News
Paula Meehan shortlisted for National Gallery Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize 2019 and acquired by Crawford Art Gallery Collection, 2020.
Paula Meehan and Dragana Jurišić MUSEUM book launch, July 2019.
Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2020 / 2021
YU: The Lost Country, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2018.
Museum of Literature Ireland, December 2021.
Tarantula acquired by National Portrait Gallery, 2018.
An Act of Hospitality Can Only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, 2018.
My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, 2017.
YU: The Lost Country, Museum of Archeology, Zagreb, Croatia, Organ Vida 2017
Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, 2016.
YU: The Lost Country book published July 2015, sold out October 2015.
2023
October - Self-Determination: A Global Perspective, Irish Museum of Modern Art, opens on 28th
October - Continental Riffs, RTE Radio podcast, in conversation with Barbara Knezevic, airs on the 8th
August - Poetry Ireland Review #140 cover and feature
July - Her Own review in Photomonitor by Mark Durden
June - Book of The Week: Her Own by Dragana Jurišić, review by Cristín Leach
May - Her Own review in the Irish Times by Liam Cagney
May - An extensive interview with Dragana Jurisic, by Sandra Vitaljic, for Tarantula Magazine
March - forming a new MA in Documentary Practice at DCU
February - Her Own review in Pledge Times by Gloria Crespo McLennan (English translation)
February - El Pais review of Her Own by Gloria Crespo McLennan, 23rd February
2022
December - Her Own book launched in Photo Museum of Ireland on 22nd December
December - In The Picture: Her Own by Dragana Jurišić, RTE Culture on 15th December
December - HI-VIS acquired by Crawford Art Gallery
December - Winter Papers, Volume 8 reviewed in The Irish Times
November - Rose Church published in Winter Papers, Volume 8
May - Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
April - The Golden Fleece Award: 21 Years opens on23rd April (until 4th June)
March - Dangerous Bodies opens at Kers Gallery 5th March, Amsterdam, Netherlands
February - Cristín Leach: Comment, The Sunday Times, 27th
February - Artist talk, Royal Hibernian Academy 24th at 17.30
February - Saturation exhibition feature in the Irish Examiner by Marc O’Sullivan, 2nd
January - Saturation exhibition opens at Crawford Art Gallery (29th January - 26th June)
January - Review of Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery Ireland), The Times, 7th January by C.Leach
2021
December - Now the Other: Dragana Jurišić, Museum of Literature Ireland podcast / interview
December - Limited edition print (30) on sale now through National Gallery of Ireland
November - Bridging the Past & Present panel discussion, 19th November (with Aida Šehović and Luchezar Boyadjiev)
November - Zurich Portrait Prize opens in National Gallery Ireland, 13th November
Presenting Yamile Calderón Narcos & Homes Book at the Gallery of Photography Ireland
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition review, Contemporary Croatian Photography
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep news segment, SBTV
September - ‘Forgotten Ivana: Between the Art and Motherhood’, Jutarnji List
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition opens 8th September, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
August - Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland shortlist, exhibition opens in November
June - Photo Poetry Surfaces panel talk, Bristol Photo Festival
June - Podcast: Something From There, National Gallery Ireland
May - YU: The Lost Country at the Photobook exhibition Fotografia Europea 2021 - Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
May - ‘Something From There’ article, Hundred Heroines
March - Addressing The Nations speech, Centre Culturel Irlandais
January - Writing is...…Collaboration / conversation with Susan Tomaselli, Maynooth University, 29th at 19.00
January - Hugh Lane Gallery Artist Takeover
January - Pictures of YU, Remembering Yugoslavia podcast
2020
December - The Merits of Tracer Fire, Abridged magazine commissioned publication and online exhibition.
December - Something From There exhibition and film screening opens in the National Gallery Ireland
November - NI Screen Feature Development Pitch Award for The Last Balkan Cowboy feature documentary
November - Worlds Without End artist talk, Hugh Lane Gallery, 25th at 11am
November - Depiction of the Female Figure talk, Belfast Photo Festival, 11th at 6pm
October - Work of the Week, Crawford Art Gallery
October - Apollo Projects Creative Careers talk at National Gallery Ireland, 24th at 2pm
October - Worlds Without End conference in the Hugh Lane Gallery, 1st at 4pm
October - Another Eye: Contemporary Women Photographers talk, Four Corners Gallery, 15th at 6.30pm
September - Photo London Art Fair, exhibiting with Seen Fifteen Gallery
September - Worlds Without End opens in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 30th September (until 31st January)
September - YU: The Lost Country in conversation with Merima Dizdarević, Galleri Format, 10th September
September - Mnemosyne's Daughters open at Maribor Photography Festival (until 30th September)
August - YU: The Lost Country opens in Galleri Malmoö on 14th August, Sweden (until 13th September)
April - Divine Discontent image text artwork commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre - respond to Covid-19
February - Giving a talk at NCAD Material Futures public talks series #3 on 21st
February - Giving a talk at National Museum An Outsider’s Eye: Photographing 1950s Ireland symposium, on 15th
January - The Other Side? – Borderlands in Contemporary Irish Art, Elsewhere Journal
2019
December - The Other Side opens at Dortmunder U, Germany on 19th
November - Rebel Goddess exhibition at Seen Fifteen, London, 29th
November - RHA X, Senior curator V&A, Oriole Cullen, will host a panel discussion on Saturday, 16th
November -RHA X: the collaboration of world renowned fashion designer, Roland Mouret and myself, 15th
November - Interview with Roland Mouret and myself in The Irish Examiner
November - Interview with The Irish Tatler
November - Giving a talk at Arnolfini, Bristol: Hunts of Memory, 2nd
October - Tarantula is on show in National Gallery of Ireland exhibition View of Ireland until 26th February
October - The review in The Sunday Times describing my portrait of Paula Meehan as "outstanding"
October - Ode to Ivan reviewed in The Irish Times
October - Artist talk in Instituto Cervantes
September - Shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery Ireland
September - ‘The Physicality of Looking’ interview, Visual Artist Ireland News Sheet
September - Giving a talk at University of Cambridge Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond, 17th
August - Giving a talk in National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 23rd August at 6pm
July - Launch of MUSEUM, new book by Paula Meehan and myself, 25th, 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin
July - Signing MUSEUM at L'Ascenseur Végétal, FotoHaus, 7 rue de la Roquette at 4pm on 3rd July
June - Field Notes from the Border #3 exhibition opening at Nerve Arts Centre, 7th June
June - Something From There, a new project with people seeking asylum in Ireland, National Gallery Ireland
June - Sonic response by Eleanor Zurowski to my exhibition in Sidney: Memory Betrays Everybody
May - Memory Betrays Everybody exhibition, Black Box, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
May - Giving a talk in National Gallery Ireland, Symposium: Borders on 2nd
April - Giving a talk in dlR Lexicon on Censorship in Ireland from The Country Girls to ‘100 Muses’ on 29th
April - Recipient of the Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
April - The Irish Times article about the Golden Fleece Awards
March - Recipient of Golden Fleece Special Award
March - How We See: Photobooks by Women, Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 8 - 10 2019
February - Shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award, announcement of winners end of March
February - Giving a talk to Ulster University students - Belfast School of Art, 7th
February - Interview with Anneka French
January - Process 1000/1 exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, opens 24th January in The Project Space
January - Family Histories interview in Photomonitor
2018
December - ‘100 Photographic Heroines’ by The Royal Photographic Society in BJP
December - ‘Ireland’s pro-choice activists’ in The Financial Times
November - Giving a talk to University of South Wales students, 22nd, Visiting Fellowship, Cardiff, UK
November - On Credibility, Femininity, Legacy with Sarah Thorton, Vivienne Dick, Eimear Walshe, National Gallery, 17th
October - Participating in a panel talk Xenophobia and the Vampire Myth, Trinity College Dublin
October - Giving a talk at Crawford Art Gallery on 100 Muses and censorship, 11th October at 6pm
September - Included in How We See: Photobooks by Women
September - Giving a talk at Brighton Photo Biennial, 29th September
September - Giving a talk at Civil Rights symposium, Gallery of Photography Ireland, 27th September
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition at Getxophoto Festival 5th September - 30th September
September - Giving a talk at NIDA International Photography Symposium
September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in El Diario Vasco
September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in Internazionale
August - Review of Reframing the Border exhibition in The Irish Times
August - Visiting Fellowship at University of South Wales
July - Dublin City Council commission to collaborate with Paula Meehan on a book about 14 Henrietta Street
July - 100 Muses purchased for Arts Council Ireland collection
July - 'Naked truth in Irish art' exhibition review in Irish Examiner, follow up text.
July - Circa review of ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ exhibition, Galway Arts Centre
July - The talk from Women in Photography Conference at National Gallery of Arts in Lithuania, 2017 is online
July - Reframing the Border opens on 14th July until 9th September, Gallery of Photography, Ireland
July - Naked Truth exhibition opens in Crawford Art Gallery on 13th
May - ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ curated by Vivienne Dick opens on 31st at Galway Arts Centre (until July 6th)
May - 'Naked Truth' article about Instagram censorship by Jessie Bond for The Calvert Journal
May - ‘Her Own Creator: An interview with Dragana Jurisic’ by Orla Fitzpatrick, Gorse
May - The Art Newspaper on Instagram's censorship of my account
May - Frieze magazine on Instagram's censorship of my account
May - Evening Standard on Instagram's censorship of my account
April - Awarded Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
April - YU: The Lost Country featured in Financial Times, 13th April
April - Royal Irish Academy of Music presents ARTISTS CHOICE at National Gallery Ireland
April - Source Photographic Review, a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Rebecca O'Dwyer
April - Turf & Grain, Issue 3: Makers Interview with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
March - Art Monthly 414: March 2018 a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Joanne Laws
March - Review of My Own Unknown in University Times
March - The Irish Times feature ‘Art in focus: Her Own Unknown’ by Dragana Jurišic
March - The Sunday Times Art review: Outposts
March -YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th in the Noorderlicht Photogallery
February - My Own Unknown opens in Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland on 1st, launch on 8th
February - Artist talk at Symposium: The Individual, The Political and The Photobook - Antwerp, Belgium on 1st
January - Started Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist Residency
January - Journey to YU documentary about my project YU: The Lost Country
2017
December - National Gallery Ireland acquired Tarantula for their collection
December - My Own Unknown exhibition featured in Liberation
November - Awarded Irish Museum of Modern Arts 1000 Residency Award
November - YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th as part of Outposts exhibition in The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland
November - Giving a talk on 'Art and Writing' in The Lab, 24th November at 18.30 (event sold out)
November - Giving a talk on YU: The Lost Country in AIB Bank, as a part of Dublin Gallery Weekend
November - My Own Unknown exhibition opens at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 9th November (Paris Photo)
November - Giving a talk at Fast Forward: Women in Photography, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
October - My response to Nan Goldin's work at Irish Museum of Modern Art - 6th October at 13.15
October - Interview with Maja Broun for Vizkultura
September - Trinity Art Collection acquired a work from YU: The Lost Country
September - Review of YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Contemporary Croatian Photography
September - Interview with Tina Barbaric for TPORTAL
September - Interview with Tihana Bertek for VoxFeminae
September - Giving a talk at Beyond Documentary conference, 9th September, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia
September - YU: The Lost Country, interview with Snjezana Pavic for GLOBUS
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 8th September, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
September - After Vermeer artist talk, 2nd September at 15.15, National Gallery Ireland
September - Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer exhibition opens on 1st September, National Gallery Ireland
July - 36 Little Good Things group exhibition, Cortona On the Move, Italy
June - Commissioned by National Gallery of Ireland to respond to their Vermeer exhibition
June - Featured in ‘How to Invest in Art’ article in The Independent
May - Artist in residence, Centre Culturel Irladais, Paris [until end of June]
May - YU: The Lost Country featured in XXZ Magazine
April - ARTFORUM review of My Own Unknown by Prudence Peiffer, April 2017
April - Interview in Serbian Newsweek, April 2017 [print editon]
April - Awarded Tyrone Guthrie Center residency
April - Featured in The Calvert Journal: Ones to watch
March - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
March - Interview with Orla Fitzpatrick in Gorse Journal #8
March - ‘A Conversation with Dragana Jurisic’ on Conscientious Photo Magazine
March - YU: The Lost Country featured on LensCulture
March - My Own Unknown essay by Natasha Christia on Aldebaran (Greek language)
March - My profile of the work of American photographer Nan Goldin on RTE Arena
March- An interview with Bellina Teresa on Shots & Murmurs
February - My Own Unknown featured on ARTFORUM Instagram feed
February - My Own Unknown, A Process Series II, Rawson Projects Gallery, New York, USA [opens 2nd February]
February - The featured artist in Honest Ulsterman Magazine
February - Interview in Shots & Murmurs
January - Post communistic nostalgia and photography essay by Milanka Todic
January - I Remember included in One Image Story [curated by Maria Kapajeva], Fast Forward
2016
December - A review of The Museum of August Destiny in The Irish Times
November - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Pearse Museum, Ireland - opens on 3rd
October - Nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
October - Self-portraits, selfies and making images with Dragana Jurisic workshop
October - An interview with Marina Tkalcic on Libela
October - An advice on How to Develop a Project on Fototazo
October - An article about My Own Unknown exhibitions on Vizkultura
October - An interview in Bosnia's Oslobodjenje with Djordje Krajisnik
October - My portrait of Shane MacGowan makes it into '30 of the most powerful photographs' from the last 30yrs
October - In Residence II group exhibition featuring works of Picasso, Warhol, Arbus, etc. London, UK
September - Talking about my book YU: The Lost Country on 30th at Westport Town Hall Theatre
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 28th September, Westport Arts Festival
September - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [4.34- 6.19min]
September - My Own Unknown exhibition opens in Spot Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia on 12th
September - ‘Between text, photography and video – Dragana Jurišić’, Suvremena Hrvatska Fotografija
August - YU: The Lost Country screening at Obscura Festival, George Town, Malaysia on 24th
August - An interview in Croatia's Novi List with Vedrana Simičević
August - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [6.10-7.52min]
August - An interview in Croatia's Jutarnji List with Snjezana Pavić
August - My Own Unknown exhibition opens on 18th - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
August - ‘Glimpses Of A Lost World’, Rabble Eye
July - My Own Unknown exhibition reviewed by Darren Campion, as a part of criticism of PhotoIreland Festival
July - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Lismore Casle, Ireland - opens on 15th
July - A 5 star review of My Own Unknown exhibition in The Irish Times, 12th July by Aidan Dunne
July - An essay about My Own Unknown in 1000 Words Magazine by Natasha Christia
July - Prix Pictet Award, nominated by Tanya Kiang, director of Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
June - My Own Unknown exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery opens 23rd
June - Dragana Jurisic’s photographic quest for her long-lost aunt in The Calvert Journal
June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Dun Laoghaire Library on 16th at 18.45
June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Photobook Bristol 10-13th, UK
June - Talking at YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona on 3rd June
May - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th at Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona, as part of DOCfield
May - Interview with Colin Pantall: Photobooks, Philosophy and Spaghetti Westerns
April - Winner of Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
April - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
April - Looking for Yugoslavia, interview in Roads & Kingdoms Magazine
April - YU: The Lost Country featured on The Heavy Collective
March - Murmur Magazine interview
March - Awarded a six week residency at Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, Summer 2017
March - Participating in 186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
March - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th, Meeting Point, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
March - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Darren Campion for Photomonitor
February - My Own Unknown exhibition opening on 13th, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland
February - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 1st, Illuminations, University of Maynooth, Ireland
2015
December - YU: The Lost Country book made The Best Books of 2015 on 1) Photobook Store by Rob Hornstra, Photo-Eye by two experts: 2) John Phelan and 3) Daniel Boetker Smith, 4) The Best Books from the East List (The Calvert Journal), on 5) Colin Pantal's The Best of 2015 List, 6) + 7) The Best Eastern European Photobook 2015 (by Rob Honstra and Ieva Meilutė- Svinkūnienė), 8) Gabriela Cendoya Best Books 2015
December - Featured essay in Autumn Issue of Archivo Magazine
December - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Vesna Vuković for Camera Austria Magazine
November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Irish Arts Review
November - Feld+Haus Gallery at Fotofever, Paris 12th-15th November
November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Allie Haeusslein for Photo-eye
November - Interview published in Contemporary Croatian Photography
November - Artist talk at Photo Kathmandu
October - Jutarnji List article about YU: The Lost Country - 'Od Zagreba do Skopja' by Snjezana Pavic
October - BBC Ulster radio interview, aired on 18th October 9am-10am
September - Tportal (Croatia) and B92 article about YU: The Lost Country
September - Interview with BBC World Service Newshour about my book YU: The Lost Country (48min-53min)
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening at Feld+Haus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany on 11th
September - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Guardian by Sean O'Hagan
August -YU: The Lost Country book review by Jensine Bethna Wall
August - YU: The Lost Country book launch, Oonagh Young Gallery, 5th August 6-8pm
July - Presenting my book YU: The Lost Country at leboudoir2.0 Arles on July 9th
July - Journey to YU about my project YU: The Lost Country, Origins gallery, 4nd July
July - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition opening, ArtBox, Dublin as part of PhotoIreland 2015 Festival - 2nd July
July - YU: The Lost Country book coming out on 15th.
May - 100 Muses exhibition opening, 28th of May at ArtBox, Dublin, Ireland
May - Giving an artist talk in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Studio 6 at 6pm, 26th May
May - Giving an artist talk at University of South Wales, UK on 21st May
May - Invited to Royal Hibernian Academy's 185th Annual exhibition
March - Once Upon a Picture exhibition opening on 27th March, The Arc, Dublin, Ireland
March - Journey to YU doc about my project YU: The Lost Country at Belgrade Irish Festival on 16th March
March - A reaction to my talk in Limerick by Bock The Robber
March - Giving an artist talk in Limerick School of Art and Design, 10th March
February - Artist talk in Deichtorhallen Hamburg on 28th February
February - Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland
January - Nominated for MACK First Book Award
2014
December - Participating in Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
December - Greetings from Ireland exhibition, Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
November - Artist talk, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
November - Won Wexford Arts Centre & The Arts Council's Emerging Visual Artist Award
November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Trihard
November - Arts Council Ireland Project Award for new work My Own Unknown
November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in All That Glitters Is Not Gold
November - Group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
October - A part of YU: The Lost Country acquired by Irish State Art Collection
October - Artist talk at Burren College of Art, Ireland
October - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish Art Blog
October - YU: The Lost Country artist talk, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish News Review
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Incoherent Light
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Le Cool Dublin
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Independent
September - YU: The Lost Country on the front page of The Independent UK Magazine
September - My portrait of David Mitchell on the cover of The Independent’s Radar Magazine
September - Special Recognition by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize for YU: The Lost Country
September - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
September - YU: The Lost Country featured as one of the 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch internationally
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
August - Seeing Things published in Irish Arts Review
August - Awarded Artist Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
July - Shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award, Ireland.
July - Photobook Club at Belfast Exposed talk, Belfast, UK
July - Group show, Feld+Haus gallery launch, Frankfurt, Germany
June - Awarded a residential studio award at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Ireland
May - Awarded a three year membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dubin, Ireland.
April - Selected to show work at the 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
March - YU: The Lost Country talk at GRADCAM, Dublin, Ireland.
February - Let's Get Metaphysical exhibition, NOHO, Hamburg, Germany
January - YU: The Lost Country reviewed in Visual Artist Ireland by Andy Parson
January - Selections from Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission Exhibition, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
2013
December - PhD completed at European Centre for Photographic Research, University of South Wales, UK
December - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
December - Get the Picture? at Gijon Film Festival, Spain
November - Get the Picture? at Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden
November - Get the Picture? wins the Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, Poland
October - YU: The Lost Country opens at Belfast Exposed (24th October - 20th December), Belfast, UK
October - Get the Picture? at Hamptons Film Festival, USA
October - Get the Picture? at Raindance Film Festival, London, UK
September - Fading Lights are Fading at Flood with Tom Hunter, Martin Healy, Shane Lynam, Dublin, Ireland
September - Awarded Bursary Award from the Arts Council Ireland
September - Giving a talk at the NYU, The International Rebecca West biennial conference, New York, USA
August - 40/40/40, an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Irish State Collection, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland
August - Received the Project funding from Belfast Exposed gallery in association with the Arts Council Northern Ireland, UK
August - YU: The Lost Country published in SOURCE Photographic Review, text by Colin Graham, Issue 75
July - New Irish Works exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, PhotoIreland Festival 2013, Dublin, Ireland
July - YU: The Lost Country published in New Irish Works, overview of contemporary photography in Ireland
June - Belfast Photo Festival, Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK
May - YU: The Lost Country published in Archivo '12 book
March - 40/40/40, an exhibition of artworks from the Irish State Collection at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in Madrid,
February - Get the Picture? wins the best documentary at Jameson Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
January - Selected for Plat(t)forms 2013 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
100 Muses acquired by Arts Council Collection, 2018.
News
Paula Meehan shortlisted for National Gallery Ireland’s Zurich Portrait Prize 2019 and acquired by Crawford Art Gallery Collection, 2020.
Paula Meehan and Dragana Jurišić MUSEUM book launch, July 2019.
Worlds Without End, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2020 / 2021
YU: The Lost Country, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland, 2018.
Museum of Literature Ireland, December 2021.
Signing limited edition print (30) Daithi’s Hands at the National Gallery of Ireland
Tarantula acquired by National Portrait Gallery, 2018.
An Act of Hospitality Can Only be Poetic, Highlanes Gallery, 2018.
My Own Unknown, Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, 2017.
YU: The Lost Country, Museum of Archeology, Zagreb, Croatia, Organ Vida 2017
Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, 2016.
YU: The Lost Country book published July 2015, sold out October 2015.
2022
February - The Sitting Book Public Talk, Royal Hibernian Academy 24th at 17.30
January - Review of ‘Daithi Sleeps’ (Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery Ireland), The Times, 7th January by C.Leach
2021
December - Now the Other: Dragana Jurišić, Museum of Literature Ireland podcast / interview
December - Limited edition print (30) Daithi’s Hands on sale now through National Gallery of Ireland
November - Bridging the Past & Present panel discussion, 19th November (with Aida Šehović and Luchezar Boyadjiev)
November - Zurich Portrait Prize opens in National Gallery Ireland, 13th November
Presenting Yamile Calderón Narcos & Homes Book at the Gallery of Photography Ireland
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition review, Contemporary Croatian Photography
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep news segment, SBTV
September - ‘Forgotten Ivana: Between the Art and Motherhood’, Jutarnji List
September - My Heart Won’t Let Me Sleep exhibition opens 8th September, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
August - Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland shortlist, exhibition opens in November
June - Photo Poetry Surfaces panel talk, Bristol Photo Festival
June - Podcast: Something From There, National Gallery Ireland
May - YU: The Lost Country at the Photobook exhibition Fotografia Europea 2021 - Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
May - ‘Something From There’ article, Hundred Heroines
March - Addressing The Nations speech, Centre Culturel Irlandais
January - Writing is...…Collaboration / conversation with Susan Tomaselli, Maynooth University, 29th at 19.00
January - Hugh Lane Gallery Artist Takeover
January - Pictures of YU, Remembering Yugoslavia podcast
2020
December - The Merits of Tracer Fire, Abridged magazine commissioned publication and online exhibition.
December - Something From There exhibition and film screening opens in the National Gallery Ireland
November - NI Screen Feature Development Pitch Award for The Last Balkan Cowboy feature documentary
November - Worlds Without End artist talk, Hugh Lane Gallery, 25th at 11am
November - Depiction of the Female Figure talk, Belfast Photo Festival, 11th at 6pm
October - Work of the Week, Crawford Art Gallery
October - Apollo Projects Creative Careers talk at National Gallery Ireland, 24th at 2pm
October - Worlds Without End conference in the Hugh Lane Gallery, 1st at 4pm
October - Another Eye: Contemporary Women Photographers talk, Four Corners Gallery, 15th at 6.30pm
September - Photo London Art Fair, exhibiting with Seen Fifteen Gallery
September - Worlds Without End opens in the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 30th September (until 31st January)
September - YU: The Lost Country in conversation with Merima Dizdarević, Galleri Format, 10th September
September - Mnemosyne's Daughters open at Maribor Photography Festival (until 30th September)
August - YU: The Lost Country opens in Galleri Malmoö on 14th August, Sweden (until 13th September)
April - Divine Discontent image text artwork commissioned by Solstice Arts Centre - respond to Covid-19
February - Giving a talk at NCAD Material Futures public talks series #3 on 21st
February - Giving a talk at National Museum An Outsider’s Eye: Photographing 1950s Ireland symposium, on 15th
January - The Other Side? – Borderlands in Contemporary Irish Art, Elsewhere Journal
2019
December - The Other Side opens at Dortmunder U, Germany on 19th
November - Rebel Goddess exhibition at Seen Fifteen, London, 29th
November - RHA X, Senior curator V&A, Oriole Cullen, will host a panel discussion on Saturday, 16th
November -RHA X: the collaboration of world renowned fashion designer, Roland Mouret and myself, 15th
November - Interview with Roland Mouret and myself in The Irish Examiner
November - Interview with The Irish Tatler
November - Giving a talk at Arnolfini, Bristol: Hunts of Memory, 2nd
October - Tarantula is on show in National Gallery of Ireland exhibition View of Ireland until 26th February
October - The review in The Sunday Times describing my portrait of Paula Meehan as "outstanding"
October - Ode to Ivan reviewed in The Irish Times
October - Artist talk in Instituto Cervantes
September - Shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery Ireland
September - ‘The Physicality of Looking’ interview, Visual Artist Ireland News Sheet
September - Giving a talk at University of Cambridge Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond, 17th
August - Giving a talk in National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 23rd August at 6pm
July - Launch of MUSEUM, new book by Paula Meehan and myself, 25th, 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin
July - Signing MUSEUM at L'Ascenseur Végétal, FotoHaus, 7 rue de la Roquette at 4pm on 3rd July
June - Field Notes from the Border #3 exhibition opening at Nerve Arts Centre, 7th June
June - Something From There, a new project with people seeking asylum in Ireland, National Gallery Ireland
June - Sonic response by Eleanor Zurowski to my exhibition in Sidney: Memory Betrays Everybody
May - Memory Betrays Everybody exhibition, Black Box, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
May - Giving a talk in National Gallery Ireland, Symposium: Borders on 2nd
April - Giving a talk in dlR Lexicon on Censorship in Ireland from The Country Girls to ‘100 Muses’ on 29th
April - Recipient of the Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
April - The Irish Times article about the Golden Fleece Awards
March - Recipient of Golden Fleece Special Award
March - How We See: Photobooks by Women, Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 8 - 10 2019
February - Shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award, announcement of winners end of March
February - Giving a talk to Ulster University students - Belfast School of Art, 7th
February - Interview with Anneka French
January - Process 1000/1 exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, opens 24th January in The Project Space
January - Family Histories interview in Photomonitor
2018
December - ‘100 Photographic Heroines’ by The Royal Photographic Society in BJP
December - ‘Ireland’s pro-choice activists’ in The Financial Times
November - Giving a talk to University of South Wales students, 22nd, Visiting Fellowship, Cardiff, UK
November - On Credibility, Femininity, Legacy with Sarah Thorton, Vivienne Dick, Eimear Walshe, National Gallery, 17th
October - Participating in a panel talk Xenophobia and the Vampire Myth, Trinity College Dublin
October - Giving a talk at Crawford Art Gallery on 100 Muses and censorship, 11th October at 6pm
September - Included in How We See: Photobooks by Women
September - Giving a talk at Brighton Photo Biennial, 29th September
September - Giving a talk at Civil Rights symposium, Gallery of Photography Ireland, 27th September
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition at Getxophoto Festival 5th September - 30th September
September - Giving a talk at NIDA International Photography Symposium
September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in El Diario Vasco
September - Article about YU: The Lost Country in Internazionale
August - Review of Reframing the Border exhibition in The Irish Times
August - Visiting Fellowship at University of South Wales
July - Dublin City Council commission to collaborate with Paula Meehan on a book about 14 Henrietta Street
July - 100 Muses purchased for Arts Council Ireland collection
July - 'Naked truth in Irish art' exhibition review in Irish Examiner, follow up text.
July - Circa review of ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ exhibition, Galway Arts Centre
July - The talk from Women in Photography Conference at National Gallery of Arts in Lithuania, 2017 is online
July - Reframing the Border opens on 14th July until 9th September, Gallery of Photography, Ireland
July - Naked Truth exhibition opens in Crawford Art Gallery on 13th
May - ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ curated by Vivienne Dick opens on 31st at Galway Arts Centre (until July 6th)
May - 'Naked Truth' article about Instagram censorship by Jessie Bond for The Calvert Journal
May - ‘Her Own Creator: An interview with Dragana Jurisic’ by Orla Fitzpatrick, Gorse
May - The Art Newspaper on Instagram's censorship of my account
May - Frieze magazine on Instagram's censorship of my account
May - Evening Standard on Instagram's censorship of my account
April - Awarded Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
April - YU: The Lost Country featured in Financial Times, 13th April
April - Royal Irish Academy of Music presents ARTISTS CHOICE at National Gallery Ireland
April - Source Photographic Review, a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Rebecca O'Dwyer
April - Turf & Grain, Issue 3: Makers Interview with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
March - Art Monthly 414: March 2018 a review of My Own Unknown exhibition by Joanne Laws
March - Review of My Own Unknown in University Times
March - The Irish Times feature ‘Art in focus: Her Own Unknown’ by Dragana Jurišic
March - The Sunday Times Art review: Outposts
March -YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th in the Noorderlicht Photogallery
February - My Own Unknown opens in Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland on 1st, launch on 8th
February - Artist talk at Symposium: The Individual, The Political and The Photobook - Antwerp, Belgium on 1st
January - Started Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist Residency
January - Journey to YU documentary about my project YU: The Lost Country
2017
December - National Gallery Ireland acquired Tarantula for their collection
December - My Own Unknown exhibition featured in Liberation
November - Awarded Irish Museum of Modern Arts 1000 Residency Award
November - YU: The Lost Country, opens on the 30th as part of Outposts exhibition in The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland
November - Giving a talk on 'Art and Writing' in The Lab, 24th November at 18.30 (event sold out)
November - Giving a talk on YU: The Lost Country in AIB Bank, as a part of Dublin Gallery Weekend
November - My Own Unknown exhibition opens at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 9th November (Paris Photo)
November - Giving a talk at Fast Forward: Women in Photography, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
October - My response to Nan Goldin's work at Irish Museum of Modern Art - 6th October at 13.15
October - Interview with Maja Broun for Vizkultura
September - Trinity Art Collection acquired a work from YU: The Lost Country
September - Review of YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Contemporary Croatian Photography
September - Interview with Tina Barbaric for TPORTAL
September - Interview with Tihana Bertek for VoxFeminae
September - Giving a talk at Beyond Documentary conference, 9th September, Organ Vida Festival, Croatia
September - YU: The Lost Country, interview with Snjezana Pavic for GLOBUS
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 8th September, Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
September - After Vermeer artist talk, 2nd September at 15.15, National Gallery Ireland
September - Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer exhibition opens on 1st September, National Gallery Ireland
July - 36 Little Good Things group exhibition, Cortona On the Move, Italy
June - Commissioned by National Gallery of Ireland to respond to their Vermeer exhibition
June - Featured in ‘How to Invest in Art’ article in The Independent
May - Artist in residence, Centre Culturel Irladais, Paris [until end of June]
May - YU: The Lost Country featured in XXZ Magazine
April - ARTFORUM review of My Own Unknown by Prudence Peiffer, April 2017
April - Interview in Serbian Newsweek, April 2017 [print editon]
April - Awarded Tyrone Guthrie Center residency
April - Featured in The Calvert Journal: Ones to watch
March - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
March - Interview with Orla Fitzpatrick in Gorse Journal #8
March - ‘A Conversation with Dragana Jurisic’ on Conscientious Photo Magazine
March - YU: The Lost Country featured on LensCulture
March - My Own Unknown essay by Natasha Christia on Aldebaran (Greek language)
March - My profile of the work of American photographer Nan Goldin on RTE Arena
March- An interview with Bellina Teresa on Shots & Murmurs
February - My Own Unknown featured on ARTFORUM Instagram feed
February - My Own Unknown, A Process Series II, Rawson Projects Gallery, New York, USA [opens 2nd February]
February - The featured artist in Honest Ulsterman Magazine
February - Interview in Shots & Murmurs
January - Post communistic nostalgia and photography essay by Milanka Todic
January - I Remember included in One Image Story [curated by Maria Kapajeva], Fast Forward
2016
December - A review of The Museum of August Destiny in The Irish Times
November - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Pearse Museum, Ireland - opens on 3rd
October - Nominated for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
October - Self-portraits, selfies and making images with Dragana Jurisic workshop
October - An interview with Marina Tkalcic on Libela
October - An advice on How to Develop a Project on Fototazo
October - An article about My Own Unknown exhibitions on Vizkultura
October - An interview in Bosnia's Oslobodjenje with Djordje Krajisnik
October - My portrait of Shane MacGowan makes it into '30 of the most powerful photographs' from the last 30yrs
October - In Residence II group exhibition featuring works of Picasso, Warhol, Arbus, etc. London, UK
September - Talking about my book YU: The Lost Country on 30th at Westport Town Hall Theatre
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opens on 28th September, Westport Arts Festival
September - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [4.34- 6.19min]
September - My Own Unknown exhibition opens in Spot Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia on 12th
September - ‘Between text, photography and video – Dragana Jurišić’, Suvremena Hrvatska Fotografija
August - YU: The Lost Country screening at Obscura Festival, George Town, Malaysia on 24th
August - An interview in Croatia's Novi List with Vedrana Simičević
August - Talking about My Own Unknown exhibition on Croatian National TV, [6.10-7.52min]
August - An interview in Croatia's Jutarnji List with Snjezana Pavić
August - My Own Unknown exhibition opens on 18th - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
August - ‘Glimpses Of A Lost World’, Rabble Eye
July - My Own Unknown exhibition reviewed by Darren Campion, as a part of criticism of PhotoIreland Festival
July - The Museum of August Destiny group exhibition at Lismore Casle, Ireland - opens on 15th
July - A 5 star review of My Own Unknown exhibition in The Irish Times, 12th July by Aidan Dunne
July - An essay about My Own Unknown in 1000 Words Magazine by Natasha Christia
July - Prix Pictet Award, nominated by Tanya Kiang, director of Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
June - My Own Unknown exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery opens 23rd
June - Dragana Jurisic’s photographic quest for her long-lost aunt in The Calvert Journal
June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Dun Laoghaire Library on 16th at 18.45
June - Talking about YU: The Lost Country at Photobook Bristol 10-13th, UK
June - Talking at YU: The Lost Country exhibition in Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona on 3rd June
May - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th at Agusti Centelles Library, Barcelona, as part of DOCfield
May - Interview with Colin Pantall: Photobooks, Philosophy and Spaghetti Westerns
April - Winner of Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
April - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
April - Looking for Yugoslavia, interview in Roads & Kingdoms Magazine
April - YU: The Lost Country featured on The Heavy Collective
March - Murmur Magazine interview
March - Awarded a six week residency at Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris, France, Summer 2017
March - Participating in 186th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
March - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 18th, Meeting Point, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
March - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Darren Campion for Photomonitor
February - My Own Unknown exhibition opening on 13th, Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland
February - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening on 1st, Illuminations, University of Maynooth, Ireland
2015
December - YU: The Lost Country book made The Best Books of 2015 on 1) Photobook Store by Rob Hornstra, Photo-Eye by two experts: 2) John Phelan and 3) Daniel Boetker Smith, 4) The Best Books from the East List (The Calvert Journal), on 5) Colin Pantal's The Best of 2015 List, 6) + 7) The Best Eastern European Photobook 2015 (by Rob Honstra and Ieva Meilutė- Svinkūnienė), 8) Gabriela Cendoya Best Books 2015
December - Featured essay in Autumn Issue of Archivo Magazine
December - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Vesna Vuković for Camera Austria Magazine
November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Irish Arts Review
November - Feld+Haus Gallery at Fotofever, Paris 12th-15th November
November - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed by Allie Haeusslein for Photo-eye
November - Interview published in Contemporary Croatian Photography
November - Artist talk at Photo Kathmandu
October - Jutarnji List article about YU: The Lost Country - 'Od Zagreba do Skopja' by Snjezana Pavic
October - BBC Ulster radio interview, aired on 18th October 9am-10am
September - Tportal (Croatia) and B92 article about YU: The Lost Country
September - Interview with BBC World Service Newshour about my book YU: The Lost Country (48min-53min)
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition opening at Feld+Haus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany on 11th
September - YU: The Lost Country book reviewed in The Guardian by Sean O'Hagan
August -YU: The Lost Country book review by Jensine Bethna Wall
August - YU: The Lost Country book launch, Oonagh Young Gallery, 5th August 6-8pm
July - Presenting my book YU: The Lost Country at leboudoir2.0 Arles on July 9th
July - Journey to YU about my project YU: The Lost Country, Origins gallery, 4nd July
July - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition opening, ArtBox, Dublin as part of PhotoIreland 2015 Festival - 2nd July
July - YU: The Lost Country book coming out on 15th.
May - 100 Muses exhibition opening, 28th of May at ArtBox, Dublin, Ireland
May - Giving an artist talk in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Studio 6 at 6pm, 26th May
May - Giving an artist talk at University of South Wales, UK on 21st May
May - Invited to Royal Hibernian Academy's 185th Annual exhibition
March - Once Upon a Picture exhibition opening on 27th March, The Arc, Dublin, Ireland
March - Journey to YU doc about my project YU: The Lost Country at Belgrade Irish Festival on 16th March
March - A reaction to my talk in Limerick by Bock The Robber
March - Giving an artist talk in Limerick School of Art and Design, 10th March
February - Artist talk in Deichtorhallen Hamburg on 28th February
February - Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland
January - Nominated for MACK First Book Award
2014
December - Participating in Periodical Review #4 exhibition, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland
December - Greetings from Ireland exhibition, Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
November - Artist talk, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
November - Won Wexford Arts Centre & The Arts Council's Emerging Visual Artist Award
November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Trihard
November - Arts Council Ireland Project Award for new work My Own Unknown
November - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in All That Glitters Is Not Gold
November - Group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
October - A part of YU: The Lost Country acquired by Irish State Art Collection
October - Artist talk at Burren College of Art, Ireland
October - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish Art Blog
October - YU: The Lost Country artist talk, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Irish News Review
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Incoherent Light
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in Le Cool Dublin
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition reviewed in The Independent
September - YU: The Lost Country on the front page of The Independent UK Magazine
September - My portrait of David Mitchell on the cover of The Independent’s Radar Magazine
September - Special Recognition by Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Prize for YU: The Lost Country
September - Bursary Award by Arts Council Ireland
September - YU: The Lost Country featured as one of the 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch internationally
September - YU: The Lost Country exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
August - Seeing Things published in Irish Arts Review
August - Awarded Artist Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France
July - Shortlisted for the Emerging Visual Artist Award, Ireland.
July - Photobook Club at Belfast Exposed talk, Belfast, UK
July - Group show, Feld+Haus gallery launch, Frankfurt, Germany
June - Awarded a residential studio award at Firestation Studios, Dublin, Ireland
May - Awarded a three year membership studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dubin, Ireland.
April - Selected to show work at the 184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
March - YU: The Lost Country talk at GRADCAM, Dublin, Ireland.
February - Let's Get Metaphysical exhibition, NOHO, Hamburg, Germany
January - YU: The Lost Country reviewed in Visual Artist Ireland by Andy Parson
January - Selections from Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission Exhibition, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
2013
December - PhD completed at European Centre for Photographic Research, University of South Wales, UK
December - (it's kind of like) telephone exhibition at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
December - Get the Picture? at Gijon Film Festival, Spain
November - Get the Picture? at Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden
November - Get the Picture? wins the Audience Award at Warsaw Film Festival, Poland
October - YU: The Lost Country opens at Belfast Exposed (24th October - 20th December), Belfast, UK
October - Get the Picture? at Hamptons Film Festival, USA
October - Get the Picture? at Raindance Film Festival, London, UK
September - Fading Lights are Fading at Flood with Tom Hunter, Martin Healy, Shane Lynam, Dublin, Ireland
September - Awarded Bursary Award from the Arts Council Ireland
September - Giving a talk at the NYU, The International Rebecca West biennial conference, New York, USA
August - 40/40/40, an exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Irish State Collection, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland
August - Received the Project funding from Belfast Exposed gallery in association with the Arts Council Northern Ireland, UK
August - YU: The Lost Country published in SOURCE Photographic Review, text by Colin Graham, Issue 75
July - New Irish Works exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, PhotoIreland Festival 2013, Dublin, Ireland
July - YU: The Lost Country published in New Irish Works, overview of contemporary photography in Ireland
June - Belfast Photo Festival, Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK
May - YU: The Lost Country published in Archivo '12 book
March - 40/40/40, an exhibition of artworks from the Irish State Collection at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in Madrid,
February - Get the Picture? wins the best documentary at Jameson Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
January - Selected for Plat(t)forms 2013 at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland