Selected Exhibitions

She has exhibited widely in Ireland and has participated in a number of exhibitions internationally, notably in Sweden, Finland and France.  She is represented in public and private collections in Ireland, and abroad, and has created many large-scale public commissions throughout Ireland.

 

Solo exhibition

  • 2024 Abridged, RHA Gallery 1, Dublin
  • 2024 Vivienne Roche - Drawings and Sculpture, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
  • 2015 Vivienne Roche: Head to Head, Crawford Art Gallery Cork
  • 2013 Spirit and Light, RHA Gallery, Dublin
  • 2012 Fovea, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
  • 2011 A Light Interlude from the Pulpit, Triskel Christchurch, Cork (with guest artist, Katarina Eismann)
  • 2010 The Geometry of Water, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
  • 2005 Hinge Work, Vangard Gallery, Cork
  • 2003 Vivienne Roche: Current Sculpture in the Making, Model and Niland Gallery, Sligo
  • 2000 New Work, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
  • 1999 Tidal Erotics with composer John Buckley,Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, Sirius Project, Cobh; Model Arts Centre, Sligo
  • 1996 Omphalos, installation, Charroux Abbey, near Poitiers, France (Part of L’Imaginaire Irlandais)
  • 1994 Steady Air, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
  • 1992 Sightlines, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
  • 1989 Northern Lights, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin; Riverrun Gallery, Limerick; Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
  • 1989 Grave Goods, Octagon Gallery, Belfast
  • 1989 Windflip, installation over river Svartan, Orebro, Sweden
  • 1987 Hendricks Gallery, Dublin (also 1983, 1980)
  • 1987 The Wind Bower, installation, Bank of Ireland, Dublin
  • 1986 AIB Bank, Cork
  • 1984 Cork Arts Society Gallery, Cork (also 1978)

 

Two person shows

  • 2003 On Waves and Water, Vivienne Roche and Amelia Stein, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
  • 2003 Maria Simmonds Gooding and Vivienne Roche, Gallery 1, Kilkenny
     

 
Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Annually RHA Annual Exhibitions, Dublin
  • 2024 Art and Soul, Castlemartyr Resort Cork
  • 2023 TAKING FORM: Students of the Year 1973-77, Lavit Gallery, Cork
  • 2023 The Arts Council Collection, 60 Years in Uillinn, Skibbereen, Co Cork
  • 2017 'Take Five', Kinsale, Co Cork
  • 2017 SurprEYES, Works from the Arts Council Collection, Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
  • 2015 40x40 A celebration of Cast Foundry Solomon Gallery, Dublin
  • 2015 Select, Triskel/Christchurch, Cork
  • 2015 Wexford Opera Show, Greenacres, Wexford.
  • 2014 RHA Members Drawing Exhibition City Assembly House, Dublin.
  • 2013 Traces of Peter Rice, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
  • 2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council, 60 Years of Supporting the Arts.
  • 2012 What happens next is a secret, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • 2009 Then and Now: Evolving Art Practices Glucksmann Gallery, UCC, Cork
  • 2009 RHA in the South Lavit Gallery Cork
  • 2008 The Secret Garden, new sculpture in Iveagh Gardens, Dublin
  • 2008 10,000-50 Contemporary art from members of Business to Arts, IMMA.
  • 2007 40th anniversary retrospective, Student of the Year, Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
  • 2007 Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition, Johnstown Castle, Co.Wexford.
  • 2005 Four Now, Selected Work form the Arts Councils’ collection (North and South), touring exhibition.
  • 2005 Passing Through, Lewis Glucksman Gallery UCC
  • 2005 C2, Crawford Gallery, Cork
  • 2003 No Object, No Subject, No Matter, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • 1999 Shore, Rubicon Gallery Dublin
  • 1999 Objects in Time – artists: artefacts, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen (curated by Vivienne Roche)
  • 1997 Small Sculptures, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
  • 1997 Sense of Cork, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork
  • 1997 Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (also 1993, 1996)
  • 1995 Irish Art 1770-1995: History and Society, Crawford Gallery Cork and touring USA
  • 1995 Compulsive Objects, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
  • 1995 Boyle Arts Festival
  • 1994 Summer Show Angela Flowers Gallery, Roscarberry, Co. Cork
  • 1993 Parable Island, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 1991 Edge to Edge – Three Sculptors from Ireland – Eilis O’Connell, Kathy Prendergast, Vivienne Roche Konsthallen Sandviken, Kulturhuset Stockholm
  • 1988 Hendricks/Russell Gallery, New York
  • 1988 EV+A 88, Limerick
  • 1988 Heads, Arts Council touring exhibition