Comhghall Casey

Works
Biography
Comhghall Casey
Casey’s small-scale still-lives in oil are intimate studies of everyday objects such as vegetables, fruit and children’s toys, each is meticulously observed. Casey also produces regular self-portraits and has twice been a finalist in the Hennessey Portrait Award in the National Gallery.  He has also been shortlisted three times for the internationally esteemed BP Portrait Award in the UK and has appeared as a contestant on Sky’s Portrait Artist of the year programme.Casey has received numerous important awards at the RHA and RUA (including the prestigious Hennessey Craig Scholarship) and his paintings have been selected by the Royal Academy in London from 2011 to 2016. His work features in many notable collections including the National Self Portrait Collection and the Ulster Museum. In 2015 An Post issued an edition of stamps featuring Casey’s toy paintings.
Exhibitions
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Comhghall Casey

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
Solo show, Beaux Arts Bath

2022
Domestic Bliss, Beaux Arts Bath

2018
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin

2016
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin
Retrospective, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh

2015
Barbara Stanley Gallery, London

2013
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin

2010
Mullan Gallery, Belfast

2009
Solomon Fine Art, Dublin

2008
Emer Gallery, Belfast

 

Selected Group exhibitions

1999, 2001-2021
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.

1996-1999, 2001-2012, 2014-2021
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

2002, 2013, 2015
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.

2011-2013, 2016, 2019, 2020
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly, London.

2014, 2017, 2019, 2020

Zurich (formerly Hennessy) Portrait Prize, National Gallery Of Ireland, Dublin.

 

Awards 

2017
The Adam’s Award, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2017.

2014
Shortlisted, Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

2010
The Don Niccolo D’Ardia Caracciolo RHA Medal and Award, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2010.

2008
Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2008. 

2007
Runner Up, Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2007.

2006
Emer Gallery Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 2006.

2004
Nominated, Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2004. 

2003
Nominated, Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2003.

2002
Emer Gallery Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 2002.

Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co.Mayo. 

2000
Nominated, Victor Treacy Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.

1999
Young Artist of the Year, Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London.
Regional Prize (Belfast), Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London.

Association of Art Historians Thesis Prize 1999.

Anderson Auctioneers and Valuers Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 1999.

 Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co.Mayo.

1996
Anderson Auctioneers and Valuers Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 1996.

Collections

Ulster Museum.

Queen’s University Belfast.

Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art.

The National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland.

Axa Insurance (Ireland).

Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

Office of Public Works.

Northern Ireland Department of the Environment.

Boyle Civic Art Collection

Private Collections.

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