Ian Cumberland

Ian Cumberland is a Northern Irish artist. He was born in Banbridge, Co. Down, on 16 March 1983. His work focuses on portraits with his paintings typically using oils as the primary media. He studied fine art at the University of Ulster, where he was awarded the John and Rachael Turner Award for the most outstanding student in their field when he graduated in 2006. Since then he has won several prizes, the most significant of which was the Davy Portrait Award in 2010.

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• ACES 2014 Alissa Kleist Lesley Cherry and Ian Cumberland
• 1937 spring Governor Generals Horse Guards combined Mississauga Horse Major Ian Cumberland
• Prizes
• Public Exhibitions
• References

In 2011 he won third place overall in the BP Portrait Award from a field of 2400 entries.

Prizes

BP Portrait Award, 3rd place, 2011

KPMG Emerging Artist Award, Royal Ulster Academy, 2010

Davy Portrait Award, 2010

KPMG Emerging Artist Award, Royal Ulster Academy, 2009

Selectors Choice Award, Art Society of Ulster, 2006

John and Rachael Turner Award, University of Ulster, 2006

Public Exhibitions

BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2011

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, 2011

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, 2011-2012

Davy Portrait Award, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, 2010

Naughton Gallery, Belfast, 2010

BP Portrait Award, The National Portrait Gallery, London, 2009,

Dean Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2009