Mark Shields
Artist profile
Born 1963
EDUCATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1986 Otter Gallery, Belfast
1997 ‘Recent works’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
1998 ‘Recent Works’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
1999 Grosvenor Gallery, Ormond Quay Hotel, Dublin
2001 ‘Inhabitants of the Dream Courtyard’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2003 ‘Pilgrimage’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2005 ‘Paintings and Drawings’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2007 ‘Twilight and the Unseen’, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
2008 ‘Colloquy’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 ‘Here and Elsewhere’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 ‘Never and Always’, Everard Read, Cape Town
2011 ‘The Broken and Scattered God’, Dickon Hall Ltd., Belfast
2014 ‘Host’, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2014 ‘Nights and Days’, Dickon Hall Ltd., Belfast
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1985 Castle Ashby, Northampton
1987-2011 Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
1989 Arnott’s Portrait Award Exhibition
1990-2009 Cavehill Gallery, Belfast
1991-94 Otter Fine Art, Armagh
1991 U.T.V. Award Exhibition, Belfast
1992, 1993 One Oxford Street, Belfast
1992 Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1992, 1993 Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1993-95, 1999-2001, 2003-05 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
1993, 1994, 2006, 2012 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1993 Spectator Art Awards Exhibition, Christie’s, London
1993 St. James’s Art Group, London
1993 20th Century British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
1994, 1995, 1998, 2000 Hunting Art Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
1994-96, 1999, 2001, 2002 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994 Burlington New Gallery, London
1994 Michael Simpson Gallery, London
1994 The Studio, 73 Glebe Place, London
1995, 1996 Lucy Simmonds Fine Art, Hong Kong
1995 Stephen Somerville Fine Art, London
1997, 1999-2003, 2008 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1999 Florence Biennale, Florence
1999 National Gallery of Ireland Portraits of the Century, Dublin
2001 Side By Side, Nashville Exchange Exhibition, Nashville
2004 ‘Bella Figura’, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
2004, 2005, 2007 ArtBasel, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
2005-11 20/21 British Art Fair, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2005 ‘Träume und Mythen’, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
2006-09 Ava Gallery, Clandeboye, Northern Ireland
2008 London Art Fair, Grosvenor Gallery, London
2010 Jorgensen Gallery, Dublin
2010-11 Dickon Hall Ltd., Belfast
AWARDS
1990 U.T.V. award for outstanding work by an artist under 30
1992 Finalist, Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award, London
1994 Abbey Stained Glass Studios Award, R.H.A. Dublin
1995 Anderson’s Auctioneers & Valuers Prize, R.U.A.
1995 Associate Diploma, R.U.A.
2000 Meynell Fenton Prize, Discerning Eye
2001-03 Regional Award, Discerning Eye
2002 3rd Prize, B.P. Portrait Award, London
2002 Elected Academician, Royal Ulster Academy
COLLECTIONS
Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland)
Arts Council for Northern Ireland
Ulster Television Collection
Ulster Museum
National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick
Royal Ghurkha Regiment, Portrait of Prince Charles 2001
National Gallery of Ireland, Portrait of Mary and Nicholas Robinson, Dublin 1998
House of Commons, London, Portrait of Reverend Ian Paisley, 2009
Church House, Armagh, Portrait of Archbishop Alan Harper, 2011
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