Education
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1994 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
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1989 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.F.A. |
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1987 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A. |
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1982-85 |
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland |
Awards
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2000 |
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan, Ireland |
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1999 |
Joan Mitchell Award for painting
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan, Ireland
Sirius Project, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland
Art Flight, Irish Arts Council |
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1998 |
Fundacion Valparaiso Residency, Almeria, Spain
Institute for the Arts & Humanistic Studies, Penn State
University
Travel Award, Irish Arts Council |
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1997 |
Ballinglen Artist Foundation
Institute for the Arts & Humanistic Studies, Penn State
University
Graphic Workshop, Print Studio, Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 1-10) |
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1996 |
Pollock-Krasner Award |
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1995 |
Arts Council of Ireland, Materials Grant
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel Grant (Art Flight)
Aer Lingus Shipping Award |
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1994 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, scholarship |
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1991 |
Community Arts Assistance Grant, Chicago, Illinois |
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1989 |
Pollock-Krasner Award |
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1986-89 |
Tuition Remission, Art Institute of Chicago |
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1981-85 |
Full Merit Scholarship, National College of the Arts and
Design, Dublin |
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
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2000 |
Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
Michael Gold Gallery, New York
Sirius Project,"Plot" collaboration with
Katie Holten, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland
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1998 |
Michael Gold Gallery, New York |
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1997 |
Michael Gold Gallery, New York |
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1995 |
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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1993 |
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago |
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1991 |
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago |
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1990 |
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago |
Selected
Group Exhibitions
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1999 |
Fresh Art, Princess Street, Cork, Ireland
Art of th,e State, travelling show, Derry, Carrig Fergus,
Limerick and Clonmel.
National Institute of Art, Manchester, New Hamshire |
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1998 |
Works on Paper, Michael Gold Gallery, New York
David Beitzel, Skowhegan Show, New York |
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1997 |
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Michael Gold Gallery, New York
Gallery Artist, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago
ArtFair/Seattle, Seattle, WA
Triad Show, SECCA, Winston Salem, NC |
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1996 |
Art Chicago: New Pier Show, Chicago
N.A.M.E. Gallery Auction, Chicago
Art Space, New Haven, Connecticut; curated by Bill Arning
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
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1995 |
Gallery 450, New York
Zollar Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania
ART EXPO 1995 Chicago at Navy Pier, Chicago
Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago |
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1994 |
Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago |
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1993 |
Emerging Chicago Abstract Painters, Rockford
Museum of Art,
Rockford, Illinois
Owen Patrick Galley, Philadelphia
Randolph Street Gallery Auction, Chicago
Zoller Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania |
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1992 |
Helen O’leary/ Helen O’Toole, Saint
Xavier College, Chicago
Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago
Art Expo, Chicago
N.A.M.E. Gallery Auction, Chicago |
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1991 |
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Ellen Campbell, Paul Chidester, Helen O’Leary, Rezac
Gallery, Chicago |
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1989 |
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; curated by Tony Tasset
Chicago New Talent II, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago
Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago
Renee Landry and Helen O’Leary, Gallery II, Chicago |
Publications
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1999 |
Limerick’s Mini Marathon, by
Aidan Dunne, in The Irish Times, 27.5.99, p. 14
More Than Meets The Eye, by Angeline Morrison, in The Sunday
Tribune, 11.10.98, p. 3
99 reduced
limerick City Gallery @ various venues across Limerick by Sean
Taylor, the Ssi ( the Sculptor’s society of Ireland
,july/August 99p 25
Internationsal Code by Peter Murray, in Circa 88, p.30
Helen O’ Leary, New Work by Lyle Davies, in Circa
87,p.58 |
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1998 |
The World of Hibernia, The Wild Geese |
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1997 |
Panning for Art Gold Yields Nuggets at Fair,
Regina Hackett,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 21 |
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1996 |
Sunday Tribune, Dublin. Ireland
Pick of the Week, Irish Times, January 14 |
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1995 |
An Abstract Expressionist, Brian Fallon, Irish
Times, December 21
New Names to Watch Out For, Katie Donocan, Irish Times,
December 14 |
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1993 |
New O’Leary Works Strike Dynamic Balance,
Davis McCraken,Chicago Tribune, June 18 |
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1992 |
Kathryn Hixson, ARTS Magazine, February |
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1995 |
Kathryn Hixson, ARTS Magazine, February |
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1991 |
O’Leary on Track with Rigorous New Works,
Alan Artner,
Chicago Tribune, November 22 |
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1990 |
Sensitive Debut, Alan Artner, Chicago
Tribune, August 23 |
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