Emma O Hara

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Biography

Emma O Hara is a visual artist based in Cork city, Ireland. She graduated with a BA majoring in Printmaking in Contemporary Practice from the Limerick School of Art and Design (2016). O’Hara was awarded the Cork Printmakers 12-month Bursary (2016) where she has continued to hone and expand her visual practice. She has exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions and her work has been collected by a number of private and public collections including the OPW. Emma was also the recipient of the 2021 Arts Council Agility Award.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Strangers We Will Stay, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022  The sun casts a shadow, Sample Studios, Cork
2021  One who walks the clouds, Hang tough Contemporary, Dublin
2018  ENCOUNTERS, Cork Printmakers Gallery, Cork

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Summer Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2024 Stories of Art, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2023 Cork Printmakers Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2023 Impressions, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Cork
2023 Elevate, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin
2023 Do You Know Where The Window Is, Sample Studios, Stamp, Cork
2023 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Decennium, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2020 Land Under the Waves, Nano Nagle, Cork
2020 New Light, Outdoor exhibition, Glucksman, Cork
2020 Memory Edits, Sternview Gallery, Cork
2020 London Art Fair, Buisness Design centre, Islington
2020 Boodle Hatfield, Boodle hatfield Law Firm, London
2019 Winter Exhibition, The Lavit Gallery, Cork
2019 Woolwich Contemporary Art Fair, London
2019 Vue, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2019 Mor, Graphic Studio, Dublin
2019 Halftone Print fair, The Library Project, Print Fair, Dublin
2019 Discover Print, Green Acres, Wexford
2019 Impressions, Open Printmaking Beinnal, GMIT, Galway
2019 Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio, Dublin
2019 State of Print, Cork City Hall, Cork Printmakers & CIT Art Gallery
2018 Re(act), IMPACT 10, Santander
2018 MEDAZA, 2020 Art Gallery, Cork
2018 K-Fest, Killorglin, Kerry
2018 Halftone Print fair, The Library Project, Print Fair, Dublin
2018 20:20 Hot Bed Press Neo: gallery23, Bolton, England
2018 West Yorkshire Print Workshop, England
2018 Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England
2018 The Sun Pier House, Medway Print Festival, Kent, England
2018 The Art House in Wakefield, England
2018 Volumes, Impact Conference, Santander, Spain
2016 Degree show, LSAD Gallery, Limerick
2016 Florence O’Brien Drawing Awards, LSAD, Limerick
2016 Revive, Sailors home, Limerick
2016 ABLE, LSAD Gallery, ’, exhibition of artists books, Limerick

Awards
2024 Arts Council Agility Award
2021 Arts Council Agility Award
2020 Arts Council Agility Award
2019 Short listed for the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking award
2016 Cork Printmakers Studio Bursary

Projects
2024 Caboodle, collaborative residency, Backwater Studio 12, Cork
2021 Creative agency project in colour, The Glucksman, Cork
2021 Pool tile Installation, Dean Hotel Dublin, Dublin

Publications
2018 O’Brien, Emily, Balconies: A response to prints by EmmaO’Hara Bloomers Issue #2, The Living Mountain (https://bloomers.format.com/)
2018 The Library Project, Halftone Print Fair prints by Emma O’Hara (http://2018.halftone.ie/prints/emma-ohara/)
2016 Irish Arts Review, next generation artists work by Emma O’Hara (https://www.irishartsreview.com/new-generation-artist-work/emma-ohara/)