Solo Exhibitions
2013 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK, YOU SAID... Cross Gallery . Dublin
2011 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER - Cross Gallery. Dublin
2009 JURGEN KALTHOFF GALLERY. Essen. Germany
2008 ET IN ARCADIA EGO AND OTHER TALES OF DISENCHANTMENT. Cross Gallery. Dublin
DEPARTURES. Vangard Gallery. Cork
2006 TRANSIENCE. Cross Gallery. Dublin
HOME. Holiday. New York
2005 FRAGILE MEMORY. Vangard Gallery. Cork
2004 UNTITLED SCENES FROM A JOURNEY. SERIES II. Cross Gallery. Dublin
2002 JOURNEYS. Vangard Gallery. Cork/ Cross Gallery. Dublin
JOURNEYS TOWARDS HOME. Model Arts & Niland Gallery. Sligo
2000 PRESENCE AND ABSENCE. Vangard Gallery. Cork
UNTITLED SCENES FROM A JOURNEY SERIES I. Cross Gallery. Dublin
EIGSE 2000 (featured artist). Carlow Arts Festival
1999 ARCHIVE. Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin
1998 PAINTINGS. Triskel Arts Centre. Cork
1983 PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. Triskel Arts Centre. Cork
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 RA Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts. London
RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery. Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival
2023 RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery. Dublin
2022 RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery. Dublin
Art of the State. OPW touring exhibition
2021 RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery. Dublin
2020 RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery. Dublin
[Winner of The Adam's Award]
2019 RA Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts. London
OPW "Life in still life" touring exhibition
2018 RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery Dublin
2014 Galerie Maurits van de Laar. The Hague Holland
RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery Dublin
2013 Prelude Speaker: Contemporary Castletown. Castletown House.
(curator Dawn Williams, Crawford Art Gallery.)
RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery Dublin.
Limerick university.
2012 Flotsam and Jetsam. Tactic Cork ( curator Kirstie North )
2010 EV+A. Limerick (curator Elizabeth Hatz)
RHA Exhibition,(invited artist)
2009 Then + Now , Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork
RHA Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2008 Winter Salon. Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
RHA Exhibition. (invited artist) RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
(also 2005; invited artist, 2003; annually, 1997-2001)
Art Dublin. RDS. Dublin (Cross Gallery)
2006 Boyle Arts Festival (also 2009,2004, 1997)
2005 Passing Through – Selected students of the Crawford College of Art
& Design 1975-2005, Glucksman Gallery, Cork
A Moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2004 John Martin Gallery. London
Full Circle. Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2003 RHA Banquet Exhibition. RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
50/50. Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin
Fine Arts Fair. John Martin Gallery, New York
2002 20/20. Temple Bar Gallery. Dublin
2001 Art of the State. OPW touring exhibition
1999 Royal Ulster Academy. Belfast
Tony O’ Malley Award. Butler Gallery. Kilkenny (shortlisted)
About Presence and Absence. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe.
New Mexico
New Work from Ireland. Turner Carroll Gallery. Santa Fe
Cross Gallery. Dublin
1998 A Collection in the Making. Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin
Hallward Gallery. Dublin
Vangard Gallery. Macroom. Co Cork
1982 EV+A 82, Limerick City Gallery (curator Liesbeth Corstius)
SADE 82. Crawford Gallery. Cork
1981 EV+A 81. Limerick City Gallery (curator Pierre Restany)
1978 Stowels Exhibition. Royal Academy, London
Bibliography
2013 The Irish Times, The Ticket, Sylvia Thompson. Art, Aidan Dunne.
Prelude Speaker. Art Forum. Gemma Tipton
2012 Flotsam and Jetsam , Enclave Review (Issue 6) Gemma Carroll, Tactic, Cork
curator Kirstie North
2012 Additions 2012,Yvonne Davis, National Self portrait Collection, Limerick University
2010 'The Material Consequences', Aidan Dunne, review, Irish Times 6 April
2009 '2010: Ones to Watch' , Aidan Dunne, Art Listings, Irish Times 31
December
2008 Vangard °4 – Simon English, Publication ,ed. John O’Regan,
essay by Aidan Dunne (Gandon Editions, Kinsale)
2008 Aidan Dunne, review, Irish Times, 23 April
2006 Simon English – Recent Paintings / Transience (Cross Gallery, Dublin)
Aidan Dunne, review, Irish Times, 17 March
Daragh Reddin, review, ‘English Haunted Houses’, Metro, 22 March
2005 Passing Through – Selected students of the Crawford College of Art & Design 1975-2005, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork (curator Patrick T Murphy)
2004 Untitled Scenes from a Journey, series II (Publication,Cross Gallery, Dublin.
Cork County Council)
Aidan Dunne, review, ‘Scene stealing?’, Irish Times, 16 April
2002 Simon English – Journeys, Publication, essay by Catherine Marshall
(Vangard Gallery, Cork)
Aidan Dunne, review, ‘Lonely Landscapes’, Irish Times, 25 October
Alannah Hopkin, review, Irish Examiner, 20 April
2001 Art of the State (Office of Public Works, Dublin)
2000 Marianne Hartigan, review, ‘Landscapes by Simon English’, Sunday Tribune, 10 September
1999 Aidan Dunne, review, Irish Times, 28 July
1998 Mark Ewart, review, ‘Presence and Absence’, Irish Times, 27 January
1998 Simon English – Paintings, essay by Theo Dorgan, ‘The Silence of Things’ (Triskel Arts Centre, Cork)
A Collection in the Making (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin)
Mark Swartz, review, Circa, no. 84
1973-75 Crawford College of Art, Cork
1976-79 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Liverpool College of Art
Lives and works in Co Cork, Ireland.
Public collections
Irish Museum of Modem Art;
https://imma.ie/artists/simon-r-english/
Office of Public Works, Dublin;
AIB Bank;
Bank of Montreal;
Cork County Council;
Cork University Hospital;
University College, Cork;
University of Limerick
Education
1973-75 Crawford College of Art, Cork
1976-79 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Liverpool College of Art
Lives and works in Co Cork, Ireland.