Mark Durkan is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. His practice involves video, performance, installation and is often collaborative and context led. Marks work negotiates the politico-cultural relationship inherent in the building of identities. Drawn to contradiction, Mark engages in a dichotomous interplay of mutually consentient but contradictory components that are intrinsic to the understanding of identity formation. Employing roleplaying processes and simulation methodolgies, he engages with the architectural presence of a space and the people that embody it. Focusing on places undergoing transition and mechanisms of conflict, he transposes people and place with a joint idiom of value and threat.

Mark is the director of Parking Meter Arts and a curator for Transitopia 2008. He is also a member of the art collective Standard Features and the multi-disciplinary research group Terraform. Mark graduated with a first class honours degree in fine art, sculpture from the National College of Art and Design in 2007. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Eigse 2011, 3331 Arts Chiyoda in Tokyo, the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in Dublin, Fabricca del Vapore and Via Farini in Milan and in the German Chancellery in Berlin.