B. 1991 in Dublin, Ireland. I work on selected commissions and long term personal projects.
Email: markmcg91@gmail.com
Phone: +353 (0)83 3000486
Exhibitions
- 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
Awards/Programs/Grants
- 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
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