Nationality: Irish

Pat Harris was born in Dublin in 1953. He spent a year as an evening student at the National College of Art and Design before pursuing a full time painting course from 1973 to 1978. He won a scholarship to the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp graduating in 1981. He has held numerous solo shows in Belgium, Ireland, throughout Europe and the USA. He is currently a lecturer in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Public Collections Include
The Arts Council of Ireland
The Gordon Lambert Collection, IMMA
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
The Contemporary Irish Arts Society
The National Self Portrait and Contemporary Art Collection, Limerick
University College, Dublin
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle
The Boyle Civic Art Collection
A.I.B Collection, Dublin
The University of Antwerp, UFSIA Library

Recent Solo Shows
2005   Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
2004   Fenton Gallery, Cork
2003   Passings, Taylor Gallery Dublin
2003   Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium
2002   Elzenveld Sint - Jorispand, Antwerp
2001   Where the Horses Walk, Taylor Gallery, Dublin


Selected Group Exhibitions
2005   Across Boundaries, various venues, Ireland
2005   Moment in Time, Temple Bar Galleries Dublin,Ireland
2005   SIAR 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2004   Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland
2004   In the time of shaking, Irish artists for Amnesty International,
2004   IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
2002-03   Living Landscape: European Topographies, West Cork Arts
2003   Centre, Ireland, An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Sky, Scotland
2003   Inverness Art Gallery and Museum,Inverness, Scotland, Iona
2002   Gallery, Kingussie, Scotland
2001   EV+A, Limerick, Ireland ( curator Salah M. Hassen)
2001   Passages from Ballinglen, List Gallery, Swarthmore Collage, Pennsylvania, USA


Selected Bibliography
SIAR 50 (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005)
In the time of shaking - Irish artists for amnesty international (Art for Amnesty, 2004)
Dunne, Aidan, 'Painting in Ireland now', Circa 109 (2004)
Pat Harris: Passings, catalogue (Taylor Galleries Dublin, 2003)
Living Landscape: European Topographies (West Cork Arts Centre, 2002)
Lernout, Geert, Pat Harris: Where the horses walk, catalogue essay (Taylor Galleries Dublin, 2001)

Pat Harris

- Available Works
- Past Exhibitions

Pat Harris was born in Dublin in 1953. He spent a year as an evening student at the National College of Art and Design before pursuing a full time painting course from 1973 to 1978. He won a scholarship to the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp graduating in 1981. He has held numerous solo shows in Belgium, Ireland, throughout Europe and the USA. He is currently a lecturer in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.

Pat Harris