Ciara O'Keeffe holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Cultural & Creative Entrepreneurship from Trinity College Dublin (2020) and a BA in Ceramics from the Limerick School of Art & Design (1999).

Ciara's achievements in ceramics are diverse and impressive. In 2024, she was one of twenty-five international ceramic artists invited to demonstrate at the Ceramic Congress. Her works have been showcased in the Boomer Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, and Nou Millenni Gallery in 2023, and she has been featured at the Villa Nova University Center for Irish Studies since 2022. She was among twenty Irish artists in the "Straight out of Ireland" Exhibition in Pennsylvania (2022).

Recognized for her artistic excellence, Ciara was highlighted in Voyage Houston's December 2020 edition and included in the "Who’s Who in Visual Art" for 2018-2019. She has lectured at the Maryland Institute of Art (2017) and held solo exhibitions at Designyard in Dublin and Shorelines Exhibition in Portumna, Co. Galway (2017). She received the International Certificate of Excellence from the Arts and Crafts Design Awards (2018) and has made significant contributions with the 1916 Sackville Art Project, archived by Trinity College Dublin and Oxford University.

Ciara's work has been featured in World of Interiors magazine (July 2022), The Who is Who of Art and Design (2018), and Anthology Magazine (Spring 2018).