Mark Curran (born 1964) is an artist researcher & educator who lives & works in Berlin and Dublin. He holds a practice-led PhD from the Dublin Institute of Technology, is Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Photography programme, Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), Dublin and is Visiting Professor on the MA in Visual & Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. Incorporating multi-media installation informed by ethnographic understandings, since 1998, Curran has undertaken a cycle of long-term research projects, critically addressing the predatory context resulting from the migrations and flows of global capital. These have been extensively published and exhibited, including DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2010), Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai (2010), Encontros da Imagem, Braga (2011), Grimmuseum, Berlin (2013) & FORMAT, Derby (2013). Curran has also presented widely, most recently at McGill University, Montreal (2014), the Royal Anthropological Institute, London (2015), the University of Ljubljana (2015) & the University of Bern (2015). Supported by Arts Council of Ireland & curated by Helen Carey, THE MARKET continues the cycle & focuses on the functioning & condition of the global markets. It has been installed at the Gallery of Photography (2013), Belfast Exposed Gallery (2013), Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (2014) & Noorderlicht, Netherlands (2015). More recently, in autumn 2015, an extensive installation titled The Economy of Appearances was presented at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA). A full publication of THE MARKET is planned.