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Born 1968 Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Berlin

Education
2002
MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1990
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Solo Exhibitions
2015
• Fergus Feehily, The Suburban, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014
• Nothing and Everything, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2013
• disappearance, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin
• Floating and Other Metaphors, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
2012
• The Paradise [37], Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2011
• Fergus Feehily, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
2010
• Recent Work, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
• Inland, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
2009
• Pavilion, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2008
• Makeshifts and Endpapers, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
• Strange Mountain (Makeshift), Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
2007
• A Darker Definition, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
• Late Eighty-Six, The Return, Goethe Institute, Dublin
• Small Inventories, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
2005
• The Overlap Areas, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
2004
• Tender Analysis, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan
2003
• Fergus Feehily, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
2002
• Painting, Drawing, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan
• Fergus Feehily, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
2000
• Fergus Feehily, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan
• Fergus Feehily, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
1997
• New Work, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
• Fergus Feehily, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
• Now I See the Secret of Making, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• What Is and What Might Be, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Ireland
2014
• Dukkha, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
• A Poem for Raoul and Agnes, Ancient & Modern, London
2013
• Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & The Francis Bacon Studio, BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• Café Horizon (You slowly look around now—hold it), M1 Arthur-Boskamp-Stifung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany
• Why Not Live for Art? II, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
• Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012
• Interview, Horton Gallery, Berlin
• Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Persistence of Vision, Kavi Gupta, Berlin
• Into the Light: The Arts Council—60 Years of Supporting the Arts, The Hugh Lane, Dublin
• All Humans Do, White Box, New York; The Model, Sligo, Ireland
2011
• Interlude (Aspects of Irish Landscape Painting), The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
• Wake Amusements, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
• Painting Expanded, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Concentrations: Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
2010
• Jerwood Contemporary Painters, The Gallery at Norwich University, England
• Spontaneous Generation, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
• Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• The Way Things Are—The Nature of Things, Galerie Le Petit Port, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Public Private Paintings: 2000–2010, Kunstmuseum Aan Zee, Oostende, Belgium
2009
• Group show, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
• Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough to Last a Lifetime, Glendale College Art Gallery, California
• Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Summerfield Gallery, University of Gloucestershire, England; Project Space Leeds, England; Jerwood Space, London
• SNO 55: The way things are, Sydney Non Objective Group, Marrickville, Australia
2008
• Navigation 01/08, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
• Zu Gemeinschaften, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
• Here’s Why Patterns, Misako & Rosen, Toyko 
2007
• Fergus Feehily/Thomas Ruppel, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
• Position 02/07, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
• All in Line, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan
• (I’m always touched) by your presence, dear, new acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Zwei Galerien: Eine Ausstellung, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bad Münstereifel, Germany
• The Show’s So Nice, Monya Rowe, New York
2006
• Feehily, Graham, Gorman, Gallery Fukka, Tokyo
2005
• Touché, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
2004
• In the Time of Shaking, Art for Amnesty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• Dublin Connection, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
• September, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
• Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2003
• Colour Chart, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
• 50:50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2002
• New, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
2001
• Recent Acquisitions, Limerick City Gallery, Ireland
2000
• Group Show, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
1999
• Contemporary Art: Work from the Arts Council Collection, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
• Works on Paper, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
• Contemporary Works on Paper, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
1998
• Christmas Show, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
• Contemporary Art: Work from the Arts Council Collection, Arthouse, Dublin
1997
• Small Paintings, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
• Works on Paper, Trist Ann’s Gallery, Dublin
• Christmas Show, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
• Christmas Show, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1996
• Five Painters, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
• Mostly Monochrome, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
• Artists in Print, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
1995
• Metre: Fergus Feehily and Jay Roche, Belltable, Limerick, Ireland 
1994
• 3 into 2, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1992
• Eleven More, Browne’s Gallery, Dublin
• Amalgam, Pantheon Gallery, Dublin

Public Collections
• The Arts Council of Ireland
• Dallas Museum of Art
• Irish Museum of Modern Art