Michael Croghan is a visual artist/photographer based in Ireland.
Michael Croghan is a documentary photographer who photographs in-between spaces, in a poetic realist and formalist style adaptive to the everyday vernacular. He collaborates with communities of interest to explore social tropes and hidden histories, a transcendence of the familiar to draw attention to the poetry of the common place.
Awards and honours
- 2021, Grant, Longford Live & Local, Longford,Ireland
- 2022, Artist Pilot Scheme Grant Government, Dublin, Ireland
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2023, ‘Ceremony’ Longford Cruthu Arts Festival 2023 July 21st – 23rd
- 2021, Archive Cognizance, Michael Croghan, Escobar Alleyway, street exhibition, Longford, Ireland, Run (17th, Sep opened to 19th, Sep closed)
- 2022, A Portrait in Time, Michael Croghan, Old Providers Building, Longford, Ireland, 7 th Oct – 13 th Oct
Group exhibitions
- 2023 Dec 7th – 17th Dublin Art Book Fair DABF23 Polyphonic, self published book Ceremony selected
- 2023 Dec 1st – 22nd Co. Cork County Council Library LHQ Gallery, work from ongoing bog series selected for group show
- 2023 Nov 17th – 6th Jan Co. Laois Dunamaise Gallery group show, works selected from ongoing bog series
- 2023, May 4th – Nov 4th, A Survey of the Landscape, Waterford Gallery of Art
- 2023, Local Area, curated by Maeve Connolly, Sinead Hogan, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland,
Run (11th, Jan opened to 21st, Jan) 3 - 2023, In Plain Sight, Marcel Kollen, Willemsplein 85, 3016 DR , Rotterdam, Holland (9 th
Feb to 12 th Feb) 4 - 2023, Unknowing the likeness of Being, Maria McKinney, Maolíosa Boyle, Hugh
McCarthy, Órla McGovern, Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland, (Feb 24 – 22 Apr - 2023) 5
- 2021, Halftone, PhotoIreland, Dublin, Ireland
Projects
A Black Notice is issued by Interpol and An Garda Síochána when looking for information about unidentified deceased persons. In many cases the person may have been using a false identity. For more than ten years the Garda and Interpol have been trying to identify the body of Peter Bergmann. Nobody has ever come forward to identify him and he lies buried in an unmarked grave in Sligo. This unsolved mystery was the starting point to explore conceptual documentary photography at the intersection between fact and fiction, the raison d’être of photography itself. 6
External links & References
https://www.galleryofphotography.ie/mass-isolation-publication
https://shutterhub.org.uk/announcement-everyday-delight-a-shutter-hub-editions-publication-selected-photographers/
https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibition-yearbook-2022
https://www.longfordcoco.ie/your-council/news/a-portrait-in-time-exhibition-by-local-artist-michael-croghan.html
http://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab/exhibitions/a-perambulation
https://www.rotterdamphoto.eu/exhibition/michael-croghan
http://www.ruared.ie/gallery/exhibition/spring-open-displacement-and-belonging
- https://www.photobooks.site/product/mass-isolation-project-publication-gallery-of-photography-ireland/
- https://shutterhub.org.uk/shutter-hub-editions/
- http://www.dublincityartsoffice.ie/the-lab/exhibitions/a-perambulation
- https://www.rotterdamphoto.eu/exhibition/michael-croghan/
- http://www.ruared.ie/gallery/exhibition/spring-open-displacement-and-belonging
- https://michaelcroghan5.wixsite.com/michaelcroghan/black-notice
