ARTIST BIO

Jan McCullough is currently Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and Lightwork in Syracuse, New York (2020-2021) and participated in the Freelands Artist Programme at PS² (2018-2020). Her work has been nominated for Pla(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (2018); The Deutsche Borse Photography Prize (2016); The International Centre for Photography New York Infinity Award (2016); and won the British Journal of Photography Breakthrough Award (2016). Her book ‘Home Instruction Manual’, published by Verlag Kettler, was awarded the Kassel Fotobookfestival Dummy Award and shortlisted for the Recontres D’Arles Author Book Award (2016). Recent solo exhibitions include The Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry (2020-2021); Seen Fifteen Gallery, London (2016); Belfast Exposed Futures Gallery, Northern Ireland (2016); and The Gallery, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Freelands Gallery, London (2021); Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, South Korea (2019); Filter Space, Chicago, USA (2018); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2018); and Landskrona Museum, Sweden (2016).

Recent work has included sculptural, material responses to how the camera mediates, encounters and transforms built space and can question how we locate ourselves in it. Other work has explored how people use photography when improving their own lives in a world where desires are shaped by, and affect, advertising and the photographic image