Biography
Eithne Jordan was born in Dublin. She studied at Dun Laoghaire School of Art from 1972-76. She has lived for periods of time in London and Berlin (where she went initially on a DAAD scholarship) and currently divides her time between Ireland and France. She has exhibited widely in Europe, and is a member of Aosdana and the RHA. Her work is in major public and private collections in Ireland, Europe and the U.S.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Messi in scena, (with a contribution by Nathalie Du Pasquier), Assab One, Milan
2022
Mise en scène part I, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
Mise en scène part II, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2017
Tableau, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
When Walking, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2012
Street, RHA Gallery, Dublin
En Route, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Small Worlds, The MAC, Belfast
2011
Street Stills, Assab One, Milan, Italy
2010
Night in a city, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2007
City, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; West Cork Arts Centre, Cork; Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; The Dock, Carrick-on- Shannon
Fenderesky Gallery,Belfast
Grennan Mill, Kilkenny Arts Festival
2005
Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2004
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2002
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2001
Centre Culturel Joel-Le-Theule, Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France
2000
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1998
Paintings 1990-1998 , Model Arts Centre, Sligo
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1995
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
1994
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1992
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1990
Riverrun Gallery, Dublin
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
1988
Riverrun Gallery, Limerick
Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1985
Lincoln Gallery, Dublin
1982
Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1980
Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 — It Took a Century: Women Artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland. Bodywork, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2021 — Dubliners, 6th Biennial of Painting, Zagreb, Croatia. New considerations of familiar settings, curated by Marysia Wieckiewicz Carroll, Newbridge House, Co. Dublin. The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now: Queer Embodiment, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2020 — Locations of Estrangement, Art Project, London Art Fair, Gibbons & Nicholas. Irish Horse, National Gallery of Ireland ( online only). Locations of Estrangement, Art Project, London Art Fair, Gibbons & Nicholas
2019 — Art on Paper, New York, Gibbons & Nicholas. Periodical Review #9, Pallas Projects, Dublin. RGKS Cribs#3. A Painters Life: Legacies, Visual, Carlow. Art on Paper, New York, Gibbons & Nicholas. Airmail, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan and SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin.
2018 — Mid-Winter Group Show, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia.
2017 — This Is Not Architecture, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda | Summer’s Coming, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia | Drawing Now, Paris, Gallery Joe | RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2016 — RealReal, curated by Colin Martin, Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford | Eithne Jordan and Marcel Gähler, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia | Airmail, curated by Richard Gorman, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Assab One, Milan | RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin.
2015 — Finders and Keepers, Artworks from the State Collection, Dun Laoghaire Lexicon | New Works, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast | Meditation on Plates, curated by Nuala Goodman, Irish Pavilion, Expo Milano | RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin | RHA New Acquisitions, RHA Gallery, Dublin | Airmail, curated by Richard Gorman, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan.
2014 — Horse Drawn: Contemporary Artists Study the Form, Gallery of Photography, Dublin. In the Land of Tib and Tom, Rubicon Projects, Assembly Rooms, Dublin. Meditation on Plates, curated by Nuala Goodman,Casino Marino, Dublin. A Poem for Raoul and Agnes, curated by Sherman Sam, Ancient and Modern, London
2013 — The Future Perfect: We Are Here, Rubicon Projects, Brussels. Carlow Arts Festival, Invited Artist, Visual Centre for Contemporary Arts, Carlow
2012 — From Highwood to Home, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork. Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
Selected Bibliography
Eithne Jordan, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Declan Long, Artforum, March 2018
Tableau, Barbara Dawson, Eithne Jordan Tableau, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2017
Waiting Rooms: Eithne Jordan’s Interior Spaces, Logan Sisley, Eithne Jordan Tableau, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2017
Subject, Painting, Sherman Sam, Eithne Jordan Tableau, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2017
Inside & Out, Brian McAvera, Irish Arts Review, Vol 34, Autumn 2017
Mansion I, Curator’s Choice, Margarita Cappock, Irish Arts Review, Winter 2015
Eithne Jordan interview with Vincent Woods, Arts Tonight, RTE Radio. 12/11/2012
Eithne Jordan, RTE The Works, 22/11/2012
Eithne Jordan’s Electric Tenebrism, James Merrigan, Eithne Jordan Street, RHA 2012
The Interior of a House, Colm Tobín, Eithne Jordan Street, RHA 2012
The tired worn textures of a city’s teeming streets, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 28/11/2012
Voyage de retour, Kevin Barry, Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2012
Eithne Jordan Small Worlds, Ben Street, The MAC, 2012
Water in your ears, Ilaria Bernardini, Frammenti di Citta: Street Stills, Assab One, 2011
A serene vision of Vienna, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 17/2/2010
Where have the people gone? Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 30/11/2007
Small Worlds, essay by Gemma Tipton, Eithne Jordan “City”, Centre Culturel Irlandais/ West Cork Arts Centre/ Rubicon Gallery
Still Life, interview with Eimear McKeith, the Event Guide, 6/10 2004
A landscape set in concrete, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 5/6/2004
Art of the everyday, Aisling McCrea, the Irish News, 5/6/2004
Eithne Jordan, essay by Stephen McKenna, Eithne Jordan catalogue, Ormeau Baths Gallery & Rubicon Gallery, Dublin. 2004
The Paintings of Eithne Jordan, Kevin Barry, Eithne Jordan catalogue, Centre Culturel Joel-le Theule, Rubicon Press. 2001
The profound nature of the ordinary, Catherine Marshall, Eithne Jordan catalogue, Rubicon Press. 1998
Aidan Dunne, review, The Sunday Tribune, 9/4/1998
Brian Fallon, review, The Irish Times, 31/3/1998
When time began to rant and rage: figurative painting from 20th Century Ireland, University of California Art Museum Berkeley. 1998
Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times, 18/3/1998
The life of painting, Dorothy Walker, Modern Art in Ireland. 1997
Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. 1997
Eithne Jordan in conversation with Mairead Byrne, Works 16, Gandon Editions. 1994
A New Tradition, Irish Art of the Eighties, Douglas Hyde Gallery and Gandon Editions. 1988
Eithne Jordan, Leland Bardwell, Eithne Jordan Catalogue, 1988
Eithne Jordan and Anita Groener, catalogue essay, Dorothy Walker. 1987
Practices and issues into the future, Joan Fowler, Irish Women Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery. 1987
Contemporary Women Artists, Aidan Dunne, Irish Women Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery. 1987
Edge, catalogue essay by Aidan Dunne
A quiet revolution in Irish Art, Aidan Dunne, In Dublin. 1982
Eithne Jordan interview with John Hutchinson, The Irish Times. 1982
Collections
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; State Art Collection; Arts Council of Ireland; Contemporary Irish Arts Society; A.I.B.; Bank of Ireland; St. Luke’s Hospital, Dublin; Dublin City Libraries; Vincent Ferguson Collection; G.P.A. Collection; Jefferson Smurfit PLC; Collection of Maurice & Marie Foley; Collection of F.X. Buckley; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; McMullen Museum Of Modern Art, Boston; Sligo Municipal Art Collection; Private Collections in Ireland, Germany, U.K., France, and U.S.
Awards
2016 — The Tony O’Malley Residency
2012 — DIT studio residency
2011 — Culture Ireland Travel Grant
2010 — RHA studio residency
2009 — Artist-in Residence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2007 — Arts Council Travel Award
2005 — Artist-in- Residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris | Artist’s Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo
1994 — E.V.+A. prize for painting
1990 — Elected member of Aosdana
1986 — Guinness Peat Aviation Award
1985 — Arts Council Bursary for painting
1984/85 — DAAD Scholarship to Hochschule Der Künste, West Berlin
1982 — Arts Council Bursary
1980 — Independent Artists Large Scale Painting Award
1978 — Arts Council Bursary