Hannah Starkey

Hannah Starkey (b. 1971, Belfast), lives and works in London. Starkey’s photographs engage with how women are represented in contemporary culture, revealing women in moments of private reflection, alienation or social interaction that might otherwise go unseen. In 2019, she was the winner of the Freelands Award with The Hepworth Wakefield, where she presented a major survey exhibition Hannah Starkey: In Real Life in 2022. 

Solo exhibitions include: Maureen Paley, London (2024); Principled & Revolutionary: Northern Ireland’s Peace Women, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2023); Celebrating City Women, Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall, London, UK (2020); Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France, (2016); Maureen Paley, London, UK (2015); Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (2011); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2000); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2000) and Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (1999).  Selected group exhibitions include: Lives Less Ordinary, Two Temple Place, London, Uk (2025); Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, UK (2024); Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK, travelling to: Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK; Millennium Gallery, Museum of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (2024). 

The most recent monograph of Hannah Starkey’s work was published alongside her 2022 exhibition, In Real Life at The Hepworth Wakefield.