Biography
Diana Copperwhite lives and works in Dublin. In 2012 she was a resident artist at the Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA. Copperwhite was awarded the AIB Art Prize in 2007 and she was a finalist in the Guasch Coranty Fundacio Painting Prize, Centre Cultural Metropolita, Barcelona (2008). Copperwhite has exhibited extensively in Ireland, Europe and New York, most recently at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. Her work is in many public and private collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland, The Office of Public Works, and Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, International Red Cross, Netherlands.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Onomatopoeia, Limerick City Gallery of Art and touring show
2020 Lock Down Series, works on paper, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2019 Proto Fiction and the Sleep of Reason, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2019 The Clock Struck between time, Thomas Jaeckel New York
2017 Crooked Orbit, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2016 Depend on the morning sun, Thomas Jaeckel gallery, New York
2016Driven by Distraction, RHA gallery Dublin.
2015 A Million and One Things Under the Sun, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
2014 Shadowland, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.
2014Solo presentation, Pulse, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2013 Loose Ends, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2013 Solo Booth at VOLTANY, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Upcoming New Aquisitions National Gallery of Ireland.
2020 Autumn Breeze, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery New York
2020 Summer Lovin, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2020 42nd Street Space, Semi Solid Emotion, New York
2020 RHA annual show., RHA Gallery, Dublin , Ireland
2020 Limerick Connections, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2019 Vision X, The RHA Gallery, Dublin
2019 Wall Hanging, 142, 10th Avenue, New York
2019 Tactical Magic, Tulca Festival of Visual Art., Galway, invited artist
2019 Reforming, Galway International Arts Festival, 126 Gallery Galway, invited artist
2018 Prism, The Art and Science of Light, The Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, Ireland
2018 The Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2017 X years after, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2017 A lonely Impulse of Desire, University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo,
2017 Many Worlds, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2017 Peripheries 2017, Soul Beating, Gorey School of Art, Wexford, Ireland.
2017 Virtu, Hunt museum, Limerick
2017 Last Picture Show, Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York
2016 Winter Salon, 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York
2015 The Art of a Nation, works from the AIB collection, Mall Galleries, London
2015 Group presentation with Kevin Kavanagh, VOLTA Basel.
2014 Inside the Palace, with Danny Rolph, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
2014 Chancery Lane, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
2014 Two person presentation, Armando Marino, Diana Copperwhite, Pulse,
2014 Thomas Jaeckel Gallery, New York.
2014 The Artist’s Eye, AIB Art Collection, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2014 Re-framing the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
2014 Personal Choice, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick City of Culture, Limerick.
2014 New Acquisitions, RHA, Dublin
2014 Paintings, Limerick City of Culture, Limerick
Awards and Residencies
2018 Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
2014 Nominee, Pulse Prize, New York
2012 Invited Artist, Josef Albers Foundation, Connecticut.
2008 Finalist, International Painting Prize, Guasch Coranty Fundacio, Barcelona
Project Residency , Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2007 Winner, AIB Prize, Dublin
Selected Collections
The National Gallery of Ireland
The Mark Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia
Irish Museum of Modern Art
The National Self Portrait
collection, UL Limerick Ireland
Arts Council of Ireland
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Mariehamn Stadbiblioteque, Aland, Finland
The Office of the President of Ireland
Office of Public Works Ireland
Contemporary Irish Art Society
Highlanes Municipal Gallery of Art Ireland
Bank of Ireland
Dublin Institute of Technology
Smurfit Kappa Group
KPMG
Allied Irish Bank
Arthur Andersen Plc
International Red Cross Netherlands
Town and Country Bank, Manhattan.
Private collections in Ireland, Belgium, Finland, France, Australia, USA and UK.