Catherine Marshall is a curator, art writer and former Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1995 -2007). She has lectured at TCD, UCD and the NCAD and was Visual Arts adviser to the Arts Council’s Touring Experiment, 2007–8. She is a founding member of the Na Cailleacha collective, composed of women artists dedicated to examining issues of ageing, creativity, gender and collaboration.
She was awarded an honorary doctorate in the History of Art by University College Dublin in 2019.
Recent Curatorial Projects;
The School of Hibernia (after Raphael), 2024, Trinity College Dublin.
Women and War, Wexford Opera Festival, October 2023.
The Age of Reason/Unreason, The Art of Na Cailleacha, STAC, Clonmel, Ballinglen, Co. Mayo, Wexford Arts Centre, Garter Lane Arts Centre. 2021–22, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2023.
Kathleen Lynn, Insider on the Outside, Mayo collaborative exhibition to commemorate the 1916 Rising, five venues in County Mayo, 2016.
Recent Publications include;
Irish Art 1920–2020 Perspectives on change, co-edited with Yvonne Scott, 2022
Janet Mullarney, (co-edited with Mary Ryder), Irish Academic Press, 2019.
Art and Architecture of Ireland, Vol. V, Twentieth Century, (co-edited with Peter Murray) Royal Irish Academy and Yale University Press, 2014.
Board memberships;
Chair of the Arts Committee for Age and Opportunity’s Bealtaine programme
Board member of the Irish American Cultural Institute (New Jersey),
Common Ground (Dublin 8) and the South Tipperary Art Centre (Clonmel).