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2 unusual facts about Irish Museum of Modern Art


Francesco Clemente

In the 2000s Clemente showed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, at the Museo MADRE in Naples, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Uffizi Gallery in Florence and at Yale Museum of Art in 2013.

Irish Museum of Modern Art

The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, the Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years.


Chris Hipkiss

Apart from major shows in US self-taught and 'Outsider' institutions (Intuit, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, American Folk Art Museum), the work of Hipkiss has been featured in exhibitions at Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, FRAC Picardie, New Museum, Irish Museum of Modern Art and me Collectors Room Berlin.

Hannah Starkey

Starkey's work is included in the collections of the Tate Modern, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Castello di Rivoli in Turin.

Hugh Tinney

Dublinese highlights of Tinney's solo career include two major recital series in the at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1991, 1995) and six recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas at the Royal Dublin Society (2000–02).

Thomas Scheibitz

Solo shows include the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999), Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco (2001), Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2001), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2004), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), and Musée d' Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2008).


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