Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, and one half of the curatorial team (with Clíodhna Shaffrey) that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, and Irish Tour 2023, with artist Niamh O’Malley.

He has curated exhibitions at Interface, Inagh; Weatherproof, Chicago; The Model, Sligo; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Pallas Projects, Dublin; and he was an invited participant of the Curatorial Exchange at EXPO Chicago and Verein K Visiting Curators Vienna in 2025. His writing has been published in Winter Papers, OVER Journal and Visual Artist’s News Sheet. He maintains an occasional independent publishing and graphic design project, 100 Years Ago Today, that includes books, postcards and music releases.

2026

**Lucy Stein**, *Lunula*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, March – May 2026
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**Aleana Egan**, *A maritime child*
Exhibition | Interface, Connemara, IE, July – August 2026
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*DREAMING IS FREE*, *A conversation between Aleana Egan and Michael Hill*
Interview | **100 Years Ago Today**, July 2026
[Contact me for a free copy]

*Adaptation or Extinction? Lauren Gault at Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bryony Dunne at Irish Architectural Archive*
Exhibition review | **Visual Artists’ News Sheet**, May – June 2026
[Read]

**Dragana Jurišić**, *The Last Balkan Cowboy*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, January – March 2026
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2025

*Universal International | Michael Hill on Lyndon Barrois Jr.’s investigations into cinema’s representation of the donkey*
Essay | **OVER Journal**, Issue 5 FUTURES, October 2025
[Purchase from The Library Project]

**Mairead O’Heocha**, *Extra Alphabets*
Exhibition | The Model, Sligo, IE, July – September 2025
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**Jorge Satorre**, *Did I say I miss you?*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, May – July 2025
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*Wasteland, Jim Ghedi*
Graphic design | LP and CD sleeve, Basin Rock Records, Todmorden, UK, February 2025 [Purchase from Basin Rock Records]

**Frank Sweeney**, *Go Ye Afar*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, October – November 2025
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*Extra Alphabets, Mairead O’hEocha*
Production and design | Artist’s pamphlet with text by Ben Eastham, August 2025
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**Liliane Puthod**, *work wear blues*
Exhibition | Weatherproof, Chicago, US, April – June 2025
[Info] [Text] [Images] [Report by Brandon Alvendia]

*Parakeet, as part of Fergus Feehily, Pond, Chalk, Universe (Part II)*
Reading and slideshow presentation | Additional readings, conversations and presentations by Annie May Demozay, Stephen Ellcock, Fergus Feehily, Aino Lintunen, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, January 2025
[Info]

2024

**Lisa Freeman**, *Approx 1 Second of a Sweet Kiss*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, March – May 2024
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**Anne Ryan**, *Tugann an Torann*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, January – March 2024
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**Fergus Feehily**, *Fortune House*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, December 2024 – February 2025
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**Liliane Puthod**, *Beep Beep*
Exhibition | *Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home*, TBG+S at Dublin Port, The Graving Docks, Dublin Port, IE, July – October 2024
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*Aleana Egan, symbols postcard 3*
Postcard | **100 Years Ago Today**, June 2024
Artwork by Aleana Egan and a quote from Annie Ernaux, tr. Tanya Leslie. Posted free of charge from Netherlands with a stamp designed by Aleana Egan
[Contact me for a free postcard]

2023

*Zebra’s Afterimage, Alice Rekab x Stephen Rekab, Studio Publication Series #4*
Co-production and interview | Artist’s book published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, July 2023
[Purchase from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios]

**Niamh O’Malley**, *Gather*
**Ireland at Venice Irish Tour**
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, March – April 2023, with Clíodhna Shaffrey
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*Reflex Blue,* **Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy**
Expanded programme: **Michael Hanna, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Alice Rekab x Stephen Rekab**
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, July – September 2023
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**Fanny Gicquel**, *breathing with heels, walking with eyes*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, May – July 2023
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*Gather*
**Ireland at Venice Irish Tour**
Public conversation with Niamh O’Malley and Clíodhna Shaffrey | Additional panel and readings by Brian Dillon, Eimear McBride, Niamh O’Malley. Screenings by Jenny Brady and Ros Kavanagh. Moderated by Kate Strain.
The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, IE, March 2023
[Watch recorded live stream]

**Niamh O’Malley**, *Gather*
**Ireland at Venice Irish Tour**
Exhibition | The Model, Sligo, IE, February – April 2023, with Clíodhna Shaffrey
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2022

*paper d’armenie*
Catalogue essay | *a beam in the karmic strip*, self-published by Richard Proffitt, November 2022
[Purchase from Cailleach Books]

**Ramon Kassam**, *Paintings from The Last Gallery & Studio*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, July – September 2022
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**Tamsin Snow**, *On Ice*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, January – February 2022
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*fMtRIR*
Fiction | *GALALITH*, self-published by Lauren Gault, November 2022
[Purchase from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios]

*Hours of the Wolf, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Studio Publication Series #3*
Co-production and design | Artist’s book, published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, November 2022
[Purchase from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios]

**Sean Edwards**, *chased losses*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, September – November 2022
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Catalogue text | *Niamh O’Malley - Gather*, **Ireland at Venice 2022**, April 2022
In English and translated to Italian by Aurelia Di Meo
[Purchase from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios]

2021

*Agitation Co-op*, **Michele Horrigan, Catriona Leahy, Laurie Robins, Libita Sibungu**
Screening series: **Forensic Architecture, Melanie Smith, Frank Sweeney and Eva Richardson McCrea and the Dublin Dockworkers Preservation Society (DDWPS)**
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, May - July 2021
[Exhibition Text] [Screening Text] [Images] [Video]

*In the Furrows of Common Place, Jim Ghedi*
Graphic design | LP and CD sleeve, Basin Rock Records, Todmorden, UK, January 2021
[Purchase from Basin Rock Records]

*Wayward Eye*, **Vivienne Dick, Sarah Pierce, Marcel Vidal, Eimear Walshe**
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, September – November 2021, with Clíodhna Shaffrey
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*Dennis Dinneen: Small Town Portraits*
Book review | **Visual Artists’ News Sheet**, January - February 2021
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2020

*Aleana Egan, symbols postcard*
Postcard | **100 Years Ago Today**, March 2020
Artwork by Aleana Egan and a quote from Iris Murdoch interviewed by William Kent Rose from *A Tiny Corner in The House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch*. Posted free of charge with An Post’s 2019 Iris Murdoch centenary stamp.

**Mairead O’hEocha**, *Tale Ends & Eternal Wakes*
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, February – August 2020
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