BORN

1965 Belfast, Ireland

EDUCATION

Studied at University of Ulster and West Surrey College of Art and Design

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


SELECTED ONE PERSON 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


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

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