Shane Lynam is a photographer based in Dublin. His first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in September 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris. Alongside working on personal projects, Shane lectures at TU Dublin and Griffith College Dublin. He also works on selected commercial architectural and editorial projects. He is currently Artist in Residence at Photo Museum Ireland, where he is working towards printing and exhibiting a new body of work, titled Pebbledash Wonderland, in September 2024.
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Awards
The Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award, June 2022
Curtin O'Donoghue Photography Award, RHA Annual show, June 2018.
Gallery of Photography Solas Ireland Award, November 2015 .
Renaissance Photography prize finalist 2014, 2015.
Prix Pictet nomination, 2015.
Education
2010-2012 Master of Arts Documentary Photography. University of Wales, Newport School of Art, Media and Design, Newport, Wales, 2012
2004-2005 Master of Arts Degree in European Cultural Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2004
1999-2002 BA Economics and Politics. National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, 2003
Residencies
Artist Residency at Le Centre Culturel de Paris during October and November 2019.
Open Residencey Program, Cow House Studios, March 2023
Collections
The Gallery of Photography National Photograpy Collection
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Collection
Trinity College Dublin, Collections
The Office of Public Works State Art Collection
Lectures, Talks, Workshops
2023, Crawford College of Art, artist talk
2023, IADT, artist talk and photobook workshop
2019, RHA, Lens/Post Lens lecture programme, artist talk
2018, Photo Museum Ireland, Photobook Publishing workshop
2018, NCAD, artist talk
2018, Photo Museum Ireland, The Junior Symposium, career talk/discussion
2018, Read That Image, Make a Photobook workshop, guest tutor
2014, The Library Project, Aprés Paris talk
Selected editorial and commercial clients
The Financial Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, WIRED Magazine, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Business Week Magazine, Time Fortune Magazine, Society Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Currency, Aer Lingus Cara Magazine, Airbnb and Sofoot Magazine
Selected art work publications
The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The British Journal of Photography, ID Magazine, Fisheye Magazine, Flak Photo, Selektor Magazine and New Irish Works.
Exhibitions
2022 Image Are All We Have, Photoireland Festival, OPW Dublin
2022 In Our Image: Politics of Space , Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin
2022 RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin (invited artist)
2022 National Photography Collection Inaugural Exhibition , Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2021 Touriste (group exhibition), Centre d'art Hôtel Marron de Meillonnas de Bourg en Bresse, France
2020 RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin
2019 Centre Culturel Irlandais, Poetics of Space (with Aisling Mccoy)
2019 Paris Photo 2019, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris
2019 Fifty High Seasons Solo Show, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris.
2019 RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin
2019 Halftone, The Library Project, Dublin
2018, Installation based around book making process, The Library Project, Dublin
2018 RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin
2018 Trinity College Dublin recent acquisition exhibition, Arts Block TCD, Dublin
2017 RHA Summer show, three images, RHA, Dublin
2016 Inner Field, New Irish Works II, Library Project, Dublin
2016 New Irish Works II, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris
2016 Culture night group show, Bond Street Studios, Dublin
2016 Fifty High Seasons at Sternview Gallery, Cork
2016 RHA Annual Exhibition at the RHA, Dublin.
2016 Fifty High Seasons part of Circulations Festival at Le Cent Quatre,Paris
2016 Solas Awards exhibition at FOTOHOF, Salzburg
2015 Solas Awards exhibition at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin.
2015 Renaissance Photography Prize exhibition at Getty Images Gallery, London.
2015 Euroartphoto in conjunction with the European Commission at Museo Laboratorio di ArteContemporanea Università La Sapienza, Rome
2015 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2015 Remote Photo Festival Group Show, Letterkenny Donegal
2015 Fifty High Seasons preview show, The Library Project, Dublin
2015 Photobook Melbourne Award Exhibition, Melbourne
2014 Here From Now at Camden Image Gallery, London
2014 Selektor Magazine launch show, Library Project, Dublin
2014 Euroartphoto in conjunction with the European Commission at PallazodelleStalline, Milan and Rome (March 2015)
2014 Renaissance Photography Prize exhibition at Getty Images Gallery, London
2014 You Know What I’m Seeing, at Carte Blanche Gallery, San Francisco
2013 New Irish works at Duo Gallery, Paris
2013 Fading Lights are Fading at Flood Gallery, Dublin
2013 New Irish Works main event at PhotoIreland 2013
2013 Contours at Alliance Francaise, Dublin (solo)
2012 October, In Our Nature, MA Graduation show, Ffotgallery Cardiff
2011 November, MA halfway point show, Hereford Photo Festival, Hereford
Publications
2018 Fifty High Seasons Photobook (750 copies)
2016 Inner Field New Irish Works 2 booklet.
2016 Fisheye Magazine, Fifty High Seasons portfolio feature. 8 pages.
2016 JOIA Magazine, portfolio feature. 12 pages.
2015 British Journal of Photography projects section, Fifty High Seasons.
2015 New York Times Magazine editorial piece.
2015 Fortune Magazine editorial piece.
2014 We Are Dublin Magazine. Issue 2 feature.
2014 Selektor Magazine Monographs Issue 2 Shane Lynam.
2014 Greetings From Dublin Postcard Collection.
2014 Bloomberg Business Week Magazine editorial piece.
2014 UnlessYouWill Issue 30, Contours feature.
2013 New Irish Works by PhotoIreland.
2012 Source – Graduate Photography. ‘Contours’ was one of Brian Dillon's selections.
2012 Contours book dummy.
2012 Prism Photo Magazine Issue 11 Feature, (online photo magazine)
2011 Three images published in the Flak Photo Collection, (online collection of contemporary photography)
2011 LPV Magazine feature, (online webzine)
2011 If You Leave, printed photo publication 2012
Press, features & interviews
2022 Ultraviolet Art Talks Interview
2020 Pebbledash Wonderland feature on It’s Nice That
2019 Fifty High Seaons exhibition reviewed by L’Oeil de la Photographie
2018 Fifty High Seasons reviewed by Darren Campion for Irish Arts Review
2018 Fifty High Seasons reviewed in Source Magazine
2017 Interview with Epilogue Magazine
2016 Fifty High Seasons featured in the Guardian
2016 I-D Magazine, Fifty High Seasons article and feature.
2016 Interviewed by Darren Campion for Paper Journal interview
2016 Interviewed by Christiane Monarchi for Photomonitor
2015 September, Fifty High Season featured on the Huffington Post Italy
2015 August, Greetings From Dublin article in the Cork Examiner
2015 Fifty High Seasons post on Booooooom
2015 Fifty High Seasons post on AintBad Magazine
2014 Contours feature for online photography magazine Phases
2014 Inner Field post on Yet Magazine
2014 Kissing Eye Magazine Interview, March
2013 August, Contours reviewed by Sean O’Hagan for the Guardian online
2013 April, Contours reviewed by Le Cool Dublin
2013 May, Irish Independent ‘Behind the Lens’ feature.
2013 Contours featured on Prism Photo Magazine Issue 11 Feature
2012 LPV Magazine 'Everywhere & Nowhere' Online Interview
2012 100 Years of Photography at Newport
2011 Mull It Over Interview