Biographical details

Comhghall Casey - Biographical Details
Comhghall Casey was born in 1976 in Letterkenny, Co.Donegal. He grew up in Omagh in Co. Tyrone, where he lived until moving to Belfast in 1994 to study for a Certificate in Foundation Art and Design at the University of Ulster. In 1998 he graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Arts, specialising in painting. After two years in Belfast he moved to Dublin and has since been living and working there.

Group exhibitions
2008	Summer Group Exhibition, Solomon Gallery, Dublin Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon

2007	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Summer Group Exhibition, Solomon Gallery, Dublin Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2006	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Summer Group Exhibition, Solomon Gallery, Dublin Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Christmas Group Exhibition, Solomon Gallery, Dublin

2005	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin ‘The Nude’, Emer Gallery, Belfast Éigse Carlow Arts Festival, St. Patrick’s College, Carlow ‘Drawings and Sketches’, Coloured Rain Gallery, Templepatrick, Co.Antrim Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2004	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2003	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon 'Sedare', James Baird Gallery, St.John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2002	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin BP National Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London ‘Artists From Ulster’, King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon ‘Aisling Gael’, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co Kildare Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2001	Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Íontas Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2000	Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London "Arts Sans Frontiers", Gallerie des Expositions, L' Hay les Roses, Paris "New Images from North Mayo", Ballinglen Arts Centre, Ballycastle, County Mayo Victor Treacy Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

1999	'Fresh', Engine Room Gallery, Belfast Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

1998	'Set', Catalyst Arts, Belfast Íontas Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast Christmas Exhibition, Cavehill Gallery, Belfast

1997	Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast Christmas Exhibition, Cavehill Gallery, Belfast

1996	'Young Contemporary Artists', Ross's Court, Belfast Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast Christmas Exhibition, Cavehill Gallery, Belfast

Solo exhibitions
2007	Solomon Gallery, Dublin

2005	Emer Gallery, Belfast

2004	Coloured Rain Gallery, Templepatrick, Belfast

2003	Emer Gallery, Belfast

2002	Gorry Gallery, Dublin

2001	Emer Gallery, Belfast

1999	Murneen Gallery, Antrim Town Omagh Arts Festival, The Gallery, Omagh Emer Gallery, Belfast

Awards
2007	Runner Up, Hennessey Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2007

2006	Emer Gallery Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 2006

2004	Nominated, Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2004

2003	Nominated, Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition 2003

2002	Emer Gallery Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 2002 Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co.Mayo.

2000	Nominated, Victor Treacy Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

1999	Young Artist of the Year + Regional Prize (Belfast), Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London Association of Art Historians Thesis Prize 1999. Anderson Auctioneers and Valuers Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 1999. Fellowship, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Co.Mayo.

1996	Anderson Auctioneers and Valuers Prize, Best Self-Portrait, Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition 1996.

Collections
	Ulster Museum. Office of Public Works. Northern Ireland Department of the Environment. Ballinglen Arts Foundation Archive. Private Collections.