Born 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Yale Art Gallery, New haven, USA
2014
Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom
2013
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
2012
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
2011
National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom
2009
BX Belfast, Northern Ireland
2006
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2005
Musee International de la Croix- Rouge, Geneva, Switzerland
2005
The Santa Cruz Museum, Toledo, Spain
2004
Contemporary Art Institute, Brighton, United Kingdom
2004
The Photographers Gallery, London
2004
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2004
BX Belfast, Northern Ireland
1998
National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, United Kingdom
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
The Spaces of Confinement, Venice Architecture Biennales, Italy
2014
Postcards from America, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
2014
Art of The Troubles, Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland
2014
Radical Transformation, Magnum Photos into the Digital Age, Harry Ransom Center
2014
Arctic Exposure, Canada's North, McMichael Museum, Ontario, Canada
2013
Drone/ The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photography, Montreal, Canada
2013
Austin, Texas, USA, Trans-Territories, America Barracks, Mannheim - Ludwigshafen, Germany
2013
Northern Ireland, 30 Years of Photography, The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2013
L'Italia E Gli Italiani, Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza
2011
The Long View, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
2011
New Topography of War, Le Bal, Paris, France
2011
Look 11, British Watchtowers, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2010
Duestsch Borse Photography Award, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
2010
The Land Between Us, Power Place and Dislocation, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
2010
Duestch Borse Photography Award, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
2010
Magnum - Shifting Media, Robert Capa to Donovan Wylie, Berlin, Germany
2008
The Image to Come, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2008
New Typologies, New York Photography Festival, USA
2008
The Image to Come, Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France
2006
360 Degree Climate Change, United Nations, New York, USA
2006
Magnum Ireland, Omeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2006
Magnum Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2005
Euro Visions, The New Europeans, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
Euro Visions, Triennale, Milan, Italy
2005
Euro Visions, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2005
Euro Visions, Ludwig Museum of Cintemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
2005
Spells of Childhood, Tampere Art Museum, Finland
2005
Euro Visions, Musees royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussells, Belgium
2003
Stepping In, Stepping Out, Contemporary Documentary Photography, V&A, London, United Kingdom
2003
Magnum Degrees, Barbican Centre, London
2003
Global Detail, Noorderlicht, Netherlands
2001
Postfuhramt, Berlin, Germany
1999
Album/Internal Conflicts, Donovan Wylie/Willie Doherty, Saison Photographique D'Octeville, France
1998
British Looking at The British, Rencontres Arles, France
Books and Monographs
2015
North Warning System, Germany: Steidl
2014
The Tower Series, Germany: Steidl, Essay's by Louise Purbrick and Gerry Badger
2011
Outposts, Kandahar Province: Steidl, Essay by Gerry Badger
2010
Maze, Volume 1 & 2, Germany: Steidl, Essay by Louise Purbrick
2009
Scrapbook, London/Germany: Steidl/AMC
2007
British Watchtowers, Germany: Steidl, Essay by Louise Purbrick
2004
The Maze, London: Granta Books
Selected Bibliography
2015
Postcard From America: Rochester 585 716. (March 2015). New York: Aperture. Published in collaboration with Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco.
2015
Alexander, J.A.P. (Jan 2015). Perspectives on Place: Theory and Practice in Landscape Photography. Bloomsbury.
2014
Stand Quarterly: Issue No5, Defence. (Oct 2014). Images by Karel Funk, Travis Hocutt, Trevor Pagan, Donovan Wylie.
2014
Kennedy, L. Patrick, C. (June 2014). The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict. I,B, Tauris.
2014
Martin Parr & Gerry Badger. (March 2014). The Photobook: A History, Volume 3 (Scrapbook). Phaidon Press.
2013
Wombell, P. (Jun 2013). Drone: The Automated Image (Artists; Raphael Dallaporta, Thomas Ruff, Pascal Dufaux, Jules Spinatsch, Penelope Umbrico, Cherly Sourkes, Wassink Lundgren, Mishka Henner, Elina Brotherus, Trevor Paglen, Donovan Wylie). Kerber Verlag.
2013
Aperture Magazine: Issue 210, Hello Photography. (Spring 2013). Intro by Chris Boot (Featured artists: Jim Goldberg, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alec Soth, Zoe Strauss with Ashley Thompson, Mikhael Subotzky, Donovan Wylie). Aperture.
2013
Swap Shop: Postcards From America IV. (2013). Bruce Gilden, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Gilles Peress, Mark Power, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alec Soth, Zoe Strauss, Mikhael Subotzky, Donovan Wylie. Magum Photos.
2013
Graham, G. (May 2013) Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography. Belfast Exposed Photography.
2013
Holzherr, A. (Sept 2013). Trans Territories. (Magnum Group). Kehrer Verlag.
2013
Geoff Dyer & Steven Hoelscher. (2013) Reading Magnum (Magnum Group). University of Texas Press.
2012
Noel Kelly & Sean Kissane. (Nov 2012). Creative Ireland. Irish Museum Of Modern Art & Visual Artists Ireland.
2012
Cimorelli, D. (January 2012). Italy and the Italians (Chris Anderson, Bruce Gilden, Harry Gruyaert, Richard Kalver, Alex Majoli, Paolo Pellegrin, Mark Power, Mikhael Subotzky, Donovan Wylie). Silvana.
2012
Aiello, G. (2012). The Other Europeans: Semiotic imperative of style in Euro Visions by Magnum Photographers. Visual Communication, 11(1), 49-77.
2011
Jean Yves Jouannais & Diane Dufour. (Septemeber 2011). Topography of War, (Paola De Pietri, Jananne Al-Ani, Jo Ractliffe, An-My Le, Harun Farocki, Till Roeskens, Eyal Weizman, Luc Delahaye, Donovan Wylie). Steidl/Le Bal, Paris.
2011
Moritz Neumuller & Angel Luis Gonzalez. (August 2011). Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade. Publisher: PhotoIreland.
2011
Lubben, K. (Oct 2011). Magnum Contact Sheets. Phaidon.
2011
Carville, J. (Nov 2011). Photography and Ireland. Reaktion Books.
2010
Draft Magazine: Issue 6. (2010). Anthony Burril, Astrid Proll, David Dawson, David Evans, Dinos Chapman, Donovan Wylie, Draft, Garry Hume, Ian Jeffrey, Jake Chapman, Jem Finer, Jeremy Deller, Jim Campbell, John Ruskin, Linus Carr, Lu Zongguang, Martin Parr, Sophie Spencer-Wood, Stephen Gill, Thom Lewis. Draft/AMC 2010.
2010
Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2010. (Feb 2010). Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber, Donovan Wylie. Publisher: The Photographers Gallery.
2010
Where are the People ? (2010). Contemporary Photographs of Belfast 2002 - 2010. Publisher: Belfast Exposed Photography.
2009
Hicks, D. McAtackney, L. Fairclough, G. (June 2009). Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage (pp, 37 - 38). Left Coast Press.
2008
Cowley, J. (July 2008). The New Nature Writing: Donovan Wylie, Demolishing the Maze. Granta.
2007
Olivier Assayas & Alain Bergala. (May 2007). The Image To Come: How Cinema Inspires Photographers. Steidl.
2006
Martin Parr & Gerry Badger. (2006). The Photobook: A History, Volume 2. (Maze). Phaidon Press.
2005
North South East West: A 360 degree view of Climate Change. (2005).
Publisher: The Climate Group.
2005
Brigitte Lardinois & Val Williams. (Nov 2005). Magnum Ireland (Magnum Group). Thames & Hudson.
2005
Quentin Bajac & Diane Dufour. (2005). Euro-Visions. Centre Georges Pompidou.
2003
Ignatieff, M. (Nov 2003). Magnum Degrees (Magnum Group). Phaidon Press.
2003
Global Detail: Photography and Globalisation (Curator: Wim Melis, Design: Dirk E. de Jong). Idea Books.
2002
Masoud Golsorkhi & Andreas Laeufer. (June 2002). Tank Book: Best of Tank Magazine 1998 - 2000 (Stephen Gill, Martin Parr, Michael Danner, Julie Verhoeven, Thierry van Biesen, Donovan Wylie). Thames & Hudson.
1999
Bragg, M. (1999). Vision: 50 Years of British Creativity (Losing Ground). Thames & Hudson.
1998
Val Williams & Gabriel Bouret. (Nov 1998). Un Nouveau Paysage Humain: The English Seeing the English. Rencotes Internationale de la Photographie, Arles. (Anna Fox, Julian Germain, Antony Haughey, Sarah Jones, Patrick McCoy, Daniel Meadows, Mark Power, Paul Reas, Paul Seawright, Hannah Starkey, Clare Strand, Nick Waplington, Donovan Wylie). Actes Sud.
1997
Photo Poche 69: Magnum Photos (Magnum Group). (1997). Editions Nathan, Paris.
1997
Jack, I. (Jan 1997). Granta 56: What Happened To US (Out of It). Granta Books.
1996
Blind Spot. (1996). Jeff Brouws, Richard Misrach, Mark Lyon, Tokihiro Sato, Joseph Bartscherer, Lia Nalbantidou, James Casebere, Anna Bokstrom, A,M, Homes, Mike Smith, Lindsay Brice, Donovan Wylie, Gladys, John Waters, Stephen Tourlentes, Kim Zorn Caputo. Blind Spot/Robert Mann Gallery.