SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

a city of beautiful nonsense, Studio 12, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 14th October- 26th November 2022

Monuments II (memory traces), Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford. August- October 2020.

Monuments of Abandoned Futures, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Co. Cork 19/9/19 – 10/10/19

Duo

OBSERVATORIO INTERIOR, Alba Cortès & Ciara Rodgers, MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, 3rd – 19th January 2023

“I half remember that…”, MSA gallery space, Macroom School of Art, Co. Cork, 15-9-21 – 17-9-2021, Brían Crotty and Ciara Rodgers

Group

Drawing Connections, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgeralds Park, Cork, October 6th – November 3rd 2022.

CRUSH, Backwater Artists Studios, June -August 2022, curated by Aoife Haze.

192ND RHA ANNUAL EXHIBITION, Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Pl, Dublin, 23 May 2022 – 24 Jul, 2022

C L O S E R, Lavit Gallery, Cork, May 5th – May 28th, 2022, curated by Janice Hough.

ATLAS DEL ARTE ESPAÑOL, O Vello Cárcere de Lugo, España June- October 2021

Blue House Gallery Artists Summer Group Show, Schull, Co. Cork 4-23 June 2021

Revision Performing Arts Festival Online Exhibition, Filmed Drawing Performance, March 2020

JUNCTURES: memory and the built environment, a drawing project, Area Services Centre, Station Road, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 23.1.20 – 13.2.20

Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 20/2/2020- 7/3/2020

ArtSevilla 2019|Bauhaus: 100 years since the total revolution of a language, Casa de la Provincia, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain 28/11/19 – 12/1/2020

Alternative Views, Blue House Gallery, Schull, May 2019

Members Exhibition, The Lavit Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork February 2019

Memories of a Nervous System, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design master’s degree Show, No. 46 Grand Parade, Cork, December 2018

The Present, Past, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, October 2017

6Marks: CCAD Graduate Artists, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.

Beyond Dialogue, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Show, Sharman Crawford Street, Cork, June 2017

Murmuration, Group exhibition, The Village Hall, Cork, May 2016

UAP Students Printmaking Exhibition, University of The Arts, Poznan, Poland, May 2016

Viewpoints, St Johns Central College, Cork, May 2013

POSITIONS AND RESIDENCIES

Assistant Lecturer, BA (hons) Visual Art, SETU, Waterford. October 2022- present.

Assistant Lecturer, Life Drawing and Portfolio, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. September 2022- present

Peer Panelist, Arts Council of Ireland 2021-2026

Programme Manager, Arts Council of Ireland, In the Open|Faoin Spéir, Wandesford Quay, Cork, December 2021- August 2022

Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art, TU Dublin, School of Creative Arts, November 2021

Curator, Education and Public Programs, Macroom School of Art, 2021

Artist in Residence in a Care Setting, Age and Opportunity Ireland, October – December 2019.

MA:AP Artist in Residence, MTU, Crawford College of Art and Design, January- December 2019

Curatorship: Cork Centre for Architectural Education: Artists in Residence and MArch Endless [C]ity/Peripheral [C]ity Athens. Nano Nagle Centre, Cork City, May 2018 M.A.: Art & Process, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 2018.

AWARDS

Agility Award 2021, The Arts Council, Ireland

Visual Arts Bursary Award 2020, The Arts Council, Ireland

Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA micro-grant, 2020

Shortlisted for selection for The Derwent Art Prize 2020

CIT Arts Office Purchase Prize, Memories of a Nervous System, MA:AP Degree show, December 2018.

Eli Lilly Degree Show Purchase Prize, Art Committee, Eli Lilly, Kinsale, Cork, June 2017

E.U. Erasmus Programme, University of the Arts, Poznan, Poland, 2016

EDUCATION

M.A.: Art & Process, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 2018.

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, 2017.

BA in Montessori Studies, St Nicholas Montessori College, Dublin, 2005

Memberships: Backwater Artist Studio Member// Fellow Associate Member Cork Printmakers //(VAI) Visual Artists Ireland // Ormston House Limerick