INFORMATION

Mark Duffy is an Irish artist based in the UK. Duffy’s artworks explore issues of power and national identity. He uses photography and multi-media installation to build recurring motifs that reveal alternative narratives about political phenomena with absurdity and humour. Having spent his childhood as an illegal immigrant in the USA, Duffy uses his experiences as part of the postcolonial Irish diaspora to interrogate how a sense of place, belonging and national and cultural identity can be constructed, or dismantled. This threads through his work about Ireland and Irishness, as well as his many projects critiquing Brexit and UK Parliament.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 

2025 MARCH. PLACED. SLUGTOWN GALLERY. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK. 
2024 NOVEMBER. LET THE MIRROR EXPRESS THE ROOM. LUAN GALLERY. ATHLONE, IRELAND. 
2024 MARCH. BALTIC OPEN. BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART. NEWCASTLE, UK. 
2024 MARCH. ACCESS. PRIESTMAN GALLERY. SUNDERLAND, UK. 
2024 FEBRUARY. POWER ON THE FLOOR. THE LIBRARY PROJECT. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2023 DECEMBER. SA LÁR. LUAN GALLERY. ATHLONE, IRELAND. 
2023 JUNE. ON THE VERGE. COPENHAGEN PHOTO FESTIVAL. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK. 
2023 JUNE. ON THE VERGE. FOTOFESTIWAL. ŁÓDŹ, POLAND. 
2022 NOVEMBER. ON THE VERGE, CAMERA. TURIN, ITALY. 
2022 NOVEMBER. SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, FLOWERS GALLERY. LONDON, UK. 
2022 SEPTEMBER. THE SOCIAL GAZE, PHOTO MUSEUM IRELAND. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2022 SEPTEMBER. POWER POWER MIDDLESBROUGH ART WEEKENDER. THE AUXILIARY, MIDDLESBROUGH, UK. 2022 JULY. NEW IRISH WORKS. THE PRINT WORKS, DUBLIN CASTLE. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2021 DECEMBER. GALLERIES WITH[OUT] WALLS. GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2021 DECEMBER. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL ART. NEWCASTLE CONTEMPORARY ART. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK.  2021 OCTOBER. FUTURES. THE LIBRARY PROJECT. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2020 OCTOBER. ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY (RHA) ANNUAL SHOW. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2019 OCTOBER. IN THE WAKE OF BREXIT. SOLO SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION. LONDON, UK. 
2019 MARCH. BREXIT IT YOUR FAULT, FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. DERBY, UK. 
2018 MAY. BREXIT IS YOUR FAULT: PRE-BREXIT PORTRAIT STUDIO' [PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION]. PECKHAM 24. LONDON, UK. 
2018 APRIL. IN, AROUND & AFTEREFFECTS. ROSCOMMON ARTS CENTER, IRELAND. 
2017 MAY. IT'S GONNA BE GREAT [CO-CURATION]. COPELAND GALLERY, PECKHAM 24. LONDON, UK. 
2016 SEPTEMBER. IMAGES OF POWER [ARTWORKS & CO-CURATION]. SEEN FIFTEEN GALLERY, LONDON, UK. 
2016 SEPTEMBER. SEOUL LUNAR PHOTO FEST. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA. 
2016 JULY. IDEALS, PHOTOIRELAND. DUBLIN, IRELAND. 
2016 MARCH. FESTIVAL CIRCULATION(S). PARIS, FRANCE. 
2016 FEBRUARY. NUIT DE LA PHOTO. LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, SWITZERLAND. 
2015 SEPTEMBER. KAUNAS PHOTO FESTIVAL. KAUNAS, LITHUANIA. 
2015 JULY. ALT +1000 FESTIVAL. ROSSINIERE, SWITZERLAND. 

PHOTOBOOKS AND ARTISTS’ BOOKS 
2022 VOTE NO.2, SELF-PUBLISHED. 
2019 IN THE WAKE OF BREXIT, SELF-PUBLISHED (WITH DR BRIONY CARLIN). 2019 BREXIT IS YOUR FAULT, SELF-PUBLISHED. 
2018 BREAKING NEWS: A ROYAL WEDDING SOUVENIR, SELF-PUBLISHED. 2015 VOTE NO.1, ANZENBERGER EDITIONS.

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