LEE WELCH
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2025
Moments of Being, Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland (GROUP)
All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, The Coach House, Dublin, Ireland (GROUP)
Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK (GROUP)
Oedipus, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland (SOLO)
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2011
MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008
BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1st Class). National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
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2024
In praise of idleness - Artist-Initiated Projects 2024, Pallas Projects/Studios, 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
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2024
Muscles and Mind: Irish Art Olympians, Waterford Gallery of Art, Waterford, Ireland
A Triptych of Existentialism, curated by Simon Fennesy Corcoran, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Clare, Ireland
Mowers and Shakers, Lawnmor Projects, Dalkey, Ireland
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, IrelandShifting the silence, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland
193rd RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Chaos / Order, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, Ireland - curated by Ann MulrooneyHoarders, 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, IrelandDe/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, Ireland2020
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
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2025
Arts Council Project Award
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
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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
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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
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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
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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