The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Exhibition Programme
1978 - 2016
1978
1982
Marching Workers – Trade Union Banners
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
The Art of the Pacific
John Luke
National College of Art & Design Staff & Students Exhibition
Irish Country Posters
The Plan of St. Gall Benedictine Monastery
James Coleman – Retrospective
Ulysses Project
Patrick Collins – Retrospective
GPA Awards Exhibition
Colin Harris
Seamus Murphy – Retrospective
1979
Otto Dix
M.C. Escher
Bauhaus
Michael Farrell – Retrospective
Images of an Era – The American Poster 1945-75
Kilim Carpets
Jim Crowley Ceramics
Annual Oireachtas Art Exhibition
Harry Clarke – Retrospective
1983
Nigel Rolfe
David Nash
Exchange Between Artists: Poland – USA
Independent Artists (Touring group exhibition)
Kentucky Quilts
The George Dawson Collection
GPA Awards Exhibition
Kevin Roche Architect
EVA, Limerick (Touring group exhibition)
1980
Max Ernst
Erwin Piscater – Theatre Designs
Images Des Hommes – 20th Century European Photography
Mervyn Peake
Morandi Etchings
College Gallery – 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Camille Souter – Retrospective
James Ensor – Graphics
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
The Peasant in French 19th Century Art
Hibernian Inscape: A Selection of 12 Irish Artists (Briain Bourke,
James Coleman, Barrie Cooke, David Crone, Felim Egan,
Adrian Hall, Willie Heron, Clement McAleer, Alanna O’Kelly,
Michael O’Sullivan, Neil Shawcross & Gordon Woods)
No Country for Old Men (Touring exhibition focused on changes
in Irish society from Institute of Contemporary Arts, London)
1981
Edward Kienholz – Tableaux 1961-79
Patrick Scott – Retrospective
F.E. McWilliam – Retrospective
René Block - Editions
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
Mirrors and Windows – American Photography Since 1960
Sean Scully - 1971-81
1984
Tom Carr – Retrospective
Miro
As of Now (Peter Moore’s Liverpool Project 7. An exhibition
selected by William Feaver)
James Coleman
Irish Exhibition of Living Art
Tony O’Malley
11 Sculptors From Berlin
David Hockney – Photographs
Felim Egan
1985
Per Kirkeby
Patrick Ireland – Purgatory: Rope Drawing No. 74
Living with Art – David Hendriks
Robert Janz – Moving Pictures
Frank Stella
Sources – Three Belgian Artists: Jan Vercruyesse, Lili Dujourie,
Mark Lutyen
The Poetic Object – Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon,
Anish Kapoor, Shirazeh Houshiary
1986
1991
Gene Lambert – Work from a Dark Room
Barrie Cooke
Brian Eno
Les Levine
Sydney Nolan
Eilis O’Connell – Steel Quarry
Irish Art of the Eighties – ‘Modernism & Abstraction’, ‘Politics &
Polemics’
Howard Hodgkin
Gerhard Richter
Cecily Brennan
Bruce Nauman
1987
1992
Karel Appel
A.R. Penck – The Northern Darkness
Directions Out: an investigation into a selection of artists whose
work has been formed by the post-1969 situation in Northern
Ireland
Clifford Rainey – Sculptures & Drawings 1967-87
Contemporary Women Artists (Part of the exhibition ‘Irish
Women Artists: From the 18th Century to the Present Day’,
on show at the National Gallery of Ireland and the Hugh Lane
Gallery)
Surface & Structure – McNab, Tyrell
Comic Iconoclasm (Touring exhibition focused on the response
of artists to comic iconography from Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London)
Divisions, Crossroads, Turns of Mind – Some New Irish Art
Toshikatsu Endo - Earth. Air. Fire. Water
Nigel Rolfe – Resonator
Wolfgang Laib
Ciarán Lennon
Sebastião Salgado
Annette Messager – Telling Tales
Blue Funk (Group exhibition)
1988
The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein
Leon Golub, Nancy Spero
Brian Maguire
John Aiken – Ocean’s Edge: New Sculpture
Oleg Kudryashov
Dorothy Cross – Ebb
Judith Barry
1989
Michael Mulcahy
Bill Viola
Michael Warren
Narcisse Tordoir, Guy Rombouts
Philip Guston
Dialogue – Artists and Schools
Keith Sonnier
1990
John Kindness
Kathy Prendergast
Northlands – New Art From Scandinavia
Anselm Kiefer – Jason and the Argonauts
Irish Art of the Eighties – ‘Nature & Culture’, ‘Sexuality &
Gender’, ‘Myth & Mystification’
1993
David Godbold
Avis Newman – Vicious Circle
Kazuo Katase – Rainhouse
Dorothy Cross – Work from the Power House
Gunther Forg
Willie Doherty
Nikolaus Lang – Nunga and Goonya
1994
Shirazeh Houshiary – Dancing Around My Ghost
Kalachakra Sand Mandala
Jimmie Durham
Andrew Kearney – Temporal Change
Christian Boltanski – Lost Property
Patrick Graham – The Lark in the Morning
Marlene Dumas – Chlorosis
1995
Alice Maher – Familiar
John Virtue – New Works
Ansuya Blom
Patrick Hall - Mountain
Niele Toroni
Michael Warren – Simple Measure
Guillermo Kuitca – Burning Beds
1996
José Bedia – Mi Esencialismo
Christine & Irene Hohenbuchler with Project Interact – Críos
Alison Wilding – Echo
Lili Dujourie
Shane Cullen – Fragmens sur les Institutions Républicaines IV
John Murphy – A Portrait of the Artist as a Deaf Man
Louise Bourgeois
1997
2002
Outside (Group exhibition)
Scream & Scream Again, Film in Art (Group exhibition)
Richard Tuttle – Grey Walls Work
James Lee Byars & Stephen McKenna – Stones
Mark Manders
Residue (Group exhibition)
Paul Mosse – Partial
Bill Viola – The Messenger
Padraig Timony – Lazy Clever Doubt (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [5] Dorothy Cross (Gallery 2)
1998
Joseph Grigely – Conversations and Portraits
Pieter Laurens Mol – Winter Over Spring
Hungry Ghosts (Nobuyoshi Araki, John Currin, Philip-Lorca di
Corcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Keith Edmier, Karen
Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Hiroshi Sugimoto)
Keith Edmier
Behind The Mask: Mexican Devotions
Annelies Strba with Bernhard Schobinger – Shades of Time
1999
Mike Nelson –Tourist Hotel
Luc Tuymans – The Passion
Jaki Irvine – The Hottest Sun, The Darkest Hour, A Romance
Utopias (Group exhibition)
Giuseppe Penone – To Breathe
Felix Gonzales-Torres
Koo Jeong-a – The Land of Ousss (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [6] Chris Marker (Gallery 2)
Lois Weinberger (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [7] Abbas Kiarostami (Gallery 2)
Neil Tait (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [8] Wolfgang Laib (Gallery 2)
Gerard Byrne – Herald or Press (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [9] Patrick Graham (Gallery 2)
Miroslaw Balka – dig dug dug (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [10] Kathy Prendergast (Gallery 2)
2003
Stephen McKenna- Et in Arcadia Ego (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [11] Michael Warren (Gallery 2)
Mary Heilman – The Architecture of Heaven (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [12] Yang Fudong (Gallery 2)
Spiritus (Group exhibition) (Gallery 1 and 2)
Gabriel Orozco – The Weight of the Sun (Gallery 1 and 2)
De Rijke and de Rooij (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [13] Erik and Paul Andriesse (Gallery 2)
2000
Paul Thek
Daphne Wright – Where do Broken Hearts Go
Peter Doig – Almost Grown
Richard Billingham
2000 cont.
Gregor Schneider – Dead House UR
Rivane Neuenschwander
2001
Paul Seawright
William McKeown – in an open room
Francesca Woodman (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [1] Annelies Strba & Bernhard Schobinger
(Gallery 2)
Neo Rauch (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [2] Patrick Hall (Gallery 2)
Michael Craig Martin – Landscapes (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [3] Kazuo Katase (Gallery 2)
HOME (Don Brown, Fernanda Gomes, Jan Jedlicka, Simone
Kappeler, Lucia Nogueria, Yoshihiro Suda, Richard Wentworth,
Rachel Whiteread) (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [4] Marlene Dumas (Gallery 2)
2004
Cathy Wilkes (Gallery 1)
Andrew Vickery – Do you know what you saw? (Gallery 2)
Verne Dawson (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [14] Robert Adams (Gallery 2)
Yoshihiro Suda & Takehito Koganezawa - ma (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [15] Vija Celmins (Gallery 2)
Maureen Gallace (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [16] William McKeown (Gallery 2)
Huts (Kai Althoff, Mamma Andersson, Avner Ben-Gal, Cosima
von Bonin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura
Owens, Tal R, Michael Raedecker, Daniel Richter, The Royal
Art Lodge) (Gallery 1)
Bernhard Schobinger – Radiance (Gallery 2)
Tal R – House of Prince (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [17] Hilma af Klint (Gallery 2)
2005
2008
The Royal Art Lodge – Serpentine Musings (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [18] Clare Richardson (Gallery 2)
Lothar Hempel – Casanova (Gallery 1)
Claude Cahun (Gallery 2)
Eva Rothschild (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [19] Rupert Spira (Gallery 2)
Brendan Earley & Bea McMahon (The Curated Visual Arts
Award – Part 2) (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [29] Isabel Nolan (Gallery 2)
Nicola Tyson (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [20] Keith Edmier (Gallery 2)
Tomma Abts (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [21] Ansuya Blom (Gallery 2)
Michael Raedecker – show (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [22] Jaki Irvine (Gallery 2)
Caro Niederer (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [23] Bob Quinn - The Atlantean Quartet (Gallery 2)
2006
Katharina Wulff (Gallery 1)
Seydou Keita (Gallery 2)
A Dream of Discipline (Kathy Prendergast, Dorothy Cross,
William McKeown) (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [24] Mark McLoughlin (Gallery 2)
Willie Doherty - The Visitor (Gallery 1)
Paul Mosse (Gallery 2)
Thomas Nozkowski (Gallery 1)
Jandek (Gallery 2)
Trisha Donnelly (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [30] Verne Dawson (Gallery 2)
Gillian Carnegie (Gallery 1)
Japanese Tea Bowls (Gallery 2)
Miroslav Tichy (Gallery 1)
Annelies Strba - My Life’s Dreams (Gallery 2)
2009
Mamma Andersson – Cry (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [31] Nina Canell (Gallery 2)
Laura Owens (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [25] Mark Garry (Gallery 2)
Fischli/Weiss – Fotografias (Gallery 1)
Asafo Fante Flags (Gallery 2)
Paloma Varga Weisz (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [26] Alice Roden (Gallery 2)
Raoul de Keyser – Watercolours (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [32] Joseph Grigely (Gallery 2)
Robert Adams – Pine Valley (Gallery 1)
K.F. Schobinger (Gallery 2)
Matthew Day Jackson - High, Low & In Between (Gallery 1)
Deep Fried Ephemera - Jim White’s collection of Southern
marginalia (Gallery 2)
Wilhem Sasnal (Gallery 1)
Eva Vermandel (Gallery 2)
2007
Matthew Monahan (Gallery 1)
African Masks and Fetishes (Gallery 2)
Sergej Jensen (Gallery 1)
Nomadic Bags and Bag Faces (Gallery 2)
Ricky Swallow (Gallery 1)
Mexican Ex-Votos and Retablos (Gallery 2)
Come Together (Nina Canell, Clodagh Emoe, Linda Quinlan)
(Gallery 1)
The Paradise [27] Maureen Gallace (Gallery 2)
Martin Creed (Gallery 1)
Boro (Gallery 2)
Conor McFeely & Factotum (The Curated Visual Arts Award –
Part 1) (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [28] Shirazeh Houshiary (Gallery 2)
Paki Smith – The Red Thread (Gallery 1)
Folk Drawings from India (Gallery 2)
Fergus Feehily – Pavillion (Gallery 1)
Japanese Country Textiles (Gallery 2)
James Castle (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [33] Mike Nelson (Gallery 2)
2010
2012
Ciarán Murphy (Gallery 1)
Nepalese Shamanism - Ritual objects from Nepal, with
photographs by Kevin Bubriski (Gallery 2)
Merlin James – In the Gallery (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [35] Reverend Howard Finster (Gallery 2)
Alfred Jensen (Gallery 1)
Wolf Kahlen – Tibet’s Tibet & Mongolia’s Mongolia (Gallery 2)
Stephen Shore (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [34] Agnes Martin – Three Works on Paper
(Gallery 2)
Dana Schutz – Tourette’s Paintings (Gallery 1)
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (Gallery 2)
Holding Together (An exhibition to celebrate 50 years of
the Modern Art Collection of Trinity College with AE, David
Beattie, Miriam De Burca, Patrick Collins, Aoife Desmond,
Laura Fitzgerald, Judy Foley, Tracy Hanna, Aine Ivers, Mainie
Jellett, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Cecil King, Paul McGonagle, Norah
McGuinness, Sarah O’Brien, Liam O’Callaghan, Tony O’Malley,
Daniel O’Neill, Nano Reid, Elaine Reynolds, William Scott, Jack
B. Yeats) (Gallery 1 and 2)
Jockum Nordström – While the Mortar Dries (Gallery 1)
Boucherite – Rag rugs from Morocco (Gallery 2)
2011
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Between Honey and Ashes – Part
1) (Gallery 1)
Mirosław Bałka (Between Honey and Ashes – Part 2) (Gallery 2)
Shiva Linga Paintings (Gallery 1)
Alexander Sokurov – Spiritual Voices (From the war diaries)
(Gallery 2)
Last (Stephen Brandes, Peter Burns, Elaine Byrne, Oliver
Comerford, Kevin Cosgrove, Gary Coyle, Paul Doran, Damien
Flood, Cliona Harmey, Wendy Judge, Nevan Lahart, Stephen
Loughman, Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh, Paul Nugent, Mark O’Kelly,
David Sherry, Sonia Shiel, George Warren) (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [36] Stephen McKenna (Gallery 2)
Aleana Egan – day wears (Gallery 1)
Mbuti Textiles (Gallery 2) (A selection of African tribal hats were
also shown at this time in the entrance area of the Gallery)
Paul Graham – a shimmer of possibility (Gallery 1 and 2)
Nina Canell – Tendrils (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [37] Fergus Feehily (Gallery 2)
Chanteh – Tribal Textiles from Iran (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [38] Eva Rothschild (Gallery 2)
2013
Katy Moran (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [39] Andrew Vickery (Gallery 2)
Ben Rivers – Ah, Liberty! (Gallery 1)
Simone Kappeler – Darkened Days (Gallery 2)
Nigel Cooke (Gallery 1)
The Paradise [40] Ciaran Murphy (Gallery 2)
Eoin McHugh – Augury (Gallery 1)
Frank Walter (Gallery 2)
Mairead O’hEocha – via An Lár (Gallery 1)
Mark Manders – Two Interconnected Houses (Gallery 2)
Francis Upritchard – Mandrake (Gallery 1)
Ema – Votive Plaques from Japan (Gallery 2)
Interlude (Aspects of Irish landscape painting featuring works by
Michael Canning, Fergus Feehily, David Godbold, Patrick Hall,
Elizabeth Magill, Eoin Mc Hugh, Stephen McKenna, William
McKeown, Paul McKinley, Nick Miller, Ciaran Murphy, Gavin
O’Curry, Mairead O’hEocha, Kathy Prendergast, Marc Reilly,
Tony Swain) (Gallery 1)
Richard Skelton – Landings (Gallery 2)
George Shaw - Neither My Arse Nor My Elbow (Gallery 1)
Paloma Varga Weisz - Krummer Hund (Gallery 2)
2014
Alice Neel – Family (Gallery 1 and 2)
Andrea Büttner (Gallery 1)
Coptic Textiles (Gallery 2)
Mike Disfarmer (Gallery 1)
Grandfather’s Envelopes (Works of paper by Kouzaki Hiromu)
(Gallery 2)
Gedi Sibony - 55 Years (Gallery 1)
Mongolian Folk Drawings (Gallery 2)
Giorgio Griffa (Gallery 1)
Corita (Gallery 2)
Dukkha - Works by Aleana Egan, Fergus Feehily, Jaki Irvine,
Sam Keogh, Paul Mosse (Gallery 1)
Irish Silent Films (1910-1915) (Gallery 2)
Peter Gallo (Gallery 1)
Lois Weinberger (Gallery 2)
Niamh O’Malley (Gallery 1)
Mairead O’hEocha (Gallery 2)
2015
Rose Wylie (Gallery 1)
Indian Matchbox Labels (Gallery 2)
Sam Keogh -Four Fold (Gallery 1)
Wooden Ships - An exhibition of small found objects (Gallery 2)
Luigi Ghirri (Gallery 1)
Aleana Egan - shapes from life (Gallery 2)
Chris Martin (Gallery 1)
Seanie Barron - Sticks (Gallery 2)
Serge Charchoune (Gallery 1)
Merlin James - Meeting at the building (Gallery 2)
2016
Bill Lynch (Gallery 1)
Verne Dawson (Gallery 2)
Caoimhe Kilfeather - season and evening and weather and
history (Gallery 1)
Turkmen and Uzbek children’s clothes (Gallery 2)
Alec Soth - Hypnagogia (Gallery 1)
Eoin Mc Hugh (Gallery 2)
Samuel Laurence Cunnane (Gallery 1)
Textiles from the Atlas Mountains (Gallery 2)
Josef Sudek (Gallery 1)
Kathy Prendergast (Gallery 2)