About the Artist

Biog
Monika Crowley graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from NCAD in 2025, following a 20-year detour through advertising. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the absurdity of the everyday through expanded print, painting, and installation. As Visual Arts Director at Ranelagh Arts, she has expanded the artist network and curated a lively programme spanning visual art, theatre, film, music, and public engagement. A former member of Blackchurch and now with Graphic Studio Dublin, her work is widely exhibited and held in national collections. She has received two Agility Awards and funding for travel and research from Paul Mellon Foundation and the Thomas Dammann Trust.

A body of work, DOMESTIC, was exhibited as part of Meat & Potatoes, Crawford Gallery, 2022, and subsequently purchased for the National Collection. In November 2022 Ranelagh Arts hosted SINK, the first showcase of her multidisciplinary practice, incorporating expanded print and painting.

In 2023, took on the role of Visual Arts Director at Ranelagh Arts where she has; expanded and engaged their artist network beyond the local; curated an event of Music, Film, Theatre and Art around the themes and influence of Antonin Artaud in conjunction with IMMA and The French Embassy & Alliance Française network in Ireland; initiated an Emerging Curator Award in collaboration with Angelica Network.

In The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, Jan/Feb 2025 issue, Monika Crowley discusses a site-specific sculpture commissioned by EV+A in 2004, now held in the National Collection on exhibition at IMMA – written from her research and interviews with artist and choreographer Michael Kliën.

Her MFA graduate installation in Rua Red June 2025 was long-listed for the RDS Visual Art Award and shortlisted for the Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2025, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Monaco Foundry.

Recent Research, Awards & Residencies
June 2025 – Long-listed for RDS Visual Art Awards.
June 2025 – MFA in Fine Art NCAD
February 2025 – Research Article Published in VAI
January 2024 – Funded to travel to New York from Thomas Dammann Junior Trust
April 2023 – Travel Bursary from Paul Mellon Foundation for Tate St Ives, Conference
September 2022 – Agility Award From The Arts Council Ireland
May 2021 – Agility Award From The Arts Council Ireland

Exhibitions 2025
June 2025 – MFA Fine Art Graduate Show, Rua Red Tallaght
May 2025 – Leaning on the Line, Graphic Print Gallery
April 2025 – IPUT Living Canvas at Carrickmines
January February 2025 issue of The Visual Artists’ News Sheet

Exhibitions 2024
January 2024 – started 2 year MFA (Painting), NCAD, Dublin
March 2024 – Outcomes, RHA Critical Correspondence Course, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin (group show)
March 2024 – Received the Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
April 2024 – Monochromatic Graphic Print Gallery, selected by Catherine Daunt, Curator of modern and contemporary Graphic Art, British Museum Dublin (group show).
September 2024 – Contours | Modern & Contemporary Art, Herman & Wilkinson Auction Rooms
November 2024 – pARTake, Hunt Museum, Limerick

Exhibitions 2023

April 2023 – Mór Graphic Print Gallery, Dublin (group show)
April 2023 – Female Artists Oslo, The Strand, Oslo Norway (group show)
April 2023 – (M)otherhood Art & Life, Tate St Ives, England, Conference
Awarded a Travel Bursary to attend from the Paul Mellon Foundation
May 2023 – Art Works 2023, Pallas Auction, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin (group show)
May 2023 – First Impressions, Blue House Gallery Schull, Cork (group show)
May 2023 – Ranelagh Arts Festival Exhibition, Dublin (group show)
June 2023 – Expanded, Graphic Print Gallery, Dublin (group show)
Sept 2023 – Russbouragh Car Boot Art Fair (group fair)
Nov 2023 – ‘House’ Curated by Dino Notaro of Slow Lane Gallery.

Exhibitions 2022
Jan 2022 – The Art of Being Mum Podcast interview
Jan 2022 – Studio Residency Award with Ranelagh Arts
May 2022 – RHA Annual Summer 192nd Exhibition (group show)
June 2022 – Ulysses Imagined Centenary Exhibition, Graphic Print Gallery (group show)
July 2022 – Meat & Potatoes, Crawford Gallery (group show)
Aug 2022 – Ranelagh Arts Summer Exhibition (group show)
Sept 2022 – Russbouragh Car Boot Art Fair (group fair)
Sept – Care & Creativity symposium The Mothership project & NCAD in conjunction with Hugh Lane
Nov 2022 – SINK – a solo presentation of expanded print and painting, Ranelagh Arts
Dec 2022 – IPUT Christmas Show, Graphic Print Gallery

Exhibitions 2021 -2020
Dec 2021 – ARTDeli – Pop-up exhibition space (group show)
Oct 2021 – HOST – Exhibition Exchange Dublin (group show)
Oct 2021 – HOST – Belfast International Arts Festival (group show)
Sept 2021 – Russbouragh Car Boot Art Fair (group show)
June 2021 – Artform Summer Show – Dunmore East (group show)
Dec 2020 – Pandemme – Pop-up exhibition space (group show)
Aug/Sept 2020 – Curiosity Cabinet Installation supported by the Arts Council (solo)
Aug 2020 – The Library project – Black Church Editions Exhibition (group show)
Aug 2020 – Greenacres Gallery – Summer Show (group show)
Feb 2020 – The Library project – The Shop that nearly wasn’t (group show)

Exhibitions 2019-2018
Nov 2019 – RHA – VUE, Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair (group show)
Sept 2019 – Russbouragh House – Car Boot Art Fair (group show)
Aug 2019 – Greenacres Gallery – Autumn Exhibition of Print Making (group show)
July 2019 – Graphic Print Gallery – Summer Exhibition (group show)
Nov 2018 – The Library project – Halftone (group show)
Nov 2018 – RHA – VUE, Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair (group show)
Nov 2018 – National Print Museum – Winter Print Fair (group show)
September 2018 – Molesworth Gallery – TREATment (Solo show)
September 2018 – Russbouragh House – Car Boot Art Fair (group show)
May 2018 – RHA – Group 188^th Exhibition 2018 (group show)

Selected Earlier Exhibitions
Jan 2014 – Gormleys Fine Art, Belfast, – Hot off the Press (group show)
June 2013 – Ranelagh Arts Centre – DOMESTIC (Solo show)
Dec 2012 – Haddington House – Christmas Exhibition (Solo show)
June 2012 – Molesworth Gallery – DOMESTIC (Solo show)
Sept 2011 – Village Underground, East London – Higher Pitch ‘Art Sells’ (group show)
July 2011- Limerick Printmakers Gallery – Opening show (group show)

Representation & Membership

The Molesworth Gallery
The Graphic Print Gallery
The Blackchurch Print Studio
Visual Artists Ireland
NCFA

Press

Podcast / Press
13 Art Exhibitions Around Ireland This Summer by Penny McCormick
https://thegloss.ie/13-art-exhibitions-around-ireland-this-summer/

July 2022 – Crawford Gallery Essay by Cristin Leach