Education
1991 BA (Hons) Sociology (minor Psychology), University of Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
2001 National Diploma in Photography, IADT, Dublin, Ireland
2006 MPhil. (practice-led) Visual & Media Anthropology, DIT/TU Dublin, Ireland
Title: ‘Final Build? Imaging the Local-Global Landscape of Hewlett-Packard, Ireland’.
Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT/TU Dublin, Ireland
2011 PhD (practice-led) Visual & Media Anthropology
Title: ‘A Globalised Vulnerability: Re-representing the Labouring Body of
Ireland’s Newly Industrialised Landscape’.
Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, DIT/TU Dublin, Ireland
Area of Expertise
Photography; Multimedia; Visual & Media Anthropology; Ethnography; Moving Image; Installation; Publication; Web-based Re-narration
Research Interests/Activities
Globalisation; Financial Capital; Labour; Globalised Industrial Space; Algorithmic Infrastructures; Abstraction; Community; Functioning & Condition of Global Markets; Precarity; Vulnerability; Representation; Technology; Assemblage; Multivocality & Montage
Monographs
The Breathing Factory, Curran, M. (EDITION BRAUS, Heidelberg, Germany/Belfast
Exposed Photography/Gallery of Photography, Ireland 2006)
SOUTHERN CROSS, Curran M. (Cornerhouse (UK)/Gallery of Photography, Dublin 2002)
Journals
Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN (2003-2009): An audio-visual ethnography of a
globalized present (Lausitz, Eastern Germany) by Mark Curran, in Irish-German
Studies, Holfter, G., Byrnes, D., Conacher, J. (eds) Vol. 11, 185–202 (WVT Verlag,
Triers 2020)
‘SOUTHERN CROSS: Documentary Photography, the Celtic Tiger and a Future yet to
Come’ in E. Smith, E. & Workman, S. (eds.), Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature
and Culture, New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (Palgrave
MacMillan 2019)
‘Artist’s Project: The Market Has a History, But No Memory by Mark Curran‘, in In the
Mind but Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art, Moreno, G. (ed.)
(Verso 2019)
‘In conversation with Mark Curran on Multivocality as a Representational Strategy’ in Why
Exhibit? Positions on Exhibiting Photographies, Sikking, I & Rastenberger, A-K. (eds)
(Fw:Books, The Netherlands 2018)
‘Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN: Re-representing the ‘wounded’ landscape of
the Lausitz, Eastern Germany`by Mark Curran, in Photographies, Wells, L. & Bright,
D. (eds.)(Routledge, London, UK 2013)
‘Capital at Work: Methodology in THE MARKET’by Mark Curran in Anthology of IADT
Research, Kirwan, G. (ed.), (IADT, Dublin, Ireland 2013)
‘The Breathing Factory: Locating the Global Labouring Body`, Journal of Media Practice
9(2)(London, England 2008)
One Person Exhibitions
2022 THE MARKET – Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2017 THE MARKET – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2015 The Economy of Appearances, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA),
Ireland
2014 THE MARKET – Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – Thomas J. Walsh
Gallery, Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA
2013 THE MARKET – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
THE MARKET – Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
The Breathing Factory – (invited progamme) FORMAT 2013, Derby, England
2012 Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – PhotoIreland, Dublin,
Ireland
2011 Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – ENCONTROS DA
IMAGEM, Braga, Portugal
2010 The Breathing Factory – DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM),
Chicago, USA
2008 The Breathing Factory – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2006 The Breathing Factory – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
The Breathing Factory – Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
The Breathing Factory – The Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny,
Ireland
The Breathing Factory – Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2005 The Breathing Factory – Galeria Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy
SOUTHERN CROSS – Osborne/Clarke Foundation, Köln/Cologne,
Germany
2004 SOUTHERN CROSS – Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France
2003 SOUTHERN CROSS – Galerie van der Grinten, Köln/Cologne,
Germany
2002 SOUTHERN CROSS – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000 Owners – Büro für Fotos, Köln/Cologne, Germany
1998 Across the Counter – The Winding Stair, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibitions
2023 National Photography Collection Tour – Glór, Ennis, Ireland
2022 In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place – Photo Museum Ireland,
Dublin, Ireland
Selected Works: National Photography Collection – Draíocht, Ireland
The Institutional – PhotoIreland, Dublin Castle, Ireland
Collection Bleu du Ciel – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2021 National Photography Collection – Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin,
Ireland
2019 MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM – New School/Parsons, New York City,
USA
Taxed To The Max – NOORDERLICHT, Groningen, The Netherlands
CAPITAL – National Centre for Photography, Ballarat Biennale,
Australia
2018 Space of Flows: KRAKOW PHOTOMONTH (Invited – Main
Programme) Krakow, Poland
We Only Want The Earth: Contemporary Irish Artists Adobe,
San Francisco, USA
2017 Spectacle & Scaffold: Contemporary Photography & Mapping Networks, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, North Carolina,
USA
Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM, Oakland, California, USA
2016 I Stood Before The Source, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto,
Canada
2015 Periodical Review #5, Pallas Projects & NCAD Gallery, Dublin,
Ireland
#DataRush, NOORDERLICHT 2015, Groningen, the Netherlands
Photoville, New York City, USA
2013 Neither Here Nor There (Contemporary Irish Artits), Galway Arts
Centre, Galway, Ireland
A Letter to Lucy, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
LABOUR & LOCKOUT, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA),
Limerick, Ireland
Neither Here Nor There (Contemporary Irish Artists), Grimmuseum,
Berlin, Germany
Exile, The LAB (Dublin City Council), Dublin, Ireland
Sonntag, Berlin, German
2012 postSCRIPT, Camden Palace Hotel, Cork, Ireland
2011 Nature/Human/Nature: Landscape Photography from the State
Collection, Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin,
Ireland
A Picture From Home, Schaden.Com, Paris Photo, France
Long Way To Paradise, Belfast Photo Festival 2011,
Belfast, Ireland
Long Way To Paradise, PhotoIreland 2011, Dublin, Ireland
2010 ‘Postcards from the Celtic Tiger’: Contemporary Photography and Video from Ireland, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 6×6 Fragments of European Photography: Ireland, Yours Gallery,
Warsaw, Poland
6×6 Fragments of European Photography: Ireland, Fotofestiwal,
Lodz, Poland
The Christmas Photo Album, OST Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 30 Exhibition, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
China International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
CEDEFOP PhotoMuseum Award, PhotoBiennale 08 Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2007 Pass the Picture: Out of Berlin, Goethe Institute, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Short Stories: Photographs 1890-2006, Macy Art Gallery,
New York City, USA
Cead China, 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006 Seconds: the imperfect artwork, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland
European Month of Photography, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin,
Germany
Vevey-Ville d’Image, Vevey, Switzerland
2005 Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
6x6x Tri Showcase 2005, Hangzhou/Shanghai/Beijing, China
Artist as Publisher, the Workroom, Dublin, Ireland
Urban Condition, night projection, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Justus Lipsius EU Presidency Building, Brussels, Belgium (Cultural Programme 2004 to mark Ireland’s Presidency of EU)
Contact, 1st International Photography Festival, Damascus, Syria
RHA 174th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA),Dublin, Ireland
artists-books, Workroom, Dublin/Model Arts and Niland Gallery,
Sligo, Ireland
2003 Perspective 2003 – Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland (Selector: Enrique Juncosa, Director, Irish Museum of Modern
Art)
Seventh International Photography Gathering, Aleppo, Syria
2002 VIA – site-specific installation, Camden Street, Dublin, Ireland
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2001 AIB Visual Art Prize 2001 (shortlist) – Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, Ireland
Les Rencontres du Jour (Selected), Voies Off, Night Projection, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie 2001, Arles, France
The John Kobal Award – National Portrait Gallery, London, England
One Person Exhibitions
2022 THE MARKET – Villa Heike, Berlin, Germany
2017 THE MARKET – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2015 The Economy of Appearances, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA),
Ireland
2014 THE MARKET – Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – Thomas J. Walsh
Gallery, Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA
2013 THE MARKET – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
THE MARKET – Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
The Breathing Factory – (invited progamme) FORMAT 2013, Derby, England
2012 Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – PhotoIreland, Dublin,
Ireland
2011 Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN – ENCONTROS DA
IMAGEM, Braga, Portugal
2010 The Breathing Factory – DePaul University Art Museum (DPAM),
Chicago, USA
2008 The Breathing Factory – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2006 The Breathing Factory – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
The Breathing Factory – Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
The Breathing Factory – The Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny,
Ireland
The Breathing Factory – Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2005 The Breathing Factory – Galeria Nuova Icona, Venice, Italy
SOUTHERN CROSS – Osborne/Clarke Foundation, Köln/Cologne,
Germany
2004 SOUTHERN CROSS – Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France
2003 SOUTHERN CROSS – Galerie van der Grinten, Köln/Cologne,
Germany
2002 SOUTHERN CROSS – Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2000 Owners – Büro für Fotos, Köln/Cologne, Germany
1998 Across the Counter – The Winding Stair, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibitions
2023 National Photography Collection Tour – Glór, Ennis, Ireland
2022 In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place – Photo Museum Ireland,
Dublin, Ireland
Selected Works: National Photography Collection – Draíocht, Ireland
The Institutional – PhotoIreland, Dublin Castle, Ireland
Collection Bleu du Ciel – Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
2021 National Photography Collection – Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin,
Ireland
2019 MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM – New School/Parsons, New York City,
USA
Taxed To The Max – NOORDERLICHT, Groningen, The Netherlands
CAPITAL – National Centre for Photography, Ballarat Biennale,
Australia
2018 Space of Flows: KRAKOW PHOTOMONTH (Invited – Main
Programme) Krakow, Poland
We Only Want The Earth: Contemporary Irish Artists Adobe,
San Francisco, USA
2017 Spectacle & Scaffold: Contemporary Photography & Mapping Networks, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, North Carolina,
USA
Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM, Oakland, California, USA
2016 I Stood Before The Source, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto,
Canada
2015 Periodical Review #5, Pallas Projects & NCAD Gallery, Dublin,
Ireland
#DataRush, NOORDERLICHT 2015, Groningen, the Netherlands
Photoville, New York City, USA
2013 Neither Here Nor There (Contemporary Irish Artits), Galway Arts
Centre, Galway, Ireland
A Letter to Lucy, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
LABOUR & LOCKOUT, Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA),
Limerick, Ireland
Neither Here Nor There (Contemporary Irish Artists), Grimmuseum,
Berlin, Germany
Exile, The LAB (Dublin City Council), Dublin, Ireland
Sonntag, Berlin, German
2012 postSCRIPT, Camden Palace Hotel, Cork, Ireland
2011 Nature/Human/Nature: Landscape Photography from the State
Collection, Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin,
Ireland
A Picture From Home, Schaden.Com, Paris Photo, France
Long Way To Paradise, Belfast Photo Festival 2011,
Belfast, Ireland
Long Way To Paradise, PhotoIreland 2011, Dublin, Ireland
2010 ‘Postcards from the Celtic Tiger’: Contemporary Photography and Video from Ireland, Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009 6×6 Fragments of European Photography: Ireland, Yours Gallery,
Warsaw, Poland
6×6 Fragments of European Photography: Ireland, Fotofestiwal,
Lodz, Poland
The Christmas Photo Album, OST Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 30 Exhibition, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
China International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
CEDEFOP PhotoMuseum Award, PhotoBiennale 08 Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2007 Pass the Picture: Out of Berlin, Goethe Institute, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Short Stories: Photographs 1890-2006, Macy Art Gallery,
New York City, USA
Cead China, 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China
2006 Seconds: the imperfect artwork, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland
European Month of Photography, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin,
Germany
Vevey-Ville d’Image, Vevey, Switzerland
2005 Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
6x6x Tri Showcase 2005, Hangzhou/Shanghai/Beijing, China
Artist as Publisher, the Workroom, Dublin, Ireland
Urban Condition, night projection, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Justus Lipsius EU Presidency Building, Brussels, Belgium (Cultural Programme 2004 to mark Ireland’s Presidency of EU)
Contact, 1st International Photography Festival, Damascus, Syria
RHA 174th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA),Dublin, Ireland
artists-books, Workroom, Dublin/Model Arts and Niland Gallery,
Sligo, Ireland
2003 Perspective 2003 – Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland (Selector: Enrique Juncosa, Director, Irish Museum of Modern
Art)
Seventh International Photography Gathering, Aleppo, Syria
2002 VIA – site-specific installation, Camden Street, Dublin, Ireland
Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2001 AIB Visual Art Prize 2001 (shortlist) – Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, Ireland
Les Rencontres du Jour (Selected), Voies Off, Night Projection, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie 2001,
Arles, France
The John Kobal Award – National Portrait Gallery, London, England
Monographs
The Breathing Factory, Curran, M. (EDITION BRAUS, Heidelberg, Germany/Belfast
Exposed Photography/Gallery of Photography, Ireland 2006)
SOUTHERN CROSS, Curran M. (Cornerhouse (UK)/Gallery of Photography, Dublin 2002)
Journals
Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN (2003-2009): An audio-visual ethnography of a
globalized present (Lausitz, Eastern Germany) by Mark Curran, in Irish-German
Studies, Holfter, G., Byrnes, D., Conacher, J. (eds) Vol. 11, 185–202 (WVT Verlag,
Triers 2020)
‘SOUTHERN CROSS: Documentary Photography, the Celtic Tiger and a Future yet to
Come’ in E. Smith, E. & Workman, S. (eds.), Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature
and Culture, New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (Palgrave
MacMillan 2019)
‘Artist’s Project: The Market Has a History, But No Memory by Mark Curran‘, in In the
Mind but Not from There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art, Moreno, G. (ed.)
(Verso 2019)
‘In conversation with Mark Curran on Multivocality as a Representational Strategy’ in Why
Exhibit? Positions on Exhibiting Photographies, Sikking, I & Rastenberger, A-K. (eds)
(Fw:Books, The Netherlands 2018)
‘Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN: Re-representing the ‘wounded’ landscape of
the Lausitz, Eastern Germany`by Mark Curran, in Photographies, Wells, L. & Bright,
D. (eds.)(Routledge, London, UK 2013)
‘Capital at Work: Methodology in THE MARKET’by Mark Curran in Anthology of IADT
Research, Kirwan, G. (ed.), (IADT, Dublin, Ireland 2013)
‘The Breathing Factory: Locating the Global Labouring Body`, Journal of Media Practice
9(2)(London, England 2008)
Publications
La Région Humaine: 20 ans de Photographie Documentaire (Éditions Loco/ Bleu du Ciel/
Ministère de la Culture, France, 2021)
Space of Flows: Krakow Photomonth 2018 (Krakow, Poland 2018)
MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM (Project Projects, New York 2017)
I Stood Before The Source (Blackwood Gallery/University of Toronto 2016)
#DataRush/Pulse, NOORDERLICHT 2015 (NOORDERLICHT, Groningen, Netherlands
2015)
FACTORY: Mass Production (FORMAT 2013, Derby, UK 2013)
PhotoIreland 2012 (PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland 2012)
Photography and Ireland (Carville, J. (ed.), Reaktion, London, UK 2011)
Pictures From Home (Schaden.Com, Köln/Cologne, Germany, 2011)
Human/Nature: Landscape Photography from the State Collection (Office of Public Works
(OPW) Dublin, Ireland 2011)
New Visions on Social Documentary Photography (Encontros Da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
2011)
PhotoIreland 2011 (PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin, Ireland 2011)
Brute Neighbors, (Green, C & Heneghan, L., DePaul University Press, Chicago, USA 2011)
Le Bleu du Ciel 1999-2009, (Edition Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France 2010)
MARGINS: Photographing Labour on the Margins, (IPRN/Dom Fotografie, Slovakia 2008)
‘Historical Oblivion: the photographs of Kai-Olaf Hesse’, 3rd European Month of
Photography Berlin, (Kulturprojekte Berlin, Germany 2008)
Identité(s)/Identity(ies), (Septembre de la Photographie, Lyon, France/ Silvana Editoriale,
Milan, Italy 2008)
China International Photography Festival, (PIP, Pingyao, China 2008)
Vevey-Ville d’Image (IMAGES 08, Vevey, Switzerland 2008)
Next Level – Art/Photography/Ideas (Portfolio), Creative Scape, Issue 13, London, England
2008)
CEDEFOP PhotoMuseum Award 07, (Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece 2008)
Pass the Picture: Out of Berlin (Goethe Institute/Alex Moh, Malaysia 2007)
Cead China, (411 Gallery, Shanghai, China 2007)
Short Stories: Photographs 1890-2006 (Macy Gallery/Maurizio Pellegrin, New York, USA,
2007)
2nd European Month of Photography Berlin, (Kulturprojekte Berlin, Germany 2006)
SHIFTS 2, (International Photography Research Network (IPRN) in association with the
Centre for Creative Photography, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 2006)
Building Material (Journal of the Architectural Association of Ireland (AAI) Dublin, Autumn
2005)
Europa – L’Esprit des Villes (Edition Lieux Dits, Lyon 2004)
Seventh International Photography Gathering (LePont Gallery, Aleppo, Syria 2003)
Plan 03 – Month of Architecture and the Arts (Plan 03, Cologne 2003)
Workshop for emerging Photographers (Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), Singapore 2002)
Source – Photographic Review (Portfolio, Photoworks North, Belfast, Summer 2002)
Repetition (bel epok, Köln/Cologne, Germany 2002)
The John Kobal Award 2001 (National Portrait Gallery, London 2001)
Work Experience
2006 – present Lecturer BA (Hons) Photography & Postgraduate Supervisor
/2002 – 2005 Faculty of Film, Art & Creative Technologies
Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT)
Dublin, Ireland
2006 – 2007 Assistant Lecturer B.A. (Hons) Photography
/2003 – 2004 School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland
2002 – 2003 Course Co-ordinator, Photography/Portfolio,
Marino College CDVEC, Dublin, Ireland
1991 – 1996 Social Worker, Canada and Ireland
Visiting Faculty
2021 Research Fellow (Invited)
ARCHIVO (Portugal) & University of Arts London (UAL)(UK)
2011 – 2021 Visiting Professor, MA in Visual & Media Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2006 – 2008 Core Faculty, Steinhardt School, New York University (NYU)
Postgraduate Study Abroad Programme (Led by Prof. Allen Feldman
& Prof. Nicholas Mirzoeff) American University Paris (AUP) (2008)
& DIT, Ireland (2006 & 2007)
Visiting Lectureships (selected)
MA in Photography, Northern Centre for Photography, University of Sunderland, England
ARC MA, IADT, The Lab, Dublin, Ireland
MFA Photography, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
BA (Hons) Photography, New York University, Florence, Italy
BA (Hons) American Studies, Department for American Studies, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany
Faculty of Fine Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, National College of Art & Design
(NCAD), Dublin, Ireland
MFA, California College of the Arts (CCA), Oakland, California, USA (Study Abroad
Programme)
MFA Photography, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
BA (Hons) Art, Design and Transmedia, Syracuse University, NY, USA (Study Abroad
Programme)
MA in Media, Culture and Communication, University of Washington State, USA
MA in Photography, University of Helsinki, Finland
MA in Photography, University of Wales, Newport, Wales
BA (Hons) Photography, School of Photography, (HFF), University of Göteborg, Sweden
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Erasmus Lecturer, Academy for the Fine Arts, Reykjavik, Iceland
BA (Hons) Photography, University of Wales, Newport, Wales
MA in Communications and Cultural Studies, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland
BA (Hons) Art, Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
BA (Hons) Fine Art, National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland
BA Photography, Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland
Certificate in Photography, Stillorgan, CDVEC, Dublin, Ireland
Conferences/Symposia
‘Abstraction, Studying Up and the Re-Representation of Financial Capital’, Invited Speaker,
Documentary Futures: New Ecologies, Science and Aesthetics, University of South
Wales (UK) & Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland) (2021)
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET (2010-’, Panel, Encountering
the City, Anthropology & Geography: Dialogues Past, Present & Future, Royal
Anthropological Institute (RAI) Annual Conference, London, UK (2020)
‘Normalising Deviance & the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel, The Role of Art in the
Age of Financial Crisis, College Arts Association (CAA) Annual Conference, New
York, USA (2017)
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel, Post-Society and
Financial Exsanguination, THE SOCIAL – 4th International Association for Visual
Culture Biennial Conference (#IAVC2016), Boston University, USA (2016)
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel (invited), Global
Capitalism & The Challenge of Well-being In The World, Annual
Conference of the Swiss Anthropological Society, Department of Social Anthropology, University of
Bern, Switzerland (2015)
#Data Rush: When Art Meets Science’, Panel (invited), Stichting WAMS & Nooderlicht,
Groningen, The Netherlands (2015)
‘Normalising Deviance and the construction of THE MARKET’, Panel (invited), INFINITI,
University of Ljubljana & Trinity College Dublin, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2015)
‘Slap, Bang in the Middle: Re-representing THE MARKET’, Keynote, Mapping the Frontiers
of Financial Capital: Art, Anthropology & High Finance, Royal Anthropological
Institute & University of Sussex, London, England (2015)
‘The Normalisation of Deviance: Constructing THE MARKET’, Keynote, SOUND VISION
ACTION 2014 McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2014)
‘The Normalisation of Deviance : Constructing THE MARKET’, Keynote, The Theatre of
Memory, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (2014)
‘Capital at Work’, MOMENTOUS TIMES (FORUM), Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA)
Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2013)
‘Capital at Work : Studying Up and the Construction of THE MARKET’, Keynote, LAND-
LABOUR-CAPITAL, Limerick City Gallery of Art/Future State/Goldsmiths,
University of London, Limerick, Ireland (2013)
‘Framing THE MARKET’, Uncertain State: Temple Bar Photography Summer School,
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland (2013)
Marxism, Critical Theory and Contemporary Art Practice, Irish Museum of Modern Art
(IMMA), Dublin, Ireland (2013)
‘Between Nature and Culture: Photography as Mediation and Method’, Keynote,
The Photographers Gallery, London, England (2012)
‘Ausschnitte aus EDEN/Extracts from EDEN: Multivocality/Montage and the Framing of
Utopia’, Helsinki Photomedia 2012 – Images in Circulation, First International
Helsinki Photography Research Conference, Aalto University, School of Art and
Design, Helsinki, Finland (2012)
‘Eden Emerging: Re-presenting the ‘wounded’ landscape of the Lausitz’, Emerging
Landscapes, University of Westminster, London, England (2010)
‘The Breathing Factory: Montaged Gesture and the Global Labouring Body’, The
Photographic Act: Encounter, Event, Configuration Network, College Arts
Association (CAA), 98th Annual Conference, Chicago, USA (2010)
‘Montaged Re-Imaginings: extracts from EDEN (a work in progress)’, keynote, Cities Re
Imagined: 1, Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHIB), Oslo, Norway (2009)
‘The Breathing Factory: Practice-led Possibilities’, keynote, conference on postgraduate
practice-led research in art & design, Icelandic Academy for the Fine Arts, Reykjavik,
Iceland (2008)
‘The Breathing Factory: A globalised evocation’, ReThinking Labour, Clinton Institute for
American Studies, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland (2008)
‘The Breathing Factory: Evoking the Global’, MARGINS: Photographing Labour on the
Margins, 3rd Changing Faces Conference, IPRN and Dom Fotografie, Liptovsky
Mikulás, Slovakia (2007)
‘The Breathing Factory: Evoking the Global’, Global Photographies:
Histories/Theories/Practices, Conference, IADT, Dublin, Ireland (2007)
‘A Globalised Evocation’, Invited, Symposium on Lens-Based Research Practice Training:
New Directions, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice (CTRMP),
DIT (TU Dublin), AVPhD Network (Goldsmiths College, London & Media
Research Institute, University of Ulster), Dublin, Ireland (2007)
‘The Breathing Factory Evoked’, SHIFTS 2: Archives in Dialogue and New Identities in
Documentarism, Conference, International Photography Research Network (IPRN),
University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2006)
Collections*
Arts Council of Ireland
National Photography Collection, Ireland
DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, USA
Collection Contemporain, Bibliothèque Municipal de Lyon, France
Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
Office Of Public Works (OPW), Dublin City Council, Ireland
Magahy & Company, Dublin, Ireland
Private collections in Ireland, England, Germany, France, Canada & Belgium
*Since 2008, work has been only available for acquisition for public/national collections or
public fundraising campaigns in support of emergency causes. No work is otherwise
available for private sale.