Padraic Reaney

Pádraic Reaney was born in Carraroe, Co. Galway in 1952. He studied Fine Art at Galway, Regional Technical College encouraged by the well-known sculptor Oisín Kelly and has been a full-time artist since leaving college. He painted for several years in Galway; later he built a studio in Moycullen, where he now lives and works. He has exhibited extensively in Ireland, Scotland and Wales and his work is in public and private collections in Ireland as well as in Europe, Canada, USA, Brazil, Japan, South Africa and Australia. His work is held in collections such as the Modern Irish Art Collection; Dublin Writers Museum, Ireland; Irish Embassy, London; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University, USA; Siena Art Institute, Italy; Urawa Wood-Cut Prints Association, Japan.

International Reputation
Reaney’s international reputation has grown over the years, and in particular his work on The Táin and his interpretation of the legacy of An Gorta Mór/The Great Irish Famine have won him wide critical acclaim as a key figure in contemporary Irish visual arts. He represented Ireland in the XVIth Grand Prix International d'Arts Contemporain de Monte Carlo in 1982. A film was made of one of his exhibitions based on The Táin, which was ...

Studied Fine Art at Galway, Regional Technical College, Galway, Ireland.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Inis Airc, Hardiman Research Building Exhibition,
NUIG (Invited Artist)

2018
Inishark Project, The Kenny Art Gallery Galway.
Inishark, Annual Heinrich Boll Weekend,
Achil Island, Co.Mayo.
Inishark, Creel Café, Westport, Co. Mayo.

2017
Inishark, Doonreagan, Cashel, Co. Galway,


2016 Ros an Mhil, 1997 – 1983, Coole Park,
Co. Galway.


2015
Crazy Lane, Gort Public Library, Gort, Co. Galway. 2015-2016
Crazy Jane, Hyde Bridge Gallery(Yeats Society) Sligo,
Crazy Jane Clifden Arts Festivel, Clifden Co Galway.
Crazy Jane, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway.
Crazy Jane, Sole art gallery, Dublin.
Crazy Jane Exhibition of Graphics, Coole Park, Co. Galway.

2011 Ros an Mhil, 1997 – 1983, The Tourist Centre, Oughterard, Co. Galway.

Ros an Mhíl, 1979 – 1983 Connemara National Park,
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