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Marianne Keating is an Irish artist and researcher based in London. Her practice-based research addresses Irish histories and overlooked histories of the Irish diaspora, particularly the Irish diaspora in Jamaica, which she narratively reconstructs through their visual, material and oral traces, alongside intensive on-site investigation. Through accumulating these disregarded and overlooked traces, she seeks to insert previously-muted or silent voices into the archive and infuse them with presence.
She holds a practice-based PhD in Visual and Material Culture from Kingston University, (London); an MA from the Royal College of Art (London); and a BA from Limerick School of Art and Design, (Ireland).
She has exhibited widely alongside upcoming participation in the 25th Biennale of Sydney in March 2026. Recent exhibitions including RHA (Royal Hibernian Academy) Dublin, Ireland; Irish Pavilion, World Expo, Osaka, (Japan); The Model, Sligo, (Ireland); Limerick City Gallery of Art, (Ireland); Whitechapel Gallery (London); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (Ireland); Jaou Tunis: Contemporary Art Biennale, (Tunisia); Rua Red, Dublin (Ireland); The Crawford Art Gallery (Ireland); South London Gallery (London); and the Barbados Museum (Barbados). In 2022, she was shortlisted to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale. Her work has been supported by multiple awards from the Arts Councils of Ireland and England, and she has undertaken residencies in Jamaica, Barbados, Paris, Berlin, and New York. Her work is held in public and private collections across Ireland, the UK, Italy, and the USA.
Collaging across media, performance and the archive, two films probe the architectures—material, political, and psychic—that shape Irish identity across borders. From a punative contemporary asylum system to the miasma of surveillance and hostility that shadowed Irish migrants to Britain in the 1970s and 80s, they expose a spectacle of belonging maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.
