Chris Finnegan is a visual artist and arts educator from Cork who works primarily through photography.  His work explores everyday occurrences, mundane objects and events. Recently moved back to Ireland after over a decade in the UK, his current practice centres on the home and suburbia; critically interrogating ideas of home-making, childhood and the domestic sublime.  He regularly collaborates with his young sons.

Chris has exhibited work extensively in Ireland, the UK and internationally, including; the 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Institute of Photography Penryn, GoMA Glasgow, Fringe Arts Bath, the LA Centre for Digital Arts. In 2023 his photographic series House Rules was published by PhotoIreland as a TLP Edition.  He is a recipient of the Agility Award 2023 from the Arts Council. 
Lives and works Cork, Ireland
Graduated BA Fine Art, Technological University Dublin, 2006

Solo Exhibitions

2022

  • House Rules, 6 Central Avenue, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland (PhotoIreland Festival Open Programme)

2015

  • Someone Else’s Somewhere, The Mills Centre, Highgate, London.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

  • Displacement and Belonging - Home, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Preamble, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Center, Skibbereen, Ireland.
  • Sample-Studio Members Summer Exhibition, Cork, Ireland.
  • Halftone Print Fair, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Small Things Like These, LHQ Gallery, Cork, Ireland
  • Cork Zine Fest, MTU Grand Parade, Cork, Ireland.

2022

  • Halftone Print Fair, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland.
  • In the Offing, Institute of Photography, Falmouth University, Penryn, UK. 
  • 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Invited artist, Switch 2022, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

2013-21

  • Switch 2021, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
  • Switch 2018 (Tenth Anniversary Edition), Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
  • Work, The Mills Centre, Highgate, London 2016.
  • DesignFest Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland 2015.
  • Dublin Art Book Fair 2013, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

2012

  • Your Public Art, GoMA, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Glasgow International Artists Book Fair, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Lost Properties, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, Somerset, England.

2010

  • End of Shadows, Sycamore Arts Club, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Bizarre Bazaar, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Snap to Grid, L.A. Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • To Come So Far For Beauty, Block T, Smithfield, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Summer Show 2010, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland.

2009

  • Switch 2009, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
  • Summer Light/Winter Light, Samhlaíocht Gallery, Tralee, Co Kerry, Ireland.

2006

  • Enniskillen Arts Festival, Visual Arts Open, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
  • Graduate Show 2006, Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland.
  • RockCandy, Mischief, South William St. Dublin, Ireland.

Publications

  • House Rules, TLP Editions, Published by PhotoIreland, 2022.  Available here
  • Stir The Pot, Overlapse Books, 2023 (upcoming)

Collections 

  • Dublin Institute of Technology
  • Gallery of Modern Art , Glasgow

Awards

  • The Arts Council Agility Award  2023

Curating

  • Member of Curatorial Panel for Switch 2010 & 2012, Nenagh, Co Tipperary & Bangor, Co Down.