Born 1971, Dublin, Ireland

Lives and works in London, UK


Education

BA (Hons) Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, 1989 - 1994

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London, 1997 – 1998


Solo Exhibitions & Projects

* = accompanying catalogue / publication / commissioned text

2021 New Poems and Short Stories, Palfrey Space, London, UK

2019 Where I End and You Begin, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany

2019 Flying Boots and Eyes On Fire, Public Commission, South London, UK*

2015 USELESS, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2013 From One End To The Other, various venues, Norwich, UK *

2011 Made to Measure, Parker’s Box Gallery, New York, USA

2011 Arrangements, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2010 Light For Cicely, CSI, King's College London, UK *

2008 Paintings, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2008 (Luxury), Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

2007 Grand Detour, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006 Grand Detour, Parker’s Box, New York, USA *

2006 There, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland

2004 Windowall, Public Commission, Letterkenny, Ireland

2003 Springs Eternal, Hammer Sidi, London, UK

2003 Caroline McCarthy, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland

2002 The Glow is Fading, Gasworks, London, UK *

2002 Port Sunlight, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland *

2002 Caroline McCarthy, Parker’s Box, New York, USA

1996 In Retrospect, Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland


Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 IMMA Archives: From The Centre To The Edge, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2019 A Fiction Close to Reality, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2019 Consumed: Still Lives, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, UK

2018 Heads Roll, cur. by Paul Morrison, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2019 Dark Lantern, cur. by Paul Morrison, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany

2018 Not Dream of Islands, cur. by John Chilver and Daniel Pettitt, Palfrey Space, London, UK

2018 Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking, Attercilffe, Sheffield, UK

2017-18 Nature Morte, curated by Michael Petry, The Guildhall Gallery, London, UK *

2017 The Way Things Go: An Homage, curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

2017 hmn 9, curated by Anne Tallentire and Chris Fite-Wassilak, London, UK

2017 Nature Morte, curated by Michael Petry, Four Domes Pavilion, National Museum, Wrocław, Poland *

2017 The Space Between, Collection of OPW touring exhibition, Ireland*

2016 A Fine Line, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2016 RHA Annual Exhibition, invited, Dublin, Ireland *

2016 Nature Morte, curated by Michael Petry, Konsthallen- Bohusläns Museum, Sweden *

2015 Dismaland, curated by Banksy, Weston super Mare, UK *

2015 Nature Morte, curated by Michael Petry, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Nærbø, Norway *

2015 Art Of A Nation, AIB Collection, Mall Galleries, London, UK*

2014 Group Coordination, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2014 Of and For, curated by C. Wilson and M.Maclean, CASS, London Met. University, London, UK

2013 Vexed Endings, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2013 Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland *

2013 Believing (in) objects, House project, London, UK

2013 Encounters, OPW Collection touring to Derry, Lisburn, Cork and Limerick, Ireland *

2012 The Curator’s Egg, Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK

2012 Vexed Endings, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2012 Showtime, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2012 Quantum Jumping, (curated by Niru Ratnam), Cock n Bull Gallery, London, UK

2011 Hints Of The Outside World, SOMA, Waterford, Ireland

2011 Collecting For Ireland, (curated by Ruairí Ó Cuív) The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland *

2010 WNTRSLN, Parker’s Box, New York, USA

2010 Renewing, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2010 Meer, Voorkammer, Antwerp, Belgium

2010 Making Nature, (cur. by Gemma Tipton), Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2010 Review, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

2010 10 years Hunting, Parker's Box Gallery, New York, USA

2010 Altered Images, touring show of work from the IMMA Collection, various venues, Ireland *

2009 z(art), (cur. by Jan Hoet), AbtArt Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany *

2009 Space Invader, (cur. by Niru Ratnam), Aicon Gallery, London, UK

2009 Noughties But Nice, Limerick City Art Gallery (and touring), Limerick, Ireland *

2009 Exquisite Corpse, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2009 Covet, (cur. by Suzanne Mooney), Plan 9, Bristol, UK

2008 Gala Triangle 2008, Triangle France, Marseilles, France

2008 Embedded, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK

2008 Materials and Mentalities, (cur. by Ian Russell), UCD, Dublin, Ireland

2008 To Lo, Part 2 (cur. by Saki Satom), Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK *

2007 To Lo, Part 1 (cur. by S.Satom), Space Kobo & Tomo, Tokyo, Japan *

2007 Open, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent , Belgium

2007 Art Futures, Bloomsberg, London, UK

2007 De Gustibus, ING Kortrijk, (V.VanDurme), Brussels, Belgium *

2007 Real Writer’s Residency, g39, Cardiff, Wales, UK

2007 The Troubled Waters Of Permeability!, Parker’s Box Gallery, New York, USA

2006 Failure, (cur. by Mike Fitzpatrick), Butler House, Kilkenny, Ireland

2006 Double Take, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York, USA

2006 The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London (cur.by A.Gross & J.Wu), Shanghai, China *

2005 To Be Continued…, (British Council), Helsinki Kunsthalle, Finland *

2005 Variety, (Commission) DeLaWarr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK *

2005 Use This Kind of Sky, (cur.by Eachus/Farhid), Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK

2005 Siar 50 – fifty years of contemporary Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland *

2005 International Exhibitionist, Screening, Curzon Soho Cinema, London, UK

2005 England Their England, (cur.by R.Downes), Nichts Fur Laden, Germany

2005 Brit Povera, (cur.by R.Downes), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2005 In(tensions), Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2005 The Poster Show, (cur.by LOT), Bristol, UK

2005 Out of the Ordinary, Travelling Gallery, Scotland

2004 East End Academy, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK *

2004 Screening, (cur.by Artprojx), Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK

2004 Draught, (cur.by O.Bjornsdottir), Klink and Bank Project Space, Reykjavik, Iceland

2004 The Morning After the Night Before, Parker’s Box Gallery, New York, USA

2004 September, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2004 Tonight, (cur.by P.O’Neill), Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2004 Views from an Island, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2003 Europe Exists, (cur.by R. Martinez / H.Szeemann), MMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece *

2003 Under Different Circumstances, (cur.by T.Bundgaard), Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark *

2003 Permaculture, (cur. by G. Watson & V. Claffey), Project, Dublin, Ireland

2003 I Saw Your Lips Move, (cur.by L.Seers), Cell Projects, London, UK

2003 The Unblinking Eye, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2002 CMYK/Greyscale, (cur.by R.G. Nesbitt), Tramway, Glasgow (also RHA, Dublin), Scotland *

2002 Everything To Lose, La Friche, Marseilles/ Gasworks, London, UK

2002 Now is the Time, (cur.by K. Freed), Dorsky Project Space, New York, USA *

2002 Neverland, (cur.by M.Oeschler), Cell Projects, London, UK

2002 New, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2002 RHA Summer Show, RHA, Dublin, Ireland *

2002 Sitting Tenant, (cur.by A. Vickery), Lotta Hammer’s House, London, UK

2001 Tirana Biennale, (UK cur. by P. Ellis), Tirana, Albania *

2001 Enter, (cur. by J.Maier), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2001 All That is Solid, London Print Gallery Studio, London, UK

2001 Break in Theatre, (cur. by S. Satom), Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan          

2000 Art of the World, (sel.by Circa mag.), Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France*

2000 Tourist Conspiracy Project, (cur.by J.Offerman) De Fabrik, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2000 NowHere, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2000 EV+A, (cur.by R.Martinez),Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland *

2000 In Search of Experience– Reconsidering the Readymade, cur.by F.Jones, Green on Red, Dublin

2000 From the Poetic to the Political - Irish Art Now, IMMA collection touring USA *

2000 Include Me Out, (cur. by UNIT), disused shop, London, UK

1999 In-Consistency, (cur.by P.O’Neill), Arthur R.Rose, London, UK

1999 Cabin Fever, Herold Gallery, Bremen, Germany

1999 Victor Treacy Award Exhibition, (sel.by D. Godbold), Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

1999 Very Gloomy, curated by UNIT, Mota Gallery, London, UK

1999 Everyday Living, Tablet Gallery London + RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

1998 Insignificants, The Old Chocolate Factory, Malmo, Sweden

1998 Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

1998 Postneoamateurism, New Work U.K., (cur.by UNIT), Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

1998 Return to sender, (cur.by Busqeda Box), Ireland / Australia *

1997 Outside, Douglas Hyde Gallery, (cur.by A.Fletcher), Dublin, Ireland *


Awards

2006/2007/2011 Culture Ireland Award in support of exhibition projects in Tokyo and New York

2007/08 Multi-Annual Award, Arts Council of Ireland

2005/2001 Transport Award in support of exhibition projects in New York, British Council

2005/2003/2001 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland

2001 AIB Art Prize (Allied Irish Bank with Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland)

2001 Artist Bursary, London Arts Board, UK

2000 Open Award, EV+A 2000 (adj.: Rosa Martinez)          

1997 Post-Graduate Scholarship, Arts Council of Ireland

1996 Open Award, EV+A 1996 (adj.: Guy Tortosa)


Commissions

2013 From One End To The Other, city-wide project commissioned the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, UK *

2010 Light For Cicely, commissioned by King's College London, UK *

2009 Wanted: Your Sofa, Public Commission, Dundalk, Ireland

2005 Happiness (After Dodd), Commissioned by De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK *

2004 Windowall, Public Commission, Letterkenny, Ireland


Collections

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Allied Irish Bank

Zabludowicz Collection UK

Berge Collection Madrid

Office of Public Works, Ireland

private collections


Residencies

2004 Biz-Art, Shanghai, China

2004 Klink and Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland

2002Triangle Studio, La Friche, Marseilles, France

2000De Fabrik, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1997Artists’ Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland


Publications:

Solo:

Light For Cicely, published by the Contemporary Art Society, 2010

Caroline McCarthy, Gasworks Gallery London, 2003

Caroline McCarthy, Temple Bar Gallery, 2002


Selected Group:

Irish Art 1920–2020 Perspectives on a Century of Change, C.Marshall / Y.Scott, RIA, 2021

Dismaland, Banksy, 2015

Art & Architecture of Ireland, Vol.5: 20th Century, Catherine Marshall / Peter Murray (eds), 2014

Nature Morte, by Michael Petry, Published by Thames & Hudson, 2013

Works On Paper, published by i8 Gallery, 2013

Creative Ireland, by Noel Kelly / Sean Kissane, published by Visual Artists Ireland, 2011

Dictionary of Living Irish Artists, by Robert O’Byrne, Plurabelle Publishing, 2010

Z(art), edited by Jan Hoet, published by AbtArt gallery, 2009

New Art From London, by Chris Townsend, published by Thames & Hudson, 2006

To Be Continued, published by the British Council, 2005

The Collection, published by Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005

East End Academy, published by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2004

Europe Exists, by Rosa Martinez / Harald Szeemann (eds), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003