Séamus McCormack is a curator based in London.  He has curated exhibitions at Lismore Castle Arts; The LAB, Dublin; The Bomb Factory, London; Sarabande Foundation London and Luan Gallery, Athlone.  In 2021 he founded Commonage Projects where has curated a series of solo and group exhibitions with artists including Sayan Chanda, Nat Faulkner, Gabriela Giroletti, Ali Glover, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Tami Soji-Akinyemi and Tim Spooner.

Currently Senior Curator, New Contemporaries, developing exhibitions across London and the UK and opportunities for emerging and early career artists.  Previously he was an Assistant Curator at both Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin where he has worked on major solo exhibitions and edited or contributed to the accompanying publications with artists such as Willie Doherty, Harun Farocki, Christopher Williams, Haroon Mirza, Alice Maher and Leonora Carrington and large-scale international group exhibitions including ‘Electronic Superhighway’, ‘Primal Architecture’ and ‘I Know You’.

He has been a visiting lecturer at RCA, Slade and Goldsmiths London; Glasgow College of Art, Leeds Beckett University and Oxford Brookes University. Selection Panels include International Artists Residency Programme, IMMA; Middlesborough Art Week and the Freelands Painting Prize.

 

Seamus McCormack Curated Road Kill

Smilin’ Kanker performance as part of ‘Roadkill’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, curated by Séamus McCormack.