Serena Caulfield (b. 1985, Ireland) graduated from the Gorey School of Art with a BA in Fine arts in 2006, Wexford Campus School of Art and Design in 2007, and Norwich University of the Arts in 2009 where she received her MA in Fine arts. Serena uses painting to make memories and imagery morph into narratives. Her focus in painting is linking the old with the new, the past with the present, and absence to presence. She likes to paint quickly and think slowly.
Solo exhibitions include (Upcoming) The Faraway Nearby, Art-Seen Projects, Nicosia, Cyprus (2025); Dream baby dream, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (2024); The remnants & the ruins, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny (2024); Con\verge, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford (2023); Convergences ,Ballina Arts Centre, Co. Mayo (2023); Not somewhere else but here, Wexford Arts Centre (2023); -ions, Luan Gallery, Athlone (2021); Exits & Entrances, National Opera House (2021); Fragments Wexford Festival Opera at VINE, Wexford (2018); Coastlines Write by the Sea Festival, Kilmore Quay (2018); A Field Guide To Getting Lost Tate Guerin Gallery, Gorey (2015); Root of An Unfocus The Berkeley Gallery, Thomastown (2014); Second Home by The Sea Galerie 3F, Paris (2014); Misfits The Banqueting Hall Gallery, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin (2013); Misfits Studio Nine, Wexford (2012).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Growth of the Soil Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2025); (upcoming) Summer and Winter Group Exhibitions, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (2025); Land(e)scapes Art-Seen Projects, Nicosia, Cyprus (2024); Mythos, presented by Catherine Hammond Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2024); Spring, Summer and Winter Group Exhibitions, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (2024); Bucolica Mount Congreve House and Gardens, Co. Waterford (2024); Winter Group Exhibition, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin (2023); Winter Print Show, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin (2022); WIDE OPEN SPACE, Wexford County Council Buildings, Wexford (2022); BEEP Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales (2022); Zurich Portrait Prize 2021, Crawford Art Gallery (2022); GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022); Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland140th RUA Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast Crossings at King House, Boyle Arts Festival (2021); MEET @ Periphery Space, Gorey School of Art In Absentia exhibition of painters from Turps School Correspondence Course (2021); Courthouse Winter Open, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare (2020) ARTFORM Contemporary 2019, The Quay, Waterford (2019); Painters (two person w Hanneke Van Ryswyk), Wexford Arts Festival (2019); PeripheriesOPEN, Michael Warren Gallery, Gorey School of Art And Creatures Dream... A New Language Wexford Arts Centre and County Hall (2017); We Want You Avenue Road Gallery, Dublin (2013); Does My Art Look Big In This? St. Margaret's Church, Norwich (2010); Dividing Lines STEW Space, Norwich (2010).
Highlights and Collections
Awards include The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary, Platform 31 Artist Award, an Artlinks Visual Arts Bursary and an Arts Council Agility Award. Serena has an MA in Fine Art from NUA, Norwich, UK (2009) and a BA from Gorey School of Art and Wexford Campus School of Art and Design, IT Carlow. Her work is held in private, public and corporate collections internationally.