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Rosie O’Gorman lives and works in her native county Wexford, Ireland. In 2000 Rosie graduated with a BA in Art and Design Education from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. In the same year she received two national awards; the Larkin Memorial Award for teaching, and the Taylor Award for painting. With the support of a Fulbright Scholarship, Rosie attended the San Francisco Art Institute, California, receiving her MFA in 2004. On returning to Ireland, she established Cow House Studios with her husband Frank Abruzzese at her ancestral home in rural Wexford.

Education

MFA New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA, 2004
BA Art and Design Education, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland, 2000

Solo Exhibitions

Practice Makes Penance, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland, 2006
The Half Light, HANG Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2004

Selected Group Exhibitions

Bare Root, Wexford County Council, Wexford, 2017
And Creatures Dream…A New Language, Wexford Arts Centre & Wexford County Council, Wexford, 2017
Living Arts Project Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, 2016
The Tools curated by Nora Rodriguez, Root Division, San Francisco, USA, 2014
Sexual Souvenirs curated by Naomi Watts, Museum Everywhere Everyone Everything, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2013
Interchanges, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2007
alone with everybody else, The Norman Gallery, Wexford, Ireland, 2006
Dublin Bicycle Festival, CHQ, Dublin, Ireland, 2006
Hibernia of the New Millennium, The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2003
Bewitched, The Lola Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 2003
Four in the Foreground, HANG Annex, San Francisco, USA, 2003
Loaded, DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2002
Pause, Palazzo Piccolomini, Pienza, Italy, 2002

Awards

Graduate Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA, 2001
Fulbright Scholarship, Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange, Dublin, 2001
The Larkin Memorial Award, National Council for Educational Awards, Ireland, 2000
Taylor Art Award, Royal Dublin Society, Ireland, 2000

Collections

Office of Public Works, Ireland

Additional Information

Co Founder & Co Director of Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland, 2007-present
Painting Tutor, Centre for Continuing Education, NCAD, Dublin, 2007-2009