David Quinn, artist (b. Dublin, Ireland 1971).
David has been exhibiting his work for over thirty years. Recent solo shows include Gana Art Nineone, Seoul (2023); Rossicontemporary, Brussels (2022) and Purdy Hicks, London (2021). His first solo show in the USA, will be held later this year, in Los Angeles.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
painting, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, KoreaDavid Quinn, Art Brussels w/ Rossicontemporary
2022
refuge, Rossicontemporary, Brussels, Belgiumcloghan, Anima Mundi, St. Ives, England
2021
stookeen, Purdy Hicks, London, England2020
flume, Purdy Hicks, London, Englandverse, Rossicontemporary, Brussels, Belgium
2019
new work, Gana Art Hannam, Seoul, Koreapaintings, Amaneya Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2018
paintings, Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japanpaintings, Rossicontemporary, Brussels, Belgium
paintings, WCAC, Skibbereen, Ireland
new paintings, Purdy Hicks, London, England
2017
undersong, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Irelandnew work, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
2016
Start, Saatchi Gallery, London w/ Gibbons&Nicholasblank, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2015
seam, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland2014
dunkelbunt, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland2012
pewter, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Irelandd-esque, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2011
murmur, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland2010
margin, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland2006
new work, Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Ireland2004
lost and found, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, Ireland2003
new work, 412 Harold's X Road, Dublin, Ireland2001
new work, Daintree, Dublin, Ireland2000
new work, Side Door, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin1999
new work, SDCC HQ, Irelandnew work, Melt, Dublin, Ireland
new work, Jute, Dublin, Ireland
1998
paintings, Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland1997
new work, Maudespace, Sydney, Australia1995
charlie pelican one show belly, Head, DublinArt Fairs
Art Brussels 2023
London Art Fair 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023/2024
Pulse Miami 2017/2018
Context New York 2016
Context Miami 2016
Kiaf Seoul 2017/2018
Contemporary Istanbul 2018
Start London 2016
Curatorial work
2023 - 2025
lucent, an exhibition I conceived and curated, features twelve international artists from five countries, and will travel to four venues in Ireland and England – West Cork Arts Centre; Highlanes Gallery; Wexford Arts Centre and The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth.2020
YAN, a group show of Irish and Japanese artists, Taylor Galleries, Dublin2019
RDS Art Awards Show with Janet Mullarney2013 – 2017
lacuna, a series of four group shows featuring Irish and International artists that I conceived, designed and co-curated with Sabina MacMahon for the Taylor Galleries, Dublin and which Aidan Dunne gave a five star review in the Irish Times.Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
tinfoil, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfastlucent, touring exhibition, Ireland
Kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum, Japan
2022
Summa, Anima Mundi Gallery2022
Painting, Purdy Hicks2021
Richard Gorman, John Graham, David Quinn,Amaneya Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Richard Gorman, John Graham, David Quinn,
Yanagisawa Gallery, Urawa, Japan
2020
YAN, Taylor Galleries, Dublin2019
Buildings are like Birds, Fenderesky Gallery2017
Dirty Filthy Paintings, BSA Project Space, AustraliaSmall, Purdy Hicks, London
2016
Two Birds / One Stone, Farmleigh Gallery, DublinIsland, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2014
White Hours, Studio Apothiki, Paphos, Cyprus2012
Proper Nouns and Adjectives,Fenderesky Gallery
2012
Marathon Irish, Dialogue, London2010
Éigse 3O Year Retrospective, VISUAL, Carlow2007
Fear Not, Íontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo2006
Emerging Artists, Eigse, CarlowAwards and Residencies
2023
The Cold Press Residency Award, Norfolk2022
Metroplitan Fukujusuo Residency, Kyoto, Japan2017
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary2015
Tony O'Malley Studio Residency Award2014
DLR Professional Development Grant2012
DIT Portland Row Studio Award2006
Ballinglen Arts Foundation2006
Mountjoy Prison (Artists in Prison Scheme)Selected Bibliography
2023
Aescence, David Quinn - Art As A Marker Of Time2020
The 189, Silent Poetry – Abstract Paintings by Irish Artist David Quinn2018
David Quinn, émergent magazine, Issue 2Seamless, Susan Campbell, Irish Arts Review
David Quinn, Wall Street International magazine
2017
What Lies Beneath, Sunday Independent, Niall MacMonagleBest Shows This Week, Irish Times, 18 Sep, Aidan Dunne
Visual Artists' News Sheet, Critique, Roisin Russell
Best Shows This Week, Irish Times, 1 Sep, Gemma Tipton
2016
David Quinn, Catalogue Essay, Riann CoulterVisual Artists' Newssheet, May, Review, Iain Griffin
2015
What Lies Beneath, Sunday Independent, Niall MacMonagle2014
RHA Newsletter, Summer 2014, pgs. 18-19 & 282010
Irish Times, 2nd June, Review, Aidan DunneNEWS
David has a lithograph in the touring exhibition Kwaidan—Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn. The exhibition features prints by 20 Japanese and 20 Irish-based artists consisting of visual interpretations of Kwaidan, the well-known book of ghost stories published in 1904 by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo.
The next two exhibitions will be in:
The Ballinglen Museum of Art at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Main Street, Ballycastle
Mayo / メイヨー
20.04.2024 – 25.05.2024 / 4.20土~5.25土
Ireland / アイルランド
and
Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of The Arts / 京都芸術大学 ギャルリ・オーブ
14.05.2024 – 27.05.2024 / 5.14火~5.27月 Japan / 日本
Artists from Ireland
Yoko Akino / Ailbhe Barrett / Nuala Clarke / Niamh Flanagan / Richard Gorman / Richard Lawlor / Stephen Lawlor / Sharon Lee / Kate MacDonagh / Alice Maher / Eimearjean McCormack / James McCreary / Ed Miliano / Niall Naessens / Kelvin Mann / David Quinn / Barbara Rae / Robert Russell / Amelia Stein / Dominic Turner
Artists from Japan
Kanami Hano / Yoko Hara / Jin Hirosawa / Aya Ito / O Jun / Mayumi Kimura / Chie Matsui / Seiichiro Miida / Yuuka Miyajima / Shoji Miyamoto / Junko Ogawa / Shoko Osugi / Yuki Saito / Michael Schneider / Sudi / Azusa Takahashi / Yo Takahashi / Kanako Watanabe / Toshiya Watanabe / Katsutoshi Yuasa
The next two exhibitions will be in:
The Ballinglen Museum of Art at The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
Main Street, Ballycastle
Mayo / メイヨー
20.04.2024 – 25.05.2024 / 4.20土~5.25土
Ireland / アイルランド
and
Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of The Arts / 京都芸術大学 ギャルリ・オーブ
14.05.2024 – 27.05.2024 / 5.14火~5.27月 Japan / 日本
Artists from Ireland
Yoko Akino / Ailbhe Barrett / Nuala Clarke / Niamh Flanagan / Richard Gorman / Richard Lawlor / Stephen Lawlor / Sharon Lee / Kate MacDonagh / Alice Maher / Eimearjean McCormack / James McCreary / Ed Miliano / Niall Naessens / Kelvin Mann / David Quinn / Barbara Rae / Robert Russell / Amelia Stein / Dominic Turner
Artists from Japan
Kanami Hano / Yoko Hara / Jin Hirosawa / Aya Ito / O Jun / Mayumi Kimura / Chie Matsui / Seiichiro Miida / Yuuka Miyajima / Shoji Miyamoto / Junko Ogawa / Shoko Osugi / Yuki Saito / Michael Schneider / Sudi / Azusa Takahashi / Yo Takahashi / Kanako Watanabe / Toshiya Watanabe / Katsutoshi Yuasa
Lucent a touring group show of international artists curated by David opened in Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen on July 29, 2023 and ran until September 9, 2023. It is currently on display in Highlanes Gallery in Droghed and will run until April 31, 2024. On June 15, 2024 it will open in Wexford Arts Centre, where it will be until August 30, 2024. In January 2025, the exhibition will travel to The Arts Institute’s Lewinsky Gallery in the University of Plymouth.
work by David Quinn and John Van Oers, photo by Jed Niezgoda
work by David Quinn and John Van Oers, photo by Jed Niezgoda
BLUE :
The pursuit of the heavenly colour
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
April – May 2024
The chase for blue is never ending, and yet remains elusive, as Lavinia Greenlaw writes in Blue Field:
‘I keep my distance, as things turn blue through stillness and distance;
as everything blue is distant’
Artists since Neolithic times have chased blue even more than gold. In ancient times Lapis Lazuli produced the most treasured pigment. The Egyptians were the first to recreate a synthetic version of this pigment, with blue considered highly valuable as it could lead the soul to immortality.
Millenniums later Kandinsky continued to explore the colour in this vein. ‘Blue’ he wrote in On the Spiritual in Art, ‘assumes overtones of a superhuman sorrow. It becomes like an infinite self-absorption in that profound state of seriousness which has and can have, no end. As it tends towards the bright tones, to which blue is, however, less suited, it takes on a more indifferent character and appears to the spectator remote and impersonal, like the high, pale blue sky.’ In the process of attributing emotions to colours, he dubbed blue the typically ‘heavenly colour.’
The start of the 20th century saw Picasso’s mournful Blue Period, but the prize for obsession of the last century must surely go to IKB, Yves Klein Blue. The passion for the colour is far from dead, spilling forcefully into contemporary art.
Group show including:
Takashi Arai, Sue Arrowsmith, Pierre Bergian, Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Leila Jeffreys, Nina Murdoch, David Quinn, Santeri Tuori
The pursuit of the heavenly colour
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
April – May 2024
The chase for blue is never ending, and yet remains elusive, as Lavinia Greenlaw writes in Blue Field:
‘I keep my distance, as things turn blue through stillness and distance;
as everything blue is distant’
Artists since Neolithic times have chased blue even more than gold. In ancient times Lapis Lazuli produced the most treasured pigment. The Egyptians were the first to recreate a synthetic version of this pigment, with blue considered highly valuable as it could lead the soul to immortality.
Millenniums later Kandinsky continued to explore the colour in this vein. ‘Blue’ he wrote in On the Spiritual in Art, ‘assumes overtones of a superhuman sorrow. It becomes like an infinite self-absorption in that profound state of seriousness which has and can have, no end. As it tends towards the bright tones, to which blue is, however, less suited, it takes on a more indifferent character and appears to the spectator remote and impersonal, like the high, pale blue sky.’ In the process of attributing emotions to colours, he dubbed blue the typically ‘heavenly colour.’
The start of the 20th century saw Picasso’s mournful Blue Period, but the prize for obsession of the last century must surely go to IKB, Yves Klein Blue. The passion for the colour is far from dead, spilling forcefully into contemporary art.
Group show including:
Takashi Arai, Sue Arrowsmith, Pierre Bergian, Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Leila Jeffreys, Nina Murdoch, David Quinn, Santeri Tuori