Felim Egan (8 November 1952 – 19 November 2020) was an Irish painter.
Born in County Donegal, Egan studied in Belfast and Portsmouth and at the Slade School of Art in London and lived and worked in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland. He painted restrained abstracts in which ghostly squares appear to float to the edge of a monochromatic canvas. The ethereal tone of his paintings owes itself in allowance to his technique of building going on colour by applying lump after increase of skinny acrylic polluted with powdered stone.
He represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980 and the São Paulo Art Biennial in 1985. In 1993 he won the Premier UNESCO Prize for the Arts in Paris, and he received the Gold Award at Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1997. Felim Egan was a member of Aosdána. Major exhibitions of his measure were held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 1995–96, and at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1999.
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