Maria McKinney is a visual artist based in Dublin. She recently completed a significant body of work that considered the use of genomics in modern cattle-breeding, resulting in a solo exhibition in the RHA (Dublin), funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council of Ireland Project Award.

She will be taking part in Skowhegan 2017, an International summer school in the countryside of Maine, USA.

Previous solo exhibitions include Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium (2016), La Permanence, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2015), the MAC, Belfast (2012) and the Lab Gallery, Dublin (2010). She was shortlisted for the MAC International 2014 and has completed residencies in the UCD school of science 2015/16 and Fire Station Artists Studios 2012-2015. In April 2017 she will begin a three-year tenure in Temple Bar Studios.

Courtesy of JRC Summer School 2018 documentation