John Shinnors was born in Limerick in 1950 and studied at the Limerick School of Art and Design. He has held regular solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows since the 1980's. His work is represented in public and private collections and has received a number of awards. He is a member of Aosdána and is involved in the promotion of the arts through the Shinnors Scholarship and the Shinnors Drawing Award.

Public Collections Include
An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council
A.I.B Art Collection, Dublin
The Boyle Civic Collection
Contemporary Irish Art Society
Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork
IMMA
Limerick City Gallery of Art
National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland
Office of Public Works
Royal Hibernian Academy
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Belfast
University of Limerick

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2007		Eighteen Paintings, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2005		Line, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork Featured Artist, Kilkenny Arts Festival
2004		Twenty-two Paintings, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
2002-03		Paintings and Drawings, Limerick City Gallery of Art
2002-03		Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo
2002-03		Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
2000		Twenty-One Paintings, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1998		Twenty-Eight Paintings, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1997		Éigse, Carlow Arts Festival

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005		The West as Metaphor, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin S.I.A.R., I.M.M.A.
2005		From Landscape, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow
2004		Glór, Ennis, Lorraine Wall selects Art Now, Hunt Museum, Limerick, John Shinnors selects in collaboration with Taylor Galleries
2004		The Allied Irish Bank Collection on Tour
2004		An Irish Eye, Capetown, South Africa
2004		The Cracked Looking Glass, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2001		Gavin Hogg and John Shinnors, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2001		As I See Myself, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2001		Sean McSweeney and Friends, Boyle Arts Festival
2001		Fitzgerald, Harper, Shinnors, Slade, Vangard Gallery, Cork
2000		Artists' Century, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2000		Blackshaw and Friends, Boyle Arts Festival
2000		Cooke, Egan, Fallon, Shinnors, Vangard Gallery, Cork
2000		Kingdom of Heaven, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin,
2000		Limerick City Gallery of Art
2000		Remember Jim Kenny - Contemporary Juxtapositions, Limerick City Gallery of Art

Selected Bibliography
Dunne, Aidan, John Shinnors, catalogue essay (Taylor Galleries Dublin, 2007)
Fallon, Peter, John Shinnors - Twenty-Two Paintings, catalogue essay (Taylor Galleries, Dublin 2004)
Hogan, J.J., The Story of Limerick School of Art and Design 1852-2002 (L.I.T., 2004)
Dorgan, Theo, Invisible Thread, (RTE Radio 1, 2004)
John O'Regan (ed.), Profile 18 - John Shinnors, catalogue essays by Brian Fallon & Aidan Dunne, (Gandon Editions, 2002)
Fitzpatrick, Mike (Intro.), John Shinnors - Paintings and Drawings, catalogue essays by Paul M O'Reilly & Mary Coll, (Limerick City Gallery of Art/Gandon Editions, 2002)
O'Reilly, Paul, John Shinnors, Irish Arts Review Vol 19, no 2 (2002)
Dunne, Aidan, Marks of Distinction, The Irish Times (14th September 2002)
John Shinnors - Twenty-One Paintings, 1999-2000, catalogue (Taylor Galleries Dublin, 2000)