Ciaran Patrick Lennon (born 1947) is a Dublin-based Irish artist known for his minimalist large-scale paintings.

Lennon
Born
Ciaran Patrick Lennon

1947 (age 76–77)[1]
NationalityIrish[2]
EducationNational College of Art and Design, Ireland 1963–1967[3]
Known forPainting

He was chosen to represent Ireland at the 1993 São Paulo Biennial in Brazil.[4] In the same year, Lennon was elected to Aosdána (an Irish State honour conferred on artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the creative arts in Ireland).[5]

He has been described as ‘one of the most important Irish painters currently working in the field of non-objective art’.[6] Some of his most well-known work is ‘Porous Plane’, which originated from his Folded/Unfolded Paintings of 1969–1972.[7]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections 5 mixing gray". harvardartmuseums.org.
  2. ^ "Ciaran Lennon A13".
  3. ^ "The Trinity College Dublin Art Collections" (PDF). TCD. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Arquivo Bienal Banco de Dados". Arquivo Bienal. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Aosdána Members Visual Arts". Aosdána. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. ^ "IMMA Collection Lennon". Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  7. ^ "IMMA Exhibitions Porous Plane". Irish Museum of Modern Art What's On. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Folded Unfolded | Lennon". IMMA.