Solo Exhibitions

2026 Once Upon a Time in the West, UM Gallery, 798 District Beijing China

2024 Odyssey Renmin University Museum Beijing China

2022 The Sublime Divine Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin

2022 In a Liminal State SO Fine Art Dublin & Hunt Museum Limerick

2020 In the Past Galleri Astley Vastmanland Sweden

2019 Stephen Lawlor Epreuve d’Artiste Antwerp Belgium

2019 Needle Acid & Brush, SO Fine Art Editions Dublin

2019 Five Years Limerick City and County Museum

2017 Remnants, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

2016 Spiritus Mundi, Bourn-Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick

2016 De Döda, Galleri Astley, Vastmanland, Sweden

2016 Obsessions, Adogi, Cadaques, (Prizwinner) Spain.

2015 Ephemera, New Grounds, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

2014 Some Untidy Spot, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

2014 Skugga, Galleri Astley, Sweden

2013 Ephemera, Vaga Se Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 Kiruna-Malaga-Avoca, Galleri Astley, Koping and Kiruna, Sweden

2012 Beyond Carmen, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

2010 Cu and New Paintings, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

2010 Solmyra, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

2010 Cu, Fred (London), London UK

2009 Hinterland, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden

2008 Three Rivers, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.

2006 Landscape, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin.

2005 Memory & Desire, Sculpture & Prints, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.

2004 New Paintings, Galleri Hippo, Stockholm, Sweden

2003 Recent Paintings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

1997 New Prints, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin              

1997 Elements, Yello Gallery, Chicago, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Of Night & Light & Half Light Yanagisawa Gallery, Saitama, Japan

2025 Of Night & Light & Half Light Gallery IND Osaka Japan

2025 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy London UK

2025 Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn Irish Pavilion EXPO, Osaka Japan

2024 Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto Japan

2024 Jinan International Biennale Jinan Art Museum Shandong China

2023 Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn Matsue Japan

2023 Guanlan Bienale China

2023 Miniprint Cantabria Spain

2023 WCPF Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London UK

2022 Meanwhile Vaga Se - Galleri Helle Knudsen Stockholm Sweden

2022 WCPF Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair London UK                                           

2022 Rennee Carcan International Print Prize (Shortlisted) Belgium                               

2021 Sasse Art Museum Pomona California USA

2021 Tribuna Grafica Cluj Napoca Romania                                                       

2021 Gafica Creativa Trienale Jyvaskyla Finland

2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London, UK                                                 

2020 Graphics Ireland Galleri Helle Knudsen Curated by Stephen Lawlor Sweden

2020 The Human Heart Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin.

2019 Guanlan Internaional Print Biennial, Shenzhen, China

2019 IAPA International Huai’an Art Museum China

2019 Royal Academy London, Summer Exhibition, UK

2018 2nd Xuyuan International Print Biennial, Beijing, China  

2018 Print Rebels Bankside Gallery London UK                                         

2018 IAPA International Print Exhibition, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China                

2018 6th Biennial International Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT, USA          

2017 PAD (Art and Design Fair London) UK

2017 Licorice and Wax   2 person show SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin

2017 Guanlan International Print Biennial 2017, China

2017 Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2017 Australia     

2017 Licorice and Wax 2 person show Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden

2016 IAPA 2016 Tiamiao Gallery, Forbidden City Beijing China

2016   The Masters 2016, Bankside Gallery London, UK

2016   RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery London, UK

2016    A lonely Impulse of Delight, SO FA Dublin & London Art Fair UK

2015   Adogi, 35th Miniprint International, Cadaques, Spain.

2014    7th Douro Print Biennial, Douro, Portugal

2014    Adogi, 34th Miniprint International, Cadaques, Spain Joint 1st Prize

2014    BIMPE, Vancouver, Canada

2013    New Grounds International, New Grounds, Albuquerque NM, USA 1st Prize

2013    Global Print, Douro. Portugal

2012   Lingshi International Biennial, Lingshi, Shanxi province, China

2012   Contemporary Irish Drawing, Lockhart Gallery, Suny Geneseo, NY, USA

2012    Radharc, Irish American Historical Society, New York, USA

2011   Lessedra World Print Annual, Lessedra Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

2011    Art London, Art Fair with Oliver Sears Gallery, UK

2011    Internationell Mötesplats,Edsviks Konst., Sollentuna, Stockholm, Sweden

2010    South to North, Konstforum, Norrköping, (2 person Show) Sweden

2010   Triennale De Chamalieres Chamalieres, Auvergne, France

2010    Lilla Europa Konstframjandet,Orebro, Sweden

2010    Yeats/the Golden Age of Print, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo     

2009   Knutpunkt Uttersberg, Lindesberg Museum, Sweden

2009   Île d’Iver‘ / Winter Isle, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France

2009   Artists Proof, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

2008   Time/Tiden, Galleri Infra,Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2008   Revelation, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

2007   Art Miami, Art Miami, Florida with Hillsboro Fine Art. USA

2007,  1997-2000    London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London, UK

2006   Lilla Europa, Konstframjandet, Orebro, Sweden

2005   The Garden of Earthly Delights, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

2004   The Cracked Looking Glass, The Old Print Shop, New York, USA

2003   Irish Landscapes, Galleri Stene Jarvso , Sweden

2002   Holy Show, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

2002   Graphic Studio Dublin,    Samlargrafik, Kristianstad, Sweden

2002   12 Irish Artists, Swedish Print Society, Stockholm, Sweden

2001   Irish Prints/3 Artists, Grafikens Hus, Sweden

2000   Contemporary Irish Print, Vancouver, Canada

2000   Triennale Mondiale,         Chamalieres, France

1999   Contemporary Irish Print, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden

1998   Art Into Art, The National Gallery, Dublin

1997   Irish Heritage, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC,USA

1997   Two Irish Artists, Nordens Ljus, Stockholm, Sweden

1996   Out of Ireland, Keenesaw State University, GA, USA

1994    A Sense of Ireland, Hong Kong

1993    Irlantilaista Grafiikkaa, Galleria Harmoniassa, Finland

1991    European Large Format Print, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin

1986    A Sense of Ireland, Singapore

1985    Irish Prints, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Selected Collections

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford / Allied Irish Bank PLC / Axa Insurance PLC / Bank of Scotland PLC / Beaumont Hospital / Biblioteca de Catalunya / Boyle Civic Collection / British Museum London / Butler Gallery, Kilkenny / Central Academy Beijing / Chester Beatty Library / City of Norrkoping / Citibank PLC / Victoria & Albert Museum / Deloitte / Douro Museum, Portugal / British Library / Equity Bank / State University of New York / Glen Dimplex / IIB / National Gallery of Ireland / Norwegian Space Centre    Huai’an Art Museum, China / University of Limerick / OPW / Rotunda Hospital, Dublin / The Royal Collection London / Smurfit Group PLC. / UCD / Clifford Chance Collection / Aberystwyth Museum / China Print Museum Shenzhen     

Awards

2023   Print Prize RUA Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast

2019   The Clifford Chance Award, RE Originals 2019

2019   Aberystwyth School of Art Museum & Galleries Prize RE Originals 2019

2017   John Purcell Paper Prize, RE Original Prints 2017                                        

2015   Adogi, 35th Miniprint International, Joint 1st prize, Cadaqués, Spain.

2013   New Grounds International Print Exhibition 1st prize, Albuquerque NM, USA

2011   Arts Council Travel & Training Award for a residency at Guanlan, China

2011   Arts Council Travel & Training Award for a residency to Kiruna, Sweden

2001   Print Award, Prize winner RHA, Dublin

1999   Print Award, Prize winner RHA, Dublin

1997   Arts Council Travel Award, Chicago, USA

1993   Arts Council Travel Award, Jyvaskyla, Finland

1990   Award Winner, International Miniprint Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin

1989   Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Travel Award, Singapore                               

Reference

2022   Gandon Profile Series #29

2017   Chinese Printmaking Yearbook 2017

2015   Sunday Independent, What lies Beneath, Niall MacMonagle, 4th Jan 2015

2014   Some Untidy Spot, (Cat) Discussion with Hughie O’Donoghue

2014   Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, 16th December 2014

2014   Sunday Times, John O’Sullivan, December 14th 2014

2014   Irish Arts Review, Brian McAvera, Winter Edition 2014

2013   Irish Arts Review, Winter Edition 2013

2012   Arena, RTE Radio 1, Tuesday 29th May.

2012   Irish Times , Sinead Gleeson, Life & Culture, 24th May

2010   Irish Times Cu & New Paintings by Aidan Dunne 29 September

2010   Irish Arts Review Winter 2009 Catherine Leen, Mining the Landscape

2010   Sunday Times, Cu & New Paintings by E. Shortall, Sunday 14th September

2010   The Dubliner, Cu & New Paintings Louise Finn 30th September

2010   Nationwide RTE 1 Television Cu & New Paintings by D.Peavoy 17th Sept.

2010   Arena, RTE Radio 1 Cu & New Paintings by S.Rocks Tuesday 21st Sept.

2010   Art Review, Issue 39, Dispatches, Cu Oliver Basciano

2010   Cu (Cat), Essay, Brian McAvera.

2009   Hinterland (Cat.), Essay, Peter Fallon.

2009   Irish Arts Review. Artists Proof, Niall Naessens

2009   The View, John Kelly RTE Television, Artists Proof.

2008   Three Rivers , Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, Feb.2008.

2005   Memory & Desire (Cat.) Essay, Catherine Leen.

Commissions

2013   National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick

2012   Vaga Se Konst., Stockholm Sweden

2011   UCD Faculty of Science

2007   OBK Architects, Dublin

2004   Bank of Scotland PLC

2003   Behaviour and Attitudes, Dublin

2002   Kristainstads Konstforening, Stockholm, Sweden

1999   Apotekets Konstforening, Stockholm, Sweden

Residencies

Guanlan Print Base, Shenzhen China, Galleri Astley, Sweden, Jyvaskyla Centre for Print, Finland, Paupers Press, London, Hampton Editions, USA & YAC Tianjin, China.

Curator Art into Art 1998, Holy Show 2002, A lonely impulse of delight 2016 & Kwaidan-Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn 2023-25.

Member IAPA Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing China 2016. Elected a member of Aosdána 2018 and Fellowship and Council, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers London, RE 2023.

Stephen Lawlor is represented by Oliver Sears Gallery and SO Fine Art, Dublin,                                  Gallerie Kunstverket, Oslo, Norway, Epreuve d’Artiste, Antwerp, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm & Galleri Astley, Vastmanland, Sweden & Bankside Gallery London.