The New Contemporary Irish Arts Centre, Los Angeles (CIACLA) is a dedicated space to showcase Irish art and culture. Opening this month, the gallery hosts an exhibition and live performance by Amanda Coogan title ‘The Ladder is Always There’. In July, mural artist Maser will mount an installation entitled ‘Mirror Door’ . Image: Amanda Coogan
Amanda Coogan: 15 June – 4 July; Maser: 27 July – 24 August
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame hosts a celebration of Irish Art, marking recent donations and important loans to the university’s collections. Irish art including works by Jack B Yeats, Roderic O’Conor and Mary Swanzy shows alongside photographs of Irish country and city life by Alen MacWeeney; a celebrated group of James Barry prints, part of the museum’s own works, and loans from the collection of Pat and John O’Brien from Chicago. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Image: Alen MacWeeney
Snite Museum of Art: 17 August – 14 December
Five artists represent Ireland at the 12th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut. The competition and exhibition is limited to works that are no more than four square inches. The Irish representatives are: Margaret Mannion Kallen, Bernadette Madden, Margaret McLoughlin, Gráinne Dowling and Pauline Kinehan. Image: Margaret McLoughlin (detail)
Centre for Contemporary Printmaking: 2 June – 1 September
Prints by Aoife Layton are included in the Fifth International Mezzotint Festival, taking place at the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. Human/animal interaction lies at the centre of Layton’s artistic practice. Her prints consider the mutability of human-animal relationships and the inconsistencies in our perceptions of, and engagement with them. Image: Aoife Layton
Aoife Layton: 15 August – 30 September
