Tom Molloy
Born Waterford, Ireland, 1964
Education
1987
BA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1992
MA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2010
• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
• Aftermath, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2009
• Tom Molloy: Lucid, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2008
• SUBPLOT Tom Molloy, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
• Tom Molloy: the shape I’m in, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
2007
• Tom Molloy, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
• Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2006
• Present Future, Artissima Turin, Italy (selected by Katerina Gregos)
2005
• Yo Lo Vi, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
• Yo Lo Vi, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004
• Allegiance, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2002
• Dead Texans, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Dead Texans, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2001
• Ballyconnoe South, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1999
• Oak, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Oak, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1997
• Time, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1996
• The Labours of Heracles, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1994
• World Gone Wrong, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1992
• New Paintings, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
• NOT TOO BAD (again), curated by Martina Gambillara and Andrea Peruggi, PERUGI artecontemporanea, Italy
• “Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now”, Austin Museum of Art, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen.
• M.A.P. at N.O. Gallery, Milan
• Pulse New York Art Fair, Pulse Miami Art Fair and Artforum Berlin Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery)
• Invited: TULCA 2008, Galway, curated by George Bolster
• Exploration, Drogheda Arts Festival, curated by Ruairí Ó Cuív
2007
• The Sleep of Reason, Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Cartography, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Histoire de L’oeil, Galerie HO, Marseille, France
• The Worst is / Not to Die in Summer, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
• Pulse New York Art Fair USA with Rubicon Gallery
• Pulse London (with Lora Reynolds Gallery)
• MACO Art Fair Mexico with Rubicon Gallery
2006
• Irish American Awards (nominee), New York USA
• This Ain’t No Fooling Around, Rubicon Gallery Dublin (curated by Joseph R Wolin) ? with Stephen Andrews, Marc Handelman, Josephine Meckseper, Steve Mumford, Barbara Pollack (toured to Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland)
• Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Pulse Art Fair, New York, USA & Pulse, Miami, USA (with Rubicon Gallery)
2005
• Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt Germany
• Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain & Art Cologne, Germany (with Rubicon Gallery)
• Happy Holiday, exhibition, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2004
• In the Time of Shaking, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
• Art Brussels, Belgium, Fiac Paris France & Art Cologne Germany Art Fairs with Rubicon Gallery
2003
• Someone to Watch over me, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Portrayal, Model Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
• Lineage (two person exhibition), Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
• Public & Private Narrative, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
2002
• The unblinking Eye, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
• Art Fair Brussels Belgium with Rubicon Gallery
2001
• The Garden, Model Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
• Art Fair Brussels Belgium, with Rubicon Gallery
2000
• The Whoseday Book, Irish Hospice Foundation, Ireland
• Arts Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London, England
1999
• Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
1998
• Vital Presence, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
1997
• Banquet Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1996
• Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
1995
• Banquet Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1988-94
• National Portrait Exhibition, Dublin (Prize Winner)
1993
• Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
1992
• Oireachtas Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1988
• EV+A 88, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland
1987
• Nineteen Eighty Seven Painters, An Bord Trachtala Offices, Brussels, Belgium Festival Inter celtique de L’Orient, Brittany, France
• SADE, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Living Art Exhibition, Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
Awards and Grants
2008
• RIAA Residency, Argentina
2007
• Culture Ireland (award to support exhibition in USA)
• Arts Council Bursary Award (one year)
2005
• Arts Council Project Grant
2004
• Tony O'Malley Travel Award
• Arts Council Exhibition Award
• Arts Council Materials Grant
1995
• Arts Council Material Grant
1990
• Thomas Dammann Junior Trust, Travel Scholarship to Italy
Selected Collections
The Ark Cultural Centre, Dublin Ireland
The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaoin, Dublin
Collection FRAC – Fondo Regionale Arte Contemporanea, Piemonte, Italy
Fondazione Spinola Banna Per L’Arte, Turin
Goldman Sachs, London England
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, USA
National Self Portrait Collection Limerick Ireland
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
Selected Bibliography
2006
• Modern Painters, June 2006 ? emerging artist feature ? Luke Clancy
• Art in America, pg 49, At Pulse Art Fair, by Leigh Anne Miller
2005
• Context Magazine, June/July issue, review by Jean Wainwright
• Circa 113, pg 90 Autumn Issue 2005, review by Ciara Finnegan
• The Visual Artist Newsletter VAN, January-February issue
• Sunday Tribune, 30 October review by Eimear McKeith
2003
• Eye Candy, Radio Programme, produced by Kay Sheehy, RTE
2002
• Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 7/12
1997
• Brian Fallon, Irish Times, 23/9; Aidan Dunne, Sunday Tribune, 21/9; Declan Walsh Sunday Business Post, 21/9
1996
• Luke Clancy, Irish Times; Dr. Peter Cherry, catalogue essay for ‘The Labours of Heracles
1994
• Aidan Dunne, Sunday Tribune, 12/6; Brian Fallon, Irish Times, 26/5