Biography
Seamus Harahan (b. Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 1968) is a video and installation artist whose film and sound based practice engages directly with place. He was a director of Catalyst Arts Belfast (1996-98). He was also an artist in residence at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2015), received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists (2009) and represented Northern Ireland in the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Screenings and exhibitions include: Fact or Fiction, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2015; 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (Jury Award, 2014); Cold Open / Before Sunrise, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2014) - which also the Jury Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA in the same year; Assembly, A survey of Recent Artists’ Films and Video in Britain (2008-13) held at Tate Britain, London (2013-2014); in the group exhibition Nought to Sixty, at the ICA, London (2008). He was the winner of the Film London Jarman Award 2015.