Dublin born artist Noel Sheridan attended Trinity College, Dublin, and Columbia University, New York. He exhibited at the Dawson Gallery in the late 1950s and represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1960. He won the Carroll Prize for Painting at the Living Art Exhibition in Dublin in 1965 and 1969. Sheridan was Director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, from 1980 to 2002. He was a founding member of Independent Artists, a committee member of Rosc and was elected to Aosdána.