Solo Exhibitions

2025      Rupture

J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA

2022      What Was: unmarked

San Juan Islands Museum of Art, WA

2014      Ground

The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2013      Between the Rural and the Void

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008      Mór

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007      Beag

The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar,
Co. Mayo, Ireland

2006      Dwellings

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

2002      Paintings

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000      Western Light

Woodland Art Gallery, Chatham College,
Pittsburgh, PA

Paintings

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999      Paintings

Sligo Art Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building,
Sligo, Ireland

1994      Toher-Lumen

The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1992      New Paintings

Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL

FAWC Fellowship

Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center,
Provincetown, MA         

1991      Paintings

Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Selected Two-Person Exhibitions

2013      Rebecca Cummins/Helen O’Toole

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA             

2010      Lorraine Wall/Helen O’Toole

The Claremorris Art Gallery, Ireland

2009      Helen O’Leary/Helen O’Toole

Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

1988      Natalie Clark/Helen O’Toole

Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, IL          

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025      The Seattle Art Fair

J. Rinehart Gallery, Seattle, WA

2023      Everyone We Know is Here

The Hudson D. Walker Gallery, The Fine Arts
Work Center, Provincetown, MA

XO Seattle 2023

Coliseum Theatre, Seattle, WA

Mostra Corale Da Cajeta a Circe

Choral Art Exhibition from Cajeta to Circe
Pinacoteca Comunale, “Antonio Sapone” di Gaeta,
Italy

2022      Passages: 8 Women Painters

Stedman Gallery, Rutgers-Camden Center for the
Arts, NJ

2019      Unforseen Thereness

Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

A Contemporary Irish Art Exhibition

Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany

2017      Crazy Jane

The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2016      Contemporary Northwest Art Awards

Portland Art Museum, OR

2015      Impressions and Portraits of WB Yeats

The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2012      Amid a space Between: Irish Artists in America

SFMOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2011      Inside the Collection

Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore

2009      Gathering Image, Fugitive Form

The Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,
Tacoma, WA  

2005      The 2005 Neddy Artist Fellowship

Washington State Convention and Trade Centre,
Seattle, WA

Ten Years of Excellence, Neddy Nominees

Tacoma Art Museum, WA

2003      Dreams

Sligo Art Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building
Sligo, Ireland

2001      Ann Gale, Louise St. Pierre, Helen O’Toole

Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA

2000      Mirabilia Artis

University of Washington Summer Arts Festival,
Meany Hall, Seattle, WA

1999      From Here to the Horizon: Artists of the Rural
Landscape

Whatcom Museum of History and Art,
Bellingham, WA

1998      Paul Harcharik, Helen O’Toole, Jill Sabella

Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

1995      Living Landscape ‘95

West Cork Arts Center, Skibbereen, Ireland

Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition

La Salle Gallery, Singapore

1993      Emerging Chicago Abstraction

Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL                                                  

1991      Contemporary Fine Arts Invitational

Augustana College Gallery,
Rock Island, IL                     

1990      The Chicago Show

The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

Springboard, Selected Graduates of Ireland's Art
Colleges, 1985-1988

Irish Life Exhibition Center, Dublin, Ireland

1989      Surrounding Abstraction, Five Painters from Chicago

Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

1986      Guinness Peat Aviation Awards for Emerging Artists

Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland