Robert Armstrong

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b. 1953 in Gorey, Co. Wexford. Lives and works in Dublin.

1970-74 National College of Art & Design, Dublin.
1998 MA Fine Art (Media), NCAD.


Solo Exhibitions

2009 Blimp on the Horizon, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

2007 Afterimages, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

1999 Hallward Gallery, Dublin.

1997 Hallward Gallery, Dublin.

1996 Vangard Gallery, Macroom, Cork.

1995 Hallward Gallery, Dublin.

1994 Model Arts Centre, Sligo

Jennymount Mill, Belfast

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

1993 Hallward Gallery, Dublin

1992 Riverrun Gallery, Dublin

1989 Galway Arts Festival, UCG, Galway

Wexford Festival Opera, Wexford

1984 Peacock Gallery, Dublin

1976 Tubular Gallery, Cork

1975 Funge Art Centre, Gorey


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 something tells me it's all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin

2009 Look Again: Recent art from Ireland, selected by Aidan Dunne, Purdy Hicks, London

2008 Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

2008 Timbuktu, Palace Contemporary Projects, Dublin

2007 Martin Gale Selects, Fenton Gallery, Cork

2007 The BiG Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

2006 A Moment In Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

2005 NCAD Staff Exhibition, Sydney, Australia.

2003 O’Keefe Gallery, Nebraska, USA

1998 The Painting Center, (with Michael Dempsey and Mary Avril Gillan), New York

1990 Art Inc., Guinness Hop Store, Dublin

1989 Showcase, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin

1988 Process As Image, curated by Declan McGonagle

1985 Invited Artist Eigse Carlow

Art From the State, OPW Touring Show, New York

1986 A Critical Sense of Irish Art, curated by Aidan Dunne, Limerick City Gallery of Art

1984 The October Exhibition, 16 Irish Artists, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

1982 Independent Artists, Dublin

1974 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Dublin

AWARDS

2000 OPW Commission for Leinster House Extension

1994 Oireachtas Exhibition Painting Prize

1983 Guinness Peat Aviation Award For Emerging Artists

Robert Armstrong is a Founder Member of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. He has lectured at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin since 1991 and since 2002 has been the Head of Painting at the National College of Art & Design.

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