Photo Museum Ireland is proud to announce the Irish premiere of Project Groundswell, a major European visual arts initiative that asks a simple question: what does climate action actually look like? Opening in Dublin from 21 February 2026, the exhibition brings together work by 12 international artists whose work rejects simplified narratives of environmental change in favour of close, critical attention to what climate action actually looks like in practice.
Developed through an EU-wide open… more Portraits of Irish Writers 1985-2025 Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present our TALENTS 2025 exhibition showcasing exciting new photography from Ireland. The exhibition features new work by a diverse array of talented artists, all supported by our Artists Development Workplace Residences in 2025.
Photo Museum Ireland’s five-strand Artists’ Workplace Residency Programme provides essential art form development support for artists working in Ireland. In 2025 we have significantly expanded our workplaces residencies… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Sharon Murphy’s new body of work Mise en Abyme, which focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during moments of stillness and silence. Drawing on her background in theatre and informed by concepts from psychoanalysis and magic realism in literature, this new work highlights Murphy’s longstanding interest in staged spaces and the performative in photography.
Mise en Abyme marks a significant evolution in Murph… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the first solo Irish exhibition of Emma Spreadborough’s You Mustn’t Go Looking, an imaginative body of work that draws on the remnants of ancient tradition to address contemporary experience in Northern Ireland. Spreadborough takes inspiration from the writing of Brian Friel and his concern for the magical past in Ireland’s present-day culture. Friel’s play, Dancing at Lughnasa, explores Ireland’s mix of religion and politics and how these f… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to host Prix Pictet, the latest exhibition from the world’s leading award for photography and sustainability. Founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, the goal of the award is harnessing the power of photography to draw attention to the critical issue of global sustainability. To date, there have been ten cycles of the award, each with its own theme highlighting a particular aspect of sustainability. This will be the ninth year that Prix Pictet has toured to Photo… more Skin / Deep brings together challenging artistic perspectives on the body in contemporary Irish photography and lens-based media. The featured artists take an expanded view of the social, psychological, and material realities of embodiment – of being a ‘body’ in the world. Through their individual practices, they call into question many fundamental assumptions about how gender, sexuality, and selfhood are manifested in and through the body. As an exhibition, Skin / Deep argues for a recons… more Photo Museum Ireland is proud to present a pop-up projection exhibition by one of Ireland’s most loved artists, Seán Hillen.
The new work is light-hearted metafiction charting Hillen’s quixotic quest for a perfectly cubic cloud. It riffs on many tropes, especially ‘pareidolia’ - the tendency to see patterns in random stimuli - and takes delight in manipulating the techniques of photography to frame and illuminate the sublime sense of groundedness, perspective, joy and shared humanity t… more Early Career Artist AwardPhoto Museum Ireland is delighted to present this exhibition of new work developed through our Early Career Artist Awards, an annual mentorship residency for the most promising photography and media graduates from across the island of Ireland.
In the exhibition, Dee Byrne considers the theme of female inheritance through her own family story, Patryk Gizickicreates a semi-fictional narrative of adolescence centred on his hometown of Castlebar, Co. Mayo, and Spencer Glover explores the complex re… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the premiere of Ruth Medjber’s Her, Allure (2024), a visual journey through the landscapes and moments that have shaped her life. In 2024 Medjber was commissioned by Peugeot to create a unique body of work responding to the theme of ALLURE. The work presents a series of evocative and striking images, featuring rich colours and dynamic compositions. Medjber has a talent for conveying deep emotions and compelling narratives, simultaneously intimate an… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the premiere of Shane Lynam's Pebbledash Wonderland (2014 –2024), a photographic account of his adopted home city, Dublin. The exhibition builds on Lynam’s long-term engagement with urban space across Europe, pushing his practice in new subjective and narrative directions. Pebbledash Wonderland is Lynam's third major body of work and follows on from his acclaimed book, Fifty High Seasons, about modernist French resorts, published in 2018, and Cont… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the Contemporary African Photography Prize 2024 in Gallery 1. The CAP Prize is the international award for contemporary African photography given annually since 2012 to five photographers whose works were created on the African continent, or which engage with the African diaspora. The exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland will showcase the work of the five winning artists alongside the shortlist for this prestigious award.
The five winning projects of t… more Photo Museum Ireland is thrilled to invite you to the opening exhibition of the African Irish Artist Residency Award 2024-25. This special exhibition showcases work from our newly selected award recipients: Ishmael Claxton, Sabrina Faria, and Tolu Ogunware.
This exhibition marks the beginning of an exciting opportunity for these artists to develop their artistic practice while visitors have a unique chance to see the early stages of their creative journey at Photo Museum Ireland. Over the n… more
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present the world premiere of The Memories of Others exhibition, photobook and film on the Irish work of Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, renowned Japanese war photographer Akihiko Okamura (1929-1985) created a remarkable, compelling and largely unseen body of work in Ireland, north and south. This exhibition also launches a major programme which include sa documentary film and the first publication on Okamur… more Imprints: photography as practiceTwenty Years of Photography and Film Irish artist Lorraine Tuck’s newly commissioned work tells the story of a family living with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland this intensely moving and emotionally powerful photographic exhibition is an important contribution to public understanding of neurodivergence and disability.
Tuck is the mother of four children, two boys and two girls. The boys have autism spectrum disorder, which in the case of the youngest, is coupled… more
"I’m curious, how were people feeling and what were they doing the day before the Second World War?" I thought about it for a moment. "Well, I don’t know," I told my friend. "Probably, the same as us".
We finished the dinner and took a walk around Kyiv city centre. We sat in a small cafe to drink cappuccinos and gossip. I went home early, feeling a wave of anxiety.
Early the next morning, I was lying in bed in complete darkness. Suddenly, I heard the… more  The Domestic in Irish Photography
As a people with a long history of migration and dispossession, the notion of home is a deeply emotional one in Ireland. Although evoking a nostalgic sense of warmth and security, the lived reality of domestic life is often at odds with idealised representations. This exhibition considers what 'home' looks like in Ireland today and how it reflects wider societal changes.
"No Place Like Home" brings together work by leading established and early career artists who take us b… more  This exhibition of recent works by Roseanne Lynch highlights her consideration of photography’s material and speculative edges. Her images record the compelling remnants of 20th century utopian movements through her time at the Bauhaus Buildings Research Archive and with various architectural sites in Europe and Canada. These connect with her non-representational images made through darkroom processes and interventions on photographic surfaces. Using light manipulations, plays with time and am… more The Irish premiere exhibition of 'Prix Pictet: Fire' presents powerful
photographs exploring the pertinent topic of 'Fire' by thirteen international photographers.
The free exhibition features Sally Mann's award winning art pieces, together
with work by 13 acclaimed artists from Austria, Belgium, Benin, Cambodia, Japan, Lebanon,
Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, USA addressing issues of climate change and
sustainability across the globe.
'Prix Pictet: Fir… more This ongoing body of work explores photography’s ability to engage and challenge the psyche. It questions the authenticity of using photography as a tool in healing. Can photography help us to process traumatic events and confront unpleasant memories? Through photography, we can we free ourselves from the constraints of language and explore our emotions on a deeper level, or does the process just act as a distraction? This series uses a range of approaches and interventions in image-making… more
Online life is both an extension of traditional social interactions and a radical departure from it. It is a place where we seek out stories, people, and knowledge – but it’s also a place that distorts and limits those interactions. Around the time of beginning this body of work, myself and my girlfriend were no longer living near each other. A natural thread within this project emerged visualising the feeling arising as we uphold relationships through a sterile looking-glass, dis… more  As 2023 marks 50 years of Ireland’s membership of the European Union, we are proud to present this portrait exhibition of Irish women MEPs. The portraits were commissioned from the renowned Estonian photographer, Kaupo Kikkas. Kikkas captures the individuality and distinctive personality of his subjects, who range from Síle de Valera, one of Ireland’s first female MEPs, right up to the five incumbents. The work is a testimony to the evolution of attitudes regarding gender equality and to th… more A retrospective exhibition by a master of contemporary Irish photographyPhoto Museum Ireland is delighted to present The Light of Day - the first retrospective exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist Tony O’Shea. A legendary figure in the context of Irish photography, O’Shea’s work occupies a pivotal role in the history of documentary practice in Ireland. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland, this retrospective exhibition brings together for the first time his seminal bodies of work -
The Hill,
… more Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present Through Our Eyes - a new photography project led by artist Martin Beanz Warde. The project is being premiered at a special one-off outdoor projection screening event in Meeting House Square. An exhibition featuring selected photographs from the project is on show in Photo Museum Ireland’s Artists’ Project Space from 3rd–30th November 2022.
In collaboration with 9 participants from the Traveller Community – Winnie Ward, Patrick McDonagh, Chant… more I See a Darkness
is a multi-media exhibition probing the complex historical relationship between photography, cinema and science. Emerging from the trans-disciplinary art practice of Katherine Waugh & Fergus Daly, this new body of work builds on their research-based, philosophically-framed past projects in film, writing and artistic events, drawing on material that is often overlooked or hidden: shadow archives, neglected cultural narratives … more Photography and the Social GazeThe latest chapter of Photo Museum Ireland’s year-long In Our Own Image exhibition programme, Photography & the Social Gaze is a landmark survey which undertakes a critical reframing of the way Irish life has been represented through photography. It explores how photographers have used their medium to reflect on immense social change in Ireland over recent decades.
With the breakdown of long established norms, which at one time were almost beyond question, we have seen the emergence of n… more
The third chapter of the Gallery’s year-long In Our Own Image exhibition programme, The Politics of Place is a landmark survey exhibition that undertakes a critical reframing of the way Irish life has been represented through photography. It addresses how photographers have engaged with one of the defining obsessions of our national identity – the notion of place.
For a people so often uprooted and dispossessed, the identification of Irishness with place, with home and the owne… more PHOTOGRAPHY, ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN IRELANDPhotography in Ireland 1839 to the PresentExhibition and book launchHelen Hooker O’Malley’s IrelandCivil Rights, Street Protest and Resistance in Northern Ireland, 1968-69a new space for emerging Irish photographersHaley Chambers, George Voronov, Billy Kenrick, Andrew Nuding, Kelsey Lennon, Donal Talbot & Róisín White. moreKrass Clement's Photographs from IrelandNew perspectives on the border in IrelandDublin Institute of Technology BA Photography Graduate Exhibition 2017exhibition, street-based art installations, outdoor projections and public talks and toursGavin Devine, Ciaran Dunbar, Malcolm Craig Gilbert’, Emma McGuire, Rory O’Neill An insight into the life of musician Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and the vibrant Donegal traditional music sceneRepresentations of Women’s Work.DIT - BA Photography graduate exhibitioncelebrating 30 years of contemporary photography at the Gallery of Photographyphotographs by tourists compiled by Michael Durand |
