Brendan Kelly

Brendan Kelly was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland. He studied Fine Art Painting (MA), University of Ulster, Belfast and then at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, (Prof. Konrad Klapheck) and at the Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, (Prof. K.H.Hodicke). He has presented 16 solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions and art projects especially in Europe. His paintings can be viewed in private collections. He lives and works in Brussels.

Solo Shows (selected)

2019 Within, Cube Gallery, Patras Greece

2018 Touch and let go, Künstlerkreis Ortenau, Offenburg

2017 Sequential Shift, CliqueArt, Brussels

2012 Torsion, Espace 44, Brussels

2010 Greenheart, Les Halles des Tanneurs, Brussels

2006 Minutia naturae, KoWi, Brussels

1997 con. secuencias virtuales, Galeria Catarsis, Madrid

1994 Paintings, Casa de la juventud Luis Gonzaga, Madrid

1993 Chimaera, Almazen de la Nave, Madrid 1991 Soliloquy, Utopia Gallery, Dungannon, N.Ireland

1988 Rhineland, Otter Gallery, Belfast, N.Ireland Battle lines, Corridor Gallery, Lurgan, N.Ireland Spinning still, Wolfson College, Oxford, England Paintings, Peacock Gallery, Craigavon, N.Ireland

1987 Paintings and drawings, Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn, N.Ireland 1985 Drawings, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

Group Shows (selected)

2018 Art project “No-Ah-Fence”, Art Athina 2018, Athens, Greece

On The Road, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece

2017 Art project “fare/Fair, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece “Of love and other demons”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece

2016 Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece

2015 ING Discerning Eye (invited artist), Mall Galleries, London

        Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece

1998 Galeria Catarsis, Madrid

1997 Galeria Catarsis, Madrid

1996 Galeria Catarsis, Madrid

1990 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 1988 The Square Gallery, London

1986 Rundgang, Klasse Klapheck, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf 1985 Peacock Gallery, Craigavon, N.Ireland

1982 Claremorris Open, Claremorris, Ireland

Awards

1987 Arts Council of Northern Ireland bursary

1985 DAAD Scholarship

1985 Arts Council of Northern Ireland bursary