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ALICE MAHER

ALICE MAHER

b. 1956, Ireland
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Alice Maher Biography

One of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, Alice Maher works within the realms of nature and culture, subversion and transformation, mythology and memory. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography and installation.

Alice Maher studied at the University of Limerick and the Crawford College of Art, Cork. She was awarded a Master’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster and shortly after a Fulbright Scholarship to San Francisco Art Institute.

Maher works within the realms of nature and culture, subversion and transformation, mythology and memory. Her work involves many different media including painting, drawing, sculpture, print, photography and installation.

She has exhibited widely in Ireland, England and the United States, and represented Ireland in the 22nd São Paolo Bienal. In 2008, the David Nolan Gallery in New York hosted a solo exhibition of new drawings and sculptures titled Hypnerotomachia.

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Alice Maher, The Sibyls (2025) (disc).
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Alice Maher, The Sibyls (2025).
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Alice Maher, The Sibyls (2025) (detail).
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Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, The Map (2021).
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Alice Maher Youre Not a Prisoner of History
Spotlight / PARTNER CONTENT Alice Maher: ‘You’re Not a Prisoner of History’ Aoife Murray From “mermaids to maps”, Alice Maher brings her multimedia milieu to In Minor Keys at the 61st Venice Biennale. Aoife Murray chats to the Irish artist about myth and time.

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