1986 South East Artists, Selected Touring Show, St Herblain, Brittany

1987 Drawing the Line, Selected South East Artists Touring Show, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; Wexford Arts Centre

1989 Works by Seven Artists, Group Show, Wexford Arts Centre

1990 Western Artists Group Sow, Galway Arts Festival; Faces in a Bookshop, Group Show, Kenny Gallery, Galway; Christmas Group Show, Kenny Gallery, Galway

1991 Western Artists Group Show, Galway Arts Festival; Western Artists, Selected Group Touring Show, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick; Christmas Group Show, Kenny Gallery, Galway 

1992 Western Remains, Group Show, Galway Arts Festival; Music and Musicians, Group Show Galway Arts Festival / Kenny Gallery, Galway; Christmas Group Show, Riverrun Gallery, Galway; Christmas Group Show, Frank Lewis Gallery, Killarney

1993 Aspects of Galway, Group Show, Kenny Gallery Galway; Annual Summer Exhibition, RHA Dublin; Iontas Selected Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery and on tour to RHA, Dublin; Group Print Exhibition, Galway Arts Festival; Friends, Group Show, Galway Arts Festival

1994 Horizons, Solo Show, Lackagh Museum, Turloughmore, Co. Galway; Memories of Past, Solo Show, County Hall, Portlaoise, Co. Laois; Two Person Show (with Gerry Green), Skehana Arts Festival, Skehana, Co. Galway; Images, Group Show, Galway Arts Festival; Group Show, Clifden Arts Festival; Iontas Selected Group Show, Sligo Art Gallery and on tour to RHA, Dublin; Celebrating Difference, Group Show, City Arts Centre, Dublin and County Hall, Portlaoise, Co. Laois 

1995 The Islands of Connemara, Solo Show, Eanach Mheáin, Connemara, Co. Galway; Akin, Group Show, Galway Arts Festival and the George Moore Society Gallery for George Moore Famine commemoration, Claremorris, Co. Mayo; Roscommon County Council Douglas Hyde Famine Commemoration Exhibition, Frenchpark Gallery, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon and United States Embassy, Dublin; Galway Corporation Selected Exhibition, Galerie Faouedic, Lorient, Brittany; Designs on Peace, United States Embassy Selected Group Show, United States Embassy, Dublin.

1996 Designs on Peace, Selected Group Touring Show, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford; St John’s arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry and other venues; Akin II Group Show, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival; The Water is Wide, Group Show for L’Imaginaire Irlandaise, Galerie Faouedic, Lorient and on tour to Galway Arts Centre and Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo; Iontas, Selected Exhibition, Sligo Art Gallery; Foyle Arts Centre, Derry, Limerick City Gallery and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

1997 Celtic Dreams, Group Show, Festival Celtic de Chambery, France and Gallery Internet, Rome; Motley XXI, Theatre Design Exhibition, National Theatre London; Akin Group Show, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival

1998 Celtic Dream, Group Show, Logan Gallery, Galway; The Water is Wide, Selected Group Show, Irish Club, London; The Spirit of Galway, Group Show, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Centre, Cambridge, Mass, USA; Akin, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival

1999 Kist, Artspace Black Box Group Show, Logan Gallery, Galway; Akin, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival; The Spirit of Galway, Selected Group Show, Caltra Festival, Caltra, Co. Galway; Artspace Group Show at Clonbur Arts Festival, Clonbur, Co. Galway

2000 Artspace Group Show, Dept of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Dublin; Akin and Norman Ackroyd show, Galway Arts Festival; Akin, Clifden Arts Festival

2001 Akin, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival

2002 Akin on Tour Group Show, The Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford; Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork; St John’s Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry; Bailieborough Library Gallery, Co. Cavan; Tallaght Arts Centre, Co. Dublin; Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Friar’s Gate Arts Centre, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; Market Arts Centre, Armagh and An Gailearai, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal; Akin X, Galway Arts Festival and Clifden Arts Festival; Artspace II Group Show, Siamsa Tire, Tralee; Quantum, Artspace Group Show, NUI Galway Gallery

2003 Streets of Art, Artspace Studios project for Galway Arts Festival; Artspace Studios Group Show, Inishbofin Arts Festival; Mystical Land, Two Person Show (with Kathleen Delaney) Wexford Festival Opera; Akin XI, Galway Arts Centre

2004 Artspace Group Show, Galway Arts Centre; Drawn from Land and Sea, Group Show, The Hedge Art Space, Belfast

2005 The Western Eye, Galway a Lorient Festival Selected Group Exhibition, Galerie Faouedic, Lorient, Brittany; Realm, Group Show, Clifden Arts Festival; Between Walls, Artspace Group Show, Norman Villa Gallery, Galway; Christmas Group Show, Norman Villa Gallery, Galway; Inishlacken Residencies Exhibition, Roundstone, Co. Galway

2006 Artspace Group Show, Galway Arts Festival; Horsing Around, Group Show, Kenny Art Gallery, Galway; McBride Gallery Christmas Show, Killarney, Co. Kerry.

2007 Akin, Norman Villa Gallery, Galway and Inishbofin Arts Festival, Co. Galway; Artspace 21, Galway Arts Festival; Group Show, Russell Gallery, New Quay, Co. Clare; Akin Clifden Arts Festival and Oliver St John Gogarty Festival, Renvyle, Connemara, Co. Galway

2008 Akin, Group Show, The McBride Gallery, Killarney, Co. Kerry; Connemara Calling, Solo Show, Norman Villa Gallery, Galway

2009 Connemara Rocks, Solo Show as part of the Galway Arts Festival Official Visual Arts Programme, The White Room Gallery, Galway; Connemara Rocks, Solo Show, Clifden Arts Festival; Inside Out, Recent Work by Declan Breen, Cody, Kathleen Delaney and Dolores Lyne, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

2010 Aras Éanna 10 Years Exhibition, Group Show, Aras Éanna, Inis Oirr Co. Galway and Town Hall Theatre, Galway

2011 Akin: A Word in your Eye, Kenny Gallery, Galway as part of Cúirt, Galway International Literature Festival

2012 Akin: Island Echoes, Inishbofin Arts Festival, Inishbofin, Co. Galway; The Sea, Oh The Sea, Group Show, Kenny Gallery, Galway; Summer Group Show, The Russell Gallery, New Quay, Co. Galway

2013 Akin: Contemporary Art from Galway, Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Belgium; Solo Show, Dromineer Literary Festival, Co. Tipperary; The Gathering, Selected Group Show by Kerry Artists, Department of the Arts, Killarney, Co. Kerry 

2014 Une Souffle Irlandais , Akin Group Show, Chapelle des Penitents Blancs, Vence, France; Group Show, Clifden Arts Festival, Co. Galway; Letterfrack Sea Week Small Works Exhibition, Letterfrack, Co. Galway 

2015 Placing the Word, Solo Show, Ranelagh Arts Centre for Ranelagh Arts Festival, Dublin and Killarney Library & Gallery; Cuirt, Galway International Literature Festival Art Trail; Christmas Group Show, Oughterard Court House Gallery, Co. Galway 

2016 Placing the Word, Solo Show, Killarney Library & Gallery; Inaugural Exhibition, Group Show with Hughie O’Donoghue, Diarmuid Delargy and others, Green Fuse Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo; Ghosts of Christmas Present, Group Show, Green Fuse Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo

Residencies

Aras Éanna, Inis Oirr, Co. Galway

Inishlacken, Roundstone, County Galway

Post Colony (with Gareth Kennedy), Killarney National Park, Co. Kerry

Isishlyon, Inishbofin, Co. Galway

The Arts Council
Dublin Writers’ Museum
Galway County Council
Galway City Council
Tipperary County Council
Bank of Ireland
Office of Public Works
National University of Ireland, Galway
Publications
The Islands of Connemara
The Water is Wide