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Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Awards

Plein Air Salon, First Place Overall, Plein Air Magazine, (April/May, 2017)

Art in the Open, Third Place in the Quick Draw, Wexford, Ireland (2015) 

Charitable Irish Society, Silver Key Award, Boston, Massachusetts (2015)

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Finalist, Artist Fellowship, Boston, Massachusetts (2014)

Art In the Open Festival, First Place in the Quick Draw, Wexford, Ireland (2013)

Plymouth Center for the Arts, First Place, Winter Juried Show, Plymouth, Massachusetts (2014)

Plein Air Vermont, Third Place in the Quick Draw, Bennington, Vermont (2013)

Plymouth Center for the Arts, Second Place, Winter Juried Show, Plymouth, Massachusetts (2013)

Butternut Gallery, First Place in “Focus” Juried Show, Montrose, Pennsylvania (2012)

The Spanish Peaks Arts Council, People’s Choice Award at the Celtic Art Show, La Veta, Colorado (2010)

Falmouth Art Center, Honorable Mention in Oil Painting (2010)

Art in the Open Festival, Honorable Mention, Wexford, Ireland (2010)

North River Arts Society, Honorable Mention in Oil Painting, 33rd Annual Festival of Arts, Marshfield, Massachusetts (2009)

Duxbury Art Association, Best In Show, Winter Juried Show, Duxbury, Massachusetts (2008)

Merit Scholarship to study painting with Mark Daily at the Scottsdale Artist School, Scottsdale, AZ (2006)

John Stobart Foundation, Award for Excellence in Plein Air Painting, Boston (2001)

Milton Art Association, First Place for Oil Painting, Milton, Massachusetts (1999)

Duxbury Art Association, First Place for Drawing, Duxbury, Massachusetts (1998)

Commissions

“Boston By Night” original painting presented to President of Ireland, Dr. Mary McAleese
Commissioned by the Irish Pastoral Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Portrait of Irish traditional piano player Felix Dolan
Commissioned by Paul Keating on behalf of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mid-Atlantic Region

Portrait of Massachusetts State Senator Thomas P. Kennedy
Private Commission

Portrait of Irish traditional fiddle player Larry Reynolds
Commissioned by the Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Canton, Massachusetts

Portrait of Irish traditional accordion player Joe Madden
Commissioned by the Michael J. Quill Cultural Center, East Durham, New York

“Side Couples Swing,” Eddie Barron Memorial Commission, a large-scale painting for the permanent collection of the Irish Cultural Centre of New England, Canton, Massachusetts

Portrait of Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Commissioned by the Irish Collection, Burns Library, Boston College, Massachusetts

Portraits of Tomas MacCurtain and Terence MacSweeney
Commissioned by the County Cork Association of New York City, New York

Paintings / Set Designs for Theater or Film

Teaching

Art Training

Reviews

“Working Class Hero: Crotty Makes the Gritty Magnificent” Artscope Magazine, December 26, 2018 (January/February 2019 issue)

“Hingham Gallery Celebrates Vincent Crotty’s 20 Years In America” The Boston Globe, November 10, 2010

“Cultural Ambassadors: Jordan and Crotty Team Up Family Style To Make Art of Their Creative Visions” The Boston Irish Reporter, April, 2006

“Irish Painter Vincent Crotty Brings New Look To Annual Irish Festival” The Boston Irish Reporter, April, 2006

“Trans-Atlantic Artists Sheds Light On Reality” The Corkman, Thursday, June 30, 2005

“Easel To Screen: Local Artist’s Work Decorates Scenes in Mystic River” The Patriot Ledger, November 3, 2003

“Irish Painter Brings Exotic Places To Life With Rare Style” Maine Sunday Telegram, May 3, 1998

“Mattapan Artist Vincent Crotty: Signs of Genius” Dorchester Community News, April 29, 1994

“Vincent Makes Light Work” The Cork Examiner, 1991