Elizabeth Magill (b. 1959 in Ontario, Canada) grew up in Northern Ireland and received her Bachelor of Arts from the Belfast College of Art in 1982 before completing her Masters of Arts from the Slade School of Art at University College London in 1984.
Magill’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, United Kingdom; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; The New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Matt’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom; RHA Galleries, Dublin, Ireland; Limerick City Art Gallery and Museum, Limerick, Ireland; and the Wilkinson Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions such as the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom; Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland; Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom; P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom; Salzburg Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, United Kingdom; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Walker Art Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom, among others.
Her work may be found in the collections of the Arts Councils of Great Britian, Ireland, and Northern Ireland; British Museum, London, United Kingdom; Contemporary Arts Society, London, United Kingdom; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland; Government Art Collection, London, United Kingdom; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; Tate Collection, London, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
Magill lives and works in London and Northern Ireland.