Bio
Something From There, National Gallery Ireland, 2020 - 2021
YU: The Lost Country at Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2020 - 2021
Willie Doherty, Anne Mager, Dragana Jurišić, Enda Bowe, Jesse Jones and Seán Hillen at THE OTHER SIDE exhibition, Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany, 2019 - 2020
Process 1000/1, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2019
Rebel Goddess, Seen Fifteen, London, 2019
Memory Betrays Everybody, Black Box, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, 2019
YU:The Lost Country, Museum of Archeology, Zagreb, Croatia, Organ Vida 2017
Education & Current Employment
2022 - 2024 Board of Directors, Photo Museum Ireland
2019 [to date] Assistant Professor, Dublin City University
2013 PhD, European Centre for Photographic Research, University of Wales, Newport, UK
2008 MFA Documentary Photography, University of Wales, Newport, UK [distinction]
1998 BA Psychology, University of Rijeka, Croatia [distinction]
Selected Awards
2024 Project Award by Arts Council Ireland for new work (exhibition in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, early 2026)
2024 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2022 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2021 Shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery Ireland
2021 Funding from Culture Ireland for My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition
2021 Development funding from Screen Ireland for The Last Balkan Cowboy feature documentary
2021 Funding from Croatian Ministry of Culture and City of Slavonski Brod for My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep
2020 NI Screen Feature Development Pitch Award for The Last Balkan Cowboy feature documentary
2019 Shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery Ireland
2019 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2019 Recipient of the Golden Fleece Award, Special Award
2018 100 Photographic Heroines by The Royal Photographic Society
2018 Awarded Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
2017 Irish Museum of Modern Art 1000 Residency Award
2017 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2017 Culture Ireland award
2016 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2016 Awarded a six week residency at Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Summer 2017
2015 YU: The Lost Country book on THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 LISTS: on 1) Photobook Store by Rob Hornstra,
Photo-Eye by two experts: 2) John Phelan and 3) Daniel Boetker Smith, 4) The Best Books from the East List (The Calvert
Journal), on 5) Colin Pantal's The Best of 2015 List, The Best Eastern European Photobook 2015 by 6) Rob Honstra and
7) Ieva Meilutė- Svinkūnienė, 8) Gabriela Cendoya Best Books 2015 - see the links in Press
2014 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2014 Special Recognition by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize for YU: The Lost Country
2014 Wexford Arts Centre & The Arts Council's Emerging Visual Artist Award Ireland
2014 Arts Council Ireland Project Award for new work My Own Unknown
2014 Awarded a residential studio award at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Awarded a three year membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dubin, Ireland.
2013 Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
2013 (and 2012) Project funding, Belfast Exposed in association with the Arts Council Northern Ireland, UK
2012 Selected for Plat(t)forms 2013 at Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland.
2012 Artist Studio Award 2013, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ireland
2011 Student Graduate Prize, The International Rebecca West Society, New York, USA
2011 The Curtin - O’Donoghue Emerging Photographic Artist Award, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
2011 Awarded Imagine Ireland program funding, Culture Ireland, Ireland
2009 Project Award, Wales Arts International, Wales, UK
2009 MAstars, an annual selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses, UK
Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Shows
2021 My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition (September), Slavonski Brod, Croatia
2020 The Merits of Tracer Fire, Abridged magazine commissioned publication and online exhibition
2020 Mnemosyne's Daughters, Festival Fotografije, Maribor, Slovenia (September)
2020 YU: The Lost Country, Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden (August - September)
2019 Rebel Goddess, exhibition at Seen Fifteen, London (November - January)
2019 RHA X: the collaboration of world renowned fashion designer, Roland Mouret and myself, RHA (November)
2019 Ode to Ivan, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (September - November)
2019 Memory Betrays Everybody, Black Box, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, artists: Dragana Jurišić, Biljana Jančić (May)
2018 YU: The Lost Country exhibition at Getxophoto Festival [September]
2018 YU: The Lost Country, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland [March - May]
2018 My Own Unknown, Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland [February - March]
2017 My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France [November - January]
2017 YU: The Lost Country, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia [September - October]
2017 My Own Unknown, A Process Series II, Rawson Projects Gallery, New York, USA [February]
2016 YU: The Lost Country, Westport Town Hall, Westport Arts Festival [September - October]
2016 My Own Unknown, Spot Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia [September - October]
2016 My Own Unknown, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia [August - September]
2016 My Own Unknown, Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin, during PhotoIreland 2016 [June-August]
2016 YU: The Lost Country, Agusti Centelles Library, part of DOCfield 2016 festival [May - June]
2016 YU: The Lost Country, Meeting Point Cinema, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [March - May]
2016 YU: The Lost Country, Illuminations Exhibitions, Maynooth University, Ireland [January - February]
2016 My Own Unknown, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland [February -March]
2015 YU: The Lost Country, Feld+Haus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany [September - October]
2015 100 Muses, ArtBox, Dublin, Ireland [May - June]
2014 YU: The Lost Country, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland [September -November]
2014 Let's Get Metaphysical, joint exhibition with Andreas Diefenbach, Noho, Hamburg, Germany [February]
2013 YU: The Lost Country, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK [October - December]
2011 Seeing Things, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland
2011 A Riddle, Riverbank Art Center, Newbridge, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Irish Museum of Modern Art | Bodywork, Crawford Art Gallery
2022 The Golden Fleece Award: 21 Years, Solstice, Navan | Dangerous Bodies, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands | Saturation, Crawford Art Gallery
2021 Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland | YU: The Lost Country at the Photobook exhibition Fotografia Europea 2021 - Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
2020 Something From There, National Gallery Ireland | Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2019 The Other Side, Dortmunder U, Germany, View of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland | Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland | Process 1000/1 exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art | Field Notes from the Border #3, Nerve Arts Centre
2018 Naked Truth, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland | Reframing the Border, Gallery of Photography Ireland | ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ , Galway Arts Centre | An Act of Hospitality Can Only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2017 YU: The Lost Country, a part of Outposts exhibition, The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland | Inspiration and Rivalry, National Gallery Ireland | YU: The Lost Country, FORMAT, UK
2016 In Residence II, London, UK | The Museum of August Destiny, Lismore Castle Arts | Royal Hibernian Academy's 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (2015, 2014, 2011, 2008)
2015 Once Upon a Picture Exhibition, The Arc, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Periodical Review #4, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland and 2015 in Ormston House, Limerick
2013 Fading Lights Are Fading, Flood, Dublin, Ireland | New Irish Works, National Photographic Archive, PhotoIreland
Festival 2013, Dublin, Ireland | Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK
2012 40/40/40: Selected works from the Irish State Art Collection, traveling exhibition (Rome, Brussels, Paris) | Elements: A joint exhibition of Public Sector Art Works, travelling
2011 Human/Nature Landscape Photography from the Irish State Art Collection, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland | Disruptive Stillness, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan
2010 Collective Contemporary Art (CCA), Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland | My World: Visions of 21st Century Feminism, The European Women’s Lobby Photography Prize Exhibition, Brussels
Commissions
Lo Admirable de Guipúzcoa, to be exhibited in Tabakalera, San Sebastian + publication in November 2025
The Merits of Tracer Fire by Abridged (2020)
On Lockdown commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre (2020)
Museum, commissioned by Dublin City Council book commissioned by Dublin City Council (2019)
After Vermeer, National Gallery of Ireland commission to respond to Vermeer exhibition (2017)
Subtopian Ballad for South Dublin County, In Context 4 (2016)
Photography Depicting Poverty in Ireland, Combat Poverty Agency, Ireland (2006)
Selected Publications
Her Own (2022)
The Merits of Tracer Fire (2020)
Museum (2019)
YU: The Lost Country (2015)
Filmwork
Home I Ireland (2020), Director & Producer
Get the Picture? (2013), Cinematographer and Key Researcher