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Born: 5 July 1953, Manchester, England
Elected: 28 May 2009
Category of Membership: Painter
O’Donoghue was born in England but lived and worked for many years in County Kerry, Ireland. He graduated from Goldsmiths in 1982 and was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London from 1984-85.
His work is characterised by an engagement with the past. He uses figuration and abstraction to explore themes of human identity, memory and experience; and draws on history, mythology and personal records to create works which resonate with emotional intensity.
Read an interview with Hughie O'Donoghue in RA Magazine Autumn 2009
Recent solo exhibitions
2013 University Gallery, Newcastle
2012 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2011 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
2008 James Hyman Gallery, London
2007 Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
University Gallery and Baring Wing, University of Northumbria, Newcastle
2006 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2005 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Fenton Gallery, Cork
2004 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh and Callan Friary, Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
2003 Imperial War Museum London; Imperial War Museum North Manchester
Purdy Hicks Gallery
2002 Purdy Hicks Gallery
Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich
2001 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2000 Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
Purdy Hicks Gallery
1999 Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
1998-99 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Purdy Hicks Gallery
Public Collections
Arts Council
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford, England
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
British Museum, London, England
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, England
Cleveland County Museums, Middlesbrough, England
Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, England
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
The Imperial War Museum, London, England
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Mayo General Hospital
The National Gallery, London, England
St John's College, University of Oxford, England
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbour, USA
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA
