Patrick Hickey (b. 1992)

https://www.instagram.com/patrickhickeyartist/

Education

2019-25 PhD practice-based, Ulster University

2012-15 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Ulster University

2011-12 Foundation Art and Design, Ulster University

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2026 sing to me where silence weeps, QSS, Belfast

2025 A Longing for a Feeling I Cannot Remember, Ards Art Centre, Newtownards

2023 A World in a Sea of Darkness, Platform Arts, Belfast

2022 Looking for a Home…, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast

2017 An Imaginary Paradise?, The Black Box, Belfast

2016 Ephemera, John Ross & Co., Belfast

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Main Exhibition 2026, Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Co. Roscommon

2026 Summer Open, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

2025 I won’t stay in a world without love/Byddai ddim yn aros mewn byd heb gariad, Aberystwyth School of Art, Aberystwyth, Wales (longlist)

2024 I won’t stay in a world without love/Byddai ddim yn aros mewn byd heb gariad, elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales (longlist)

2023 Border Biennale, Townhall Cavan, Cavan (curated by Rita Duffy and Joe Keenan)

2022-2023 New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows, The MAC, Belfast (curated by Dougal McKenzie and Hugh Mulholland)

2022 Bona Palooza, Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra (curated by Thomas Wells, member of Turner Prize winning collective, Array Collective)

2022 The Big Queer Art Show, 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast (curated by UsFolk Illustration Agency)

2022 Between Matter and Words, PS Squared, Belfast

2021-2022 140th Royal Ulster Academy (RUA), Ulster Museum, Belfast,

2021 Salonathon, Platform Arts, Belfast

2021 Urgencies 2, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Derry

Awards

2025 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, SIAP General Arts Award

2022 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, SIAP General Arts Award

2021 University of Atypical, D/deaf and Disabled Artists Support Fund 3 (funded by the ACNI and the DfC)

2021 University of Atypical (on behalf of Unlimited and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation), Creating Time Awards

2021 CCA Supports: Short Mentoring Programme, CCA Derry-Londonderry

2020 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Individuals Emergency Resilience Programme (IERP)

2018 Arts Council of Northern Ireland, SIAP General Arts Award

Works in Permanent Collections

2026 Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Research and Education

2020-2022 Co-editor, Intersections: Postgraduate Journal, Ulster University Doctoral College,

Conference Speaker

2022 Art, Identity and the Body, in collaboration with Global New Voices and Association for Art History, Online,

2022 Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories, in collaboration with the Northern Irish Art Network and The Courtauld’s Gender and Sexuality Research Group, Online, (found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Vk2812OE4&t=13671s)

Lecturer

2020-22 Visiting Lecturer, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University

2021 Visiting Lecturer, North West Regional College

Reviews/Interviews & Publications

Publications

Hickey, P. (2025). Beyond the gable walls: queering the work of Gerard Dillon. In: Barber, F. & Cullen, F. (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Irish Art. New York and London: Routledge. pp. 482–491.

Hickey, Patrick. (2022). The Enduring Legacy of Queer Narratives and Queer Coding in Art. Intersections: Postgraduate Journal. 3, 62-65.

Hickey, Patrick. (2020). Exploring the Queer Other through a Northern Irish Lens. Intersections: Postgraduate Journal. 2, 62. Available

Reviews/ Interviews

MacMonagle, N. (2023). Three queer figures sail on a Barbie-pink currach. The Irish Independent. [Online]. 4th June 2023. Available at https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/theatre-arts/artist-patrick-hickey-growing-up-in-northern-ireland-was-tough-especially-as-a-queer-man/a554861171.html

McCarthy, J. (2022). Weaving themes together for Patrick's new art exhibition. Available at:

https://belfastmedia.com/patrick-hickey-exhibition-launch

McCarthy, J. (2021). West Belfast painter benefits from fund for artists on margins. Available at: https://belfastmedia.com/west-belfast-man-benefits-from-fund-for-deaf-disabled-and-neurodivergent-artists.

at: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/644617/Intersections2020web.pdf

Jamison, Brendan. (2016) ‘Hypnotic Allure: Patrick Hickey’s fresh aesthetic animates Ross’s’, Belfast Art News, 15 March. Available at: http://www.brendanjamison.com/ban.html.

"Meet the Artist". (2016) GNI, [in print & online] (24), pp.60-61. Available at:

https://www.issuu.com/lambpromotions/docs/gni_mag_issue_24_online .

Muir, Marie-Louise. (2015) The Arts Show, BBC Two Northern Ireland, Belfast, broadcast at 10pm on Thursday 18 June 2015.