Thomas Halloran

Artist/Painter/Composer

American artist Thomas Halloran was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is a graduate of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He has shown in museums and galleries in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Dublin and London. Most known for his “Beethoven Death Mask Variations".  He now resides in Berlin where he is currently focusing on his latest series of paintings “The Nuclear Tombs” that confront our very existence.

Thomas Halloran Curriculum Vitae

Education

  The School of the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1987-1991
Longy School of Music; Cambridge, MA (piano and orchestration) 1993-1994
Music Theory with James Forte (international composer) 1986-1992
Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA (art courses) 1986
Boston University, Boston, MA (art courses) 1985

Solo Shows and Two Person Shows


2008

Time and Tide Two Person Show
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2006

Worked Earth Solo Show
The Kings Road Gallery, London, England


2005

Recent Works Solo show
The Art Red Spot Gallery, Westport, Connecticut


2000

Earthworks Two person show
Alpers Fine Arts, Andover, MA


1999

Proclamation of Renewal and Endurance, Solo show
Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Beyond The Surface Two person show
Upstairs at Johnson Art Gallery, Boston, MA

Selected Exhibitions


2011

Culture Night
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Art Ireland
RDS,  The Royal Dublin Society Foundation

Christmas Show
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Summer Event Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2010

SCOOP Foundation Charity Auction
The Ormond Wine Bar, Dublin, Ireland

Culture Night
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Christmas Show
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Summer Event Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2009

Culture Night
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Christmas Show
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Summer Event Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2008

30th University Show
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Art Ireland
RDS, The Royal Dublin Society Foundation,             
The Jonathan Swift Gallery, Dublin Ireland

The David Manley Award Fine Arts Auction
Dublin Castle Dublin, Ireland

Christmas Show
Morris Gallery, Skibbereen, Co Cork, Ireland


2007

Annual Festival Exhibition Kilkenny Arts Festival
The Jonathan Swift Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

Artist of the Malthouse
Dunamaise Arts Center, Portlaois, Ireland

The Annual Christmas Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland

Christmas group show
The Jonathan Swift Gallery, Carrickfergus, Ireland


2006

The David Manley Award Fine Arts Auction
Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Chelsea Art Fair
Kings Road Gallery, London, England

The Affordable Art Fair
Kings Road Gallery, London, England

The Hurlingham Club Auction
Kings Road Gallery, London, England

Summer Show
Kings Road Gallery, London, England

Summer Event Exhibition

Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2005

Christmas Exhibition
Kings Road Gallery, 436 Kings Road, London

The Annual Christmas Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland          

Summer Group Show
Andrew Edlin Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 6th floor, New York, NY

Summer Event Exhibition
Oisin Gallery, 44 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland


2002

Art Ireland
RDS,  The Royal Dublin Society Foundation, Dublin, Ireland
The Jonathan Swift Gallery


2001

Inaugural Exhibition
Andrew Edlin Gallery, 529 West 20th Street 6th Floor, New York, NY

The Lowell Folk Festival
Curated and participated in show at Evo’s Arts Institute in conjunction with
The Lowell Folk Festival Lowell, Ma


2000

Articulations of Artistic Visions
Raymond Lawrence Gallery, Atlanta, GA

The Allegorical Figure  Three person show
Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, MA

Members Show
Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA


1999

Still Life
Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, M


1998

The 1998 DeCordova Annual Exhibition
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Life, Death, Memory & Existence
Randolph Associates Fine Arts, Belmont, MA


1997

The Edge of Chaos
Cambridge Art Association {CAA}, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA


1996 
Anxiety of Influence
Cambridge Art Association {CAA}, Cambridge, MA

Student Shows

 

Museum School Graduate Show
Grossman Gallery, Museum School, Boston

Dana Pond Exhibition Finalist, Group Show
Grossman Gallery, Museum Gallery, Boston, MA

Work Shown on PBS Channels 2 and 44 in the documentary
Gerry Bergstein Painter and Teacher  video shown at DeCordova Museum

Dana Pond Exhibition Finalist, Group Show
Grossman Gallery, Museum School, Boston, MA

Bibliography

Joyce Cohen Art New England, “The 1998 DeCordova Annual Exhibition” Oct./Nov. 1998
Christine Temin Boston Globe, “Bold DeCordova Annual” July 1, 1998
Joanne Silver Boston Herald, ‟Visual Arts” June 9, 1998
Christopher Mills Boston Phoenix, Summer Harvest, “Ten Beauties at the DeCordova” July17, 1998
Kristen Struebin-Beazley Arts Media, ‟Curators Choice: The DeCordova Annual” Jul./Aug. 1998
Sean Corcoran Bedford Minuteman, “Tumultuous Work Joins DeCordova Art Exhibit” July 23, 1998
Mary Lee Missouri Medical Review, “Following their Muse” Summer, 1997
Rebecca Piro Andover “Alpers Fine Art Unveils its Earthworks Exhibit Tonight” November 16, 2000
Kristin Webb The Lowell Sun, “Making Way for Art” August 5, 2001
Kathryn Liebowitz Middlesex Beat, “Featured Artist” Summer 2002
Nora Lucey Business-Plus Magazine, Ireland, “Art Attack” January 2003
Muriel Bolger Irish Interiors “Living With Art” Summer, 2004
Ryan Dunne Leinster Express Quartet if Artist Illuminate Dunamaise December 12, 2007
Lucy Tormey Midlands Arts and Culture Magazine “The Stradbally Malthouse and its Artist” Spring 2008

Notable Collections

 

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Collection of Christopher Lloyd, Actor

Awards and Residencies

 

The Malt House Live Work Studio Residency, Stradbally Count Laoise, Ireland

2007-2008
New American Paintings, Juror Beth Venn Curator of the Whitney Museum, New York, NY 1999
Jurors Choice Cambridge Art Association, Juror Jock Reynolds, Curator of the Yale Center for British Art at Yale University 1997