Born in Canada
Lives and works in London and Northern Ireland

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 

Flag- Iris, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2021

Red Stars and Variations, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2020

Well, Penthouse Gallery, Margate;
Her Nature, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2019

In two Parts, 12 Star Gallery, London

2018

Headland, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Headland, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Still (dark), Matt's Gallery, London
Headland, RHA Galleries, Dublin

2017

Headland, Limerick City Art Gallery and Museum, Limerick
Headland, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2013

Quasi–Real & Branch–Like, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2010/2011

Green Light Wanes...Towner Art Gallery & Museum; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
(publication)

2009

Venice, Marlborough Graphics

2008

Chronicle of Orange, Wilkinson Gallery, London (publication)

2006

Arborescence, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2004/5

Recent Paintings (touring exhibition), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham / Milton Keynes
Gallery, Milton Keynes / BALTIC,
Gateshead, / Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea
(publication)

2003

Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York NY (publication)
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

2002

Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London

2001

Gallery Deux, Tokyo, Japan
Peer, Peer Trust Gallery, London

1999

Southampton City Art Gallery,
Southampton (publication)

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

1997

Galerie 102, Dusselsorf, Germany

1994

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

1992

Belongings, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

1991

Emilio Navarro Gallery, Madrid (publication)

1990

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (publication)

1989

Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (publication)

EDUCATION

1979-82

Belfast College of Art, Fine Art Degree, Painting

1982-84

Slade School of Art, University College, London, MA Painting

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Terrain, Fox Jensen Gallery, New Zealand

Bringing to Light, Towner Art Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne, UK;

Arcadia, Town House, London

2021

Haunted Landscapes. St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington UK.

Blue Sky Thinking, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2020

Shadows and Light, Southampton City Art Gallery and Museum, Southampton, UK

RA Summer Exhibition, London

2019

Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
It’s Gonna Rain, Contemporary Landscape, Watson Farley & Williams, London
Last Day of May, drawings by  Merlin James, Stephen Mc Kenna and Elizabeth Magill

RA Summer Exhibition, London

2017

Legacies: JMW Turner & contemporary art practice The New Art Gallery Walsall,
Walsall
A Certain Kind of Light Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Public View, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

2016

High Treason: Roger Casement Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (publication)
A Certain Kind of Light Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Public View, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

2015

Talking to Deptford Deptford X, London
RUA Annual Ulster Museum, Belfast
Art Without Borders RHA Galleries, Dublin

2014

Twixt Two Worlds Towner,
Eastbourne, UK
Death & Dying MAG3 project space, Vienna, Austria
Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Under the Greenwood, Gerald Moore, Gallery, London, UK

2013

Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Under the Greenwood, St Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire, UK

2012

Landscape, Hite Collection, Soeul, Korea
John Moores Painting Prize Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery & Museum, Liverpool (prizewinner)

2011

Interlude, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
The Hunt Museum, Limerick
Art Council Collection
Summer Show, Royal Academy, London

2010

Known Unknown, Gallery LOOP, Soeul, Korea
Elizabeth Magill & John Frankland, The Russian Club Gallery, London,
Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Hatton Gallery Newcastle
Skies, Nottingham Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham2008

Royal Academy of Arts, Invited artist, London (winner of the Sunny Dupree Award)
Paralell Remix, laura Hutton Gallery, New York
Double Interview, Artspace Hue, Seoul, Korea, I–Myu Projects, London, Soeul Art Space, Seogyo
Summer Show, Royal Academy, London

2009

There not There, Crawford Museum, Cork

2006

Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, (publication)
Out of Place, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Melancholia, Andrew Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
Siar, IMMA, Dublin

2004Landscape 2, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne

2002

Something Else (touring exhibition), Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland (publication)

2001

I Love Melancholy, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland & Southampton City Art Gallery
IMMA/Glen Dimplex Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (publication)
Shifting Ground: Fifty Years of Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (publication)

2000

Places in Mind, Elizabeth Magill/ Adam Chodzko/ Stan Douglas, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (publication)
Primio Michetti 2000, Fondazione Michetti, Italy (publication)

1999

0044, PS1, New York and Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo / Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast / Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork (publication)
Artist Unknown, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London1996Irsk 96, Kulturfest, Arhus Kunstbyoning, Arhus, Denmark (publication)

1995

IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art(publication)1993New Voices, British Council Touring Exhibition (publication)

1992

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Welcome Europe, Holsoboro Kunstmuseum, Denmark (publication)1991A View of London, Salzburg Kunstverein, Austria (publication)

1990

The British Art Show, McLennan Galleries, Glasgow / Leeds City Art Gallery / Hayward Gallery, London (publication)
Decoy, Serpentine Gallery, London (publication)

1983

GPA, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (publication)

RESIDENCIES

2002

The British Embassy, Yangon, Myanmar

1995

Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbruken, Germany

1994

'Momart Fellowship', Tate Gallery, Liverpool

PROJECTS

2008

'Venice' Print Project, Paragon/Paupers Press, Venice/London

2005/6

Parlous Land, Paragon Press Publications, London

2001/2

Multples x 6, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

Pieces of Paper Press, Artist's Books, London

1996

Public Arts Development Trust, Heathrow Airport, London

AWARDS

2016 Gold Medal for Painting, RUA, Ulster Museum
2010 Royal Academy of Arts, London, The Sunny Dupree Award
1997 London Arts Board
1995 British Council
1989 Arts Council of N. Ireland
1984 Boise Travel Scholarship
1983 GPA Award, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin
1983 Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award

 

COLLECTIONS

Allied Irish Bank
American Express
Arts Council of Great Britain
Arts Council of England, Ireland & Northern Ireland
Bank of Ireland
British Council
British Museum
Crawford Museum, Cork
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Contemporary Arts Society
Deliotte Art Collection
Deutsche Bank
De Beers
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Government Art Collection, London
Guinness Peat Aviation
Limerick City Art Gallery & Museum
National Gallery of Australia
Neuberger Berman Collection, USA
Progressive, USA
Southampton City Art Gallery
IAWS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Tate Gallery London
Towner Art Gallery and Museum
Ulster Museum, Belfast
University of Ulster, Belfast
New Art Gallery, Walsall
Worcester Museum and Art Gallery

 

LINKS TO INTERVIEWS

Elizabeth Magill: 'Her Nature', Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2020

Elizabeth Magill in conversation with William Feaver, Royal Drawing School, London 2019

Roy Foster’s talk on E.Magill (password = EM_HG), Europe House, 12 Star Gallery, London, 2019

Elizabeth Magill Interview, 'Headland' New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2018

Lorcan Murray interviews E.Magill for her show in Limerick City Art Gallery & Museum, 2017

Elizabeth Magill: 'Quasi-real and Branch-like', Wilkinson Gallery London, 2013

Culture Now: Elizabeth Magill, ICA, London. 2013

 

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