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BORN 
  • 1965 Belfast, Ireland
EDUCATION
  • Studied at University of Ulster and West Surrey College of Art and Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  • 2004 Hidden, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2003 Hidden, Imperial War Museum, London, England
  • 2003 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2003 Milton Keynes Gallery, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • 2002 Foundation Marangoni, Florence
  • 2002 Inside Out, Napoli
  • 2001 Galerie du Jour, Agnes b, Paris, France
  • 2001 Hasselblad Centre, Kunst Museum, Gothenberg, Sweden
  • 2001 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 2000 Centre of Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)
  • 2000 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, England
  • 2000 Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2000 Photo.doc, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1999 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 1998 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1998 Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
  • 1998 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1998 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.IL
  • 1997 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
  • 1997 FranÁois Knabe Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1997 Le Lieu, l'Orient, France
  • 1996 Ffotogallery, Cardiff
  • 1996 Houston Fotofest, TX
  • 1996 "Sectarian Murder"
  • 1994 Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
  • 1993 Blue Sky, Portland, OR
  • 1993 The United Nations General Assembly Building, NY
  • 1993 The Old Museum, Belfast, Ireland
  • 1992 The International Center of Photography, NY
  • 1989 Gallery Vapauden Aukion, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1993 "The Orange Order", Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
  • 1992 Impressions Gallery, York
  • 1992 The Gallery of Photography, Dublin
  • 1991 The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 1995 "Police Force" The Photographers' Gallery, London, toured to Gallery of Photography, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  • 2003 Further, Representing Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • 2003 Installation - Disaster Area, The Glasshouse, Amsterdam
  • 2003 Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Spain
  • 2002 The Unblinking Eye, Irish Museum, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2002 GewaltBilder, Gewalt in der Gegewartskunst Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2002 The Gap Show, Critical Art from Great Britain, Museum um Ostwall, Dormund, Germany
  • 2001 New Directions, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, Washington
  • 2001 A470, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales and Chapter, Cardiff
  • 2001 Werner Mantz Prize, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 2001 Depicting Abscence/Implying Prescence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
  • 2001 50 Years of Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2000 Auto Werke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.
  • 2000 British Art Show 5, Travelling show. Venues include Scottish National Gallery of Modern, Edinburgh, Scotland, Southampton City Art Gallery, Ffotogallery Cardiff, Ikon Birmingham.
  • 2000 Irish Art Now: From the Poetic to the Political. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
    Venues include: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA. Exhibition traveled to Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, Camada, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois and other institutions through 2003
  • 2000 Lautlose Gegewart, Bielfelder Kunstverein
  • 1999 Engaging Tradition, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
  • 1999 0044, PS1, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Exhibition traveled to Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
  • 1999 Fragments of Documents & Memory,Tokyo Photo Bienalle, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
  • 1999 Contemporary Art, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
  • 1999 Concern for the Document, Vox Populi, Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Canada
  • 1999 Silent Presence, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
  • 1999 Contemporary Art, Arts Council of Ireland Collection, Limerick City Art Gallery
  • 1999 Under Exposed, Public Art Project, Stockholm
  • 1999 Revealing Views; Images from Ireland, Royal Festival Hall, London
  • 1999 Declinations of Boundaries, Two Person Show, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
  • 1998 Sightings-New Photographic Art, ICA, London
  • 1998 Interim Art, London - 3 person exhibition
  • 1998 Troubled, Photography and Video from Northern Ireland, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC; Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
  • 1998 Le Printemps, Cahor, France - 2 person exhibition with Martin Parr
  • 1998 Europe in Decay, 3 person at Light Hall, Kuopio and Helsinki Cathedral
  • 1998 Photos Leurres, French Institute, Prague (Nan Goldin, Lewis Baltz, Sophie Ristelheuber)
  • 1997 The Missing - Three Person Exhibition, Netherlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
  • 1997 Inside Story, Rena Bransten Gallery - 3 person exhibition with Doug Hall and Miles Coolidge
  • 1997 Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • 1997 Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
  • 1997 NGBK, Contemporary British Photography, Berlin
  • 1997 IMMA/Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin
  • 1996/97 Lie of the Land, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Centre, touring exhibition Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, Copenhagen, Salamanca, Athens, Prague
  • 1996 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
  • 1996 Galerie du Jour, Agnes B., Paris
  • 1996 L'Imaginaire Irlandais, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
  • 1994/95 Ceasefire, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery
  • 1994 Different Stories, Photo International Rotterdam, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
  • 1994 Nervous Landscapes, Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida
  • 1993/94 Documentary Dilemmas, British Council touring exhibition: Europe, South America, Ireland
  • 1993 Godowsky Awards, PRC Gallery, Boston
  • 1992/93 Current Account, Royal Photographic Society, Bath; Mai de la Photo, Reims
  • 1992 The History of the Photographic Image, The Rencontres
  • 1992 Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
  • 1992 Recent Acquisitions, Ulster Museum, Belfast
  • 1992 Through the Lens, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, touring exhibition
  • 1991 Exhibition accompanying the Northern Ireland Cultural Counterpoint Conference, State University of New York at Binghamton
  • 1991 Shocks to the System, Arts Council of Great Britian, Royal Festival Hall, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  • 1988 Death, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery/ Kettles Yard
  • 1988 Show of Hands, The Photographers' Gallery, London
AWARDS
  • 2000 Art in Context Commission, Dublin
  • 1999 Ville de Paris Artist Award
  • 1998 BMW AutoWerke Commission, Munich
  • 1997 Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Artists Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  • MA course leader in Documentary Photography, Newport School of Art
COLLECTIONS
  • ACC Bank, Dublin
  • The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
  • The Arts Council of Great Britain
  • The Arts Council of Ireland
  • The British Council
  • Buhl Collection, New York
  • BMW, Munich
  • Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
  • The International Center of Photography, New York
  • The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
  • Simmons and Simmons, London
  • Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida
  • The Ulster Museum, Belfast
  • Waterford RTC