Aoife McCloughlin is an emerging curator based in Dublin. Aoife is the current Provost’s Curatorial Fellow at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin. She has a diverse range of experience working in different art institutions in Ireland and Italy.

In 2022, Aoife graduated from National College of Art and Design with a BA Joint Honours in Fine Art Sculpture and Critical Cultures. After completing her degree, she worked as an Exhibition Mediator at the Irish Pavilion, Niamh O’Malley’s ‘Gather’, at the 59th Venice Art Biennale. The following year Aoife was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice for two months.

She also has experience supporting and facilitating education events for Sculpture Dublin’s Creative Engagement Programme, The Ark Children’s Cultural Centre, Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre and The Chester Beatty Library. She recently completed the MPhil programme in the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin specialising in the study of Irish art. During the programme Aoife developed her interests in gender, art and the city culminating in her dissertation entitled; The Lifecycle of Public Art: The Anna Livia and Molly Malone sculptures from Inception to Public Reception, 1988-present. Aoife presented a paper on this research at the 2024 Irish Association of Art Historians Annual Symposium and at a History of Art & Architecture Research Seminar in 2025 at Trinity College Dublin.

If you would be interested in working with me drop me a line at: aoife.mccloughlin@gmail.com