Biography
Born, Co. Limerick, Ireland
Graduated from Limerick College of Art & Design, Diploma in Fine Art
Elected member of Royal Hibernian Academy
Elected member of Aosdana
Selected Awards and Residencies
Swarthmore College, PA
Model Art Centre, Sligo
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Josef Albers Foundation, CT. USA. Residency
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Co. Mayo
Residency to Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry
Elected Member of Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Awarded Fellowship to The Vermont Studio Centre, USA
The Keating McLoughin Medal and Prize & The Don Niccolo d'Ardia
Caracciolo Prize at the RHA Annual Exhibition
Return Residencies to the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Co. Mayo
Fergus O'Ryan Award, RHA Gallagher Gallery
Residency Annamakerrig, Tyrone Gutherie Centre
Arts Council Exhibition grant
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Overall Winner
Arts Council Bursary
EV+A Limerick Drawing Prize
Commissions
Irish Agricultural Wholesalers Society, Dublin
ESB Ardnacrusha ESB Moneypoint, Co Clare
Corrigan & Corrigan Solicitors, Dublin
Crampton Builders Dublin
Selected Bibliography
The Idea of Islands, by Donald Teskey and Sue Hubbard, published by Occasional Press. ISBN 978 0 9548976 9 7
Irish Arts review Vol 26 /No. 4 Tracking Donald Teskey Interview by Brian McAvera
Conversation in the Mountains, Text by John Banville, Images by Donald Teskey. Limited edition. Published by Gallery Press. ISBN 978 185235 443 5
From Bethany to Beacon Falls ISBN 978-0-9554084-3-4 with essay by Gordon Teskey and Nicholas Fox Weber, Published by Rubicon Gallery
Profile 22, Donald Teskey - Tidal Narratives, published by Gandon Editions. ISBN 0948037 245 to coincide with an exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art
Irish Times. 10 September. Exhibition Review by Aidan Dunne.
Irish Arts Review. Vol 22 /No.3 Ocean Narrative by Samuel Walsh
Donald Teskey Not Only Forms, Catalogue essay by Gerard Smyth, Poet and Managing editor of the Irish Times. Additional text by Peter Maxwell of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Published by the Rubicon Press Ltd, Dublin. ISBN 0-9541322-6-2. To coincide with an exhibition at the Rubicon gallery, Dublin
An Irish Eye: Landscapes of Fact and Imagination. Catalogue published by The Solomon Gallery Dublin. To coincide with a group exhibition at The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.South Africa. January 2004 (No ISBN)
In the time of shaking/Irish artists for amnesty international, Catalogue edited by Ciarán Benson. Published to coincide with an exhibition of 104 Irish Artists at The Irish Museum of Modern Art. May 2004 (reproduction on page 217) ISBN 0-9547258-0-8
Eire/Land edited by Vera Kreilkamp. Distributed by University of Chicago Press. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Eire/Land at The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College USA (reproduction on page 213) ISBN 1-892850-05-2
Irish Arts Review, Vol. 19 No. 2 page 64. RHA Prizewinners. Article by Roisin Kennedy
Donald Teskey Island Crossings, Catalogue Essay by John Horne, Professor of modern european history, Trinity College. Published by The Rubicon Press Ltd, Dublin ISBN 0-9532744-9-7. To coincide with an exhibition at the Rubicon gallery, Dublin
On the precipitous border between land and sea, Exhibition Review by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times Weekend supplement, 21 April 2001
Donald Teskey Paintings 1993-1999, catalogue essay by Andrew Lambirth. Published by The Rubicon Press Ltd. in association with Art First London. ISBN 0-95327044-6-5. To coincide with an exhibition at Art First, London
Landscape and Recollection, The Ballinglen Experience, Text by Sarah Finlay, published by RHA Gallery Trust &The Ballinglen Foundation to coincide with an exhibition at the RHA gallery November 1997. ISBN 1 902168 00 3
Circa Magazine No 62, Donald Teskey Drawings at the Butler Gallery Kilkenny. Review by Peter Jordan
Donald Teskey, Drawings, catalogue essay by Aidan Dunne. Published to coincide with Arts Council Touring Exhibition. ISBN 0 9518733 0 X
Divisions Crossroads, Turns of mind: some new Irish Art, essay by Lucy Lippard, published by Ireland America Arts Exchange Inc. to coincide with exhibitions at The Williams College Museum of Art, USA and The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin. LCCCN 85-51445