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Centre. He was shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award in Dublin and
was commissioned by The Gallery Press to produce a series of images
to accompany ‘Wayside Shrines’ by poet Paul Muldoon.
Keith has held numerous solo exhibitions, shown extensively
throughout Ireland as well as many group shows in the uk, Europe
and the United States, including the American Irish Historical Society,
New York, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and the
prestigious Le Logge in Assisi, Italy. He has been a regular participant
in the rha and rua annual exhibitions. His paintings and drawings are
held in many public and private collections worldwide including the
collections of the epa, axa Insurance, aib, the National Self Portrait
Collection of Ireland, Queen’s University, Belfast and the University
of Wisconsin.
He is represented by the Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, and is a
Member of the Royal Ulster Academy and a Fellow of the Ballinglen
Arts Foundation.
Brian Maguire
, one of the leading and most well known exponants of
contemporary painting in Ireland today, has exhibited with Dublin’s
leading gallery Kerlin, since 1988. With Kerlin his work has been shown
in international art fairs Art Basel in 2012 and Art Basel Hong Kong in
2014. Internationally he has represented Ireland in the Sao Paulo Bienale,
1998, the Race Face exhibition in National Gallery, Korea, 2002, and
in the 3rd Beijing Bienale, 2008. He has shown in one-person shows
in the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2000; Contemporary Art
Museum, Houston, Texas, 2001; WhiteBox, Chelsea, New York, 2003;
De Werft, Geel, Belgium, 2012.
His work is part of important collections in Europe and America
including Museum of Fine Art Houston, Texas; The Gementenmuseum
Den Haag, Netherlands; Wolverhampton Gallery, uk; Victoria Gallery
and Museum, Liverpool, uk; Contemporary Art Museum, Jyvasklya,
Finland.
Maguire recently collaborated with the filmmaker Mark McLoughlin
during the period 2010 and 2013 for the film Blood Rising, which has
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