ArmaghMillennium Court Arts Centre, William Street, Portadown
John Brown, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra & Arno Kramer 9 Dec - 28 Jan
Noel Bowler 10 Feb – 24 Mar AthloneTreasures Irish Art, 39 Church Street, Athlone
Blue Chip Investment Exhibition until 30 Sept
Christmas Group Exhibition 1 - 24 Dec
Annual Blue Chip Exhibition JanBelfastArtTank Gallery 58 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 6AF
Stephen Johnston 2 - 22 Dec

Belfast Print Workshop Cotton Court, 30-42 Waring Street
Taryn Simon until 30 Dec

Golden Thread Gallery 84-94 Great Patrick Street
Hope is the thing with feathers until 7 Jan
Dermot Seymour: A Retrospective 15 Dec - 1 Feb

Gormley’s Fine Art 251 Lisburn Road
Christmas Show including works by Paul Donaghy, Trudie Mooney,
Francis McCrory & Eamonn Higgins 3 – 31 Dec
Online Affordable Art Sale Jan
Jane Swanston 5 – 26 Jan
Trudie Mooney 23 Feb – 15 Mar

The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s Lanyon Building, Queen’s University
Jerwood Makers Open until 11 Dec

Nicholas Gallery 571 Lisburn Road
Irish Art Exhibition, including works by Louis le Brocquy, Sean Scully,
Basil Blackshaw
and Peter Collis Dec
Modern British Art Exhibition, including works by Bridget Riley, Lucian Freud,
Frank Auerbach and Howard Hodgkin Jan
Exhibition of works by international artists Pablo Picasso,
Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies Feb

Queen Street Studios Gallery 37-39 Queen Street
Thomas Carville until 10 Dec
Allyson Keehan 19 Jan - 18 Feb
Antti Leppänen 23 Feb - 31 Mar

CarlowVisual Centre for Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw Theatre
Old Dublin Road, Carlow
Sonja Landweer until 8 Jan
Samuel Walsh until 8 Jan
Mary Cullen until 8 JanClareRussell Gallery
New Quay, Burren
Murano Glass Art 1 - 31 Dec
Gallery Artists including paintings by Eithne Joyce, John Hurley, Michael Gemmell,
Rita Wobbe Jan - Feb

CorkCork Vision Centre North Main Street, Cork
Echoes of the Past’, an exhibition of evocative monochrome photographs
from the archives of the Evening Echo 2 - 16 Dec
Kevin Sanquest 3 - 28 Jan
Mind’s Eye 3 - 23 Feb

Crawford Gallery of Art Emmet Place
Barrie Cooke until 14 Jan
A Rocky Road until 14 Jan

Cork Vision Centre North Main Street, Cork
Echoes of the Past’, an exhibition of evocative monochrome photographs
from the archives of the Evening Echo 2 - 16 Dec
Kevin Sanquest 3 - 28 Jan
Mind’s Eye 3 - 23 Feb

Crawford Gallery of Art Emmet Place
Barrie Cooke until 14 Jan
A Rocky Road until 14 Jan

Jennings Gallery College of Medicine & Health
Brookfield Health & Sciences Complex, College Road, University College Cork
An exhibition of drawings by Katie Bolton until 9 Jan

Lavit Gallery 5 Father Matthew Street
Winter Exhibition until 17 Jan
Student of the Year Exhibition: Sinead Fagan & Raphael Llewellyn 31 Jan - 11 Feb
Annual Members Exhibition 21 Feb - 3 Mar

Mill Cove Gallery Castletownbere
Christmas Show 18 Dec - 1 Jan
New Sculptures Jan & Feb

Triskel Arts Centre Tobin Street
Patricia Burns until 23 Jan

West Cork Arts Centre North Street, Skibbereen
Martha Cashman, Miranda Daly & Angie Shanahan - A Different Dimension until 14 Jan
West Cork Inspires 21 Jan - 18 Feb

College of Medicine & Health
Brookfield Health & Sciences Complex, College Road, University College Cork
An exhibition of drawings by Katie Bolton until 9 Jan

Lavit Gallery 5 Father Matthew Street
Winter Exhibition until 17 Jan
Student of the Year Exhibition: Sinead Fagan & Raphael Llewellyn 31 Jan - 11 Feb
Annual Members Exhibition 21 Feb - 3 Mar

Mill Cove Gallery Castletownbere
Christmas Show 18 Dec - 1 Jan
New Sculptures Jan & Feb

Triskel Arts Centre Tobin Street
Patricia Burns until 23 Jan

West Cork Arts Centre North Street, Skibbereen
Martha Cashman, Miranda Daly & Angie Shanahan - A Different Dimension until 14 Jan
West Cork Inspires 21 Jan - 18 FebDerryGordon Gallery, 13a Pump Street
Deborah Brown until 3 Dec

Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre, 24 Main Street, Limavady
Jenny Fox & Josephine Kelly until 23 DecDonegal Cavanacor Gallery Ballindrait, Lifford
An exhibition of painting and drawing by Eddie O’Kane & Matthew O’Kane until 17 Dec
Ann Marie Webb until 17 Dec

Man-made Images Mountcharles
5th Year Anniversary Show: A Retrospective until 24 Dec

Regional Cultural Centre
Letterkenny Sharing Stories until 17 DecDownBattletown Gallery, 90 Bowtown Road, Newtownards
Christmas Group Show 6 Dec

FE McWilliam Gallery & Studio Banbridge
Home Grown 10 Dec - 11 FebDublinAdam’s 26 St Stephen’s Green
Important Irish Art 5 Dec

Ann Flynn Studio Gallery Blackrock
Ann Flynn Dec - Feb

Balla Ban Art Gallery Unit 10 Westbury Mall
Kelly Hood until 10 Dec
Christmas Show 12 - 23 Dec
Debbie Lush 11 - 25 Feb

Chester Beatty Library Dublin Castle
China through the Lens of John Thomson: 1868-1872 until 26 Feb

The Doorway Gallery24 South Frederick Street
Christmas Show 3 Dec - 20 Jan
Lucy Doyle 8 - 23 Feb

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Charlemont House, Parnell Square North
Rita Donagh and Richard Hamilton until 15 Jan
Willie Doherty until 15 Jan
The Golden Bough: Tim Robinson until 15 Jan

Dráiocht Blanchardstown
Amharc Fhine Gall VIII Recent Graduates from Fingaluntil 25 Feb
Caroline Donohue until 25 Feb
Deirdre Byrne - Artist in Residence until Dec

Farmleigh Gallery Farmleigh, Castleknock
Human / Nature Landscape Photography from the State Art Collection until 23 Dec

FilmbaseCurved Street, Temple Bar
Olliart Christmas Group Show 8 - 18 Dec

Gormley’s Fine Art 24 Sth Frederick Street
Liam O’Neill until 15 Dec
Christmas Show including works by Peter Monaghan,
Eugene Conway, Eileen Meagher & Ian Pollock 1 – 31 Dec
John Keating 12 Jan – 2 Feb
Philip Gray 16 Feb – 8 Mar
Irish Art Sale Feb

Graphic Studio GalleryThrough the arch, off Cope Street, Temple Bar
Graduate Exhibition until 3 Dec

Green on Red Gallery 26-28 Lombard Street
Damien Flood until 10 Dec
Group Exhibition – New work by Gallery Artists 16 Dec – 21 Jan
Mary Fitzgerald 27 Jan – 25 Feb

Hillsboro Fine Art49 Parnell Square West
Annual Christmas Exhibition 8 - 22 Dec
Jannis Kounellis 16 Feb - 16 Mar

IMMA Royal Hospital, Kilmainham
Rivane Neuenschwander until 29 January
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection 21 Feb – 20 May 2012

Jorgensen Fine ArtHibernian Way
Christmas Exhibition 1 - 31 Dec
Interiors Exhibition 2 - 25 Feb

Keeling Gallery41 Clarendon Street
Christmas Exhibition until 24 Dec

Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, South Anne Street
Phillip Allen, David Godbold, Elizabeth Magill, Brian Maguire,
Stephen McKenna, Norbert Schwontkowski 1 - 23 Dec
Richard Gorman 14 Jan - 19 Feb

Molesworth Gallery 16 Molesworth Street
Cian McLoughlin Dec
Thomas Brezing Feb

National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Square
The Gift of Knowledge: Enriching the Library and Archive Collections until 15 Dec
A Light in the Darkness: The Vaughan Bequest of Turner Watercolours 1 - 31 Jan

National Library of Ireland Kildare Street
Discover Your National Library: Explore, Reflect, Connect ongoing
Tall Tales & Deadly Drawings ongoing
Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats ongoing

National Museum of Ireland Collins Barracks
Reconstructed Rooms: Four Centuries of Furnishing ongoing
Irish High Crosses ongoing
Albert Bender ongoing
Neillí Mulcahy permanent
Eileen Gray permanent
Irish Silver permanent

National Photographic Archive Meeting House Square, Temple Bar
Power and Privilege: The Big House in Ireland ongoing
Small Lives ongoing

NCAD Gallery 100 Thomas Street
Poetics of the Handmade, Contemporary Glass from China until 21 Jan

Oliver Sears Gallery 29 Molesworth Street
Joseph Walsh until 27 Jan
Dubh: Dialogues in Black 2 Feb – 16 Mar

Origin Gallery 83 Harcourt Street
'Wonder Woman', artists include: Orla de Brí, John Keating, Naomi Brosnan
& Katarzyna Gajewska 6 - 22 Dec

Peppercanister Gallery 3 Herbert Street
Christmas Group Show 1 - 24 Dec

RHA 15 Ely Place
Charles Tyrrell until 21 Dec
Apertures and Anxieties until 21 Dec
Martina Cleary until 21 Dec

Rua Red Arts Centre Tallaght
Winter Open until 10 Dec
Alice Peillon until 10 Dec

Science Gallery Pearse Street, Trinity College
Exhibition on the Future of Water until 20 Jan

Sol Art Gallery 8 Dawson Street
Henry McGrane 1 - 12 Dec
Nuala Holloway & Jakki Moore2 - 9 Dec
Katarzyna Gajewska 15 - 24 Dec

Solomon Fine Art Balfe Street
Christmas Exhibition 2 – 23 Dec

Talbot Gallery & Studios 51 Talbot Street
Wrapping Up For Christmas 2 - 22 Dec
Cecilia Dannell 11 Jan - 4 Feb
Colette Cronin 11 - 25 Feb

Taylor Galleries 16 Kildare Street
Michael Cullen until 10 Dec

Trinity College Library Trinity College Dublin
Troubled Magnificence: France under Louis XIV until 1 Apr

Whyte’s 38 Molesworth Street
Art for Christmas Sale 8 -12 DecFermanaghHigher Bridges Gallery The Clinton Centre, Queen Elizabeth Road, Enniskillen
Christmas Show 2 - 21 DecGalway Kenny Gallery Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road
Kieran Tobin until 31 Dec
Christmas Group Show 10 Dec - 6 Jan

Basement Art Gallery Quadrangle, NUI Galway
Anthony J. Faulder-Mawson 6 - 10 Feb KildareKilcock Art Gallery, School Street, Kilcock
Work on view by gallery artists including Manus Walsh, Trevor Geoghegan, Mark Ainsworth, James English, Martin Gale, John Behan and many more Dec - FebKilkenny Blackbird Gallery 18 William Street
Christmas Show 2 - 23 Dec

Bridge Street Studios Dundalk
Celebrating 15 years of works 6 - 29 Jan

Butler Gallery The Castle, Kilkenny
Christine Mackey until 18 Dec
Paul Mosse 21 Jan – 4 Mar

National Craft Gallery Castle Yard
Modern Languages until 11 Jan
Deirdre McLoughlin 20 Jan - 21 MarLeitrim The Dock Carrick on Shannon
Working Drawing 10 Feb - 30 MarLimerickHunt Museum, The Custom House
Liam Flynn Retrospective until 30 DecLouthHighlanes Gallery, Laurence Street, Drogheda
Thomas Brezing until 11 JanMayoCustom House Studios, The Quay, Westport
Anna Spearman until Dec

Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar
Mayo Artists Show 9 Dec - 21 Jan
Lucy McKenna 4 - 25 FebMeath Solstice Arts Centre Navan
Sarah Standing 1 - 22 DecRoscommonRoscommon Arts Centre, Circular Road, Roscommon
Peter Burns, Anne Hendrick and Mary Noonan until 15 Dec

SligoHamilton Gallery, 4 Castle Street, Sligo
Invited Artists New Works 1 Dec - 28 Jan
Cléa van der Grijn 2 - 25 Feb

The Model, The Mall, Sligo
Ireland in the Twentieth Century until 29 Jan
Norah McGuinness until 29 Jan Tipperary The Source Arts Centre Cathedral Street, Thurles
Christmas Craft Exhibition 8 Dec - 27 JanTyroneThe Alley Arts Centre, Strabane
Norma Burrows until 2 Dec
Katharine May until 2 Dec
Antonio Julio Lopez Castro 12 Dec - 6 Jan
Brendan O’Neill 16 Jan - 10 Feb

McKenna Gallery 31 Castle Street, Omagh
Winter Group Exhibtion Of Gallery & Invited Artists 3 Dec - 25 Feb

Strule Arts Centre Townhall Square, Omagh
Seacourt Print Workshop 30: Celebrating 30 Years of Excellence 2 Dec - 31 JanWaterford Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery Greyfriars, Waterford
Works from the Waterford Municipal Art Collection until 23 Dec

Joan Clancy Gallery Mweelahorna, Ring, Dungarvan
Christmas Group Show 3 – 4 Dec

Waterford County Museum St. Augustine Street, Dungarvan
Waterford Country Houses – History, Architecture & Landscape until FebWexfordGreenacres Art Gallery, Selskar
Christmas Show 3 Dec - 21 Jan
Greenacres Open Submission Show Open 4 Feb

Wexford Arts Centre Cornmarket
Oonagh Hurley until 24 Dec
Group show with Tess Leak, Antonio Lopez, Sinead Rice and Alison Rudd Mumford
until 24 Dec
Bridget O’Gorman 10 Jan – 4 Feb

Wicklow Cherrylane Fine Arts Delgany
Annual Winter Exhibition until 24 Dec

Signal Arts Centre 1 Albert Avenue, Bray
Brigid O’Brien until 4 Dec
Sylvia Callan 4 - 15 Jan
Rachel Fallon 17 - 29 Jan
Hilary Williams 31 Jan - 12 Feb
Bara Art Group 14 - 26 Feb
Ian Keaveny 28 Feb - 11 Mar

InternationalAdam Gallery, 24 Cork Street, London
David Piddock 6 - 20 Dec

Art First 21 Eastcastle Street, London
Donald Teskey until 20 Dec

Barbara Stanley Gallery 27 Connaught Street, London
Opening exhibition until 2 Dec

Galleri Pan Oslo, Norway
Conor Walton 2 Feb - 3 Mar

Ikon Gallery 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham
Sarah Browne 15 Feb - 22 Apr

Jack Shainman Gallery 513 West 20th Street, New York
Richard Mosse until 23 Dec

Mina Dresden 312 Valencia Street, San Francisco
Death and Sensuality until 3 Dec

Northcote Gallery London
Richard Whadcock until 24 Dec
Jonathan McCree 12 - 30 Jan
Daisy Cook 4 - 28 Feb

Waddington Custot Galleries 11 Cork Street, London­
Stock Exhibition until 23 Dec

VisArts Kaplan Gallery 155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, Maryland 20850
Roisin Fitzpatrick 19 Dec - 12 Jan