SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023/24 To the Edge of Your World, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France; Museum Rijswijk, The Hague, the Netherlands
2019 The Past Is A Foreign Country, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, The Lab Gallery, Dublin; and West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2018 The Past Is A Foreign Country, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2017 Dialogues, curated by Miguel Amado, London Art Fair, London, UK
2016 Citizen, curated by Anna O’Sullivan, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2014 Somewhere Else, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014 Becoming / Unbecoming, PARK, Tilburg, the Netherlands (two-person with Simon Benson)
2013 State, drawing installation RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Land, drawing installation, Dublin Contemporary Circle Programme, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2011 Somewhere Else (animated drawing), Sub-Urban Video Lounge Rotterdam,
2010 Province, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands;
2009 Gilgamesh, Rubicon Gallery Dublin; Mesh, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland
2006 Crossing, RHA Gallery and Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2002 Interdum, Drawings and Video, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland.
2000 Paintings and Collages, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork; Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick;
2000 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar and Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland.
1996 Sediment, Paintings and Collages, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
1994 Passages, Paintings and Collages, Taylor Gallery Dublin, Ireland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Refuge, 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati
2022 Say The Dream Was Real and the Wall Imaginary, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, USA; The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; No Access, Viewmaster Projects, 22 video artworks on border conflicts and migration, former NATO headquarter Cannerberg, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Paper Biennale, Museum Rijswijk, the Netherlands; Refuge, 21c Cincinnati, USA
2021 Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2021 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2020/22 Refuge, 21c Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
2019/20 Continuous Regeneration, Columbia Circle, Shanghai, China
2019 Continuous Refle(a)ction, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2019 Drawing Now, Paris, France
2018 Art on Paper, New York City, USA, with Gibbons & Nicholas
2018 Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde, The Netherlands
2018 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2018 Volta Basel, Switzerland, with Gibbons & Nicholas
2018 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Seattle Art, Seattle, USA; Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey.
2017 Art on Paper, New York City, USA
2017 Art Miami, Miami, USA
2017 Human Chain, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Ireland
2017 PAN Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Coast-Lines, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Taboo, Poggiali & Forconi Gallery, Florence, Italy; Context New York with Gibbons & Nicolas, NYC, USA; Art Miami, Miami, USA; A Knowing Nature, The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, Ireland
2015 18 x 8, Point B, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, USA; Cosmic Dust, Visual Carlow, Ireland; Veldwerk, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn, New York, Atalanta, Miami, Austin, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Fransisco, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto
Postscript; Artists respond to Seamus Heaney’s poem, The Russell Gallery and The Gallery at Burren College of Art.
2014 AmsterdamDrawing Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Boyle Arts Festival; TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland.
2013 The Future Perfect | We Are Here, Rubicon Projects Brussels, Belgium;
Art’s Work Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland;
Diversity in Drawing, Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012 Time Out Of Mind The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
At The Still Point, Irish Women Artists working in Film, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland
2011 All About Drawing | 100 Dutch artists, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands.
2010 Meer, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium;Making Nature, Rubicon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2009 Into Irish Drawing, Limerick City Arts Gallery, Limerick Ireland; Civic Arts Gallery Hengelo, The Netherlands; Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, France; Millennium Court Arts Centre Portadown, Northern Ireland; Arco Madrid Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin), Madrid, Spain; Art Brussels Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin), Brussels, Belgium
2008 Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Arts Foundation's Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Ireland
Exploration, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda Arts Festival, Drogheda, Ireland; ARCO, Madrid (with Rubicon Gallery) Madrid, Spain;
Passenger, Waterford Healing Trust, Waterford, Ireland; ARTISSIMA Turin, Italy& Art Rotterdam Art Fair, The Netherlands (with Rubicon Gallery); I Am Always Touched By Your Presence Dear, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; MACO, Mexico Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery) Mexico City, Mexico
PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Ruminate Magazine, In Transit / 52, Fall 2019, ISSN 1932-6130
2018 The Past Is A Foreign Country; Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2018, ISBN; LCGA ISBN 978-0-9927969-3-8
2018 Irish Arts Review, Winter edition
2017 Open Form, Facebook Artists in Residence 2012-2017, Facebook Menlo Park, 2017, ISBN 9780996564243
2017 Anita Groener, monograph, text by Joseph R. Wolin, published by Gibbons & Nicholas
2016 Pieces of Me, The Irish Times, June 10
2015 Arts Tonight RTE, interview broadcast 27 April
2014 Art and Soul, Irish Times, Saturday, January 4, Gemma Tipton.
2013 Sunday Times, 7 April, Culture Supplement, Cristín Leach Hughes; Art Forum. com, Gemma Tipton
2010 Tipping Point,Anita Groener. Texts by Séan Kissane, Arno Kramer and Robert Harrison. Published by Rubicon Gallery Dublin and West Cork Arts Centre. ISBN 978-0-9554084-8-9
Dictionary Of Living Irish Artists, Robert O'Byrne, ISBN 978-0-9563011-0-9
Living Landscape// Paisaje Vivo, Published by West Cork Arts Centre in association with Galerêa Safia Barcelona, Spain, ISBN 1-904354-21-1; Tekeningen Cahier, Drawing Centre Diepenheim The Netherlands
2009 Travels through Life, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times P. 24, The Ticket, 30 October
Into Irish Drawing, Published by AkkuH Hengelo, The Netherlands, Limerick
City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France;
Millenium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland, ISBN 978-94-90001-01-08
2006 Crossing,Anita Groener, Curated by Patrick T Murphy, Essays by Ciaran Benson and Siun Hanrahan. Published by the RHA Gallagher Gallery
ISBN 1-903875-29-3
Journeys between departure & arrival, Irish Times, January 30, Aidan Dunne
Sunday Independent, February 26, review by Ken Donfield 25 January, Daragh Reddin, Metro Newspaper, page 18
2005 In The Times Of Shaking, Art for Amnesty International, Published by Art for Amnesty, Ireland ISBN 0-9547258-0-8
2002 Interdum video (Edition of 50, 10.23 minutes PAL) Published by Rubicon Gallery Dublin,
2000 The Whoseday Book, Irish Hospice Foundation, Dublin ISBN 0 9534880- 0 4
Heartlands, catalogue, Patrick T. Murphy
Irish Times, June 15, Mark Ewart
Irish Times, Dutch Visions Displaced, Galway, Nov. 22, ‘00, Aidan Dunne
1996 Sediment catalogue, Published by Rubicon Gallery Dublin
1995 Anita Groener, The works Series, text Liberato Santoro- Brienza and Rutger Pontzen, Gandon Publications, ISBN KDK 0007848
Cork Examiner, March 1, Isabel Healy
1991 Image Magazine, Art Transplants, Katie Holden
In Dublin Magazine, John Farrell
1990 A New Tradition; (Myth and Mystification) Irish Art of the Eighties, Catalogue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, John Hutchinson.
1989 Sunday Tribune, Matters of Symbolism, February 12, Aidan Dunne; Sunday Press, Groener Grows Out Of Innocence, February 12, John Hutchinson
1987 Irish Women Artists, Catalogue, Aidan Dunne;Edge, Catalogue, Anita Groener; City Limits, October 8-12, Mark Curragh;Time Out Magazine, October 7-10, Sarah Kent
1986 Rites of Passages, Catalogue, Aidan Dunne;Circa Magazine, July/August, John Hutchinson; Irish Independent, The Road To Peace Through Painting, June, Kate Robinson; Sunday Press, Dutch Painter Has An Irish Eye, April 14, Aidan Dunne
1985 Het Parool, Discoveries And Open Doors In Dublin, October 3, Bob Fromme
COMMISSIONS
2018 Home, a film-poem for Bealtaine Festival, Ireland
2014/5 Facebook EMEA Headquarters Dublin, Ireland.
2013 University Amsterdam Medical Centre
2010 Province, Kunst Moment, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2006 Jury’s Doyle Hotel, Cork
2001 Art:Pack http://www.artpack.ie/
2000 The Whoseday Book http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/099_Whoseday.pdf
1990 The Great Book of Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Book_of_Ireland
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2018 The Arts Council of Ireland Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme Award
2016 Culture Ireland Support Grant
2015 Facebook EMEA Headquarters Dublin, Ireland; Aosdána
2014 Point B Artist Residency Award, Brooklyn, New York; Arts Council Travel & Training Award
2010 The Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award; Artist Residency The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA
2007 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship residency, Ballycastle, Mayo
2006 DIT Special Award for Creative Practice
2005 Elected member of Aosdána; DIT Special Award for Creative Practice; Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annagmakkerrig; Arts Council/Aer Lingus Travel Award; Iontas, Adjudicators Award
2000 Arts Council/Aerlingus Travel Award
1998 Arts Council Materials Grant / Arts Council Bursary Award / Project Exhibition Grant
1985 Independent Artists Award
COLLECTIONS
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, State Art Collection Ireland Office of Public Works, VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam; C21 Museum Hotels USA; Sun Communities, USA; Irish Contemporary Arts Society, KPMG, Dublin Institute of Technology, Regional Institute of Technology Kerry, First National Building Society, Ulster Bank, AIB Bank, ABN-AMRO Bank; Lease Plan BV The Netherlands, Gemeente Arnhem, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, The Law Library Ireland, DELA Insurance, The Netherlands; The National Drawing Archive Ireland. Private collections in USA, The Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, Canada, Belgium among others.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2014 - Committee member Working Group implementation of Arts Strategy, Grangegorman Development Agency, Dublin
2019 - 2020 Arts Council of Ireland Acquisition Committee Member
2014 Mentor on Wexford Arts Centre Living Art project; Selection panel Wexford Arts Centre, Emerging Visual Artist Award.
1992 - 2014 Professor Drawing/Painting and Fine Art Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology,
2009 Contemporary Drawing Symposium keynote speaker, Drawing Centre + Artez Instituut Enschede, The Netherlands; Masterclass Drawing, St. Lucas Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium
2008-2014 Committee member and curator for Broadcast gallery, Dublin Institute of Technology
2004-2006 Head of Fine Art in Dublin Institute of Technology
2004 Guest lecturer, KIT, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
1984/89 Director and artist in residence Temple Bar Gallery & Studios,Dublin, Ireland