Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh (b 1977) graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2023, and a BA in Fine Art from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2001. In 2019, Ní Mhaonaigh was awarded The HOTRON Award by VISUAL Carlow for outstanding work, and in 2010 was recipient of the Hennessy Craig Scholarship. She was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 and the Marmite Prize for Painting 2016. Ní Mhaonaigh is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, and 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York. Ní Mhaonaigh was elected an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2023.

Recent solo exhibitions include Deep Mapping: Unseen Landscapes at Solstice Arts Centre (2023); Structure (2022) at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel; Struchtúr (2022), Dúil Series (2021) and Teorainn (2020) at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery; Cnuasach (2021) at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre; and Macalla (2020) at Mermaid Arts Centre. Ní Mhaonaigh exhibited as part of VOLTA New York in a solo presentation in 2016, and her work has been presented at major international art fairs, including Art Market Budapest, Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Art Rotterdam, and VOLTA Basel.

Ní Mhaonaigh’s paintings are held in many important public collections, including the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), Crawford Art Gallery (Cork), Butler Gallery (Kilkenny), Ernesto Ventós (Barcelona), Luciano Benetton Collection (Treviso), O’Brien Art Collection (Chicago) and The Arts Council of Ireland (Dublin), as well as private collections in Ireland, across Europe and in the Unites States.