B. 1991 in Dublin, Ireland. I work on commissions to fund long term personal projects. Available for assignments worldwide. 


Email: markmcg91@gmail.com

Phone: +353 (0)83 3000486

Selected Exhibitions

  • I Hope I'm Wrong, The Horse Gallery, Dublin, January 2024
  • Dew Point, The Humid in conjunction with the Georgia Museum, Athens, Georgia, October 2022
  • Images Are All We Have, PhotoIreland, Dublin Castle, 2022
  • Drop Everything, Inis Oírr, May 2022
  • ‘Belonging’, European Investment Bank collection, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick, 2022
  • ICADE, International Conference on Art and Design Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2021
  • Envisioning Alternative Cartographies, Capa Centre, Budapest, August 2021
  • Unfold, Valokuvamuseo/ Finnish Museum of Photography, January 2020
  • Wesibaden Photo days, Germany, August 2019
  • Organ Vida photo festival, Zagreb, Croatia, September 2018
  • Cosmos, Parallel, Rencontres d’Arles, July 2018
  • Being/Seeing, Format photo festival, Derby, April 2018
  • Parallel intersection, Lisbon, November 2017
  • Kassel dummy book shortlist, ‘Dreaming of Figure Eights’, May 2017
  • PhotoIreland, Recount of Conflict, May 2017
  • 187th Royal Hibernian Academy annual exhibition, May 2017 

    Selected Awards/Programs/Grants

  • Swatch Art Peace Residency, Shanghai, 2025
  • Fingal Arts Grant Recipient, 2024
  • Workshop coordinator, Do Anything, 2024
  • Erasmus+, Mentor, Academic year 2022-2023
  • Guest speaker at Do Anything, creative workshop, Inis Oirr, 2022
  • Drop Everything residency program participant, Inis Oírr, 2021
  • Blurring The Lines, Participating Artist, International Conference on Photography and Education, Venice, 2021
  • Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award, 2021
  • Urbanautica: Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes Institute award shortlist 2020
  • FUTURES, Creative Europe funded program, participant 2020
  • Masters degree in Photography from Aalto University, Helsinki, 2020
  • Palm* photo prize shortlist, April 2020
  • European Investment Bank Artist Development Program, June 2019
  • Aalto arts grant, May 2019
  • ISSP participant, Kuldiga, Lativa, July 2018
  • Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training bursary recipient, June 2018
  • World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass nominee, April 2018
  • Parallel, First Cycle Artist, 2017 

    Selected Publications
  • Featured in '16: Accelerating Young Talent', European Investment Bank, 2023
  • Featured in ‘Belonging’, European Investment Bank collection, 2022
  • Featured in ‘Reset: Questioning The Image, The Market, and The Role of Representation’, published 2021
  • Featured in 'OVER: Journal of Critical Photography', Issue One, July 2020
  • 100 Views of Contemporary Ireland, PhotoIreland, 2020
  • Parallel Atlas, Creative Europe, 2018
  • Katalog, Journal of photography, Issue 29.1, Denmark, May 2018
  • Fisheye magazine 28, Paris, January 2018. 
  • The Library Project edition of ‘Dreaming of figure eights’, published November 2017


Using Format