Tom Molloy

Tom Molloy
Gun, 2013
graphite on paper
11-3/4 x 14-1/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, The Pass, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, Early Start, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, Breaking Camp, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, Council of the Chiefs, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 10-3/16 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, On The Alert, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, Peace be With You, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 4-1/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, Sioux Indian, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 4-3/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Native, The Crossing, 2013
graphite on paper
6-1/4 x 11-3/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Postcard, 2013
graphite on paper
8-5/8 x 10-5/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Edge, 2008
folded printed map
13-3/4 x 19-5/8 inches

Tom Molloy
detail of Citizen, 2013
set of four photographs; edition of 3
4-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
detail of Citizen, 2013
Set of four photographs; edition of 3
​4-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, 2010
pencil on paper
7-1/2 x 5-1/3 inches

Tom Molloy
A Lady Standing at a Virginal, 2010
pencil on paper
7-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Woman with a Lute, 2010
pencil on paper
6-3/4 x 5-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Young Woman with a Jug, 2010
pencil on paper
6-3/4 x 5-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, 2010
pencil on paper
6-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Woman in the Pearl Necklace, 2010
pencil on paper
6-11/16 x 5-3/8 inches

Tom Molloy
The Milkmaid, 2010
pencil on paper
6-11/16 x 5-7/8 inches

Tom Molloy
The Lacemaker, 2010
pencil on paper
5-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches

Tom Molloy
Dream, 2009
cut paper, two books in Plexiglas
7-3/4 x 5-1/8 inches, each

Tom Molloy
Graven No. 3, 2008
pencil on photograph
10-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Graven No. 4, 2008
pencil on photograph
11 x 9 inches

Tom Molloy
Graven No. 8, 2008
pencil on photograph
9 x 12 inches

Tom Molloy
Graven No. 9, 2008
pencil on photograph
11-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Frame, 2007
collage, hand-cut US dollar bill
9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Map, 2007
collage, hand-cut US dollar bill
9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy 
Contact, 2010
photograph; edition of 10
8 x 10 inches

Tom Molloy 
Wood No. 1, 2009
pencil on paper
diptych; 17 x 13 inches each

Tom Molloy 
Baum, 2009
pencil on paper
5-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches

Tom Molloy 
Sheet III, 2009
stamp and acrylic
11 x 9-1/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Whistleblower, 2008
pencil on paper
diptych; 20-1/2 x 17-3/4 inches each

Tom Molloy
Dove (x-ray), 2008
pencil on paper
9-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Behind Every Great Man, 2008
cross-stitch embroidery; edition of 3
suite of 45 pieces; 9-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches each
 

Tom Molloy
detail of Behind Every Great Man, 2008
cross-stitch embroidery; edition of 3
suite of 45 pieces; 9-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches each
 

Tom Molloy
Soapbox, 2008
watercolor
6 x 15-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Lost, 2009
photograph; edition of 6
20-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches

Tom Molloy
Erasure, 2009
collage, US dollar bill
2-1/2 x 6 inches

Tom Molloy
Framework No. 2, 2008
collage, US dollar bill, Chinese yen
10-1/4 x 14-1/3 inches

Tom Molloy
Archipeligo, 2008
collage, map
22 x 27 inches

Tom Molloy
Search No. 43, 2007
A4 cut photo paper
11-1/2 x 8 inches

Tom Molloy
Flag, 2008
c-print mounted to acrylic
31-1/2 x 39-3/8 inches

Tom Molloy 
Homeland No. 2, 2009
ink on paper
9-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
The State of America, 2008
US dollar bill and liquid paper
2-1/2 x 6 inches

Tom Molloy
Blowback, 2007
collage, hand-cut US dollar bill
10-1/4 x 14-1/3 inches

Tom Molloy
Sphere of Influence, 2007
collage, hand cut US dollar bill
9-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches

Tom Molloy
Lone Star, 2007
watercolor on paper
installation view of 50 pieces; 5 x 4-3/4 inches each

Tom Molloy
detail of Lone Star, 2007
watercolor on paper
50 pieces; 5 x 4-3/4 inches each

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Born Waterford, Ireland, 1964
Lives and works in Rouen, France

Education
1987
BA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1992
MA Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Solo Exhibitions
2018
• BLACK AND WHITE, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2017
• CELEBRATION, Garter Lane Arts Center, Waterford, Ireland
2016
• WAIT, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
2014
• NATIVE, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• STAY HUMAN, Ete 76, Brussels, Belgium
2013
• ISSUE, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
• CADRE/R, Le 180, Rouen, France 
2012
• New World, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin Texas
2011
• Doubt, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Woman, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2010
• Review, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Co Laois
• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut
• Aftermath, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2009
• Tom Molloy: Lucid, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2008
• SUBPLOT Tom Molloy, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Ireland
• Tom Molloy: the shape I'm in, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
2007
• Tom Molloy, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
• Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
2006
• Present Future, Artissima Turin, Italy (selected by Katerina Gregos)
2005
• Yo Lo Vi, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
• Yo Lo Vi, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2004
• Allegiance, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2002
• Dead Texans, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Dead Texans, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
2001
• Ballyconnoe South, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1999
• Oak, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• Oak, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1997
• Time, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1996
• The Labours of Heracles, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1994
• World Gone Wrong, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
1992
• New Paintings, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2018             
• LA MAIN D’ADELE, Musee Victor Hugo, Villequier, France
• WE ONLY WANT THE EARTH, Adobe Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017             
• THE TIMES, Flag Art Foundation, New York, New York
• MOOD SWINGS, frei-raum, Q21, Vienna, Austria
2016               
• MAC INTERNATIONAL, The MAC, Belfast, Ireland
• IL Y A DE L’AUTRE, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
• THE CITY, Kube Kunstmuseet, Alesund, Norway
• PORTRAIT DE L’ARTISTE EN ALTER, FRAC, Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
2015             
• CORPS FRAGMENTES, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
• DEMONSTRATING MINDS, KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
• CURATED BY, MAM Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
• 5th THESSALONIKI BIENNALE, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014               
• SMALL, The Drawing Center, New York
• MAPPING ASIA, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
• MONUMENT, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais, France

2013
• Transferts, Musee d'Art, Histoire et Archeologie, Evreux, France
• Lines of Control, Nasher Museum, Duke University, North Carolina
• 5th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Curator Catherine de Zegher, Moscow, Russia
• personal, political, mysterious, Flag Art Foundation, New York and Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Societes Secretes, Musee Alfred Canel, Pont-Audemer, France
2012
• Lines of Control, Herbert F Johnson Museum, Cornell University, New York, USA
• Atlas at Last, ESADHaR Rouen School of Art and Design, France
• Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Curated by Katerina Gregos, Kazerne Dossin, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Lamot Heritage Centre and the Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium
2011
• this little bag of dreams, Catherine Clarke Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• Gravity, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Out of Place, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Texas, USA
2009
• Manifest Destiny, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin
• Superfine, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
• Paper Trail v 5 Intimate Gestures, Judi Rotenberg Gallery Boston USA
• Ouverture, Moeller Fine Art, Berlin (Inaugural exhibition)
• Pulse New York, USA Art Fair (with Lora Reynolds Gallery (solo))
• ArtBrussels, Belgium (with Rubicon Gallery)
2008
• NOT TOO BAD (again), curated by Martina Gambillara and Andrea Peruggi, PERUGI artecontemporanea, Italy
• "Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now", Austin Museum of Art, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen.
• M.A.P. at N.O. Gallery, Milan
• Pulse New York Art Fair, Pulse Miami Art Fair and Artforum Berlin Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery)
• Invited: TULCA 2008, Galway, curated by George Bolster
• Exploration, Drogheda Arts Festival, curated by Ruairí Ó Cuív
2007
• The Sleep of Reason, Crawford Open 2007, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Cartography, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Histoire de L'oeil, Galerie HO, Marseille, France
• The Worst is / Not to Die in Summer, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
• Pulse New York Art Fair USA with Rubicon Gallery
• Pulse London (with Lora Reynolds Gallery)
• MACO Art Fair Mexico with Rubicon Gallery
2006
• Irish American Awards (nominee), New York USA
• This Ain't No Fooling Around, Rubicon Gallery Dublin (curated by Joseph R Wolin) ? with Stephen Andrews, Marc Handelman, Josephine Meckseper, Steve Mumford, Barbara Pollack (toured to Letterkenny Arts Centre, Donegal, Ireland)
• Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Pulse Art Fair, New York, USA & Pulse, Miami, USA (with Rubicon Gallery)
2005
• Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Ireland, European Central Bank, Frankfurt Germany
• Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain & Art Cologne, Germany (with Rubicon Gallery)
• Happy Holiday, exhibition, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2004
• In the Time of Shaking, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
• Art Brussels, Belgium, Fiac Paris France & Art Cologne Germany Art Fairs with Rubicon Gallery
2003
• Someone to Watch over me, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Portrayal, Model Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
• Lineage (two person exhibition), Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
• Public & Private Narrative, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
2002
• The unblinking Eye, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
• Art Fair Brussels Belgium with Rubicon Gallery
2001
• The Garden, Model Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
• Art Fair Brussels Belgium, with Rubicon Gallery
2000
• The Whoseday Book, Irish Hospice Foundation, Ireland
• Arts Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London, England
1999
• Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
1998
• Vital Presence, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
1997
• Banquet Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1996
• Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland
1995
• Banquet Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1988-94
• National Portrait Exhibition, Dublin (Prize Winner)
1993
• Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
1992
• Oireachtas Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1988
• EV+A 88, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland
1987
• Nineteen Eighty Seven Painters, An Bord Trachtala Offices, Brussels, Belgium Festival Inter celtique de L'Orient, Brittany, France
• SADE, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Living Art Exhibition, Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland

Awards and Grants
2013
• Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Connecticut
• Thomas Dammann Junior Trust, Travel Scholarship
2008
• RIAA Residency, Argentina
• Arts Council Bursary Award (multi annual)
2007
• Culture Ireland (award to support exhibition in USA)
• Arts Council Bursary Award (one year)
2005
• Arts Council Project Grant
2004
• Tony O'Malley Travel Award
• Arts Council Exhibition Award
• Arts Council Materials Grant
1995
• Arts Council Material Grant
1990
• Thomas Dammann Junior Trust, Travel Scholarship to Italy

Selected Collections
The Ark Cultural Centre, Dublin Ireland
The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaoin, Dublin
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Collection FRAC - Fondo Regionale Arte Contemporanea, Piemonte, Italy
Fondazione Spinola Banna Per L'Arte, Turin
FRAC, Haute Normandie, Rouen, France
Goldman Sachs, London England
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Ireland
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, USA
National Self Portrait Collection Limerick Ireland
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton USA

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