Jan McCullough (B. 1991) is an artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. McCullough is interested in the role photography plays in the construction and expression of individual and collective identities in contemporary society. In her current work, she explores how people use photography when improving their lives in a consumption-led society, where desires are shaped by advertising and the photographic image – how a ‘better life’ has been commodified to be bought and built.

Solo exhibitions of McCullough’s work include Seen Fifteen Gallery, London; Belfast Exposed Futures Gallery, Northern Ireland and The Gallery, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Selected group exhibitions include Landskrona Museum, Sweden; Filter Space, Chicago, USA; Czong Institute for Contemporary Arts, South Korea and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. McCullough has been nominated for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, International Centre for Photography New York Infinity Award and won the British Journal of Photography Breakthrough Award. Her book ‘Home Instruction Manual’, published by Verlag Kettler, was awarded the Kassel Fotobookfestival Dummy Award and shortlisted for the Recontres D’Arles Author Book Award. McCullough is a recipient of the Freelands Foundation Artist Programme 2018 – 2020, London.