Shia Conlon

Shia Conlon (b. 1990, Ireland) is a Helsinki-based writer, artist, and organiser working across photography, film, publishing, and sculpture. He co-founded Trans Library Helsinki, a community space holding regular open days, events and an annual film festival. An MFA graduate of Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, he has exhibited internationally and is held in major collections including Helsinki Art Museum and the National Photographic Collection of Ireland. In his work, he employs speculative fiction to envision what might have existed in the face of archival absences, treating absence as a material condition and approaching desire as a methodology through which trans people interpret and claim complex, non-linear narratives.