Biography
Amelia Stein, RHA, the photographer lives and works in Dublin where she was born in 1958. Over the past 30 years Amelia Stein has established herself as a singularly exacting photographer whose work is characterized by meticulous attention to detail in tandem with the attributes of fine black and white photographic printing, many of the images having a theatrical presence.
Her area of expertise has been portraiture, working with actors, performers, playwrights, poets, authors and musicians on commissioned images, production photography in Irish theatre, opera and the music industry. Many of these images have had world wide exposure. In 2006, she was elected a member of Aosdana, the first photographer ever to be elected to that body. She is a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Office of Public Works Ireland.
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Events
2020 The Bloods, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2016 Precipice, Ballycroy National Park, Mayo, Ireland
2016 Precipice, Aras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Mayo, Ireland
2015 Precipice, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, featured Exhibition PhotoIreland
2015 Erris, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 The Big Sky, Oliver Sears Gallery, featured Exhibition, Dublin, PhotoIreland
2010 Lodz Photofestival Invited Artist, Poland
2009 Study of the Members of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2002 Loss and Memory, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Palm House Photographs, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. The Palm House catalogue was published by Lilliput Press in 2012.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 BOKEH, Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Kwaidan, Lafcadio Hearne Museum, Matsue, Japan
2023 It Took a Century, Women artists and the RHA, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2023 80th Anniversary Collection Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2023 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 The Art of Sport, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2023 In Residence III, Oliver Sears Gallery, London, England
2023 SO Fine Art Editions, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Ballinglen Museum of Art Open Exhibition, Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland
2023 Atlantic Mythologies, Cairde Arts Festival, Sligo, Ireland
2023 Ballinglen RHA Fellows Exhibition, Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland
2022 Still, Contemporary Photography, SO Fine Art Editions, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Politics of Place, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Images are all we have, PhotoIreland, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2022 192th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Who Do We Say We Are, Irish Art 1922-2022, Suite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Indiana, US
2021 191th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Stoneyroad Press 20th Anniversary, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2021 Northern Light, IMMA, Kilmaimham, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Northern Light, IMMA, Kilmaimham, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Airmail#2 Online Exhibition, ASSAB ONE, Milan, Italy
2020 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2020 View of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Moving Spaces; Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
2020 The Lonka Project : UN Headquarters, New York, USA
2019 Air Mail, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Ireland
2019 View of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Moving Spaces; Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2019 Air Mail, Yanagisawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Artists of Mayo, National Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park, Mayo, Ireland
2019 In Living Memory, Emo Court, Emo, Co Laois, Ireland
2019 189th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2019 The Parted Veil, Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2019 REGARD X, Bourne Vincent Library, University of Limerick, Ireland
2019 AIB Art Collection, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 188th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Western Way, Green Fuse Gallery, Westport, Mayo, Ireland
2018 And the Women Voted, dlr Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
2017 187th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Shutter, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Ireland
2016 186th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2015 A Lonely Impulse of Delight, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Celebrating 30 Years, Limerick City Gallery of Art’s Permanent Collection, Limerick, Ireland
2015 Mayo God Help Us, Claremorris Gallery, Claremorris, Mayo, Ireland
2015 Selections from the Permanent Collection, LCGA, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
20-15 185th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Portraits From the David Kronn Collection, IMMA , Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2014 Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
2014 184th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Experiments with Photography, PhotoIreland 2013, featured Exhibition, Stoney Road Press, Dublin, Ireland
2013 183rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Borrowed Memories, IMMA National Programme, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Westmeath, Ireland
2013 SO Fine Art Editions, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Ark 1X1: Primary schools touring exhibition 2013/2014, Co Cavan, Ireland (curated by Jobst Graeve)
Awards/Nominations
2018 RCSI Art Award, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
2010 Nominated Prix Pictet, Growth
2004 Elected Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Hibernian Academy
2006 Elected Member of Aosdána
Collections
National Gallery of Ireland
The Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Arts Council of Ireland
The Municipal Collection, Dublin, Ireland
University College Cork
Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
Contemporary Arts Society, Ireland
National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
Gulbenkian Foundation, UK
Athlone Institute of Education, Ireland
The David Kronn Collection, USA
IMMA Ireland PrIvate Collections in Ireland, Europe and USA
Abbey Theatre, National Theatre, Ireland