Hanley RHA, James
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James Hanley RHA
Education
1984-1987 University College Dublin, BA (Hons), History of Art & English
1987-1991 National College of Art & Design, BA (First Class Hons) Fine Art
1990 Glasgow School of Art & Design, Erasmus Exchange
1995-1998 Part-time Tutor/Lecturer NCAD
1998 Visiting Lecturer Dun Laoghaire
1999-2004 Member of Cultural Relations Committee
2000 Elected Associate Royal Hibernian Academy
2001 Elected Full Member, RHA
2001-2008 Elected Secretary of RHA
2008 Elected to Aosdána
2009 Elected to Board of Governors of National Gallery of Ireland
James Hanley is also a regular contributor of articles to Irish Arts Review & National Gallery of Ireland publications
Solo Exhibitions
1992 Natural Disasters, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin
1995 White Lies, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
1997 Grand Tourists, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
1999 Paper Tigers, Stalking Horses, Hallward Gallery, Dublin
2000 Works on Paper, Dunamaise Arts Centre
2004 Souvenir, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2005 Moving Statues, Ashford Gallery, RHA
2011 One Day | Work from the Life Room, Solomon Fine Art
Awards & Residencies
1990 Erasmus Exchange Scholarship to Glasgow School of Art
1990 Royal Hibernian Academy Keating/McLoughlin Medal & Bursary
1991 Royal Dublin Society, Taylor Art Bequest, First Prize
1991 Stokes Kennedy Crowley Prize, Oireachtas Art Exhibition
1992 Taylor de Vere Award, RHA
1994 Irish Representative at Germinations 8, Department of Foreign Affairs Award
1994 Open Award, Arnotts National Portrait Exhibition
1996, 99 James Kenneth Kennedy Memorial Award, RHA
1997 Artists’ Work Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art (6 month residency)
1998 Visual Arts Winner, Kilkenny Cream of Irish Arts Awards
1999 Don Niccolo D’Ardia Caracciolo RHA Medal & Award
2007 Artist In Residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Group Exhibitions
1989 Arnotts National Portrait Awards Exhibition
1990 Royal Scottish Academy Student Show, Edinburgh
RHA Annual Exhibition
New View 1990, Ennis 750, Ennis
Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show RHA
1991 RHA Annual Exhibition
Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show RHA
Íontas, National Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery
Claremorris Open
Oireachtas Exhibition
Arnotts National Portrait Awards Exhibition
Counterpoints, Degree Show Exchange, Belfast College of Art
Taylor Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society
Awareness, RIAI, Merrion Square
1992 RHA Annual Exhibition
1993 Arnotts National Portrait Awards Exhibition
Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show, RHA
Dublin Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Boyle Arts Festival
Signature, Westgate Heritage Centre, Wexford
1994 Arnotts National Portrait Awards Exhibition
Germinations 8, European Biennale of Young Artists, Breda, Warsaw, Athens, Madrid
Síolriú, A Celebration of the National Maternity Hospital’s Centenary, RHA
1995 Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show, RHA
Boyle Arts Festival
Dublin/Akureyri - Festival of Irish Art, Akureyri, Iceland
Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art
1996 RHA Annual Exhibition
Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show, RHA
NCAD 250 Drawing Exhibition, RHA
International Miniature Art Exhibition, Art Addiction, Stockholm
Junge Kunst International 1996, Young European Contemporaries, Lübeck, Germany
Innovation From Tradition, Recent Irish Art, EU HQ, Brussels
AIB On Tour, Model Arts Centre, Sligo
1997 Figurative Image, West Cork Arts Centre
Academy Without Walls, Banquet Show, RHA
1998 RHA Annual Exhibition
When Time Began To Rant & Rage, Figurative Painting from 20th Century Ireland, touring Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Berkeley Art Museum, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Michigan State University
1999 Florence Biennale
RHA Annual Exhibition
Somebodies, IMMA & tour
2000 3 Person Show with Abigail McLellan and Alasdair Wallace, Hallward Gallery
Fusion, Dunamaise Arts Centre
AIB Art, Contemporary Irish Art from the AIB Collection, Poznan Castle, Poland
RHA Annual Exhibition
An Artist’s Century, RHA Gallagher Gallery & Ormeau Baths, Belfast
2001 Recent Irish Art from the AIB Collection, Ulster Museum Belfast
RHA Annual Exhibition
2002 RHA Annual Exhibition
Holy Show, Chester Beatty Library & tour
Envisage, IMMA
2003 Print Portraits, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition
Collectibles, Solomon Gallery
2004 RHA Annual Exhibition
An Irish Eye, Landscapes of Fact & Imagination, Cape Town (with Solomon Gallery)
In The Time of Shaking, Irish Art for Amnesty, IMMA
Boyle Arts Festival
2005 RHA Annual Exhibition
After the Thaw, Recent Irish Art from the AIB Collection, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
Watercolour Society of Ireland Annual Exhibition
Collectibles, Solomon Gallery
RHA Members Drawing Exhibition, Ashford Gallery
SIAR 50, 50 years of Irish Art from Collections of the Contemporary Irish Art Society, IMMA
2006 RHA Annual Exhibition
Collectibles, Solomon Gallery
Highlights of the RDS Taylor Art Awards 1878-2005, National Gallery of Ireland
Watercolour Society of Ireland Annual Exhibition
2007 Drawing Studies: A Celebration, National Gallery of Ireland
RHA Annual Exhibition
Hermione Art Week, Alexandra College
RHA Members Drawing Exhibition, Glór Ennis & tour
2008 RHA Annual Exhibition
RUA Annual Exhibition
2009 RHA Annual Exhibition
Watercolour Society of Ireland Annual Exhibition
Faces, An Exhibition of Portraits, OPW touring exhibition
Mick O’Dea Selects, Lavitt Gallery, Cork
2010 Davy Porrait Awards, toured to Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin & Fota House, Cork
Selected Portrait Commissions
State Portrait of the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern TD (OPW)
Inauguration of President Mary McAleese (OPW)
The Defence Forces, Chiefs of Staff (3): Lt. Generals Mangan, Earley & Stapleton
The Chief Justice, the Hon. Mr. Justice John L. Murray
Senator Maurice Hayes, commissioned by Ireland Funds
Hon. Justice John L. Murray, Chief Justice, King’s Inns
Dr. John Neill, Archbishop of Dublin, Church of Ireland
Dr. Desmond Connell DD, Archbishop of Dublin
Dr. Art Cosgrove, President, UCD
Dr. Roger Downer, President Emeritus, UL
John O’Connor, President Emeritus, UL
Michael Butler, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Professor Niall O’Higgins, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Professor Gerry O’Sullivan, President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Dr. John Kirker, Past President, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland
Carey Clarke PPRHA Past President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
Ronnie Delany, Olympic Gold Medalist, National Gallery of Ireland
Maureen Potter, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Conor Brady, former editor, The Irish Times
Cathal O’Shannon, broadcaster & journalist
Professor Dervilla Donnelly, Past President Royal Dublin Society
Professor John Clarkson, Dean of School of Dentistry, TCD
Professor Donald Leach CBE, Principal, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
Professor Desmond Archer OBE
Posthumous portrait of Professor Augustine Martin, UCD
Posthumous portrait of Professor James Hamilton Delargy, UCD
Girvan Dempsey
The Prince of Stigliano, Don Prospero Colonna
David Kingston, MD, Irish Life & Permanent
Laurence Crowley
Brian Coyle
Selected Commissions
2009 An Post modern Irish playwright stamps
2008 An Post Christmas stamps
2007 An Post commemorative stamp, St. Charles of Mount Argus
2006 An Post commemorative stamp, Celtic scholar Johann Caspar Zeuss
Corporate box set print for the musical The Pirate Queen
Commemorative coin design for 175th Anniversary of OPW
Commemorative print of Ronnie Delany’s 50th Anniversary of his Melbourne gold medal,
commissioned by Arthritis Ireland
Cover design for Headgear album Flight Cases
2004 Triptych Abbey 100: Authorship, Acting, Audience, commemorating the Abbey Theatre’s
Centenary, commissioned by John McColgan & Moya Doherty
Commemorative Print for the National College of Ireland
2000 Presentation pieces for Riverdance Broadway
1999 Suite of drawings of buildings constructed by John Paul Construction, commissioned for
presentation to John Paul
1998 Suite of works on paper for the Newman Room, Commons Restaurant
1997 Paintings for Disney TV movie Oliver Twist
1996/97 Research trip to Bosnia and Croatia with Defence Force personnel, for triptych Vukovar,
Sarajevo, Mostar commissioned by the Defence Forces to commemorate their Presidency of
the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in the former Yugoslavia
1996 Suite of drawings for the film The Nephew
1994 Painting to commemorate 10 years of Arts Day in UCD
1993 Painting 'Eternal Optimist' for foyer of National Lottery
1992 Painting commission for UCD Engineering block
Three paintings on Joycean themes for Newman House, UCD
Mural for Dublinia, Synod Hall, Christchurch
Collections
National Gallery of Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Arts Council of Ireland
Contemporary Irish Arts Society
National Self-Portrait Collection
Royal Hibernian Academy
Royal Dublin Society
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Royal College of Physicians in Ireland
OPW Dáil Eireann
OPW Dublin Castle
OPW Department of Enterprise & Employment
OPW Department of Arts, Sport & Tourism
OPW The Four Courts, Dublin
European Parliament Strasbourg
European Court of Justice
British Museum
Municipal Art Museum, Akureyri
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Allied Irish Bank Ltd.
Irish Life & Permanent Insurance
AXA Insurance
The National Lottery
Chester Beatty Library
Newman House Dublin
University College Dublin
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