LEE WELCH

Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland



CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2024  

In praise of idleness - Artist-Initiated Projects 2024, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

A Triptych of Existentialism, curated by Simon Fennesy Corcoran, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Clare, Ireland

  • 2011    

    MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    2008    

    BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1st Class). National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

  • 2021

    like stars and years, like numerals (OVR), Berlin Opticians, Dublin, Ireland

    2019

    The other side of the wind (OVR), Berlin Opticians, Dublin, Ireland

    2013

    Two exercises in awareness and observation, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    2012

    If what they say is true, CCA Projects, Derry~Londonderry, N. Ireland

    2011

    The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Telephone Booth, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    2009

    At the still point of the turning world, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland

    2008

    Never Odd or Even and other pieces, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland

  • 2024 

    Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

    2023  

    HERE COMES LOVE, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    Climate and Health, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

    Shifting the silence, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland

    193rd RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    Chaos / Order, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, Ireland - curated by Ann Mulrooney

    Hoarders, Quarters Gallery, Los Angeles, California

    MANIFEST/O, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway

    2022  

    A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland

    192nd RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    De/Construct, Outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland

    Summer Exhibition, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin, Ireland

    Tangible Visible Form, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Clare, Ireland

    2021  

    Double Estate, Pearse Museum, Dublin, Ireland (group)Winter Print Show, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland

    11/11, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland

    Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland

    2020

    We are solitary, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland

    ARTWORKS 2020, VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland

    601 days, Berlin Opticians Gallery, Dublin Ireland

    Open Submission 2020, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland

     2019    

    And when he came to, Platform, Belfast, N. Ireland (two person)

    Arrangements, curated by James Merrigan, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

    back on the beach in the freezing sand by, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland (two person)

    and it was raining out of a low sky, Sternview Gallery, Cork, Ireland (two person)

    and the tide was way out, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, Ireland (two person)

    No Feeling Is Final, Live Collision & Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

    Some Concrete Possibilities, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2018    

    Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

    peripheriesOPEN, Periphery Space, Wexford, Ireland

    The Medium is the Message, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2017    

    2116, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA

    ART WORKS selected by Eoin Dara and Emma Lucy O’ Brien, Carlow, Ireland

    Attitude Precedes Form, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

    The Tree Line Project curators Oonagh Young and Mary Cremin, Dublin, Ireland

    2016    

    The Headless City, TULCA, Galway, Ireland

    2116, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

    INFRA, eight gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    ARTWORKS selected by Annie Fletcher & Claire Feeley, Carlow, Ireland

    This is Water, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N. Ireland

    Rosebud, The Library Project, Dublin

    Listen, Hissen, Hessin!, IMMA, Dublin

    A Conversation on Drawing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 

    2015    

    In the Silence of the Night, curated by Mary Cremin, IMMA, Dublin

    ∞ (Broken Mirrors), NCAD Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (two person) 

    The Grammar of Ornament, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

    The Perennial, Grecian Shelter, Brooklyn, New York

     2014    

    Stone Soup, Basic Space and Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland

    Stick Up Fir-Tree, Irishise, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, Ireland

    Periodical Review #3, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

    thigmotropism, John Jones Project Space, London

    2013    

    Sleepwalkers: Possibilities Contingencies, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

    I want to be your dog, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

    A Lamb Lies Down, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, Ireland

    Periodical Review #3, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

    (((O))), Clonlea Studios, Dublin, Ireland

    2012    

    A Living Room Suite Presentation, Salon Populaire, Berlin, Germany

    Yes, We Have No Bananas, Project Arts Centre presented by Vaari Claffey, Dublin, Ireland

    Prelude to Nothing, LAB, Dublin, Ireland

    ached grew print jot, The Drawing Project, Dublin, Ireland

    2011    

    Amikejo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spaincurated by Latitudes

    Screening Room: Dublin, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

    (WHOOPEE) we're all going to die, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

    Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curated by Ellen Blumenstein

    WordPerfect, NoPlace, Oslo, Norway

    Dublin Art Book Fair & Magazine Archive, TBG+S, Dublin, Ireland

    BrakTalk–Beside Itself, Duende, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Love Letter To a Surrogate Stage II, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium

    2010    

    A Whole New Ball Game, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

    Three or Four Works, radiowy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Lost & Found, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Clifford Irving Show, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium

    Love Letter To a Surrogate, Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA

    Studies and Contemplations, Other Gallery, Banff, Canada

    DONE TO A DEAD END, SD&G, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    The Nature of Things, Le Petit Port, Leiden, Netherlands

    2009    

    MISSING LINK, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (two person)

    It's not for reading. It's for making, FormContent, London, England

    Clifford Irving Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, Francecurated by Raimundas Malasauskas

    2008    

    Non-Knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

    Play, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

    Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Ireland

    curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas

  • 2023

    dlr Arts Grant

    Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award

    2022

    Shortlisted for The Merrion Plinth Award

    2021

    dlr Arts Grant

    Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

    Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award

    2020    

    Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

    Shortlisted for The Janet Mullarney Prize

    2019    

    Shortlisted for The Merrion Plinth Award

    Cork City Council Individual Bursary

    Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

    2016    

    Black Church Print Studio, Membership Studio Award 

    2015    

    DIT Project Studios, Studio Award

    2013    

    Firestation Artists Studios, Sculpture Workshop Residency Award & Bursary

    Dublin City Council, Incubation Space Award

    2012    

    Production Ireland 2012, CCA Projects

    Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

    2010    

    Arts Council of Ireland, Travel & Training Award

    Culture Ireland, Project grant

    2008    

    Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

    Dublin City Council, Arts Bursary

  •  2020

    NCAD School of Fine Art, Artist in Residence 2020-21, Dublin

    2017    

    Independent Studios Artists Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

    2015    

    Artists’ Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art Award & Bursary, Dublin

    2012    

    Dublin City Council, Red Stables, Dublin, Ireland

    2010    

    Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada

  •  Arts Council of Ireland

    Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

    Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland

    Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland

    TBWA\CHIAT\DAY, San Francisco, CA

  • 2015

    Paper Visual Art Journal- Edited by Marysia Wieckiewicz–Carroll and Nathan O’Donnell

    Sleepwalkers- Book
 Edited by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisely

    2012

    Amikejo- Book 
Edited by Latitudes

    Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow - Book
 Edited by Ellen Blumenstein

    2011

    the space in between, Artist publication, Antinomian Press

    2010

    ANAL # 0, intermittent periodical, Banff Art Centre

    Options with Nostrils - Book 
Edited by Alexis Vaillant

    Shifter 16 : Pluripotential - Magazine
 Edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath & Warren Neidich

    2HB Volume 6 - Journal
 Centre for Contemporary Art

  • Sunday Independent 2 March 2024, What Lies Beneath, by Niall MacMonagle

    Irish Arts Review VOLUME 40. NO. 4 Winter 2023, Silent matter by Aidan Dunne

    Irish Times 21 August 2023, National Gallery of Ireland announces Zurich prize shortlists

    Irish Times 15 August 2023, Kerlin Gallery, by Gemma Tipton

    Irish Times 22 April 2019, Live Collision, by Gemma Tipton

    This is Tomorrow February 22nd 2019, and the tide was way out, by Aidan Kelly Murphy

    Sunday Independent 11 February 2019, What Lies Beneath, by Niall MacMonagle

    Irish Times 2 February 2019, Visual Arts Highlights, by Aidan Dunne

    The Gloss Magazine 30 January 2019, Artistic License, by Penny McCormick

    Irish Times 22 January 2019, Some Concrete Possibilities, by Aidan Dunne

    Irish Times 18 December 2018, Pallas Periodical Review, by Aidan Dunne

    Visual Artists’ News Sheet Jan/Feb 2017, Materiality as Relic by Gianna Tasha Tomasso

    Art Monthly : Issue : 402 December-January 2016, The Headless City by Joanne Laws

    Billion Journal 19 February 2016, Boys & Girls by James Merrigan

    Irish Times 3 March 2015, Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments, by Aidan Dunne

    Art Monthly : Issue : 369 September 2013, Dublin Round-up, by Chris Clarke

    Artforum 500 words, Dec 20, 2012, As told to Miguel Amado

    Frieze #120 January–February 2009, Emerging Artists Looking Back, by Tessa Giblin

    Artpapers, January/February 2009, NONKNOWLEDGE by John Gayer

    Circa #125, review: ‘Degree shows: Critics’ choices’ by Alan Phelan

    Circa Online Reviews, October 2008, ‘Lee Welch: Never odd or even’ by Sara Baume