Martin John Callanan is an artist researching an individual's place within systems. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communication (Photography) from Birmingham City University in 2003 and an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2005, where, between 2007-2019 he was Teaching Fellow in Fine Art Media and a member of Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA).
Callanan’s artwork has been exhibited and published internationally. He was awarded the prestigious triennial Philip Leverhulme Prize in Visual Art 2014-17 for his outstanding research, and was an artist in residence at the Bank of England around the same time. In September of 2015 he was awarded the title of Alumnus of the Year for Excellence in Arts by Birmingham City University.
Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Noshowspace, Horrach Moya, Casal Solleric, Baltic 39, and Or Gallery, Berlin. His work has been shown at White Cube, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, V2, Arts Santa Mònica, James Cohan Gallery, Es Baluard Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronic Centre, ISEA, FutureEverything, Art Exchange, LIFT 2014, Battersea Arts Centre, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Riga Centre for New Media Culture, Whitstable Biennale, Imperial War Museum North, and published by Book Works.
