Deirdre O'Mahony
Deirdre O'Mahony
Membership:
Studio
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions
Joy #5 (A sort of) Retrospective at 17(Joy) Lombardi-Kargl, Vienna (2026);
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, VISUAL, Carlow (2025);
FARMWORK Void Arts Centre, Derry (2025)
The Quickening commissioned by the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2024).
Group exhibitions
The Model Plot, for IMMA Collection: Art as Agency (2025)
Soil and Friends U-jazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw, Poland (2025)
PLATO Gallery Contemporary Art, Czech Republic (2026)
Politics at the Kitchentable Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany and “Botanicals” Vision Art Platform, London and Istanbul
Bio
Deirdre O’Mahony is a contemporary Irish artist whose practice focuses on the politics of landscape, food production, and agricultural knowledge erasure.
Her work has been included in major international exhibitions, including Re-memory, the 25th Sydney Biennale (2026), All that Sustains Us, the Inaugural Medina Triennial, New York State and the 41st EVA International, Limerick.
Recent solo exhibitions include Joy #5 (A sort of) Retrospective at 17(Joy) Lombardi-Kargl, Vienna (2026); Between a Rock and a Hard Place, VISUAL, Carlow (2025); FARMWORK Void Arts Centre, Derry (2025) and The Quickening commissioned by the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2024). Group exhibitions include The Model Plot, for IMMA Collection: Art as Agency (2025), Soil and Friends U-jazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw, Poland (2025) and PLATO Gallery Contemporary Art, Czech Republic (2026), Politics at the Kitchentable Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany and “Botanicals” Vision Art Platform, London and Istanbul. Recent publications include Land Art as Useful Art interview with Sebastian Cichocki for L’Internationale Online and Between the Farmer and the Dung Beetle for Camera Internationale. She is a recipient of numerous Arts Council of Ireland bursaries and project awards.
Profile photo by Miriam O’Connor
