Brian O’Doherty, also known as Patrick Ireland, is an Irish artist, writer, critic and art critic, writer and artist. Recent exhibitions include Connecting the... at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, Brian O’Doherty – Self, Sign, Scenario at Galerie Thomas Fischer, and the Art as an Argument, at Kunstmuseum Bayreuth. His works are included in major collections around the world, such as Detroit Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MoMA, New York, The National Gallery of Art, DC, Seattle Art Museum, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

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