2011

MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2008

BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1st Class). National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

2025 

Oedipus, The Complex, Dublin, Ireland

2024

In praise of idleness - Artist-Initiated Projects 2024, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

2021

like stars and years, like numerals, Berlin Opticians, Dublin, Ireland

2019

The other side of the wind, Berlin Opticians, Dublin, Ireland

2013

Two exercises in awareness and observation, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2012

If what they say is true, CCA Projects, Derry~Londonderry, N. Ireland

2011

The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, Telephone Booth, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2009

At the still point of the turning world, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland

2008

Never Odd or Even and other pieces, The LAB, Dublin, Ireland

2026

Songs to the Siren, The Model, Sligo, Ireland

A line has time in it, Carta Magna, London, England

Slow Image, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

WORKS IN PROGRESS, Belfast Stories Building, Belfast, N. Ireland

Still, We Gather, Galway Art Centre, Galway, Ireland

2025 

All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, The Coach House, Dublin, Ireland

Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art Biennial, Mayo, Ireland

Esprit de Corps, Independent Studios, Dublin, Ireland

Collected Expression : MTU Alumni in the Arts Council Collection, MTU Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Caim, Slane Castle, Meath, Ireland
Curated by Jenn Ellis and Matilda Liu

Moments of Being, Solstice Art Centre, Navan, Ireland

AR 2025, One Charlemount Square, Dublin, Ireland

Portraits, An Chéad Tine Art Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK

Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2024

Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Muscles and Mind: Irish Art Olympians, Waterford Gallery of Art, Waterford, Ireland

A Triptych of Existentialism, curated by Simon Fennesy Corcoran, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Clare, Ireland

Mowers and Shakers, Lawnmor Projects, Dalkey, Ireland

2023

HERE COMES LOVE, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Climate and Health, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Shifting the silence, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland

193rd RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Chaos / Order, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, Ireland - curated by Ann Mulrooney

Hoarders, Quarters Gallery, Los Angeles, California

MANIFEST/O, Galleri KiT, Trondheim, Norway

2022

A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland

192nd RHA Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

De/Construct, Outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland

Summer Exhibition, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin, Ireland

Tangible Visible Form, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Clare, Ireland

2021

Double Estate, Pearse Museum, Dublin, Ireland (group)Winter Print Show, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland

11/11, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland

Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland

2020

We are solitary, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland

ARTWORKS 2020, VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland

601 days, Berlin Opticians Gallery, Dublin Ireland

Open Submission 2020, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland

2019

And when he came to, Platform, Belfast, N. Ireland (two person)

Arrangements, curated by James Merrigan, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland

back on the beach in the freezing sand , Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland (two person)

and it was raining out of a low sky, Sternview Gallery, Cork, Ireland (two person)

and the tide was way out, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon, Dublin, Ireland (two person)

No Feeling Is Final, Live Collision & Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Some Concrete Possibilities, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

2018

Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

peripheriesOPEN, Periphery Space, Wexford, Ireland

The Medium is the Message, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

2017

2116, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA

ART WORKS selected by Eoin Dara and Emma Lucy O’ Brien, Carlow, Ireland

Attitude Precedes Form, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

The Tree Line Project curators Oonagh Young and Mary Cremin, Dublin, Ireland

2016

The Headless City, TULCA, Galway, Ireland

2116, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

INFRA, eight gallery, Dublin, Ireland

ARTWORKS selected by Annie Fletcher & Claire Feeley, Carlow, Ireland

This is Water, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, N. Ireland

Rosebud, The Library Project, Dublin

Listen, Hissen, Hessin!, IMMA, Dublin

A Conversation on Drawing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 

2015

In the Silence of the Night, curated by Mary Cremin, IMMA, Dublin

∞ (Broken Mirrors), NCAD Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (two person) 

The Grammar of Ornament, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

The Perennial, Grecian Shelter, Brooklyn, New York

2014

Stone Soup, Basic Space and Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland

Stick Up Fir-Tree, Irishise, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, Ireland

Periodical Review #3, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

thigmotropism, John Jones Project Space, London

2013

Sleepwalkers: Possibilities Contingencies, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

I want to be your dog, The Glue Factory, Glasgow

A Lamb Lies Down, Broadstone Studios, Dublin, Ireland

Periodical Review #3, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin

(((O))), Clonlea Studios, Dublin, Ireland

2012

A Living Room Suite Presentation, Salon Populaire, Berlin, Germany

Yes, We Have No Bananas, Project Arts Centre presented by Vaari Claffey, Dublin, Ireland

Prelude to Nothing, LAB, Dublin, Ireland

ached grew print jot, The Drawing Project, Dublin, Ireland

2011

Amikejo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spaincurated by Latitudes

Screening Room: Dublin, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

(WHOOPEE) we're all going to die, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow, Rotterdam, Netherlands, curated by Ellen Blumenstein

WordPerfect, NoPlace, Oslo, Norway

Dublin Art Book Fair & Magazine Archive, TBG+S, Dublin, Ireland

BrakTalk–Beside Itself, Duende, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Love Letter To a Surrogate Stage II, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium

2010

A Whole New Ball Game, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

Three or Four Works, radiowy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Lost & Found, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Clifford Irving Show, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium

Love Letter To a Surrogate, Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Studies and Contemplations, Other Gallery, Banff, Canada

DONE TO A DEAD END, SD&G, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Nature of Things, Le Petit Port, Leiden, Netherlands

2009

MISSING LINK, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest, Romania (two person)

It's not for reading. It's for making, FormContent, London, England

Clifford Irving Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
curated by Raimundas Malasauskas

2008

Non-Knowledge, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Play, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Ireland

curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas

2026

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

2025

Arts Council Bursary Award

Homiens Art Prize

Arts Council Project Award

2023

dlr Arts Grant

Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award

2022

Shortlisted for The Merrion Plinth Award

2021

dlr Arts Grant

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award

2020

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

Shortlisted for The Janet Mullarney Prize

2019

Shortlisted for The Merrion Plinth Award

Cork City Council Individual Bursary

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

2016

Black Church Print Studio, Membership Studio Award 

2015

DIT Project Studios, Studio Award

2013

Firestation Artists Studios, Sculpture Workshop Residency Award & Bursary

Dublin City Council, Incubation Space Award

2012

Production Ireland 2012, CCA Projects

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

2010

Arts Council of Ireland, Travel & Training Award

Culture Ireland, Project grant

2008

Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award

Dublin City Council, Arts Bursary

2026

Artist in Residency / AiR, Kunstwerk Kolderveen, Nijeveen, The Netherlands

dlr Baths Artist Studio, Dublin

2025

Artist in Residency / AiR, Kunstwerk Kolderveen, Nijeveen, The Netherlands

2020

NCAD School of Fine Art, Artist in Residence 2020-21, Dublin

2017

Independent Studios Artists Ltd, Dublin, Ireland

2015

Artists’ Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art Award & Bursary, Dublin

2012

Dublin City Council, Red Stables, Dublin, Ireland

2010

Banff Art Centre, Alberta, Canada

 Arts Council of Ireland

Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland

Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland

TBWA\CHIAT\DAY, San Francisco, CA

2025

Lee Welch, spider & ink, Edited by Mark O’Gorman

2015

Paper Visual Art Journal- Edited by Marysia Wieckiewicz–Carroll and Nathan O’Donnell

Sleepwalkers- Book
 Edited by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisely

2012

Amikejo- Book 
Edited by Latitudes

Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow - Book
 Edited by Ellen Blumenstein

2011

the space in between, Artist publication, Antinomian Press

2010

ANAL # 0, intermittent periodical, Banff Art Centre

Options with Nostrils - Book 
Edited by Alexis Vaillant

Shifter 16 : Pluripotential - Magazine
 Edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath & Warren Neidich

2HB Volume 6 - Journal
 Centre for Contemporary Art

Mirror Lamp Press June 2025, On Lee Welch, Oedipus, by Diana Bamimeke

Merrigan May 2025, Oedipus, by James Merrigan

Irish Times 18 March 2025, All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, by Tom Lordan

Irish Independent 14 March 2025, The Weekend Hitlist: What we want to see, do and buy this weekend, by Aoife Rooney

Sunday Independent 2 March 2024, What Lies Beneath, by Niall MacMonagle

Irish Arts Review VOLUME 40. NO. 4 Winter 2023, Silent matter by Aidan Dunne

Irish Times 21 August 2023, National Gallery of Ireland announces Zurich prize shortlists

Irish Times 15 August 2023, Kerlin Gallery, by Gemma Tipton

Irish Times 22 April 2019, Live Collision, by Gemma Tipton

This is Tomorrow February 22nd 2019, and the tide was way out, by Aidan Kelly Murphy

Sunday Independent 11 February 2019, What Lies Beneath, by Niall MacMonagle

Irish Times 2 February 2019, Visual Arts Highlights, by Aidan Dunne

The Gloss Magazine 30 January 2019, Artistic License, by Penny McCormick

Irish Times 22 January 2019, Some Concrete Possibilities, by Aidan Dunne

Irish Times 18 December 2018, Pallas Periodical Review, by Aidan Dunne

Visual Artists’ News Sheet Jan/Feb 2017, Materiality as Relic by Gianna Tasha Tomasso

Art Monthly : Issue : 402 December-January 2016, The Headless City by Joanne Laws

Billion Journal 19 February 2016, Boys & Girls by James Merrigan

Irish Times 3 March 2015, Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments, by Aidan Dunne

Art Monthly : Issue : 369 September 2013, Dublin Round-up, by Chris Clarke

Artforum 500 words, Dec 20, 2012, As told to Miguel Amado

Frieze #120 January–February 2009, Emerging Artists Looking Back, by Tessa Giblin

Artpapers, January/February 2009, NONKNOWLEDGE by John Gayer

Circa #125, review: ‘Degree shows: Critics’ choices’ by Alan Phelan

Circa Online Reviews, October 2008, ‘Lee Welch: Never odd or even’ by Sara Baume