RMS Leinster Exploding #5 Collage

Brian Palm was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1957 and moved to Dublin, Ireland in 1977 to attend the National College of Art and Design, graduating with an Honours BFA in 1981. Palm remained in Ireland and has maintained a studio in Dublin throughout his career. He regularly shows his work in solo and group exhibitions including the Royal Hibernian Academy's Annual Exhibitions, Royal Ulster Academy's Annual Exhibitions, Eigse Exhibitions, Galway Arts Festivals, Iontas Exhibitions, Oirachtas Exhibitions and many others. Brian Palm's work has been sold at auction in Ireland with Adam's, Bonham's, White's, Mullens, O'Driscoll's, Drums, and with Sotheby's in London. The artist currently shows his work with The Duke Street Gallery, Dublin, and has held successful solo exhibitions there in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021. Brian Palm has been the recipient of several Arts Council of Ireland awards and bursaries, and the artist has had numerous residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamaghkerrig and the Cill Rialaig Project in Kerry. Early in his career Brian Palm exhibited with the Independent Artists Association and served as a committee member. He also regularly exhibited in the Irish Exhibitions of Living Art and has had his work included in numerous group exhibitions in Ireland. Palm was an invited guest artist for the Royal Hibernian Academy's Annual Exhibition 2007, and his 2010 residency for the R.H.A. School Atelier Programme culminated in a successful exhibition of Shadowboxes "This Way Up". His 2011 solo exhibition "Cityscapes" proved to be a popular highlight of the Phibsboro Arts Festival. Palm showed new work in his solo exhibitions ‘Down Our Way’ in the Duke Street Gallery (2014), ‘On Land and Sea’ (2015), the 1916 inspired "Myths of the Helga", (2016) which was opened by Commodore Hugh Tully F.O.C.N.S. For Dublin Culture Night 2017 The Duke Street Gallery held a solo exhibition of Palm's work ‘In the Neighborhood’ which ran for the following month. In 2018 Palm was the first American born artist to have a painting selected for an Irish postage stamp, and the accompanying exhibition ‘On Land and Sea’ was opened Col. Stephen Ryan, Irish Defense Forces. In 2023 in celebration of the Sean O’Casey Festival, Palm held a solo exhibition ‘ Fragments From Life’ in the Sean O’Casey Theatre, Dublin.