"Joe Mcgill is an artist who makes exquisite, delicate, three-dimensional reliefs on a tiny scale, using actual objects to infuse his sophisticated metaphors with fresh, even startling, visual relevance. Realism can sometimes be confused with a certain brutalist approach to the subject matter, but Mcgill’s realism is entirely poetic, and his selection of tiny objects to carry quite a serious weight of ideas shows a particularly sure instinct that is becoming ever more skilled."
Dorothy Walker, art critic

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
2006 Kalevala Suite Galleria Be19, Helsinki Finland
2003 Galleria Be19, Helsinki Finland
2002 Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
1999 Performance, Kathrine Von Bora Museum, Torgau Germany
1992 The Looking Glass Sees Not & is Content,LedisFlam Gallery, New York

1991 Food for Thought, LedisFlam Gallery, New York

1990 The Greatest Show On Earth, Limerick University, Limerick
1989 The Greatest Show On Earth, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Winter Exhibition, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin

2003 50 x50 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2003 Dunlavin Festival of Art, Wicklow
2003 Winter Exhibition, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
2002 Dunlavin Festival of Art, Wicklow
2002 20 x 20 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2000 Winter Exhibition, Cross Gallery, Dublin
1998 Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co.
1996 International Print Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1996 Winter Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1995 Club 10a, Moscow, Russia
1995 IONTAS Small Works Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
1995 R.H.A. Annual, RHA Gallery, Dublin

1995 Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1994 ARIS, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1993 EV+A, Limerick City Gallery,
1992 Group Exhibition, LedisFlam Gallery, New York
1992 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, USA
1991 Group Exhibition, LedisFlam Gallery, New York
1989 G.P.A. Emerging Artists Awards, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
1988 G.P.A. Emerging Artists Awards, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1987 Annual N.C.A.D. Exhibition,

Collections
Farmleigh House, Ireland; National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland; Arts Council Collection of Ireland; Leonard Cohen Collection, USA; John Hunt Collection, Limerick; Dorothy Walker Collection, Ireland; Vera List Collection, New York, USA ; Joseph D. Masheck Collection, New York, USA ; James Joyce Tower Museum, Dublin, Ireland; Holocaust Museum, University of Minnesota, USA; James White Collection, Ireland; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Kathrine Von Bora Museum, Torgau, Germany ; Carr Communications Ltd. Collection, Ireland.

Awards
1993 1st. Prize, 16” x 12” Competition, Pantheon Gallery, Dublin
1991 Department of Foreign Affairs Grant
1991 Arts Council Travel Grant
1990 Aer Lingus Travel Grant

Residencies
1994 & 1995 Schola Internat, Moscow Orphanage No. 24, Moscow, Russia

Projects & Public Works
1998 Madonna and Child, Bawnouge Church, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
1998 Mural for Mostar, The Ark, Temple Bar, Dublin
1996 Painting Workshop, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina
1996 The Rainbow Truck, The Ark, Dublin
1992 Dreams, City Arts Centre, Dublin