Myra Jago’s oil paintings explore our relationships with the world and with each other, using fabrics and sculptural forms to open up a conversation on social, political and identity issues. While rooted within the contemporary world, her practice leans heavily into the still life tradition of colourful realism and symmetry. By isolating her subjects on mirrored surfaces, she reveals new, otherwise hidden perspectives.
Her studio practice involves fabric design, outsourced printing, arranging the scene to be photographed, digitally edited and ultimately painted in oils on ultra smooth canvases or wood panels.
Myra Jago is an Irish visual artist working in oil paint and sculpture. She holds a Masters of
Fine Art (2011) and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine Art Painting (2005) from The National
College of Art & Design Dublin.
Her work can be found in public collections at The Central Bank of Ireland, The Irish State Art
Collection, Green8Tokyo, The Northern Ireland Civil Service Collection Belfast, Business to Arts,
Deloitte, Activate Capital, Killeen Holdings, Scor Global and in many private collections at home
and abroad.
Awards include The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists High Commendation Award 2025, Cairde
Festival SG Artshop Award 2025, Arts Council Awards 2024, 2022, 2020, Wicklow Arts Award
2023, RHA Friends Award 2022, The National Gallery of Ireland/Hennessy Portrait Highly
Commended Award 2017 and The RHA Studio Award 2015.
She has been invited to make new work for TO NEVER LOOK AWAY at TØN, Temple Bar Dublin
(2024), INTO THE WEAVE (2023) at Lavit Gallery Cork, BREAKING BORDERS (2022) at Luan
Gallery, Athlone, Nanchizi Art Museum, Beijing (2023) and The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual
Exhibition (2022). Jago presented her fourth solo exhibition Now Islands at The Royal Hibernian
Academy Ashford Gallery, Dublin in 2019. She has participated in the past twelve RHA Annuals.
