David Eager Maher CV/ Resumé
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Children & Flowers, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin.
2021/22 Pinked, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin.
2021 Paper Positions Munich, Jarmuschek + Partner (Solo Presentation)
2021 Pinked, ODP Galerie, Leipzig.
2020 Paper Positions Munich, Jarmuschek + Partner (Solo Presentation)
2018 Dream Head, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin.
2017 Locus, Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin.
2017 Villa, Galerie Drei Ringe, Leipzig.
2016 Paper Trees Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin.
2015 Inheritance, Galerie Drie Ringe, Leipzig.
2012 God’s Hotel, Cross Gallery Dublin.
2010 allow me a knife to mend my pen, Cross Gallery, Dublin.
2009 Pinks, Queens and Criminal Queers, Monstertuck Gallery, Dublin.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Art Rotterdam, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam.
2025 Art Karlsruhe, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2025 Art on Paper Amsterdam, Galerie Roger Katwijk.
2024 MUNICH HIGHLIGHTS, Residenz Munich, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2024 Group Show, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam.
2024 Paper Positions Berlin, Jarmuschek + Partner
2024 Layers of Expression, Contemporary Perspectives on Painting, Curated by Stefan Peters, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2023/24 Drawing Time, Curated by Andrew Folan, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin.
2023 J+1, with Brian Fay, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin.
2023 Art on Paper Amsterdam, Jarmuschek + Partner
2022 J+1, with Laith McGregor, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin.
2022 Positions Art Fair Berlin, Jarmuschek + Partner
2022 Previous II, ODP Galerie, Leipzig
2022 Art Luxembourg, Luxembourg Art Week, Jarmuschek + Partner
2022 Paper Positions Frankfurt, Jarmuschek + Partner
2022 Golden Fleece Award 25 Years, Solstice Arts Centre Navan
2022 Generation2022, New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2021 Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy, ODP Galerie.
PUBLICATIONS / TEXTS
2025 Monopol Magazine, Feb 2025, text by Freya Dieckmann
2023 Distant Fires, essay by John Hutchinson.
2023 Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art, Yvonne Scott.
2022 Parnass Magazine, Luxembourg
2022 Pinked Review, Susan Campbell, Visual Artist Ireland Newsiest.
2021 Moving On, Irish Arts Review, Winter Edition, John O’Sullivan
2021 Pinked, Artist Book, with a new short story by Ingrid Lyons, ISBN 978-1-3999-0212-0
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED)
2020 17.7, ODP Galerie, Leipzig.
2020 The Time of our Lives, Oliver Sears Gallery, online exhibition (Artsy)
2019/2020 Previous, Galerie Drei Ringe, Leipzig.
2019 PARALLAX, Rear Window, Oliver Sears Gallery, Mayfair, London.
2019 Paper Positions Art Fair, Basel, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2019 Paper Positions Art Fair, Berlin, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2019 Paper Positions Art Fair, Frankfurt, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2019 In Living Memory, Oliver Sears Gallery, Emo Court.
2018 Positions Art Fair Berlin, Galerie Drei Ringe.
2018 Paper Positions Art Fair, Frankfurt, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2018 Paper Positions Art Fair, Berlin, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2017 Paper Positions Art Fair, Munich, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2017 Jealous Wall, Luan Gallery Athlone, Curated by Séamus McCormack.
2017 Positions Art Fair, Berlin, Galerie Drei Ringe.
2017 Exploration Landscape, Jarmuschek + Partner Berlin.
2017 les reveries du promeneur solitaire, Galerie Drei Ringe Leipzig.
2016 Positions Berlin Art Fair, Galerie Drei Ringe, Leipzig.
2016 In Residence II, Oliver Sears Gallery, Fitzroy Square, London.
2016 186th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin.
2015 Ininstabil, Galerie Drei Ringe, Leipzig.
2014 Meditation on Plates, inspired by Lord Charlemont's Casino, Casino at Marino, Dublin.
2014 MOON FARK, RAKE Visningsrom, Trondheim, Norway.
2014 Savage State, with James Barry (1741–1806), Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane.
2013 40/40/40, Celebrating Ireland's 40 years in the EU (Madrid, Warsaw, Rome).
2013 Afterlife, Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin.
2013 A Lamb Lies Down, Broadstone Studios, Dublin.
2013 RHA 183rd Annual Exhibition (invited), RHA, Dublin.
2013 I want to be your dog, The Glue Factory, Glasgow.
2012 SCOPEMIAMI, International Art Fair, Cross Gallery.
2012 Tentamen, 13 North Great Georges St, Dublin.
2012 SCOPEBASEL, International Art Fair, Kaserne, Cross Gallery.
2012 WORK HEAD, NCAD Gallery, Dublin.
2011 SCOPEBASEL, International Art Fair, Kaserne, Cross Gallery.
2010 RHA 181st Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
2010 The Surreal in Irish Art, FE McWilliam Gallery & Highlanes Gallery.
2010 Titles, Collection of the OPW, Stormont, Belfast.
2010 BIZZARE BAZAAR, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin.
2010 Group Show, Cross Gallery, Dublin.
2010 TULCA, Curated by Michelle Browne, The Fairgreen Gallery, Galway.
2010 Something Tells me it’s all happening at the Zoo, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin.
2010 ID+A, Art Fair, RDS Dublin, Cross Gallery.
2010 Preface, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin.
2009 The Great Redundant, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin.
2009 After Dark, RHA, Dublin.
2009 Gatspeil, Gallery Exhibeo, Berlin.
2009 Graduate Exhibition, Sarah Walker Gallery, Cork.
2009 RHA 180th Annual Exhibition, RHA Dublin.
2009 This Must be the Place, IMOCA, Dublin.
2008 Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
2008 RDS Art Awards and Traveling Exhibition, RDS, Dublin.
2008 Artswap, Monstertruck Gallery, Dublin.
2008 Sanctuary, Department of Justice.
2007 Excuse me I seem to have lost my needle in your Haystack, Seljavour Gallery, Iceland.
2007 Next to Nothing, County Buildings, Wicklow.
2007 RDS Art Awards and Traveling Exhibition, RDS Dublin.
EDUCATION
2010–11 MFA, Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2010 Erasmus Exchange, Horschule Fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
2005–09 BFA, Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2002–05 HND, Higher National Diploma, Classical Animation, Ballyfermot Dublin.
2000–02 Trained as a Fabric Designer / Silk Painter for Veronique Didi, Wicklow.
RESIDENCIES
2010 Castle Ellen House, Athenry, County Galway, TULCA, Curated by Michelle Browne.
2009 Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin.
2008 Sim, Reykjavík, Iceland.
AWARDS
2023 Culture Ireland, Children & Flowers, Jarmuschek + Partner.
2023 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2022 Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Culture Ireland, Pinked, ODP Galerie Leipzig.
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2020 Professional Development Award, Arts Council of Ireland.
2020 Artist Award Scheme, Wicklow County Council.
2020 Thomas Dammann Memorial Trust Award.
2018 Artist Award Scheme, Wicklow County Council.
2016 Visual Artist Bursary, The Arts Council of Ireland.
2015 Golden Fleece Award, Merit Prize.
2014 Artist's Support Scheme, Bursary, Wicklow County Council.
2013 Thomas Dammann Memorial Trust Award.
2013 Whyte's Auctioneers Award.
2012 Three Year Membership, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios.
2012 Shortlisted for The Golden Fleece Award.
2012 Shortlisted for Per Cent for Art Scheme, Selected by Aisling Prior.
2012 Shortlisted for CCA Derry-Londonderry 'Production Ireland' award.
2011 Associate Member, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios.
2011 Individual Artist's Bursary, Wicklow County Council.
COLLECTIONS
The Arts Council of Ireland
Trinity College Dublin
Luciano Benetton, Imago Mundi, Contemporary Art Collection
Department of Justice, Ireland
Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
The Office of Public Works (OPW), The State Art Collection, Ireland
Dublin City University (DCU)
National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUI)
The Casino at Marino, Ireland
Private collections in Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Iceland, U.S., Russia, Liechtenstein, U.A.E., The Netherlands, Luxembourg