Eoghan Ryan

Eoghan Ryan works across video installation, performance, puppetry, text and collage to explore the intricacies of how power is communicated through mediated culture, specifically how working from inside a system can open space to question the structures that sustain its authority. His process involves long periods of editing and attention to a specific person, site, object or song, shaping these encounters into fable-like reflections on how shared narratives and individual experiences become entangled within broader institutional environments. He is currently interested in how histories of community action intersect with faith, and in the contradictions that emerge when movements grounded in pacifism and social justice align with compromised moral or religious positions.

Selected exhibitions and performances include EVA International, 2025 (IRE); IMMA (IRE); Ilmin Museum of Art (KR); Viewmaster Projects (NL); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT); Haus für Medienkunst (DE); Centrale Fies (IT); Busan Biennale 2022 (KR); Kunstverein Freiburg (DE); South London Gallery (UK); and Serralves Museum (PT). Selected screenings include BFMAF 2026 (UK); BFI Film Festival and ICA London (UK); IFFR (NL) and IFI, Dublin (IRE). He completed an MFA at Goldsmiths (2013), attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2019–21), and participated in VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2021). He received the Stiftung Niedersachsen Grant for Media Art (2024) and took part in the Dwell Here residency at IMMA (2025). His work is held in the collections of Busan MoCA (KR), Defares Collection (NL), and Stichting Van Beuningen/Peterich-Fonds (NL).