Diana Copperwhite
Education
1999-2000 Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona, MA European Fine Art
1992-94 National College of Art & Design, BA Hons painting
1987-92 Limerick School of Art & Design, NCEA Diploma Painting
Solo Exhibition
2024 Onomatopoeia, Flowers Gallery, London
2023 Onomatopoeia, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Galway International Arts Festival.
2023 Sounding of Silhouettes, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2020 Lock Down Series, works on paper, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2019 Proto Fiction and the Sleep of Reason, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2019 The Clock Struck between time, Thomas Jaeckel New York
2017 Crooked Orbit, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2016 Depend on the morning sun, Thomas Jaeckel gallery, New York
Driven by Distraction, RHA gallery Dublin.
2015 A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
2014 Shadowland, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.
Solo presentation, Pulse, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2013 Loose Ends, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
Solo presentation at VOLTANY, Kevin Kavanagh, New York
2011 An Island from the day before, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2009 perfect near miss, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
eclipse of a title, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda
eclipse of a title, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris *
2008 eclipse of a title, West Cork Arts Centre *
2007 BLIND SPOT, Limerick City Art Gallery *
Two Person Exhibitions
2018 Double Vision, Lexicon, DLR, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
2018 Bounty, Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 It Took A Century, Women Artists from the RHA, The National Gallery of Ireland.
2023 New Perspectives, The National Gallery of Ireland.
2020 Autumn Breeze, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery New York
Summer Lovin, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
42nd Street Space, Semi Solid Emotion, New York
RHA annual show., RHA Gallery, Dublin , Ireland
Limerick Connections, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2019 Vision X, The RHA Gallery, Dublin
Wall Hanging, 142, 10th Avenue, New York
Tactical Magic, Tulca Festival of Visual Art., Galway, invited artist
Reforming, Galway International Arts Festival, 126 Gallery Galway, invited artist
2018 Prism, The Art and Science of Light, The Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, Ireland
The Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2017 X years after, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
A lonely Impulse of Desire, University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo,
Many Worlds, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Peripheries 2017, Soul Beating, Gorey School of Art, Wexford, Ireland.
Virtu, Hunt museum, Limerick
Last Picture Show, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2016 Winter Salon, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2015 The Art of a Nation, works from the AIB collection, Mall Galleries, London
Group presentation with Kevin Kavanagh, VOLTA Basel.
2014 Inside the Palace, with Danny Rolph, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
Chancery Lane, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
Two person presentation, Armando Marino, Diana Copperwhite, Pulse,
Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.
The Artist’s Eye, AIB Art Collection, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
Re-framing the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
Personal Choice, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick City of Culture, Limerick.
New Acquisitions, RHA, Dublin
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council-60 Years of Supporting the Arts
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork*
Anna Bjerger, Diana Copperwhite and Oliver Comerford, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Painting Now, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Making Familiar; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Group show and Symposium, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Group presentation with Kevin Kavanagh, VOLTA Basel, Switzerland
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Temporary public Art Commission*
The Mind was Dreaming, the world was its Dream, Diana Copperwhite, Michael Kalmbach
& Hiraki Sawa, Curated by Jacqui McIntosh, Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland *
2011 The Fold, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow*
New Works Visiting Artists, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin *
2010 Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection,
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Regarding Painting, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
The Marianbad Palace, Haroon Mirza, Diana Copperwhite, Laura Buckley, Jorge de la Garza, Alicja Kwade and Ian Monroe, Highlanes Gallery and Driochead Arts Centre, Drogheda Arts Festival, curated by Jacqui McIntosh
Abundance, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2009 Above the Fold, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Alchimie – Multiples – Papiers, Françoise Besson, Lyon, curated by
Michael Woolworth, Lyon Biennale *
Visiting Artists, Graphic Studio Gallery
To Have & Have Not, curated by Gemma Tipton, Kinsale Arts Week, Cork
2008 Group Therapy, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
International Painting Prize, Guasch Coranty Fundacio, Tecla Sala, Barcelona *
Site Specific Projects
2018 Anatomy of Time, Double Vision DLR, Lexicon Dun Laoghaire Dublin
2016 Driven By Distraction, RHA gallery, Dublin
2012 Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Temporary public Art Commission*
2008 eclipse of a title, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda *
eclipse of a title, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris *
Awards and Residencies
2018 Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2014 Nominee, Pulse Prize, New York
2012 Invited Artist, Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut.
2008 Finalist, International Painting Prize, Guasch Coranty Fundacio, Barcelona
Project Residency , Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2007 Winner, AIB Prize, Dublin
Selected Collections
The National Gallery of Ireland
The Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
Irish Museum of Modern Art
The National Self Portrait
collection, UL Limerick Ireland
Arts Council of Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland
The Office of the President of Ireland
Office of Public Works Ireland
Contemporary Irish Art Society
Highlanes Municipal Gallery of Art Ireland
Bank of Ireland
Dublin Institute of Technology
Smurfit Kappa Group
KPMG
Allied Irish Bank
Arthur Andersen Plc
International Red Cross Netherlands
Town and Country Bank, Manhattan.
Private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France, Australia, USA and UK.