Séamus McCormack is an Irish born 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 he has curated 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 at New Contemporaries, supporting emerging and early career artists through development, mentoring, learning and public programmes. At NC he has curated exhibitions in London at the South London Gallery, ICA and Camden Arts Centre and across the UK including Leeds, Plymouth, Blackpool and Hull.

Previously he was an Assistant Curator at both Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin where he 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 the Royal College of Art, Slade and Goldsmiths, Glasgow College of Art, Leeds Beckett University and Oxford Brookes University. Selection panels he has been part of include International Artists Residency Programme, IMMA; Middlesborough Art Week and the Freelands Painting Prize. He has been invited to write texts on artists including Timo Kube, Sheila Rennick, Elaine Leader, Janine Davidson and David Eager Maher.