Catherine Marshall is a curator, art historian, founding Head of Collections at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1995 –2007) and recipient of the first honorary doctorate in the History of Art by University College Dublin (2019). She has lectured at TCD, UCD and the NCAD in History of art and Women’s Studies and was Visual Arts adviser to the Arts Council’s Touring Experiment (2007–8). She is a founding member of the women’s art collective, Na Cailleacha, which explores issues of ageing, creativity, gender and collaboration.

Select curatorial projects:

Na Cailleacha, The School of Hibernia (after Raphael), 2024, Trinity College Dublin.

Women and War, Wexford Opera Festival, October 2023.

Ain’t I a Woman? Artworks by Aideen Barry, Pauline Cummins and Kathy Prendergast, Clonmel, 2018

Kathleen Lynn, Insider on the Outside, Mayo collaborative exhibition to commemorate the 1916 Rising, 2016.

Publications include:

Irish Art 1920–2020 Perspectives on change, co-edited with Yvonne Scott, 2022.