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 his writing has been published in Winter Papers, OVER Journal and Visual Artist’s News Sheet. He was an invited participant of the Curatorial Exchange at EXPO Chicago and Verein K Visiting Curators Vienna in 2025. He maintains an occasional independent publishing and graphic design project, 100 Years Ago Today, that includes books, postcards and music releases.


2026

Vanessa Donoso López, (O-O-O)
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, July – September 2026
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Rebecca Moccia, Nostalgism
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, May – June 2026
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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

Very Old Water from the Terrible Place, Interview with Alberto Ortega Trejo
Interview | Winter Papers, Volume 11, November 2025
[Purchase from Winter Papers]

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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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]

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
[Contact me for a free copy]

Liliane Puthod, work wear blues
Exhibition | Weatherproof, Chicago, US, April – June 2025
[Info] [Text] [Images] [Report by Brandon Alvendia]


2024

The Horse and The Rider, Fergus Feehily
Production and design | Artist’s book published by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, December 2024
[Purchase from Temple Bar Gallery + Studios]

Yuri Pattison, dream sequence
Exhibition | Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home, TBG+S at Dublin Port, Pump House No. 2, Dublin Port, IE, July – October 2024
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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

Atoosa Pour Hosseini, The Magic Circle
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, October – December 2023
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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
[Info] [Images]

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

Niamh O’Malley, Gather
Ireland at Venice 2022
Exhibition | Irish Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT, April – November 2022, with Clíodhna Shaffrey
[Info] [Images] [Video] [Publication]

Sibyl Montague, Claí na Péiste (Worm’s Ditch)
Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE, December 2022 – February 2023
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