Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, London 2019 - 2021
Ba Fine Art, Sculpture and Combined Media, LSAD, Limerick 2015 - 2019
Erasmus studies, Europa Universität- Flensburg, Germany September – December 2017
Upcoming Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Antennes Collective (group show) October 2022
Co-curated by Angeliki Douveri and Eva Kekou Platforms Project, Athens
Scene from Here (group show) September 2022
Co-curated by Gabriele Zemaityte South Kiosk, London
PULSE (group show) July- September 2022
Curated by Úna McCarthy Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Micro Sculpture Fair (group show) March 2022
Curated by Choon Mi Kim Goldsmiths University, London
Gilchrist-Fisher Landscape Award, February 2022
Selected by judges London
2021
London Grads Now (group show) November 2021 - January 2022
Co-curated by LaTosha Mathews Saatchi Gallery, London
Goldsmith MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths London July 2021
Access: Job Centre (group show) 1st – 21st April 2021
Co-organised with Rory Beard, Alexander Harding and Niamh Schmidtke Deptford, London
2020
Rumination (group show) January – February 2020
Curated by Jenna Whelan GOMA, Waterford
Limerick City Gallery Graduate Award Exhibition (solo show November 2019 – January 2020
Curated by Úna McCarthy Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
2019
DARE 2019: machinic assemblages of desire 9th – 11th December 2019
Curated by the DARE Organisers Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
Paradox Fine Art European Forum Biennial 11th September – 11th October 2019
Curated by the Paradox steering committee Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
LSAD Degree Show (sculpture group show) 1st June – 9th June 2019
Curated by SCM Staff LSAD Sculpture Studios, Limerick
PeakShow RiverFest (group exhibition) 2nd – 5th t May 2019
Curated by Sara Dowling and Ellen Egan Fab Lab, Limerick
Drawing Awards 2019 (group exhibition) 28th February – 28th March 2019
Curated by Des MacMahon and Alan Crowley LSAD Church Gallery, Limerick
2018
PeakShow (group exhibition) 18th – 21st October 2018
Curated by Sara Dowling and Ellen Egan Sailors’ Home, Limerick
KFest 2K18 (emerging artists’ (festival) 1st – 4th June 2018
Curated by the KFest Arts committee Kilorglin, Kerry
What self imposed enigma did bloom (group exhibition) 26th – 29th April 2018
Curated by Davey Moor Sailors’ Home, Limerick
Comradeship (group exhibition) 8th – 14th April 2018
Curated by Louis Taubert and Niamh Schmidtke Module 1, Flensburg, Germany
Sound and Vision 2.0 (group exhibition) 26th – 27th February 2018
Curated by Aideen Barry LSAD Church Gallery, Limerick
Art in Uncertain Times (group exhibition) 21st February – 5th March 2018
Curated by Kate O’Shea LSAD Foyer, Limerick
2017
The Regaire Collective #3 (group exhibition) 24th April 2017
Curated by The Regaire Collective Sailors’ Home, Limerick
Drawing Awards 2017 (group exhibition) 28th February – 28th March 2017
Curated by Des MacMahon and Alan Crowley LSAD Church Gallery, Limerick
Residencies
TU Berlin EARTH Artist in Residence, with the Science Gallery Network Spring 2023
Land-based long-distance travel, Helsinki International Artists Program, (Upcoming 2023)
Artist Development Fund, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg June – July 2020
Collections
European Investment Bank Permanent Collection
Limerick City Gallery Permanent Collection
Office of Public Works (Ireland) Collection
Awards
Shortlisted for the Gilchrist-Fisher Landscape Award, 2022
Shortlisted for the Sustainability First Art Award, 2021
Limerick City Gallery Graduate Award 2019
K-FEST 2K18 Student Scholarship, 2018
Selected Press
TU Berlin; Science Gallery Initiative at TU Berlin announces Niamh Schmidtke as Artist in Residence
January 2023
The article is available on TU Berlin's website
RTE (Irish national broadcaster); Warhol among artists on show in new Limerick exhibition
By Cathy Halloran February 2022
The article is available on RTE's website
Irish Examiner, Belonging exhibition displays 82 European artworks in Limerick , by Marc O’Sullivan Vallig
The article is available on the Irish Examiner's website
The Art Newspaper; What’s it been like preparing for fine art degree shows during a global pandemic?
By Kabir Jhala June 2021
This article is available on The Art Newspaper's website
CIRCA: Degree Show Writer's Choice by Gianna Tash September 2019
This article can be read on CIRCA's website
Limerick Leader (Culture Section) (Newspaper) 27th April 2019
Publications
Belonging Show Catalogue April 2022
Machinic Assemblages of Desire; Deleuze and Artistic Research 3.
Edited by Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici, Leuven University Press, 2021
LSAD Graduate Show Catalogue June 2019
Untitled (Landscape ) (Irish Office of Public Works Catalogue) September 2018
What Self Imposed Enigma did Bloom Catalogue (Exhibition Catalogue) May 2018
Drifter (Zine) May 2017
accessible here http://www.blurb.com/books/7949106-drifter
SCM – Photoworks / Autumn 2016 (Zine) February 2016
accessible here http://www.blurb.com/books/7779451-scm-photoworks-autumn-201g
Lecturing
Visiting Lecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts March 2020
Visiting Lecture, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts February 2020