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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.