BIO
Tiffani Love is an American-born artist who lives and works in the west of Ireland. Love's solo shows include, Hushing (2023) at the Ballaí Bána Gallery in Belfast, Walking Across Ireland (2020) held at Three Brothers in Nashville, Tennessee (USA) and Landscapes of Ireland and Northern New York (2019) in Pouring Light Studios, Malone, New York. Her work has featured in group exhibitions including the two-person exhibition Conversations with the Landscape (2023) with Rachael Johnson at the Laneway Gallery in Cork, t i e d (2022) and Déan Cúram / take care (2021) at the Burren College of Art Gallery, Ballyvaughan.
She received her BFA in 2017 from SUNY Plattsburgh and her MFA in 2022 from the Burren College of Art and NUI Galway, and was longlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards the same year. Love was awarded the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2022.
Love is based between County Clare and Galway, living rurally in the Burren and working out of Barton Studios in Galway City.
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EDUCATION
2022 MFA Studio Art, Burren College of Art & NUI Galway, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
2017 BFA Studio Art, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, U.S.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hushing, Ballaí Bána Gallery, Cultúrlann Mc Adam Ó Fiaich, Belfast
2020 Walking Across Ireland, Three Brothers, Nashville, TN
2019 New Work, Three Brothers, Nashville, TN
2019 Landscapes of Ireland and Northern New York, Pouring Light Studios, Malone, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2023 (Upcoming Three-Person) Ardgillan Castle Gallery, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
2023 (Two-Person) Conversations with the Landscape, Laneway Gallery, Cork City
April 8-29th, https://lanewaygallery.ie/pages/conversations-with-the-landscape
2023 Inception, West End Art Studios, Mallow, Ireland
2022 t i e d, MFA Graduate Exhibition, Burren College of Art Gallery, Co. Clare, Ireland
2021 Déan Cúram / take care, Burren College of Art Gallery
2021 Coming Full Circle, Collaborative Film, Supported by Galway 2020 and
the Clare County Arts Council
2020 Trasna IX, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland
2017 BFA Exhibition, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
2017 Migrating Passerines, Pouring Light Studios, Malone, NY
2016 Intersecting Novelties, Champlain Wine Company, Plattsburgh, NY
2016 Migrating Passerines, Pouring Light Studios, Malone, NY
2015 Fall Studio Selections, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
2015 Dingle Summer Art Exhibition, Beard Gallery, Cortland, NY
2015 SUNY Student Art Exhibition Series, SUNY Plaza, Albany, NY
2015 Migrating Passerines, Pouring Light Studios, Malone, NY
2015 Spring Studio Selections, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
2015 PAVA Clothesline Exhibition, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
2014 SUNY Student Art Exhibition Series, SUNY Plaza, Albany, NY
2014 Fall Studio Selections, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
2022 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Canada
2022 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Longlisted, RDS Visual Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society
2020 The Bernice P. Shaughnessy and Janet M. Shaughnessy Scholarship, Burren College of Art
2016 Winkel Art Scholarship, SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
MEMBERSHIPS
Studio Member, Barton Studios, 126 Gallery & Studios, Galway
Professional Member, Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
LECTURES / TALKS
2023 Lecture, Visual Artist Series, SUNY Plattsburgh Art Department, 6 April 2023.
PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
2023 'Artist brings her atmospheric exploration of Irish coastlines to West Belfast cultural centre,'
Belfast Live, 31 January 2023. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/
2022 Interview with Alan Morrissey, The MFA Exhibition at Burren College of Art, Clare FM. https://www.clare.fm/podcasts/mfa-exhibition-burren-college-art-design/
2020 Issue 1, Tír na nÓg Literature/Art Magazine, Galway, Ireland, 19 Dec 2020
2017 The Culture Trip: 10 Emerging Contemporary Artists from Galway, Ireland to Follow, by James Hendicott, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/ireland/articles/10-emerging-contemporary-artists-from-galway-ireland-to-follow/
2017 Cover Image, ZPlatt Literary/Arts Journal, SUNY Plattsburgh
2016 Finalist, Sedona Art Prize, November 2016
2016 ZPlatt Literary/Arts Journal, SUNY Plattsburgh