Born in Dublin, Úna Quigley graduated from Crawford College of Art Cork and Winchester School of Art, Spain and U.K. in 2001 with an MA in European Fine Art. She has since exhibited widely such as at the Kassel Film Festival, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Centrum Berlin, Lewis Glucksman Gallery Ireland, and Crawford Gallery Ireland. 
Recently she screened her film work in Incognito Societies at the National Film Archive in Seoul and Berliner Liste, had a solo exhibition The Interval at Centrum Berlin and co-created a temporary public art project entitled Wild-screen/Scáil-Fhiáin in Connemara. She exhibited as part of Daniel Jewesbury's Tulca "The Headless City" in 2016.
She has been included in a number of publications, such as “Cooling out - on the paradox of Feminism” by Lewis Glucksman Gallery/Kunsthaus Baselland, and recently “False Optimism” published by Crawford Gallery Ireland and  "All Mountains begin on the Ground,", an artists book of essays. 
She has received awards from local authorities, Culture Ireland, the Arts Council of Ireland, and Ealaín na Gaeltachta and was most recently awarded an Artists Bursary award from  the Arts Council of Ireland in 2017.