Frances Ryan
Mart Studios - Dublin - Ireland
Awards
2026 MFA Art Residency Program Award Notre Dame/Kylemore Co. Galway
2023-24 SIAP Grant Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2020 Ards and North Down Individual Artist Development Award
2018/19 ACNI SIAP Materials Grant
2017 Ards and North Down Individual Artist Development Award
2016 Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP Award (Support for Individual Artist Programme 2016/17)
2015 NOA15 Towry Regional Award, Northern Ireland
2014 Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP Award
2014 & 2006 Paul Henry Landscape Prize, Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
2014 NOA14 Towry Regional Award for Northern Ireland
2013 Arts Council of Northern Ireland SIAP Award
2009 Fellowship Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo
Solo Exhibitions include
2024 ‘A Meditation on Birds’ Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland
2018 ‘Solace’ Arts Care Gallery, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2017 ‘Garden of Delights’ Georgian Gallery, Ards Art Centre, Newtownards, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
2017 ‘Botanic’ Catherine Hammond Gallery, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland
2013 ‘An Invented Land’ Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, Co. Cork, Ireland
2011 ‘Residence’ Mullan Gallery Belfast Northern Ireland
Collections
Office of Public Works (OPW) State Art Collection, Ireland (2013, 2014 & 2015)
Arts Council of Northern Ireland (2013 & 2014)
Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS)
Department of Finance & Personnel, Northern Ireland
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Archive
IBEC Irish Business & Employers Federation
Druids Glen Resort Ireland
Four Seasons Dublin
Park Avenue Hotel Belfast (commission)
Boyle Civic Collection
Allied Irish Bank Ireland
Office of Public Works (OPW) State Art Collection, Ireland
Westport Town Council, Co. Mayo
Selected Group & Juried Exhibitions
2025 Small is Beautiful 43rd Edition, Flowers Gallery, London - Hunt Museum Limerick, Inaugural Open Exhibition - Artform at The Dunmore Dublin - Lido Stores Margate Open ‘25 - RHA Dublin Annual Exhibition - Cairde Visual Sligo - BEEP Painting Biennal Wales - Lido Stores Margate ‘If Heaven Falls’ - The Point Contemporary Norfolk UK ‘An Ordinary Beauty’
2024 ‘I like it Still’ at The Point Contemporary, Cromer, Norfolk UK - 2024 RHA Annual Exhibition Dublin.
2023 RHA Annual Dublin - Royal Academy London Annual Summer Exhibition - RWA (Royal West of England Academy) Bristol 170th Annual Exhibition (Sept-Jan) - ArtEast UK at Woodbridge, Suffolk UK - ‘Seventy Trees’ 70 invited artists at the Rowley Gallery London - Hamilton Gallery Sligo.
2022 Hang Tough Print Editions Dublin - John Martin Gallery London - Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo - RHA Annual Dublin - Norwich Cathedral invited by ‘The Aborealists’ UK - Hamilton Gallery, Sligo,
2021 RHA Annual Dublin
2020 RA Summer Exhibition London
2019 RA Summer Exhibition London
2018 RHA Dublin - Ards Arts Centre Newtownards NI - Model Arts Centre Sligo Cairde Visual - Skibbereen Arts Festival, Co. Cork (invited) - Hamilton Gallery Sligo (invited artists) - Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon (invited).
2017 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London.
2016 Royal Hibernian Academy 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London.
2015 NOA Winter Exhibition Royal College of Art, London & Pallant House Chichester - Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Exhibition, Piano Noble, London - ‘The Enhanced Eye’, Group Show, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Cork - Royal Ulster Academy 133rd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast -Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2014 NOA Exhibition, The Embankment Gallery, Somerset House, London - Royal Ulster Academy 133rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin - Solomon Gallery Dublin - Kilkenny Arts Festival (Jonathan Swift Gallery).
2013 Royal Hibernian Academy 183rd Annual Exhibition, Dublin - Royal Ulster Academy 132nd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast - Score, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo - All Ireland Group Show, Gordon Gallery, Derry City of Culture. Wool House – The Cill Rialaig Project, Somerset House, London.
2012 VUE Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin - Towry NOAC Chichester & London - Royal Ulster Academy 131st Annual Exhibition, Belfast. ‘Artefacts of Failure’, QUAD, Derby, Derbyshire, England - Royal Hibernian Academy 182nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2011 Rua Red Winter Open, Dublin - Royal Hibernian Academy 181st Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2010 Towry NOAC, Chichester, UK - Royal Ulster Academy, 129th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast - Boyle Arts Festival (invited artist) Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland - Royal Hibernian Academy 180th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.