Hugh O’Conor is an award-winning Irish actor, writer/director and photographer. He exhibits regularly at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, and the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast. He was shortlisted for the inaugural Hennessy Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2014.
His work has been featured in the Irish Times, the Sunday Times, in magazines such as Calle and Le Negatif, and online at My Modern Met.
Selected Exhibitions
2017 ADIFF Dublin International Film Festival Portrait Exhibition – solo exhibition at the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, Dublin
2016 An Artist of the Floating World – exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2016 Pilgrimage – exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2015 Beckah, Dublin Airport – exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2015 Being There – exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2014 Beckah, Dublin Airport – shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland
2014 Oh, Inverted World – exhibited as an invited artist at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 Two Piers – exhibited at the Cherrylane Gallery, Wicklow
2012 Thieves Like Us – exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2010 Under the Bridge – exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2009 ‘Horizons’, one-man show, One Productions Gallery
Stills Photography
2015 The Last Hotel by Enda Walsh (O’Reilly Theatre + worldwide)
2013 The Night Alive by Conor McPherson, Donmar Warehouse
2012 Kevin Barry, author’s jacket photo, City of Bohane
2011 16 Possible Glimpses by Marina Carr, Peacock Theatre – video and photographic work
2011 The Trailer of Bridgit Dinnegan by Dylan Tighe, Project Arts Centre, production/poster shots
2010 No Worse, There Is None by Dylan Tighe, production/poster shots
Press
Calle 20, July-August edition, 2011
Le Negatif, book 1, 2010-2011
Online
My Modern Met, interview and feature, December 2011
Saatchi Showdown Finalist in 2011