Daniel Coleman
Daniel Coleman (b.1994, Armagh) is an Irish Artist specialising in Painting based in the North of Ireland. He has exhibited extensively since graduating with First Class honours in Fine Art Painting from the Belfast School of Art (2016). Selected solo, group and two person exhibitions include, ‘The Hennessy Craig Award and The Homan Potterton Prize’, RHA, Dublin (2026 & 2024), ‘a kind of dark’, Lavit Gallery, Cork (2025) (two person exhibition with Ciara Roche, curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill), ‘At The Foot Of The Mountain’, Arcade Studios, Belfast (2025) (solo), ‘As Far As The Eye Can See’, F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio, Banbridge, Down (2025) (group exhibition, curated by Dr Riann Coulter and Feargal O’Malley), ‘RHA Annual Exhibition’, RHA, Dublin (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 & 2019), ‘Main Exhibition’, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon (2025, 2024 & 2022), ‘The First International Biennial Exhibition’, Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum, Mayo (2023-2024), ‘SHADOWS ON THE WALL’, The Georgian Gallery, Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards, Down (2023) (solo), ‘MATTERS OF TABLE’, Periphery Space, Wexford (2023), ‘URGENCIES (2023)’, CCA, Derry (2023) (group exhibition, curated by Joy Gerrard and Catherine Hemelryk), ‘New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows’, The MAC, Belfast (2022–2023) (group exhibition, curated by Dougal McKenzie and Hugh Mulholland), ‘Ag dul i dtreo na gréine’, Arcade Studios, Belfast (2022), ‘Curacha’, National University of Ireland, Galway and Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Galway (2021) (touring exhibition) (Installed as part of the Galway International Arts Festival and Galway Culture Night 2021), ‘PeripheriesOPEN’, Periphery Space, Wexford (2018), ‘Adˈvɑːnst’, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast (2017), ‘Very Good Waves Now’, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2016) and ‘All That Remains’, The Braid, Ballymena, Antrim (2016) (solo). He is a member of the drawing collective, ‘The Drawing Journal’, collaborations include, ‘Quiet Wanders Laughing’, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2023), ‘Thing;’, Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards, Down (2021) and ‘Image of Thought’, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast (2020–2021).
Daniel is the recipient of the Hennessy Craig Award (2026), the Interface Inagh Residency Award, supported by An Chomhairle Ealaíon (2024) and the RHA/ Áras Éanna Residency Award (2021). He was nominated for the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2026 for Visual Art (2026), invited to be part of the Woodland Symposium at Interface Inagh, supported by An Chomhairle Ealaíon (2026 & 2025) and was longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize (2025). He has been awarded funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (2023 & 2021), and the Freelands Foundation (2020). His work can be found in public and private collections throughout Ireland (including the Office of Public Works, Dublin and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s permanent collection), UK (London) and USA (Boston).
In addition to his own practice as an Artist, he is a Teacher of Art & Design, Media, Moving Image Arts and SEN. He was an invited Guest Lecturer for BA Fine Art, at Liverpool Hope, University, Liverpool (2021).
