Declan Long
Declan Long is an Irish art critic and lecturer specialising in contemporary art made in ‘Post-Troubles’ Northern Ireland.Career
Declan Long is programme director of the MA course 'Art in the Contemporary World' at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.
He frequently appears on Arena on RTÉ Radio 1, discussing and reviewing contemporary art. His criticism is regularly published in Artforum, Frieze, and Source Photographic Review. In 2013 Long was a member of the judging panel for the Turner Prize. He is also a board member of the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
He has written gallery texts for numerous exhibitions including: Willie Doherty, Isabel Nolan, Jesse Jones, Mamma Andersson, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Lothar Hempel, William McKeown, Fergus Feehily, Clodagh Emoe, Nina Canell, and Linda Quinlan.
His recent book, Ghost-haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-troubles Northern Ireland, was described in The Irish Times as "a foundational work of art criticism that will stand alongside Colin Graham’s study of photography and the North as a first point of reference for anyone interested in the Troubles and their cultural legacies."
