Selected Exhibitions

2008         Royal Hibernian Academy 178th Annual Exhibition

                Dublin Art Society Annual Exhibition  (invited artist)

2009         The Trinity Exhibition, Oisín Gallery, Dublin  (artworks by TCD staff & students)

2010         Royal Hibernian Academy 180th Annual Exhibition

2011         Royal Hibernian Academy 181st Annual Exhibition

2012         Royal Hibernian Academy 182nd Annual Exhibition

                LB Fine Arts ‘Selected Collection’, Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow (August)

                LB Fine Arts, exhibition, Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow (Nov-Dec )

                Art Source Fair, LB Fine Arts, RDS Dublin (Nov)

2013         Royal Hibernian Academy 183rd Annual Exhibition

2014         Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition 


                Greenacres Gallery, Wexford Festival exhibition

2015         Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition

                Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, 134th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast   (Oct-Nov)

2016         Royal Hibernian Academy 186th Annual Exhibition

                Greenacres Gallery, Wexford Festival Opera exhibition (Oct-Nov)

                National Gallery of Ireland, Hennessy Portrait Prize Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, November 2016 - March 2017

                Gormleys Fine Art Christmas Exhibition

2017         Royal Hibernian Academy 187th Annual Exhibition

                Family, Friends & Lovers: a Celebration of Contemporary Irish Portraiture, curated by Mick O'Dea PRHA, Ranelagh Arts Centre

2018         Royal Hibernian Academy 188th Annual Exhibition

2019         Sol Art Gallery Dublin, 'Figurative Thoughts', a 'triple-solo' exhibition of a sculptor, a photographer and a painter (Mar-Apr)

                Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition ('Silver and Gold')

2020        Sol Art Gallery Dublin, TRIPLE FIGURES, three-person portrait exhibition with David Kassan and Nicholas Robinson (Nov-Dec)

             Royal Hibernian Academy 190th Annual Exhibition

2022        Radio interview Near FM Dublin, November 2022

             Art Renewal Center International Salon, finalist ('Cathedral')

2023         Royal Hibernian Academy Bicentenary 193rd Annual Exhibition ('Flypast', egg tempera)  

             Portumna Arts Festival, inivited artist (September)

             Ballinglen Biennial Exhibition, Co. Mayo (October '23 -- January '24)

             Greenacres Gallery, Wexford Festival Opera exhibition (Nov)

2024        Myth and Magic Realism solo exhibition, Malahide Library (June)

Awards

Friends of the Royal Hibernian Academy Senior Artist Award 2020 for the egg tempera painting Rain On the Wind

Finalist, International Salon, Art Renewal Center, 2023

Articles and images in selected publications

'Fergus Ryan in the Thin Places', article by Dr Micheal Pearce in MutualArt.com journal, 14 June 2024

Sunday Business Post, 6 November 2022, article on my work and flying career in advance of Art Source Fair

Sunday Independent, 13 December 2020, 'Cockpit to easel: pilot's visual theatre goes from sky to earth', by Niall MacMonagle

International Artist Magazine, Issue 65, Feb/Mar 2009, landscape competition (finalist, full-page entry 'Sudden Breeze')

International Artist Magazine, Issue 85, Jun/July 2012, ‘The Presence of Absence’, 8-page article on Fergus's landscape paintings

Burren Insight journal, 2012 (Meeting Point)

Burren Insight journal, 2013 (Terminus)

Etruria: storie e segreti (Etruria: stories & secrets), M J Cryan: book cover features painting 'First Light, Monte Sorrate'

VOX Magazine, Jan/Mar 2015, ‘An Italian Journey: painting in the footsteps of the masters’, three-page article, and front cover image ‘Reflection’

Royal Ulster Academy 134th Annual Exhibition Catalogue, full-page image 'Islanders'

National Gallery of Ireland, 2016 Hennessy Portrait Prize exhibition ('Harold')

Sunday Business Post, 2 October 2016, Article on shortlisted artists for 2016 Hennessy Portrait Prize

From The Sunday Times review of the 2015 RHA Annual Exhibition:

"There are works that stand out as you walk past for reasons of mood, style, ­colour

or a trigger of recognition from elsewhere: Fergus Andrew Ryan’s Hot and Cold,

an Andrew Wyeth-esque, Martin Gale-style painting of old baths in a field with

a high horizon, trees and barn..."

From The Sunday Times review of the 2016 RHA Annual Exhibition:

"There are some stunning painted portraits this year... Entwined by Fergus Andrew Ryan."