Based in Belfast Fine Art Photography Glasgow School Art 1992 Studied Documentary Photography Newport 1989 Selected Solo Exhibitions: Bonfires Temple Bar Gallery 2009 Bonfires Belfast Exposed, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Ffotogallery 2008 We Were Here Gimpel Fils London 2006 Trees from Germany Belfast Exposed Curator: Karen Downey 2003 Boom Town Gallery of Photography Dublin Curator: Tanya Kiang 2002 Be Prepared Stills Gallery Edinburgh, touring to Gallerie Francois Knabe Frankfurt, Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast, Triskel Arts Centre Cork Curator: Kate Tregaskis 1998 You are Here Galerie in der Brotfabrik Berlin Curator: Inka Schube 1997 Fast friend Les Dawnson Archivo Territorio Hitorico de Alva, Vitoria Spain Curator: Alberto Martin 1997 You are Here Street Level Glasgow Curator: Martha McCullough 1996 Sinister and Dexter Photographers Gallery London Curator: David Chandler 1993 Selected Group Exhibitions: Art of The Troubles Ulster Museum 2014 Northern Ireland 30 Years of Photography. (Craig Ames, Sylvia Grace Borda, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Ursula Burke, John Byrne, Victoria J. Dean, Willie Doherty, John Duncan, David Farrell, Malcolm Craig Gilbert, Paul Graham, Philip Jones Griffiths, Anthony Haughey, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Sean Hillen, Claudio Hils, Daniel Jewesbury, Peter Marlow, Gareth McConnell, Patrick McCoy, Moira McIver, Mary McIntyre, Sean McKernan, Eoghan McTigue, Jonathan Olley, Mark Power, Paul Quinn, Paul Seawright, Victor Sloan, Mervyn Smyth, Hannah Starkey and Donovan Wylie) Curated by Karen Downey The MAC and Belfast Exposed 2013 In a Certain Light (Alessandra Giacinti, Liam Crichton, John Duncan, Jacqueline Holt and Stephen Madden) Curated by Catalyst Arts Lismore Castle Arts 2013 European Chronicles as part of Diffusion Photo Festival (Mindaugas Ažušilis, David Barnes, Tina Carr & Annemarie Schöne, John Duncan, Anna Kurpaska, Catrine Val, Arturas Valiauga) Curated by David Drake Cardiff 2013 Observers: Photographers of the British Scene from the 1930s to Now (Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Humphrey Spender, George Rodger, Paul Nash, Madame Yevonde, Nigel Henderson, Roger Mayne, Ida Kar, Norman Parkinson, Terence Donovan, Ian Berry, Shirley Baker, Tony Ray-Jones, Raymond Moore, Paul Trevor, Tish Murtha, Daniel Meadows, Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Keith Arnatt, Anna Fox, Derek Ridgers, Peter Fraser, Jem Southam, Karen Knorr, Richard Billingham, Paul Seawright, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jason Evans, Nigel Shafran, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sarah Jones, John Duncan, Gareth McConnell) Curators Joao Kulcsar and Martin Caiger-Smith Galeria de Arte SESI Sao Paulo 2012 Helsinki Photography Biennial 'Bonfires then Beacons' Gallery Hippolyte Helsinki 2012 Photography Since the 1970’s (Andrea Fisher, Susan Hiller, Peter Kennard, Muntadas, John Duncan and Christopher Stewart) Gimpel Fils London 2011 Archiving Pace and Time (Willie Doherty, Paul Seawright, John Duncan, Rita Duffy, Sandra Johnston, Conor McGrady, Mary McIntyre, Aisling O’Beirn, Philip Napier, Mike Hogg & Conor McFeely) Curated by Megan Johnston and Fionna Barber Millennium Court Arts Centre 2010 Archiving Pace and Time (Willie Doherty, Paul Seawright, John Duncan, Rita Duffy, Sandra Johnston, Conor McGrady, Mary McIntyre, Aisling O’Beirn, Philip Napier, Mike Hogg & Conor McFeely) Curated by Megan Johnston and Fionna Barber Manchester Metropolitan University 2009 Being British (Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin, Seamus Harahan, Hew Locke, Natalia Mali, Henna Nadeem, Chris Ofili, Cai Yuan and Xi Jian Jun) Curated by Alice Correia The Stephen Lawrence Gallery London 2009 Under Erasure (Candice Breitz, Ken Gonzales-Day, Richard Galpin, Lidwien van de Ven, Idris Khan, John Duncan) Temple Bar Gallery 2008 A Shout in the Street: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art Curated by Declan McGonagle Golden Thread Gallery Belfast 2007 The Double Image: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art Curated by Dougal McKenzie Golden Thread Gallery Belfast 2007 Loaded Landscapes (Ayreen Anastas, Alan Cohen, John Duncan, Isabelle Hayeur, Atta Kim, Shai Kremer, New Catalogue (Luke Batten & Jonathan Sadler), Simon Norfolk,Paul Shambroom, Anna Shteynshleyer, Joel Sternfeld) Museum of contemporary Photography Chicago 2007 Photography Towards a Sculptural Impulse Dazibao, Centre de photographies Actuelles, Montréal 2007 East Norwich Gallery Selected by Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snauwaert 2006 Dogs have no religion Czech Museum of Fine Art Curator: Richard Drury 2006 Galerija Sodobne Umetnosti Ceje 2004 Metro Zones 2 Learning From Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin Curator: Joachim Becker 2003 Perspectives Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast Selector Lynne Cooke 2000 Declinations of Boundaries Galerie Lichtblick, Koln 1999 Troubled : Photography, Film & Video from Northern Ireland The Light Factory North Carolina, touring to Centre for documentary studies Durham North Carolina 1999 On the Bright Side of Life Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst Berlin, touring to Kunstverein Ludwigshafen 1998 Imago Centre of Photography, University of Salamanca Spain Curator: Alberto Martin 1997 The Lie of the Land Gallery Photography Dublin, touring to Impressions Gallery, Centre National de la Photographie Paris, Mostings Hus Copenhagan, Universidad Salamanca, European Cultural Centre Erfurt Germany Curators: Ute Eskildsen, Christine Redmond 1996 FotoFeis International festival of photography, Scotland 1995 Points of Contact Malin Starrett, John Duncan, Tony Corey, with opening night special guests Flying Saucer Cult Old Museum Arts Centre Belfast 1994 Recent Issues Akehurst Gallery London Curator: David Britain 1994 Publications: European Chronicles: Visual Explorations in an Undiscovered Continent Ffotogallery 2014 Art in Ireland since 1910 by Fionna Barber Reaktion 2013 Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography by Colin Graham Belfast Exposed in partnership with the MAC 2013 Photography and Ireland by Justin Carville Reaktion 2013 Observers: Photographers of the British Scene from the 1930s to Now British Council 2012 Where are the people? Contemporary Photographs of Belfast, 2002 – 2010: Essays by Stephen Bull, Liam O'Dowd, Daniel Jewesbury, Ciaran Carson, Colin Graham, and Aaron Kelly Belfast Exposed 2010 Bonfires (solo publication): Essays by Colin Graham and Mary Warner Marien Mac, Photoworks, Belfast Exposed and Steidl 2008 A Shout in the Street Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art: Essay by Declan McGonagle Golden Thread Gallery 2008 The Double Image: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art: Essay by Dougal McKenzie Golden Thread Gallery 2008 Belfast Ordinary: Includes 'A load of Lesleys' by Eamonn Hughes with pictures by John Duncan Factotum 2007 Third Text Archive fever: Photography and the Peace in Belfast 2005 Cities of Belfast Four Courts Press 2003 Metrozones 2 (catalogue) NGBK Berlin 2003 Trees From Germany (solo catalogue): Essays by David Brett & Glenn Patterson Belfast Exposed 2003 Trees From Germany (catalogue) Belfast Exposed 2003 On the Bright Side of Life: Contemporary British Photography - Essays by David Chandler, Val Williams, David A. Baily, David Alan Mellor & Brett Rogers Neuen Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK) Berlin 1998 Be Prepared (solo catalogue): Essays by Inka Schube & Nicholas Allen Stills Gallery 1998 Be Prepared (catalogue) Stills Gallery 1998 The Lie of the Land (catalogue) Gallery Photography Dublin 1996