
John Hutchinson, Irish Arts Review, Dublin
Art in America

1989
"Patrick Graham" catalogue, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Art in America
ArtNews
Art Exchange
ArtScene, Los Angeles
Fine Arts Portfolio, Los Angeles
Marlena Donahue, Los Angeles Times
Brian Butler, LA Weekly
Tim Higgins, "Holding Up Life to a Dark Mirror",
The Morning Call, Pennsylvania
Patrick Graham, Texts by Patrick Graham and Jack Rutberg, Interview by John Hutchinson, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

1990
On Route to Leamanah, Frank Golden, Raven Arts Press

1991
ArtScene, Los Angeles
Frances Haines, "An Alternative Reality". Irish American Magazine
Peter Frank, LA Weekly
Frances Haines, Irish American Press
Elizabeth Kidd, The Fifth Province: Some Contemporary Art from Ireland,
Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
“I Am of Water,” Patrick Graham, Portfolio 1, Gandon Editions

1992
Works 5 - Patrick Graham, Gandon Editions, Edited by John O’Regan, Essay by Patrick Graham, Introduction by Jack Rutberg

1993
Peter Frank, LA Weekly
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, "Contemporary Irish
Art: A Well Kept Secret?". Contemporary Art, Vol. I No. 4 Summer 1993, London
Images and Insights, Dublin: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 1993

1994
Peter Murray, Director of Crawford Municipal Gallery: Patrick Graham, “I do not paint my own history”
Marge Bulmer, Visions Art Quarterly, San Francisco, CA
Donald Kuspit, Patrick Graham: The Lark in the Morning
Patrick Graham, Plain Nude Drawings/Studies for the Black Bird Suite, Essay by Peter Frank, Galway International Arts Festival

1995
Famine, Claremorris, Ireland: The George Moore Society, RTE Irish Television
Aidan Dunne, Visiting Artists 1985-1995, Dublin: Graphic Studio Gallery
Art in America

1996
Blood Wedding, Bloodaxe Books (cover), Newcastle, UK
Art & Antiques, Contemporary Irish Art, New York

1997
Dorothy Walker, Modern Art in Ireland, The Lilliput Press, Ltd., Dublin

1999
James Christen Seward, When Time Began To Rant and Rage - Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland, Merrell Holberton, Publishers London
Gesa E. Theissen, Theology and Modern Irish Art

2000
“Heart Works and Blind Drawings: An Interview With Patrick Graham,” The Black Rag
“Patrick Graham” Animus, Volumen I, número 3 abril / mayo (pgs. 60-66)
“Patrick Graham: Irlanda” Arte al Dia

2001
“This Place Speaks to Me,” Patrick Graham, John Quinn, RTE Radio, Dublin
The Arts Show: Patrick Graham, Mike Murphy, RTE Radio, Dublin

2002
Leah Ollman, “Images on Brink of Disintegration,” Los Angels Times
Brian Fallon, “Brian Fallon=s Favourite Few,” Irish Art News
Peter Frank, “Patrick Graham,” ArtNews
“Patrick Graham- L.A. Exhibition for Irish Artist,” Irish America
The View From The Hill
“Patrick Graham at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts,” Gallery Guide

2005
“ART GALLERY - Jack Rutberg Runs a Unique ‘Museum,’” The Worldly Magazine
Brian McAvera. “Interior Visions,” Irish Arts, Spring 2005, p. 70-79,

“Patrick Graham, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 20 May - 4 June 2005.” CIRCA Art Magazine
"DIT artist in major Los Angeles exhibition” Dublin Institute of Technology

2008
“Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane,” E Flux

2009
Aidan Dunne, “United in Art, Divided by Time,” The Irish Time

2010
Peter Selz, “Patrick Graham,” Art in America, November, 2010.
"Patrick Graham: Fact of the Matter" by Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Peter Frank & Jack Rutberg



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