Artist CV

Profile

A newly Dublin-based multidisciplinary artist from Waterford, I work across painting, film, and performance. My practice moves between public intervention and studio reflection; rooted in observation, improvisation, and collaboration. I enjoy visually investigating the theatrics of hypermodernity, and how digital culture shapes identity, memory, and shared space. Staging interventions in physical and digital settings, I seek out moments where dissonant realities blur. Encounters with the banal and the bizarre are preserved in pixels, reimagined through material experimentation, and transformed into tangible works for exhibition contexts.

Education

2019 - 2023: BA (Hons) Visual Art (1:1),  South East Technological University, Waterford.
Thesis title: 'Exploring the Methodology of Post-Internet Artists Utilising Technology to Appropriate and Archive the Social Fabric of ‘Poor Image’ Digital Ephemera.'
Supervisor: Dr. Susan Connolly

Employment

2019 - Present: Freelance Artist & Facilitator

2023 - Present: Community Manager, Big Look (partnered with Artform Dunmore East School of Art)
Complimenting my studio practice, my role at Big Look involves supporting artist-led learning through administration, event programming, and educational resource design. I act as a liaison between practicing artists, mentors, and audiences across Ireland and abroad, and maintain a commitment to accessibility in art education, collaboration, and digital innovation. Working within this network not only strengthens my professional practice but also deepens my hands-on engagement with the Irish visual arts ecology, curatorial development, and contemporary art education.

January - April 2025: Marketing Manager, Creative Europe & Erasmus+ funded Residency, Lisbon
Marketing Manager for the Residency,  overseeing campaign visuals, public communications, partner liaison, and content strategy.

  • Worked at Safra Gallery for three months, assisting with gallery installation and logistics, curation and visitor engagement.

  • Helped organise (and participated in) two international group exhibitions.

Selected Exhibitions, Collaborations, Symposiums and Interviews

2025 - Group show: ‘Breaking the Patterns’, a Creative Europe Project, Lisbon

2025 - Group show: ‘Safra Diva’, Safra, Lisbon

2025 -  Crisis/death/resurrection; a painting symposium: Rachael Gunning, Edinburgh-based art academic, gave presentation ‘Necessary Connections / Caoilfhionn Hanton -  Affectionate painting + the rhizome’ upon my show ‘Biblical Milf’ 

2024 - Solo show: 'Biblical Milf', Daylight Glasnevin & Lucky’s, Dublin

2024 - Group show: Art in the Gardens, Open Call Winter Exhibition’, Mount Congreve, Waterford
2024 - ‘Panacea’, Exhibition organiser and exhibitor, Waterford Gallery of Art

2024 - Hosting Artist Talk with artist Louise Cherry at opening of her exhibition ‘All that’s left of you in me’,  Signal Arts Centre, Bray

2023 - VAI ‘MiniVAN’ interview: Caoilfhionn Hanton / Street Art

2023 - Launch of my artist commission and Landscape Symposium speaker, Waterford Gallery of Art

2023 - 2024 - Multiple Hermans group exhibitions, Dublin

2023 - ‘My Teeth Hurt, My Hands Hurt, My Feet Hurt’ BA Degree Show, SETU + Garter Lane

2022 - ‘Artists in Focus: Una Sealy’ Film by Rhys Wallace, commissioned by Creative Ireland & Waterford Gallery of Art / RHA Summer Exhibition

2022 - An Post Urban Art Stamp Series: Jack Charlton mural immortalised as a national postage stamp

2014 - 2022 -  Annual Muralist with Waterford Walls Festival

2017 - 2020Hit The North Mural Festival, Belfast

Awards, Residencies & Grants

2025 - Creative Europe Art Residency, ‘Breaking the Patterns’ Lisbon

2023 - Longlisted, RDS Visual Arts Award

2023 - Graduate Awardee, Waterford Gallery of Art (commissioned into municipal collection)

2023 - Graduate Residency, GOMA Waterford

2022 - Creative Ireland/Waterford grant recipient for inclusive youth mixed-media workshop series, ‘The Blaasification of Waterford’

Press

2024 - Una Sealy’s portrait of me being used in Leaving Cert Art paper, question 1

2023 - Visual Artists Ireland’s News Sheet miniVAN interview for their Street Art edition

2023 - Irish Times article on my mural on Arbour Hill of Spicebag’s iconic imagery

2023 - Totally Dublin article exploring urban artists thoughts on recent Public Art Bill

2022 - An Post ‘Urban Art Stamps’ Caoilfhionn Hanton and Niall O’Lochlainn’s Waterford mural ‘Put Em Under Pressure’.

2022 - Video interview with An Post alongside Niall O'Lochlainn

2022 - Creative Ireland/ Creative Waterford funding The Blaasification of Waterford Workshops

2022 - Imagine Arts Festival 2022 video clip of my ‘Demystifing Spraypaint 101 workshop’ at Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford

2022 - Waterford News & Star coverage of Ballygunner hurling mural

2020 - Sky News coverage of murals painted during 2020 COVID crisis

2020 - Belfast Live article on my mural of Line of Duty’s Ted Hastings for Hit The North 2020, of which LoD actor Vicky McClure visited

2020 - Video clip of Ted Hastings mural shown on Graham Norton show featuring actor Adrian Dunbar

2020 - ‘Contestant to Judge’ interview with Credit Union when I judged Waterford winners of Credit Union Art Competition

2019 - RTE article on Waterford Walls 2019

2018 - Interview with the Shona Project

2017 - Waterford Walls 2017

2017 - Interior bedroom makeover with Make-A-Wish.ie

2016 - Irish Examiner article on Waterford Walls 2016

2015 - Irish Examiner article on Waterford Walls 2015

Referees

Dr. Susan Connolly - Lecturer, South East Technological University
Email: Susan.Connolly@setu.ie | Phone: +353 (0)51 845504

Luke Currall - Visual Arts Coordinator, Waterford City & County Council
Email: lcurrall@waterfordcouncil.ie