Brian Bourke

One Man Exhibitions
1965 Dawson Gallery, Dublin
1966 Dawson Gallery, Dublin
Drawings, Belfast
New Gallery, Belfast
1968 Dawson Gallery, Dublin
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1971 Painting and Sculpture,Dawson Gallery, Dublin
1973 Galerie Cobra, Bremgarten, Switzerland
1975 Frau Stutz's Cherry Tree,Dawson Gallery, Dublin
Gorey Arts Centre, Wexford
1978 Knock-a-Lough 8 Seasons,Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1979 Theatre Drawings, Stone Art Gallery, Spiddal, Co. Galway
1981 Self with Don Quixote,paintings, etchings and sculpture, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1983 Portrait of J with Basque Hat, paintings, drawings, etchings and sculpture,
Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Meiers Gallery, Zurich
1984 Paintings, drawings and prints, Carroll Gallery, Longford
1985-86 Out of the Head,Arts Council Travelling Exhibition
1985 Of the Head, from the Head, Sculpture and Related Works, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1986 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Sweeney Astray,Cibeal Cincise, Kenmare, Co. Kerry
1987 Brian Bourke: Twenty-five years,Galway Arts Festival, Galway
1988 Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford
1991 Landscape, Cardet, France,Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Artist in Residence, Beckett Festival, Gate Theatre and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1992 Polyptych,Galway Arts Centre, Galway
Nature Morte,Nature Vivante, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1993 Nature Morte, Nature Vivante, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1993 La Bella Barmaid,West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen
1994 Portfolio 100 Works,Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1995 Sweeney Amhann Macha, Armagh
1996 Andalucian Fireworks,Taylor Galleries, Dublin
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
1997 Dip-Trip-Quadrip-Pentap-Polyp-Tych, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin in conjunction with Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1999 Dip-Trip-Quadrip-Pentap-Polyp-Tych, Galway Arts Centre, Domonic Street, Galway.
2000 Portraits N.U.I. Galway

Two and Three Man Exhibitions
1998 On the Shannon - Two Artists, with Jay Murphy, Carroll Gallery, Longford
1988 Portrait of Tony O'Malley,with Tony O'Malley, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1989 At Sweeney - Two Artists,with Michael Farrell, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
1990 A Sense of Ireland,with Séan McSweeney and Tony O'Malley, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
1994 Paintings and Sculpture,with William Crozier, travelling exhibition Cork Arts Society, Cork, Carroll Gallery, Longford and Model Arts Centre, Sligo
1995 Paintings with Bernadette Kiely, Galway Arts Centre, Galway Síathor, with Jay Murphy and Séan McSweeney, An Damhlann, Spiddal, Co. Galway
1995 Behan and Bourke, Backstage at the Druid,with John Behan, Kenny Gallery, Galway
Three Artists on the Horse,Veronica Bolay and Basil Blackshaw, Claremorris Art Gallery, Co. Mayo

Major Group Exhibitions
1965 Paris Biennale
1965 Lugano Exhibition of Graphics
1971 The Irish Imagination,Hugh Lane, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
1980 Meiers Gallery, Zurich
The Delighted Eye,London
1981 Hibernian Inscape,Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin
2nd Biennale of European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden
Irish Graphics, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.
1983 Making Sense - Ten Artists,Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1984 A Century of Connemara,Galway Arts Festival
1986 Irish Artists, Beverley Hills, California, U.S.A.
1987 Images of Sweeney,Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
1988 ROSC,Dublin
1991 Parable Island,Some Aspects of Recent Irish Art, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1992 Personal Theme,joint production by Island Connection & Galway Arts Centre
Island Connection,Tenerife
1993 Mayo Landscape,with John Behan, Barrie Cooke, Louis le Brocquy, Séan McSweeney and Camille Souter, Claremorris Art Gallery, Co. Mayo
1993 Six Artists at The Model Schoolwith Fergus Bourke, John Coen, Patrick Collins, John Kelly and Nancy Wynne-Jones, Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Island Connection, Bolfin Island, Co. Galway
1995 Famine,George Moore Society Travelling Exhibition
1998 Talking About Artists' Sketchbooks,Lavit Gallery Cork and Cork County Libraries Service - travelling exhibition
1998 Joycesight,George Moore Society Travelling Exhibition, Trieste, Rome Perugia
1998-99 When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Twentieth Century Figurative Painting from Ireland,Curated by Berkeley Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley and travelling to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley: Grey Art Gallery, New York: Barbican Art Gallery, London

Major Prizes
1936 Born Dublin
1964 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, second prize
1965 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, second prize
1965 Arts Council Portrait Competition, prize
1966 MacAuley Fellowship, second prize
1966 Munster and Leinster Bank Competition, first prize
1967 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, first prize
1985 Sunday Independent Artist of the Year
1993 O'Malley Art Award, The Irish American Cultural Institute