News

Paula Meehan shortlisted for National Gallery Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize 2019 and acquired by Crawford Art Gallery Collection, 2020.

Paula Meehan and Dragana Jurišić MUSEUM book launch, July 2019.

Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2020 / 2021

YU: The Lost Country, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2018.

Museum of Literature Ireland, December 2021.

Tarantula acquired by National Portrait Gallery, 2018.

An Act of Hospitality Can Only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, 2018.

My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, 2017.

YU: The Lost Country, Museum of Archeology, Zagreb, Croatia, Organ Vida 2017

YU: The Lost Country, talk at DOCfield, Barcelona, Spain, 2016

Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, 2016.

YU: The Lost Country book published July 2015, sold out October 2015.

 

2024

  • November - Split Beaches exhibition opens 15th November, work commissioned by Ethnographic Museum Split

  • November - Project Award by Arts Council Ireland for new work which will be exhibited in TBG+S early 2026

  • October - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland to further develop DraganasDublin work

  • April - June working on a Lo Admirable de Guipúzcoa commission in Basque country - exhibition and publication due November 2025

  • March - Attending EastDoc Platform, Prague, Czech

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2018

  • December - ‘100 Photographic Heroines’ by The Royal Photographic Society in BJP

  • December - ‘Ireland’s pro-choice activists’ in The Financial Times

  • November - Giving a talk to University of South Wales students, 22nd, Visiting Fellowship, Cardiff, UK

  • November - On Credibility, Femininity, Legacy with Sarah Thorton, Vivienne Dick, Eimear Walshe, National Gallery, 17th

  • October - Participating in a panel talk Xenophobia and the Vampire Myth, Trinity College Dublin

  • October - Giving a talk at Crawford Art Gallery on 100 Muses and censorship, 11th October at 6pm

  • September - Included in How We See: Photobooks by Women 

  • September - Giving a talk at Brighton Photo Biennial, 29th September

  • September - Giving a talk at Civil Rights symposium, Gallery of Photography Ireland, 27th September

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition at Getxophoto Festival 5th September - 30th September

  • September - Giving a talk at NIDA International Photography Symposium 

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in El Diario Vasco

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in Internazionale

  • August - Review of Reframing the Border exhibition in The Irish Times

  • August - Visiting Fellowship at University of South Wales

  • July - Dublin City Council commission to collaborate with Paula Meehan on a book about 14 Henrietta Street

  • July - 100 Muses purchased for Arts Council Ireland collection

  • July - 'Naked truth in Irish art' exhibition review in Irish Examiner, follow up text.

  • July - Circa review of  ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’  exhibition, Galway Arts Centre

  • July - The talk from Women in Photography Conference at National Gallery of Arts in Lithuania, 2017 is online

  • July - Reframing the Border opens on 14th July until 9th September, Gallery of Photography, Ireland

  • July - Naked Truth exhibition opens in Crawford Art Gallery on 13th

  • May - ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise curated by Vivienne Dick opens on 31st at Galway Arts Centre (until July 6th)

  • May - 'Naked Truth' article about Instagram censorship by Jessie Bond for The Calvert Journal

  • May - ‘Her Own Creator: An interview with Dragana Jurisic’ by Orla Fitzpatrick, Gorse

  • May - The Art Newspaper on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Frieze magazine on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Evening Standard on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • April - Awarded Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

  • April - YU: The Lost Country featured in Financial Times, 13th April

  • April - Royal Irish Academy of Music presents ARTISTS CHOICE at National Gallery Ireland

  • April - Source Photographic Review, a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Rebecca O'Dwyer

  • April - Turf & Grain, Issue 3: Makers Interview with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

  • March - Art Monthly 414: March 2018 a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Joanne Laws

  • March - Review of My Own Unknown in University Times

  • March - The Irish Times feature ‘Art in focus: Her Own Unknown’ by Dragana Jurišic

  • March - The Sunday Times Art review: Outposts

  • March -YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th in the Noorderlicht Photogallery

  • February - My Own Unknown opens in Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland on 1st, launch on 8th

  • February - Artist talk at Symposium: The Individual, The Political and The Photobook - Antwerp, Belgium on 1st

  • January - Started Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist Residency

  • January - Journey to YU documentary about my project YU: The Lost Country

 

2017

  • December - National Gallery Ireland acquired Tarantula for their collection

  • December - My Own Unknown exhibition featured in Liberation

  • November - Awarded Irish Museum of Modern Arts 1000 Residency Award

  • November - YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th as part of Outposts exhibition in The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland

  • November - Giving a talk on 'Art and Writing' in The Lab, 24th November at 18.30 (event sold out)

  • November - Giving a talk on YU: The Lost Country in AIB Bank, as a part of Dublin Gallery Weekend

  • November - My Own Unknown exhibition opens at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 9th November (Paris Photo)

  • November - Giving a talk at Fast Forward: Women in Photography, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • October - My response to Nan Goldin's work at Irish Museum of Modern Art - 6th October at 13.15

  • October - Interview with Maja Broun for Vizkultura

  • September - Trinity Art Collection acquired a work from YU: The Lost Country 

  • September - Review of YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Contemporary Croatian Photography

  • September - Interview with Tina Barbaric for TPORTAL

  • September - Interview with Tihana Bertek for VoxFeminae

  • September - Giving a talk at Beyond Documentary conference, 9th September, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia

  • September - YU: The Lost Country, interview with Snjezana Pavic for GLOBUS

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 8th September, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

  • September - After Vermeer artist talk, 2nd September at 15.15, National Gallery Ireland

  • September - Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer exhibition opens on 1st September, National Gallery Ireland

  • July - 36 Little Good Things group exhibition, Cortona On the Move, Italy

  • June - Commissioned by National Gallery of Ireland to respond to their Vermeer exhibition

  • June - Featured in ‘How to Invest in Art’ article in The Independent

  • May - Artist in residence, Centre Culturel Irladais, Paris [until end of June]

  • May - YU: The Lost Country featured in XXZ Magazine

  • April - ARTFORUM review of My Own Unknown by Prudence Peiffer, April 2017

  • April - Interview in Serbian Newsweek, April 2017 [print editon]

  • April - Awarded Tyrone Guthrie Center residency

  • April - Featured in The Calvert Journal: Ones to watch

  • March - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • March - Interview with Orla Fitzpatrick in Gorse Journal #8

  • March - ‘A Conversation with Dragana Jurisic’ on Conscientious Photo Magazine

  • March - YU: The Lost Country featured on LensCulture

  • March - My Own Unknown essay by Natasha Christia on Aldebaran (Greek language)

  • March - My profile of the work of American photographer Nan Goldin on RTE Arena

  • March- An interview with Bellina Teresa on Shots & Murmurs

  • February - My Own Unknown featured on ARTFORUM Instagram feed

  • February - My Own Unknown, A Process Series IIRawson Projects Gallery, New York, USA [opens 2nd February]

  • February - The featured artist in Honest Ulsterman Magazine

  • February - Interview in Shots & Murmurs

  • January - Post communistic nostalgia and photography essay by Milanka Todic

  • January - I Remember included in One Image Story [curated by Maria Kapajeva], Fast Forward

 

2016

  • December - A review of The Museum of August Destiny in The Irish Times

  • November - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Pearse Museum, Ireland - opens on 3rd

  • October - Nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

  • October - Self-portraits, selfies and making images with Dragana Jurisic workshop

  • October - An interview with Marina Tkalcic on Libela

  • October - An advice on How to Develop a Project on Fototazo

  • October - An article about My Own Unknown exhibitions on Vizkultura

  • October - An interview in Bosnia's Oslobodjenje with Djordje Krajisnik

  • October - My portrait of Shane MacGowan makes it into '30 of the most powerful photographsfrom the last 30yrs

  • October - In Residence II group exhibition featuring works of Picasso, Warhol, Arbus, etc. London, UK

  • September - Talking about my book YU: The Lost Country on 30th at Westport Town Hall Theatre

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 28th September, Westport Arts Festival

  • September - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [4.34- 6.19min]

  • September - My Own Unknown exhibition opens in Spot Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia on 12th

  • September - ‘Between text, photography and video – Dragana Jurišić’, Suvremena Hrvatska Fotografija

  • August - YU: The Lost Country screening at Obscura Festival, George Town, Malaysia on 24th

  • August - An interview in Croatia's Novi List with Vedrana Simičević

  • August - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [6.10-7.52min]

  • August - An interview in Croatia's Jutarnji List with Snjezana Pavić

  • August - My Own Unknown exhibition opens on 18th - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

  • August - ‘Glimpses Of A Lost World’, Rabble Eye

  • July - My Own Unknown exhibition reviewed by Darren Campion, as a part of criticism of PhotoIreland Festival

  • July - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Lismore Casle, Ireland - opens on 15th

  • July - A 5 star review of My Own Unknown exhibition in The Irish Times, 12th July by Aidan Dunne

  • July - An essay about My Own Unknown in 1000 Words Magazine by Natasha Christia

  • July - Prix Pictet Award, nominated by Tanya Kiang, director of Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

  • June - My Own Unknown exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery opens 23rd

  • June - Dragana Jurisic’s photographic quest for her long-lost aunt in The Calvert Journal

  • June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Dun Laoghaire Library on 16th at 18.45

  • June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Photobook Bristol 10-13th, UK

  • June - Talking at YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona on 3rd June

  • May - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th at Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona, as part of DOCfield 

  • May - Interview with Colin Pantall: Photobooks, Philosophy and Spaghetti Westerns

  • April - Winner of Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award

  • April - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • April - Looking for Yugoslavia, interview in Roads & Kingdoms Magazine

  • April - YU: The Lost Country featured on The Heavy Collective

  • March - Murmur Magazine interview

  • March - Awarded a six week residency at Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, Summer 2017

  • March - Participating in 186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th, Meeting Point, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • March - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Darren Campion for Photomonitor

  • February - My Own Unknown exhibition opening on 13th, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland

  • February - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 1st, Illuminations, University of Maynooth, Ireland

 

2015

  • December - YU: The Lost Country book made The Best Books of 2015 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, 6) + 7) The Best Eastern European Photobook 2015 (by Rob Honstra and Ieva Meilutė- Svinkūnienė), 8) Gabriela Cendoya Best Books 2015

  • December - Featured essay in Autumn Issue of Archivo Magazine

  • December - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Vesna Vuković for Camera Austria Magazine

  • November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Irish Arts Review

  • November - Feld+Haus Gallery at Fotofever, Paris 12th-15th November

  • November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Allie Haeusslein for Photo-eye

  • November - Interview published in Contemporary Croatian Photography

  • November - Artist talk at Photo Kathmandu

  • October - Jutarnji List article about YU: The Lost Country - 'Od Zagreba do Skopja' by Snjezana Pavic

  • October - BBC Ulster radio interview, aired on 18th October 9am-10am

  • September - Tportal (Croatia) and B92 article about YU: The Lost Country

  • September - Interview with BBC World Service Newshour about my book YU: The Lost Country (48min-53min)

  • September  - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening at Feld+Haus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany on 11th

  • September - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Guardian by Sean O'Hagan

  • August -YU: The Lost Country book review by Jensine Bethna Wall

  • August - YU: The Lost Country book launch, Oonagh Young Gallery, 5th August 6-8pm

  • July - Presenting my book YU: The Lost Country at leboudoir2.0 Arles on July 9th

  • July - Journey to YU about my project YU: The Lost Country, Origins gallery, 4nd July

  • July - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition opening, ArtBox, Dublin as part of PhotoIreland 2015 Festival - 2nd July

  • July - YU: The Lost Country book coming out on 15th.

  • May - 100 Muses exhibition opening, 28th of May at ArtBox, Dublin, Ireland 

  • May - Giving an artist talk in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Studio 6 at 6pm, 26th May

  • May - Giving an artist talk at University of South Wales, UK on 21st May

  • May - Invited to Royal Hibernian Academy's 185th Annual exhibition

  • March - Once Upon a Picture exhibition opening on 27th March, The Arc, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - Journey to YU doc about my project YU: The Lost Country at Belgrade Irish Festival on 16th March

  • March - A reaction to my talk in Limerick by Bock The Robber

  • March - Giving an artist talk in Limerick School of Art and Design, 10th March

  • February - Artist talk in Deichtorhallen Hamburg on 28th February

  • February - Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland

  • January - Nominated for MACK First Book Award

 

2014

  • December - Participating in Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

  • December - Greetings from Ireland exhibition, Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

  • November - Artist talk, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

  • November - Won Wexford Arts Centre & The Arts Council's Emerging Visual Artist Award

  • November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Trihard

  • November - Arts Council Ireland Project Award for new work My Own Unknown

  • November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in All That Glitters Is Not Gold

  • November - Group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

  • October - A part of YU: The Lost Country acquired by Irish State Art Collection

  • October - Artist talk at Burren College of Art, Ireland

  • October - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish Art Blog

  • October - YU: The Lost Country artist talk, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish News Review

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Incoherent Light

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Le Cool Dublin

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Independent

  • September - YU: The Lost Country on the front page of The Independent UK Magazine

  • September - My portrait of David Mitchell on the cover of The Independent’s Radar Magazine

  • September - Special Recognition by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize for YU: The Lost Country

  • September - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • September - YU: The Lost Country featured as one of the 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch internationally

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

  • August - Seeing Things published in Irish Arts Review

  • August - Awarded Artist Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

  • July - Shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award, Ireland.

  • July - Photobook Club at Belfast Exposed talk, Belfast, UK

  • July - Group show, Feld+Haus gallery launch, Frankfurt, Germany

  • June - Awarded a residential studio award at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Ireland

  • May - Awarded a three year membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dubin, Ireland.

  • April - Selected to show work at the 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - YU: The Lost Country talk at GRADCAM, Dublin, Ireland.

  • February - Let's Get Metaphysical exhibition, NOHO, Hamburg, Germany

  • January - YU: The Lost Country reviewed in Visual Artist Ireland by Andy Parson

  • January - Selections from Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission Exhibition, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

  • January - Get the Picture? screened on Sky  Arts

 

2013

  • December - PhD completed at European Centre for Photographic Research, University of South Wales, UK

  • December - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

  • December - Get the Picture? at Gijon Film Festival, Spain

  • November - Get the Picture? at Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden

  • November - Get the Picture? wins the Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, Poland

  • October - YU: The Lost Country opens at Belfast Exposed  (24th October - 20th December), Belfast, UK

  • October - Get the Picture? at Hamptons Film Festival, USA

  • October - Get the Picture? at Raindance Film Festival, London, UK

  • September - Fading Lights are Fading at Flood with Tom Hunter, Martin Healy, Shane Lynam, Dublin, Ireland

  • September - Awarded Bursary Award from the Arts Council Ireland

  • September - Giving a talk at the NYU, The International Rebecca West biennial conference, New York, USA

  • August - 40/40/40, an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Irish State Collection, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland

  • August - Received the Project funding from Belfast Exposed gallery in association with the Arts Council Northern Ireland, UK

  • August - YU: The Lost Country published in SOURCE Photographic Review, text by Colin Graham, Issue 75

  • July - New Irish Works exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, PhotoIreland Festival 2013, Dublin, Ireland

  • July - YU: The Lost Country published in New Irish Works, overview of contemporary photography in Ireland

  • June - Belfast Photo Festival, Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK

  • May - YU: The Lost Country published in  Archivo '12 book

  • March - 40/40/40, an exhibition of artworks from the Irish State Collection at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in Madrid,

  • February - Get the Picture? wins the best documentary at Jameson Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland

  • January - Selected for Plat(t)forms 2013 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

 

100 Muses acquired by Arts Council Collection, 2018.

News

Paula Meehan shortlisted for National Gallery Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize 2019 and acquired by Crawford Art Gallery Collection, 2020.

Paula Meehan and Dragana Jurišić MUSEUM book launch, July 2019.

Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2020 / 2021

YU: The Lost Country, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2018.

Museum of Literature Ireland, December 2021.

Signing limited edition print (30) Daithi’s Hands at the National Gallery of Ireland

Tarantula acquired by National Portrait Gallery, 2018.

An Act of Hospitality Can Only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, 2018.

My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, 2017.

YU: The Lost Country, Museum of Archeology, Zagreb, Croatia, Organ Vida 2017

YU: The Lost Country, talk at DOCfield, Barcelona, Spain, 2016

Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, 2016.

YU: The Lost Country book published July 2015, sold out October 2015.

 

2022

  • February - The Sitting Book Public Talk, Royal Hibernian Academy 24th at 17.30

  • January - Review of ‘Daithi Sleeps’ (Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery Ireland), The Times, 7th January by C.Leach

 2021

 

2020

 

2019

 

2018

  • December - ‘100 Photographic Heroines’ by The Royal Photographic Society in BJP

  • December - ‘Ireland’s pro-choice activists’ in The Financial Times

  • November - Giving a talk to University of South Wales students, 22nd, Visiting Fellowship, Cardiff, UK

  • November - On Credibility, Femininity, Legacy with Sarah Thorton, Vivienne Dick, Eimear Walshe, National Gallery, 17th

  • October - Participating in a panel talk Xenophobia and the Vampire Myth, Trinity College Dublin

  • October - Giving a talk at Crawford Art Gallery on 100 Muses and censorship, 11th October at 6pm

  • September - Included in How We See: Photobooks by Women 

  • September - Giving a talk at Brighton Photo Biennial, 29th September

  • September - Giving a talk at Civil Rights symposium, Gallery of Photography Ireland, 27th September

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition at Getxophoto Festival 5th September - 30th September

  • September - Giving a talk at NIDA International Photography Symposium 

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in El Diario Vasco

  • September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in Internazionale

  • August - Review of Reframing the Border exhibition in The Irish Times

  • August - Visiting Fellowship at University of South Wales

  • July - Dublin City Council commission to collaborate with Paula Meehan on a book about 14 Henrietta Street

  • July - 100 Muses purchased for Arts Council Ireland collection

  • July - 'Naked truth in Irish art' exhibition review in Irish Examiner, follow up text.

  • July - Circa review of  ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’  exhibition, Galway Arts Centre

  • July - The talk from Women in Photography Conference at National Gallery of Arts in Lithuania, 2017 is online

  • July - Reframing the Border opens on 14th July until 9th September, Gallery of Photography, Ireland

  • July - Naked Truth exhibition opens in Crawford Art Gallery on 13th

  • May - ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise curated by Vivienne Dick opens on 31st at Galway Arts Centre (until July 6th)

  • May - 'Naked Truth' article about Instagram censorship by Jessie Bond for The Calvert Journal

  • May - ‘Her Own Creator: An interview with Dragana Jurisic’ by Orla Fitzpatrick, Gorse

  • May - The Art Newspaper on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Frieze magazine on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • May - Evening Standard on Instagram's censorship of my account

  • April - Awarded Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

  • April - YU: The Lost Country featured in Financial Times, 13th April

  • April - Royal Irish Academy of Music presents ARTISTS CHOICE at National Gallery Ireland

  • April - Source Photographic Review, a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Rebecca O'Dwyer

  • April - Turf & Grain, Issue 3: Makers Interview with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

  • March - Art Monthly 414: March 2018 a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Joanne Laws

  • March - Review of My Own Unknown in University Times

  • March - The Irish Times feature ‘Art in focus: Her Own Unknown’ by Dragana Jurišic

  • March - The Sunday Times Art review: Outposts

  • March -YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th in the Noorderlicht Photogallery

  • February - My Own Unknown opens in Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland on 1st, launch on 8th

  • February - Artist talk at Symposium: The Individual, The Political and The Photobook - Antwerp, Belgium on 1st

  • January - Started Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist Residency

  • January - Journey to YU documentary about my project YU: The Lost Country

 

2017

  • December - National Gallery Ireland acquired Tarantula for their collection

  • December - My Own Unknown exhibition featured in Liberation

  • November - Awarded Irish Museum of Modern Arts 1000 Residency Award

  • November - YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th as part of Outposts exhibition in The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland

  • November - Giving a talk on 'Art and Writing' in The Lab, 24th November at 18.30 (event sold out)

  • November - Giving a talk on YU: The Lost Country in AIB Bank, as a part of Dublin Gallery Weekend

  • November - My Own Unknown exhibition opens at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 9th November (Paris Photo)

  • November - Giving a talk at Fast Forward: Women in Photography, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

  • October - My response to Nan Goldin's work at Irish Museum of Modern Art - 6th October at 13.15

  • October - Interview with Maja Broun for Vizkultura

  • September - Trinity Art Collection acquired a work from YU: The Lost Country 

  • September - Review of YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Contemporary Croatian Photography

  • September - Interview with Tina Barbaric for TPORTAL

  • September - Interview with Tihana Bertek for VoxFeminae

  • September - Giving a talk at Beyond Documentary conference, 9th September, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia

  • September - YU: The Lost Country, interview with Snjezana Pavic for GLOBUS

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 8th September, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia

  • September - After Vermeer artist talk, 2nd September at 15.15, National Gallery Ireland

  • September - Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer exhibition opens on 1st September, National Gallery Ireland

  • July - 36 Little Good Things group exhibition, Cortona On the Move, Italy

  • June - Commissioned by National Gallery of Ireland to respond to their Vermeer exhibition

  • June - Featured in ‘How to Invest in Art’ article in The Independent

  • May - Artist in residence, Centre Culturel Irladais, Paris [until end of June]

  • May - YU: The Lost Country featured in XXZ Magazine

  • April - ARTFORUM review of My Own Unknown by Prudence Peiffer, April 2017

  • April - Interview in Serbian Newsweek, April 2017 [print editon]

  • April - Awarded Tyrone Guthrie Center residency

  • April - Featured in The Calvert Journal: Ones to watch

  • March - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • March - Interview with Orla Fitzpatrick in Gorse Journal #8

  • March - ‘A Conversation with Dragana Jurisic’ on Conscientious Photo Magazine

  • March - YU: The Lost Country featured on LensCulture

  • March - My Own Unknown essay by Natasha Christia on Aldebaran (Greek language)

  • March - My profile of the work of American photographer Nan Goldin on RTE Arena

  • March- An interview with Bellina Teresa on Shots & Murmurs

  • February - My Own Unknown featured on ARTFORUM Instagram feed

  • February - My Own Unknown, A Process Series IIRawson Projects Gallery, New York, USA [opens 2nd February]

  • February - The featured artist in Honest Ulsterman Magazine

  • February - Interview in Shots & Murmurs

  • January - Post communistic nostalgia and photography essay by Milanka Todic

  • January - I Remember included in One Image Story [curated by Maria Kapajeva], Fast Forward

 

2016

  • December - A review of The Museum of August Destiny in The Irish Times

  • November - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Pearse Museum, Ireland - opens on 3rd

  • October - Nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize

  • October - Self-portraits, selfies and making images with Dragana Jurisic workshop

  • October - An interview with Marina Tkalcic on Libela

  • October - An advice on How to Develop a Project on Fototazo

  • October - An article about My Own Unknown exhibitions on Vizkultura

  • October - An interview in Bosnia's Oslobodjenje with Djordje Krajisnik

  • October - My portrait of Shane MacGowan makes it into '30 of the most powerful photographsfrom the last 30yrs

  • October - In Residence II group exhibition featuring works of Picasso, Warhol, Arbus, etc. London, UK

  • September - Talking about my book YU: The Lost Country on 30th at Westport Town Hall Theatre

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 28th September, Westport Arts Festival

  • September - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [4.34- 6.19min]

  • September - My Own Unknown exhibition opens in Spot Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia on 12th

  • September - ‘Between text, photography and video – Dragana Jurišić’, Suvremena Hrvatska Fotografija

  • August - YU: The Lost Country screening at Obscura Festival, George Town, Malaysia on 24th

  • August - An interview in Croatia's Novi List with Vedrana Simičević

  • August - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [6.10-7.52min]

  • August - An interview in Croatia's Jutarnji List with Snjezana Pavić

  • August - My Own Unknown exhibition opens on 18th - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

  • August - ‘Glimpses Of A Lost World’, Rabble Eye

  • July - My Own Unknown exhibition reviewed by Darren Campion, as a part of criticism of PhotoIreland Festival

  • July - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Lismore Casle, Ireland - opens on 15th

  • July - A 5 star review of My Own Unknown exhibition in The Irish Times, 12th July by Aidan Dunne

  • July - An essay about My Own Unknown in 1000 Words Magazine by Natasha Christia

  • July - Prix Pictet Award, nominated by Tanya Kiang, director of Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland

  • June - My Own Unknown exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery opens 23rd

  • June - Dragana Jurisic’s photographic quest for her long-lost aunt in The Calvert Journal

  • June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Dun Laoghaire Library on 16th at 18.45

  • June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Photobook Bristol 10-13th, UK

  • June - Talking at YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona on 3rd June

  • May - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th at Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona, as part of DOCfield 

  • May - Interview with Colin Pantall: Photobooks, Philosophy and Spaghetti Westerns

  • April - Winner of Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award

  • April - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • April - Looking for Yugoslavia, interview in Roads & Kingdoms Magazine

  • April - YU: The Lost Country featured on The Heavy Collective

  • March - Murmur Magazine interview

  • March - Awarded a six week residency at Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, Summer 2017

  • March - Participating in 186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th, Meeting Point, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • March - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Darren Campion for Photomonitor

  • February - My Own Unknown exhibition opening on 13th, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland

  • February - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 1st, Illuminations, University of Maynooth, Ireland

 

2015

  • December - YU: The Lost Country book made The Best Books of 2015 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, 6) + 7) The Best Eastern European Photobook 2015 (by Rob Honstra and Ieva Meilutė- Svinkūnienė), 8) Gabriela Cendoya Best Books 2015

  • December - Featured essay in Autumn Issue of Archivo Magazine

  • December - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Vesna Vuković for Camera Austria Magazine

  • November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Irish Arts Review

  • November - Feld+Haus Gallery at Fotofever, Paris 12th-15th November

  • November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Allie Haeusslein for Photo-eye

  • November - Interview published in Contemporary Croatian Photography

  • November - Artist talk at Photo Kathmandu

  • October - Jutarnji List article about YU: The Lost Country - 'Od Zagreba do Skopja' by Snjezana Pavic

  • October - BBC Ulster radio interview, aired on 18th October 9am-10am

  • September - Tportal (Croatia) and B92 article about YU: The Lost Country

  • September - Interview with BBC World Service Newshour about my book YU: The Lost Country (48min-53min)

  • September  - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening at Feld+Haus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany on 11th

  • September - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Guardian by Sean O'Hagan

  • August -YU: The Lost Country book review by Jensine Bethna Wall

  • August - YU: The Lost Country book launch, Oonagh Young Gallery, 5th August 6-8pm

  • July - Presenting my book YU: The Lost Country at leboudoir2.0 Arles on July 9th

  • July - Journey to YU about my project YU: The Lost Country, Origins gallery, 4nd July

  • July - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition opening, ArtBox, Dublin as part of PhotoIreland 2015 Festival - 2nd July

  • July - YU: The Lost Country book coming out on 15th.

  • May - 100 Muses exhibition opening, 28th of May at ArtBox, Dublin, Ireland 

  • May - Giving an artist talk in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Studio 6 at 6pm, 26th May

  • May - Giving an artist talk at University of South Wales, UK on 21st May

  • May - Invited to Royal Hibernian Academy's 185th Annual exhibition

  • March - Once Upon a Picture exhibition opening on 27th March, The Arc, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - Journey to YU doc about my project YU: The Lost Country at Belgrade Irish Festival on 16th March

  • March - A reaction to my talk in Limerick by Bock The Robber

  • March - Giving an artist talk in Limerick School of Art and Design, 10th March

  • February - Artist talk in Deichtorhallen Hamburg on 28th February

  • February - Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland

  • January - Nominated for MACK First Book Award

 

2014

  • December - Participating in Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

  • December - Greetings from Ireland exhibition, Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

  • November - Artist talk, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

  • November - Won Wexford Arts Centre & The Arts Council's Emerging Visual Artist Award

  • November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Trihard

  • November - Arts Council Ireland Project Award for new work My Own Unknown

  • November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in All That Glitters Is Not Gold

  • November - Group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

  • October - A part of YU: The Lost Country acquired by Irish State Art Collection

  • October - Artist talk at Burren College of Art, Ireland

  • October - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish Art Blog

  • October - YU: The Lost Country artist talk, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish News Review

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Incoherent Light

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Le Cool Dublin

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Independent

  • September - YU: The Lost Country on the front page of The Independent UK Magazine

  • September - My portrait of David Mitchell on the cover of The Independent’s Radar Magazine

  • September - Special Recognition by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize for YU: The Lost Country

  • September - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland

  • September - YU: The Lost Country featured as one of the 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch internationally

  • September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

  • August - Seeing Things published in Irish Arts Review

  • August - Awarded Artist Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

  • July - Shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award, Ireland.

  • July - Photobook Club at Belfast Exposed talk, Belfast, UK

  • July - Group show, Feld+Haus gallery launch, Frankfurt, Germany

  • June - Awarded a residential studio award at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Ireland

  • May - Awarded a three year membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dubin, Ireland.

  • April - Selected to show work at the 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

  • March - YU: The Lost Country talk at GRADCAM, Dublin, Ireland.

  • February - Let's Get Metaphysical exhibition, NOHO, Hamburg, Germany

  • January - YU: The Lost Country reviewed in Visual Artist Ireland by Andy Parson

  • January - Selections from Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission Exhibition, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

  • January - Get the Picture? screened on Sky  Arts

 

2013

  • December - PhD completed at European Centre for Photographic Research, University of South Wales, UK

  • December - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

  • December - Get the Picture? at Gijon Film Festival, Spain

  • November - Get the Picture? at Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden

  • November - Get the Picture? wins the Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, Poland

  • October - YU: The Lost Country opens at Belfast Exposed  (24th October - 20th December), Belfast, UK

  • October - Get the Picture? at Hamptons Film Festival, USA

  • October - Get the Picture? at Raindance Film Festival, London, UK

  • September - Fading Lights are Fading at Flood with Tom Hunter, Martin Healy, Shane Lynam, Dublin, Ireland

  • September - Awarded Bursary Award from the Arts Council Ireland

  • September - Giving a talk at the NYU, The International Rebecca West biennial conference, New York, USA

  • August - 40/40/40, an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Irish State Collection, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland

  • August - Received the Project funding from Belfast Exposed gallery in association with the Arts Council Northern Ireland, UK

  • August - YU: The Lost Country published in SOURCE Photographic Review, text by Colin Graham, Issue 75

  • July - New Irish Works exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, PhotoIreland Festival 2013, Dublin, Ireland

  • July - YU: The Lost Country published in New Irish Works, overview of contemporary photography in Ireland

  • June - Belfast Photo Festival, Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK

  • May - YU: The Lost Country published in  Archivo '12 book

  • March - 40/40/40, an exhibition of artworks from the Irish State Collection at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in Madrid,

  • February - Get the Picture? wins the best documentary at Jameson Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland

  • January - Selected for Plat(t)forms 2013 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland