Biography

Brian Harte (b. 1978) lives and works in County Tipperary, Ireland. He graduated with first class honours BFA degree at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork. Harte works mainly with large-scale canvases and is concerned with the investigation of composition and the relationship between abstractionism and figurative painting, relating to the tradition of British painting. One of the main characteristics of Harte’s paintings is his bold use of color and the indeterminate condition of the canvases’ figures, which remain in a state between the sketch-like and the finished. Though this process is already perceptible in his earlier paintings, it notably became a grander concern for Harte in his latest works. As Ffrench/Harte he has also worked collaboratively on large sculptural projects with fellow Irish artist Anne Ffrench. Harte has been the recipient of awards and residencies including the Arts Council of Ireland’s Project Award on two occasions.

Permanent collections:
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany)
Crawford Municipal Gallery (Ireland)
Office of Public Works (Ireland)
Contemporary Irish Art Society (Ireland)
University College Cork (Ireland)
I.N.T.O. (Ireland)
Bank of Ireland (Ireland)
Allied Irish Bank (Ireland)
Private collections

➝ Brian Harte’s Website
➝ Brian Harte on Instagram

Solo Exhibitions

2021

Annarumma Gallery, Napoli (Italy) (upcoming)

Signs Gallery, Istanbul (Turkey) (upcoming)

2020

Everything you touch, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

Tables Manners, Jac Forbes Gallery, Malibu (USA)

Subbuteo I Brian Harte, These Days, Los Angeles (USA)

2019

X will mark the place, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2018

Solo booth, Art Paris, Grand Palais, with GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

This life domestic, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco (USA)

2017

Family, GNYP Gallery, Berlin (Germany)

2013

The Sovereigns, Ffrench/Harte, Mermaid Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow (Ireland)

The Sovereigns, Art and Artifact, Kinsale Arts Festival, Co. Cork (Ireland)

The Gadfly, Ffrench/Harte, Commonage Callan, Co. Kilkenny (Ireland)

2011

The Gadfly, Ffrench/Harte, Kinsale Arts Week (Ireland)

The Gadfly, Ffrench/Harte, National Sculpture Factory, Co. Cork (Ireland)

2010

No Romance, The Origin Gallery, Dublin
 (Ireland)

2008

Thirty, The Origin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)

2006

Cartoons from Summerhill, The Narrow Space Gallery, Clonmel
 (Ireland)

2005

Paintings from Summerhill, The Origin Gallery, Dublin
 (Ireland)

2004

Zephyr and Chlori, Form Gallery, Co. Cork
 (Ireland)

2002

U-boat, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel (Ireland)

Onus, The Origin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)

Group Exhibitions

2020

VISION X, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (Ireland)

2019

Gold Standard, Evergold Projects, San Francisco (USA)

25th Anniversary Show, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (Germany)

2016

Human Condition, Former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles (USA)

ICM, Constellation Blvd., Los Angeles (USA)

2015

RHA, Royal Hibernian Academy, 185 Annual Summer Exhibition (Ireland)

2013

Wool House, Somerset House, London
 (UK)

2012

The Gadfly, Ffrench/Harte, National Sculpture Factory, Culture Night, Co. Cork (Ireland)

Point to Point, Kinsale Arts Week (Ireland)

2011

EverythingSoon, The Joinery, Dublin (Ireland)

Eigse Arts Festival, Ffrench/Harte
, VISUAL, Carlow (Ireland)

2010

Put a lid on it, Galway Arts Centre (Ireland)

Backwater Twenty 10, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Co. Cork (Ireland)

2009

Irish Artists, Queens Elm Court, London
 (UK)

2008

Kinsale Arts Week (Ireland)

2007

Tulca, G126 Gallery, Catalyst Arts Belfast Members, Belfast (Ireland)

Catalyst Arts, Members show, Belfast (Ireland)

2005

Across Boundaries, Office of Public Works OPW, DFP, touring exhibition, Co. Dublin, Co. Laois, Co Tyrone, Co. Down, Wexford, Co. Cork (Ireland)

2004

Atlantic, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Co. Cork
 (Ireland)

2001

St Finbarrs Cathedral, Drawing and Religion, Co. Cork (Ireland)