Bio

Ciarraí MacCormac, born in Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. She currently lives and works in Belfast.

MacCormac is a Fine Art graduate from Bath School of Art and Design (2014), and she was the inaugural Freelands Studio Fellow for Belfast School of Art (2023-2024). MacCormac has been the recipient of awards; BEEP Painting Biennial (2024) Shortlisted, AIR Open (2024) Shortlisted, British Contemporary Painting Prize (2024) Longlisted.

Current/ Upcoming Exhibitions

Moments of Being - Contemporary Irish Painting, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (18th January - 15th March 2025)

Solo Exhibitions

After the Fact Ulster Presents, Ulster University, Belfast (2024).

Selected Exhibitions

Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, (2024)

Air Open, Air Gallery, Rogue Artist Studios, Manchester, (2024)

The Shape of a Pocket, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, (2024)

194th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2024)

Naming the thing, Freelands Foundation, London, (2024)

OPEN CALL, Phony Art Collective, Gallery Lock In, Brighton, (2024)

December Members show, Platform Art, Belfast, (2023)

Image research group, Twelve Gallery, Belfast, (2023)

Royale Arcade Academy, Arcade, Belfast, (2022)

Salonathon Platform Arts, Belfast, (2021)

RHA 191st Academy Show, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2021)

Start-Application-End, Walcott chapel Gallery, Bath, (2018)

Stretch, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, (2018)

DA, Walcott Chapel Gallery Bath, (2018)

In Between Land and Shore, Bath School of Art, (2017)

5-a-Day Archive Documenta, Halle Germany, (2015)

Paint, China Academy of Art, China, (2015) 

Degree Show, Bath School of Art, Bath, (2014)

No Working Title Project, Tate Modern, London, (2014)

New Watches and Bigger Monsters, 44ad, Bath, (2014)

Body in Discourse, Dartmouth Avenue, Bath, (2014)

Reverse, Midland Road, Bath, (2013)

Boomers, 44ad, Bath, (2012)

Awards

Beep Painting Biennial, Shortlisted, (2024)

Air Open 2024, Shortlisted, (2024)

British Contemporary Painting Prize, Longlisted, (2024)

Freelands Studio Fellowship, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University (2023-24)

Press

Visual Artists Ireland, Interview March 2024.

Irish Arts Review, Autumn, 2024.

Collections

North West Regional College, (2009)

Private collections across the UK.