Aidan Crotty (b. 1980) Waterford, currently lives and works in West Sligo. He graduated in 2004 from Fine Art Painting at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. Aidan is involved with conveying the physical presence of the everyday through painting. Primarily a painter, he has been continually developing his practice since 2005 while also teaching and working with arts in the community. Most recently, Aidan was awarded the ESB Keating Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding artwork at the Royal Hibernian Academy 192nd Annual Exhibition 2022. He was the recipient of the Jackson’s Painting Prize for the Still Life / Botanical Award 2022 (UK) and the Zurich Portrait Prize 2020 at the National Gallery of Ireland.

Education
2000-04 Crawford College of Art and Design – BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting.

Solo Exhibitions
2019 The Everyday, Courtyard Gallery, National Museum of Ireland/Country Life. Turlough Park House, Co. Mayo.
2018 Vernacular, The Custom House Studios and Gallery. The Quay, Westport, Co. Mayo.
2011 Remnant, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
2009 Fallow, Sligo Art Gallery. Sligo.
2009 Inert, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

Group Exhibitions
2022 RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin. Invited Artist.

2020 Zurich Portrait Prize 2020, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and The Crawford Gallery of Art, Cork.

2019 Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo / Irish Consulate, New York.
Car Boot Art Fair, Russborough House, Co. Wicklow
RHA, 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo.
Legacy, Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Co. Roscommon.

2018 Artform Annual Contemporary Art Fair, 44 The Quay, Waterford.
Gathering, Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Co. Roscommon.
Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo.
RHA, 188th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

2017 Pop-Up, The Paul Kane Gallery, The Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin.
VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Claremorris Gallery.
RUA, 136th Annual Exhibition, Belfast.
Facing West, Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Co. Roscommon.
Interpretations of W.B. Yeats’ ‘Crazy Jane’, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.
RHA, 187th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Island Living, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo.

2016 Pop-Up, by The Paul Kane Gallery, Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin.
Case ’16, Lavit Gallery, Cork.
North by North West, King House, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon.
A terrible beauty is born, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.
On-site, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Mayo.
RHA, 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.

2015 Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
Winter Show, Paul Kane Gallery, R.I.A.I. Dublin.
18 x 14, Lavit Gallery, Cork.
Cairde Visual, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.
Welcome the stranger, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Mayo.
Impressions and Portraits of W.B. Yeats, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

2014 184th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Entropy, Aidan Crotty, Gillian Lawler and Michael Wann, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo.
Winter Show, Paul Kane Gallery, R.I.A.I. Dublin.
LSC Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Leitrim.

2013 Winter Show, Rua Red, Dublin.
Aidan Crotty, Gillian Lawler, Ann Quinn. Claremorris Gallery, Mayo.
I could read the sky, Ballycroy National Park, Mayo.

2012 VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Paul Kane Gallery
182nd Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Eigse, Visual, Carlow.

2011 Remnant, Aidan Crotty & Conor O’ Donnell, Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo.
Tom Climent, Aidan Crotty & Stephen Lawlor, Lavit Gallery, Cork.

2010 180th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Backwater, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.

2009 Eigse, Invited artist, Carlow.
Group Show, Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford.

2006 Group Show, Wexford Opera Festival, Kinnick House, Wexford.
Eigse, I.T. Carlow.
Mantua Arts Project, Roscommon.
New, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

2005 Group Show, Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford.
Case ‘05, Lavit Gallery, Cork.
175th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.

2004 Art Trail, Backwater Studios, Cork.
Fledglings, Lavit Gallery, Cork.
Crawford College Degree Show, Cork.
Markievicz Medal Competition, United Arts Club, Dublin.

Collections
Office of Public Works, Ireland. AXA Insurance, Ireland. Munster Technological University Art Collection.

Awards
2022 The ESB Keating Award and Silver Medal for an outstanding artwork, RHA.
2022 Jacksons Painting Prize, Still Life / Botanical Award. 
2020 Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland.
2015 Hennessy Portrait Prize shortlist, National Gallery of Ireland.
2011 Individual Artist Bursary, Sligo County Council Arts Office.
2009 The Cill Rialaig Project, Residency Award, Invited artist, Kerry.
2004 Ciaran Langford Memorial Bursary, Backwater Studios, Cork.