Kane, Michael

Michael Kane b. Dublin, Ireland, 1935, studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Selected solo shows include Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (2010, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001); Vanguard Gallery, Cork (2009); Solstice Arts Centre, Navan Co. Meath (2008); Norman Villa Gallery, Galway (2007, 2005); and Art Space Gallery, London (2002, 2001, 2000). The Royal Hibernian Academy's Gallagher Gallery held a major retrospective of his work in 1995. Kane’s work was included in eva International, 2010, Limerick City; ‘From Landscape’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork (2006); and ‘SIAR 50, 50 years of the collection of CIAS’, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin (2006).

His work is held in the collections of the Abbey Theatre; Allied Irish Banks; Aer Lingus; Bank of Ireland; Contemporary Irish Art Society; Coras Iompair Éireann; the Arts Council; Government Buildings, Dublin; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin; Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin; Municipal Gallery, Tampere, Finland; the National Self-Portrait Collection at the University of Limerick; and N.I.B. Capital Bank, London.