Anthony Haughey is an artist and photography lecturer, supervising practice-based doctorates. He was Senior Research Fellow (2005-8) at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design in Belfast School of Art, where he completed a PhD by Prior Publication in 2009. His artworks and research have been widely exhibited and published and collected nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include: the film trilogy Assemble, a public artwork commissioned by Fingal County Council and made in collaboration with the Global Migration Collective, installed in RCC Letterkenny and screened in Ulster Museum for Belfast Film Festival; Open House, Whitworth Gallery Manchester; Picturing People, National Gallery of Ireland; A Dress for Akunma, National Museum of Ireland; Citizen Nowhere / Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation, Crawford Gallery, Cork; Go Down Moses, curated by Teju Cole, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, curated by Cristín Leach, Glebe Gallery, Donegal. His work was featured in Gallery of Photography Ireland’s Reframing the Border programme, an installation, Field Notes From the Border and a collaborative public artwork with the late Seamus Deane installed on a 48 sheet billboard in Derry. He is an editorial board member of the Routledge Journal, Photographies and chairperson of Fire Station Artist Studios. He recently completed an artist residency at Artlink, Fort Dunree where he produced Anthem, a collaborative art intervention to commemorate the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signing. He is currently Decade of Centenaries artist-in-residence in the National Museum of Ireland. Recent and forthcoming chapter contributions and journal articles include, ‘Imaging the Unimaginable: Returning to the Scene of a Crime’, Život Umjetnosti art journal, Zagreb, ‘A Landscape of Crisis: Photographing Post Celtic Tiger Ghost Estates’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (2017) and ‘Imagining Irish Suburbia’ (Palgrave 2017). ‘Photography and The Troubles in Northern Ireland; A Short History’, Handbook on the Northern Irish Conflict and Peace Process (forthcoming, 2023). He is co-editor of a forthcoming book Socially Engaged Art Practice in Ireland: Contested Narratives, Places and Futures (Cork University Press, 2024).
Email: haughey.anthony@gmail.com
Artworks: www.anthonyhaughey.com
Global Migration Collective: globalmigrationcollective.com
Critical Reviews and Media Coverage: anthonyhaughey.com/news/
Recent Exhibitions
2021-2022 Open House, Whitworth Gallery Manchester
2021 Assemble – a film trilogy, RCC Letterkenny
2021 Assemble – a film trilogy, Ulster Museum, Belfast Film Festival
2020-21 Citizen Nowhere / Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation, Crawford Gallery, Cork.
2019 Go Down Moses, works curated by Teju Cole, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
2019 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, The Glebe Gallery / Office of Public Works in association with RTÉ & Earagail Arts.
2019 Home Sweet Home, Curated by Isa Bonnet, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
2019, Inédit(s) curated by Béatrice Andieux from the permanent collection of Centre Regionale de la Photographie, Hauts-de-France.
2019 – 7 March – 22 April, Field Notes From the Border # 1, Gallery of Photography, Ireland.
2019 – 29 March – 18 May, Field Notes From the Border # 2, RCC Letterkenny.
2019 – 10 May – 30 June, Field Notes From the Border # 3, Nerve Visual, Derry.
2019 – May 17-19. Sanctuary, a short film about migration and Ireland’s border, screened in Portland, Oregon, Gallery of Photography Ireland and Nerve Centre, Derry.
Artworks Represented in Public and Private Collections
Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon
British Council, London
BT New Media Collection, Belfast
Centre National de l’audiovisuel Luxembourg
Centre Régional de la Photographie Hauts-De-France
Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient
DKIT, Dundalk, Co. Louth
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
Limerick City Gallery
Luma Foundation, Arles
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
National Museum of Media, Bradford
National Gallery of Ireland
National Self-Portrait Gallery, Limerick
Office of Public Works State Art Collection
Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK
Museum of the University of Salamanca, Spain
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Private collections worldwide