Brian Maguire has been the subject of major institutional exhibitions both abroad and in Ireland. In the United States, he has exhibited at The Shirley Fiterman Art Centre (BMCC), New York (2021); Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Missoula Art Museum (2022); American University Museum, Washington (2020); United Nations Headquarters, New York (2020); Rubin Art Center, El Paso (2019); and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (2000). In Mexico, he exhibited at the Art Museum Ciudad Juarez (2019). In Belgium, his work was shown at the European Parliament, Brussels (2012) and the CultuurCentrum De Werft, Geel (2012). In Ireland, his exhibitions include the IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2018) and the Galway Arts Centre, Galway City (2005).
The artist has also participated in significant group exhibitions, including Andrea Rehder Arte Contemporânea in São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (2024); Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2023); Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France (2022); IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland, 13 times between 1991 and 2020); Cleveland University Art Gallery (USA, 2018); Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen (Ireland, 2018); Wiels, Brussels (Belgium, 2014); Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool (England, 2013); BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Belgium, 2013); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England, 1999); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (USA, 1999); XXIV São Paulo Biennial (Brazil, 1998); Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido (Japan, 1997); Barbican Centre, London (England, 1994); as well as Boston University and Northeastern University in Boston (USA, 1986) and the National Gallery of Athens (Greece, 1984).
More recently, Brian Maguire's work was featured in the exhibition Ghosts from the Recent Past at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2020. He also had solo exhibitions in 2022 at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (USA); in 2023 at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland); in 2024 at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (Ireland).
Brian Maguire is also represented by Fergus McCaffrey, New York (United States) & Saint Barthélemy (St. Barth) and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (Ireland).
In 2018, Fergus McCaffrey and Kerlin Gallery published a monograph on Brian Maguire, an expansive publication which presents over 30 years of work and features texts by Donald Kuspit, Thomas McEvilley, Gavin Delahunty, and Ed Vulliamy. In 2020, the catalogue Without Borders: The Paintings of Brian Maguire was published following his exhibition at Kerlin Gallery. More recently, in 2024, another catalogue, Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion, was released to accompany his exhibition at Hugh Lane.
COLLECTIONS
Wolverhampton Museum (UK)
Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
The Tia Collection, Santa Fe (US)
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä (FI)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE)
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (IE)
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (IE)
Kilkenny Art Gallery Collection, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (IE)
Wexford County Council (IE)
Gallery of Faith and Charity in Hope, Hope, Idaho (US)
Office of Public Works (IE)
Trinity College Art Collection, Dublin (IE)
University College Cork (IE)
University College Dublin (IE)