Overview

Born in Mullingar, Co. Meath, Mark Garry is driven by a fundamental interest in observing how humans navigate the world and the subjectivity inherent in these navigations. He uses a variety of media and mechanisms in his practice, primarily focusing on institution-based installations. These delicate site-specific installations are measured and meticulous systems of construction, combining physical, visual, sensory and empathetic analogues, creating arrangements of elements that intersect the space and form relationships between a given room and each other. They incorporate a specific range of natural and craft materials and processes such as plants, thread, beads, woodcarvings and manufactured materials such as coloured contact, origami, and mechanical musical mechanisms.

Recent solo exhibitions include An Afterwards, Luan Gallery, Athlone (2017); A New Quiet, Royal Hibernian Academy (2015); Lafayette Projects, Marseille; City Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina; The Model, Sligo (all 2014); ENart Taichung, Taiwan (2013); Cave, Detroit (2011); MiMA, Middlesbrough; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane (both 2009) and Douglas Hyde Gallery (2006). Recent group exhibitions include Hennessy Art Fund, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Dada Post, Berlin (both 2017); A Certain Kind of Light, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2017); Some thing as a line, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda (2016); Paper for the Sky, INTERSTATE PROJECTS, Brooklyn; Exiles, The LAB, Dublin; Island, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena (2013); All Humans Do, White Box, New York and The Model, Sligo (2012); Unrealised Potential, VOID, Derry; De l’émergence du Phénix, curated by Caroline Hancock, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (both 2011); Reverse Pedagogy, The Model, Sligo; The Hugh Lane (both 2009) and Exquisite Corpse, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008).Mark Garry was one of the artists that represented the Republic of Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale.

Mark Garry was selected for the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2017.