BIO
Originally from Northern New York and now based in the West of Ireland, Love’s approach to painting is guided by movement, observation, and immersion in place. Her process involves walking the terrain to build a relationship with it before responding through paint. Love’s work seeks to translate her experiences of place into visual form and to hold a moment of stillness in a world that is constantly changing. The paintings oscillate between the known and unknown, reflecting the landscape's shifting nature and revealing how the past and present coexist beneath the surface.
Love received her BFA from SUNY Plattsburgh in 2017 and her MFA from the Burren College of Art in 2022. She has exhibited widely, with exhibitions in Galway, Cork, Belfast, and further afield in New York and Nashville. Her current exhibition 'Unfolding Places' is on view at the Burren College of Art Gallery through 6th June 2025.
She is a two-time recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland's Agility Award (2022 & 2023), as well as the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2022 & 2024) and a Galway City Council Creative Practitioner Bursary (2024). Love was recently awarded the inaugural Plein Air Painter Artist Residency at Glenveagh National Park, Donegal.
Since 2022, Love has been a member of Barton Studios in Galway, where she continues to develop her practice.
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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
2025 Unfolding Places, Currently on view at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan
2025 Footpaths, Séamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Ireland
2025 Echoes of the Coast, Daróg, Galway
2023 Recent Paintings, University Staff Club Gallery, University of Galway
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
2025 The Kilkenny Portrait Show, An Chéad Tine Gallery, Kilkenny
2024 imagine the blue is red, Members Exhibition, 126 Gallery, Galway
2023 You Get What You Get and You Don't Get Upset, Laneway Gallery, Cork City
2023 (Three-Person) Remnants-Rhythms-Rituals, Ardgillan Castle Gallery,
Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
2023 (Two-Person) Conversations with the Landscape, Laneway Gallery, Cork City
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
2024 Second Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada
2024 Creative Practitioners Bursary, Galway City Council
2023 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 First Grant, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, 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
RESIDENCIES
2025 Glenveagh National Park Plein Air Painters Residency, Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, in collaboration with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Office of Public Works.
MEMBERSHIPS
Studio Member, Barton Studios, 126 Gallery & Studios, Galway
Professional Member, Visual Artists Ireland (VAI)
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
2024 Oil Painting for Beginners, 5-Day Workshop, Burren College of Art,
12-16th August 2024.
2024 Landscape Painting in the Burren, 5-Day Workshop, Burren College of Art,
19-23 August 2024.
2023 Instructor for 5-Day Workshop, Painting in the Burren Landscape, Burren College of Art,
21-25 August 2023.
2023 Lecture, Visual Artist Series, SUNY Plattsburgh Art Department, 6 April 2023.
PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
2025 'Echoes of the Coast – A New Exhibition in Daróg by Tiffani Love,' This is Galway, 06
March 2025.
https://thisisgalway.ie/echoes-of-the-coast-a-new-exhibition-in-darog-by-tiffani-love/
2023 'US artist opens up about behind the scenes of gorgeous paintings inspired by west of
Ireland,' Galway Beo, 19 August 2023.
https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/artist-opens-up-behind-scenes-8685225
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