Recent exhibitions and projects
SANCTUM, 2025
An exhibition in the vaults of Lavit Gallery, May 2025
f. Project, GOMA, 2025
Re-Action, the third f. Project group show, GOMA, Waterford, January 2025
Orla O’Byrne is an artist, researcher, and curator of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork City, Ireland.
She holds an MA in Art & Process from MTU Crawford, Cork, and is a PhD candidate, writing her dissertation on artists working with archival materials. Her previous awards include The Lavit Gallery Student of the Year, the CIT Registrar’s Prize and The Valerie Gleeson Bursary Award. She teaches life drawing at MTU Crawford in Cork and she is chair of the board at Backwater Artist’s Group, where she has been a studio member since 2020.