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

