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Education
2019 MA Art and Research Collaboration, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2007 BA (hons) Visual Arts Practice, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2003 Cert. Drawing and Visual Investigation, NCAD, Dublin
2002 National Diploma in Design, stage 1, Griffith College Dublin
1981 BSc (Hons) Chemistry major, University College Cork
Selected Exhibitions
2022 PULSE, emerging artists at Limerick City Gallery of Art
2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2021 Woman and the Machine, co curated by VISUAL Carlow and Carlow Arts Festival, Visual Carlow
2020 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2019 Winter Open, Rua Red, south Dublin Arts Centre
2019 Foreign Body, solo show opened by Anne Mullee, O’Reilly Institute, Trinity College Dublin
2018 Ex Voto: The Body +The Institution, group show curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway Arts Centre
2016 Statecraft, collaborative partnership with IMMA’s National Programme, IMMA, Dublin
2015 Home, dlr Open 2015, selected by Mark St. John Ellis, Lexicon Gallery, Dublin
2013 dlr Open, selected by Tara Murphy, The Concourse, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
2012 Wake, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, group show: Judy Foley, Paul Hickey, Jane Locke and Roger O’Neill
2012 Irish Wave 3, curated by Fion Gunn and Zheng Xuewu, Irish Centre Shanghai, China
2011 Claremorris Open Exhibition, selected by Chris Hammond, MOT International
2011 Shul, The Complex, Dublin, group show: Judy Foley, Paul Hickey, Jane Locke and Roger O’Neill
2010 Holding Together, exhibition to celebrate 50 years of the Modern Art Collection of Trinity College Dublin, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2010 Regaining Consciousness, group show by SODIUM art collective, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre
2009 Anaesthetic Intervention, site specific art trail by SODIUM art collective, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2008 Obsessive Beginnings, group show by SODIUM art collective, Broadstone Studios XL, Dublin
2008 Eigse Open, Carlow Arts Festival, selection by Patrick T. Murphy, director RHA
2007 Scratch, 50 New and Emerging International Artists, curated by Helen Steele, CHQ, Dublin Docklands
Residencies
2018/2019 Visiting Research Assistant, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin
2016 Statecraft, IMMA, Dublin, collaborative partnership with IMMA’s National Programme
Awards
2022 Irish Research Council award at PULSE, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2021 Eigse Graduate Award, Carlow Visual and Carlow Arts Festival
2019 Trinity College Dublin, Performing and Visual Arts Award
2015 Prize winner – Home, dlr Open Submission, Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2009 dlr County Council Arts Office funding award (Anaesthetic Intervention)
2007 Graphic Studio Dublin graduate award
Talks
2019 Foreign Body, Judy Foley at Findings, Research in Art, Design, Film, Photography + Visual Culture, National Film School, IADT, June 6
Texts
2021, Artist Judy Foley on how she combines scientific knowledge with ancient traditions of needlecraft. Interview by Rosa Abbott, Assistant Curator, VISUAL Carlow
2019, ARC Project Profile: Judy Foley, Foreign Body 2019, Maeve Connolly, May 15
2019, Exhibition Text, Foreign Body – Judy Foley talks to curator Anne Mullee
2019, Circa Art Magazine, Judy Foley, Foreign Body at O’Reilly Institute, TCD, Lorraine Whelan, April 2019
2019, Totally Dublin, Exhibition Review: Foreign Body, Masie Linford, March 2019
2019, Trinity Research and Innovation, Foreign Body Exhibition Officially Launched, Anthony O’Callaghan, March 2019
2018, Human bodies riven by anxiety in Galway, Ex Voto, The body + The Institution, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, February 21
2018, Putting pain in perspective, The Sunday Times Culture Magazine, Cristin Leach, Feb 11
2011, Developing Cultural Capacity in Dun Laoghaire Spatially, A Study for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Arts Office, John McLaughlin, architect, March 2011
2007, A New Crop of Graduates Comes into its Own, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, June 13