(b, 1964, Limerick, Ireland) lives and works in London
Education
1989-91 P/T post graduate in Computer Graphics, Coventry University
1987-88 MA Fine Art, Painting, Birmingham University
1983-86 Higher National Diploma in Painting, Limerick School of Art, Ireland
1982-83 One Year Foundation Art & Design, Limerick School of Art, Ireland
Grants
2016 Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School, Rome
1999 British Arts Council Travel Award to Sweden
1995 Documentation Grant, Irish Arts Council
1993-94 Residency at Fire Station Studios, Dublin
1987-88 British Council Award for MA Fine Art Course
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2021 Sirens: Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan, Sunley Gallery Commission, Turner Contemporary, Margate
The City Rises, Dilston Grove, London
2020 Earthly Delites, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
2019 Euoī, Euoī, Euoī, Ribot Gallery, Milan
2018 Garageland, The Rectory Projects, London (with Bea Bonafini)
2017 A Barbarian at the Gate, greengrassi, London
The Cowboy Paintings, Turps Gallery, London (catalogue)
2016 March Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome
2013 Miles away from nowhere, greengrassi, London
2010 Goodbye to Berlin, greengrassi, London
2008 New Paintings, greengrassi, London
2006 Muscle, greengrassi, London
2003 This last blue evening, greengrassi, London
2002 Things are not looking good, Limerick City Art Gallery, Limerick (catalogue)
2001 Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt Red River, Yellow Sky, greengrassi, London
1996 Irish Arts Council Gallery, Dublin
1995 Alternative Arts, London
1994 Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2021 The Smoke, Terrace Gallery, London
A Body Apart, Larsen Warner, Stockholm
2019 Freeze-Frame, Fast-Forward, The Koppel Project Central, London (Curated by Gina Birch, Nicole Price, Rebecca Marcus-Monks)
How small a thought, Marwell House, Margate (organized by Anne Ryan & Andrew Child)
They catch feelings, I catch bodies, Sim Smith, London
2018 Group Portrait with Garden, Mecklenburgh Square, London (Collaboration with Karin Ruggaber)
Women Can’t Paint, Turps Gallery, London
If you can't stand the heat, Roaming Projects, London
2017 If you can't stand the heat, Cactus Gallery, Liverpool Roma IV, APT Gallery, London
2016 Turps Painting Programme, Turps Gallery, London
2013 Summer Exhibition 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)
2012 Minderwertig Gemälde, Galeria Cadaqués, Cadaques, Girona
2009 Jean-Luc Blanc, Opera Rock, CAPC Bordeaux, France, (curated by Alexis Valliant) (catalogue)
2008 Presence 08, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
2004 Latest paintings, Lia Rumma, Milan
2003 The Roca Pistola Collection, New Inn Gallery, London
2002 The Holiday Show, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Landscape, The Saatchi Gallery, London
2000 greengrassi, London (with Steven Claydon and Neil Chapman)
1999 Where do you want to go today? # 1, Cubitt Gallery, London
1998 Perspective 98, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast