Galway born artist Ruth O’Donnell studied at UCG, 1969 to 1972 and at the art college of the Institut St Luc, Brussels from 1986 to 1990. She is best known as a printmaker and has been a member of the Graphic Studio Dublin since 1991.

Her work deals with pattern in still life and landscape and includes etchings, monotypes, watercolours and audiovisual installation.

In 2014 she was awarded a three-month residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Her work is widely collected.

Selected Exhibitions

2025 Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery

2024 Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin
St Brigid's Well, Beijing, China

2023 Winter Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Winter Gathering, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Watercolour Society of Ireland Annual Exhibition, Farmleigh, Dublin
Impressions, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Home Again, Graphic Studio with Simon Communities Ireland

2022 St Brigid's Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Returning Home, Graphic Studio with Simon Communities

2021 Mews Art Gallery, Clogherhead, Co Louth
The Art of Home, Graphic Studio with Simon communities of Ireland, CHQ Building, Dublin
Diamond Point, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co Cork

2020 Eilís Dillon: language, landscape & legacy Visual Arts Commission, Galway Public Libraries,
A Delicate Blue, Dower House Gallery, Emo Court, Co Laois
The Human Heart Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Among School Children, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Eva Gore-Booth, Museum of Literature Ireland
Small Wonders a set of 25 small watercolours for dlr Artworks Home
60 Years of Graphic Studio Dublin, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
Diamond Point, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

2019 WSI Annual Exhibition, Farmleigh, Dublin
Impressions 2019, Galway
Discoverprint 19, Green Acres Gallery Wexford
Sixth Silk Road International Art Exhibition, Xi'an, China
Perfectly Ordinary, solo exhibition of new etchings, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

2018 Masters of Contemporary Printmaking, Blue House Gallery, Schull
Mór, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
True Grit, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

2017 Interiors, Blue House Gallery, Schull
Impressions 2017, Galway
Summer Show, Graphic Studio Gallery
Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere
WSI Annual Exhibition
Another Bite of the Cherry, National Botanic Gardens
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo

2016 All is not lost, solo exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery
Waterbased, Glór, Ennis, Co Clare
Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co Cork
The Connacht Tribune Printworks, Galway
SO Fine Art, Dublin
The Printmakers' Gallery, Drury St, Dublin
Urbis Felicitas, Graphic Studio Gallery
Water Colour Society of Ireland

2015 Finders and Keepers, DLR Lexicon Gallery
Water Colour Society of Ireland, Annual Exhibition, winner of the Adams Award
Impressions 2015, Galway
Summer Ensemble, Graphic Studio Gallery
Talk on Sources of Inspiration, National Gallery of Ireland
Session in the Gallery, Tradfest 2015, live printmaking and music event at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin with musician Nick Roth and sound artist Keith Lindsay

2014 Portes Ouvertes, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Amárach/Interplay, SO Fine Art Editions, South Anne Street, Dublin 2
Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin

2013 A Natural Selection, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
Variations on a Theme, Graphic Studio Gallery
WSI Annual Exhibition
Strumpet City, Graphic Studio Gallery
PRESSED, an exhibition of contemporary print, Dun Laoghaire
DLR Open Submission, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire
Limerick Printmakers, Open Submission, Print Show
33rd miniprint exhibition, Cadaqués, Spain

2012 Lines of Descent, solo exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery
Festival Interceltique Lorient, France
WSI Annual Exhibition

2011 Shades of Light, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, (two-person exhibition, with Gráinne Cuffe)
Bienal Internacional de Gravura Santos, Brazil
International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Poland - Lodz
31st Mini Print International of Cadaqués, Spain

2010 Surface and Depth, two-person exhibition, with Swedish artist Eva Grytt, Original Print Gallery, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition
Gold, Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Airfield
Graphic Studio 50th Anniversary, Farmleigh
Original Print at Rathfarnham Castle
Editions, Lavit Gallery, Cork,
BIG VISION...small works, Kilcock Art Gallery
WSI Annual Exhibition

2009 Winter Island, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Artist's Proof, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Making Waves, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway
RHA Annual Exhibition
WSI Annual Exhibition

2008 Little Christmas, Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery, Temple Bar
RHA Annual Exhibition,
Watercolour Society of Ireland Annual Exhibition
Still Life and Landscape, Droichead Arts Centre
The Graphic Studio Goes West, Kenny's Gallery, Galway

2007 Ruth O'Donnell '07, Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands - solo exhibition
Ideal Conditions, Coole Park, Co Galway - audiovisual installation