Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin (pronounced Kee-veen O Cree-awn) is an Irish artist, lecturer and writer. His artwork consists of drawings and paintings and features cityscapes of Dublin, Irish landscapes, images based on old family photographs, Irish history, and work with socio-political themes based on people involved in many different kinds of struggle around the world.

Caoimhghin studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin where he obtained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art. He subsequently undertook post-graduate study in the interdisciplinary field of Cultural Studies in Dublin City University obtaining an MA (Hons) degree in Communications and Cultural Studies. Caoimhghin is an Irish speaker and holds a PhD in Language and Politics (Dublin City University) which is published under the title Language from Below: The Irish Language, Ideology and Power in 20th-Century Ireland. He completed work in Dublin City University as a Post-Doctoral researcher on the TRASNA project (a web-based database of references to translations of Irish literature globally).

Caoimhghin has worked as a part-time lecturer in Language and Cultural Identity, and Geopolitics at All Hallows College, Dublin; in Intercultural Communication at Champlain College; and in Aesthetics and History of Irish Art for Boston University in Dublin while doing research on a database of Realist and Social Realist art from around the world.

Caoimhghin has had many solo exhibitions around Ireland and his work has appeared on the covers of books in the USA, UK and in Ireland and a calendar in Australia. In 2013 five of his paintings were chosen to be shown at an international exhibition and conference in Teheran, Iran.

landscapes, cityscapes, expressionism, history, portraits