Solo Exhibitions:

Seen and Unseen, The Lido Stores, Margate, UK, 2024

HomeBird, Kevin Kavanagh Galleries,  Dublin, 2024.https://www.kevinkavanagh.ie/exhibitions/198-olivia-o-dwyer-homebird/overview/

 A Mind's Eye at  Kevin Kavanagh Galleries, Dublin, October 2022.

https://www.kevinkavanagh.ie/viewing-room/21-olivia-o-dwyer-a-mind-s-eye/

 'Lockdown Diaries',  Wexford Arts Centre, 2021.

'Recurrence' Creative Hub Studios, Wexford, 2019.

Selected  Exhibitions:

2025, Winter exhibition, The Dunmore, Rathmines, Dublin

2025, Invited artist, Crosscurrents,  Herman's Auction House,  Dublin

2025, Right Here, Right Now, Rua Red, Dublin 

2024, Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery,  Dublin,  

2024, New Neighbours, 2 person show at South Tipperary Arts Centre

2024, RHA annual, Dublin 

2023,The Lido Stores Open, Margate, UK

2023, RuaRed, Spring exhibition, Dublin. 

2022, Cairde Visual, Hamilton Gallery Sligo.

2022, Beep Painting Biennial, Swansea Wales

2022, Summer Open, Courthouse Gallery Clare.

21/22, Hambly and Hambly, Fermanagh.

21/22, Winter Open. Courthouse Gallery, Clare.

21/22, Open Call, Dunamaise Arts Centre,

21/22,  ArtForm, 44 The Quay, Waterford

2021, Meet, Peripheries Space, Gorey.      

2021, Painting of the Day, Contemporary British Painting, @paintbritain, Instagram.

2021, Invited artist, HANDS project,  in association with IMMA.                                                                         

2021, featured artist ICE gallery, Instagram.

2020, Composition as a construct, BOS Gallery, Dublin.

2019  'From the Mountain' with Selected works from the Arts Council Collection of Ireland, Wexford Arts Centre & Wexford County Council.

2018, exhibition and residency funded by Culture Ireland, in association with Wexford Arts Centre,

Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2018, Vital Material, Creative Hub Studios, curated by Mary Ruth Walsh, Wexford.

2018, Invited artist, All 'Opera, Cultural exchange exhibition, Velletri, Italy.

2018 ’Between the Sea and the Sky’, Two person show, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin.

2017, Wexford Opera Festival, supported by Wexford Co. Council Arts Department.

2017 ,‘Last Month's Rent’ Invited artist, with Limerick School of Art and Design, Sailors Home, Limerick.

2017, Cairde Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo.

2017, Kfest Arts Festival, Killorglin, Kerry.

2016, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway.

2016, 'Stranger than Fact’ (Curator and exhibitor), Wexford Opera Festival.

2016, ‘Insert Title Here’ (Curator and exhibitor) The Pigyard Gallery, Wexford.

Awards

Artlinks, Visual Arts Bursary, 2025

Awarded Lido Stores solo exhibition , Margate, UK, August 24. 

Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, 2023

Agility award, Arts Council of Ireland, 2022

Making and Momentum artist prize ( In conversation with Eileen Gray) funded by Richard Malone.

Wexford Co. Council Residency Award at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co.Monaghan, 2023

Artist Correspondence course, Peripheries, Gorey ,2021

Artlinks professional development Bursary, 20/22/23

Living Arts Project with Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford Co.Council, 2022 and 2016.

Artist in residence, 19/20, Creative Hub Studios, Wexford.

Residencies:

Studio residency, BlackBird Cultur-Lab, Co. Wexford 2025

Upcoming residency with Uillinn Arts Centre, West Cork.

SIM residency Reykjavik, Iceland, November 2024. 

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan, September 2024, featuring an artist talk with Neva Elliott. 

Tyrone Guthrie, April and November 2023 

Exhibition and residency with The Lido Stores Gallery, Margate UK, 2024. 

Exhibition and residency in Kathmandu, 2018 with Culture Ireland 

Reviews/Publications

Magic and Loss publication, Kevin Kavanagh, 2024.

RTE.ie, featuring ‘New Neighbours’ at South Tipperary Arts Centre
(https://www.rte.ie/culture/2024/0416/1442807-new-neighbours-artists-olivia-odwyer-and-fergal-styles-in-focus/)

Sunday Times Magazine, New Neighbours, at STAC, 2024. 

Review of HomeBird, (front cover of critique section) Visual Artist News Sheet, by Neva Elliott, 2024. Pg. 19 and 20.

https://issuu.com/visualartistsireland/docs/van_ma_2024?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAae1g_v3PZOFwp9fKMHbdlHTEjy_EWXhWTjfQ3ze9lNzzPZ1ngvviBZfIIHcZw_aem_Db-eusJreOEhZXSK-R3i3Q

Text by Neva Elliott, HomeBird, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, 2024

Text By Neva Elliott, New Neighbours, STAC, 2024

‘Two to View’ section Sunday Independent, HomeBirdat Kevin Kavanagh, 2024. 

Text by Cristin Leach, A Mind’s Eye, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, 2022 

Interview in ‘What Lies Beneath’ Sunday Independent by Niall MacMonagle, A Mind’s Eye, 2022 

Commissioned writer Visual Artist Ireland News Sheet, 2022. 

Public Collections:

Wexford Co. Council Art Collection

EU Ambassador, Head Office, Kathmandu,  Nepal

Suzhou International school, Suzhou, China.

Wexford Arts Centre, permanent art collection 

Work is held in many private collections.