Mark Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland, he received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London and has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA where he was artist in residence at the Bemis and the Albers Foundations. He has taught in Europe and Asia and was inaugural Professor of Art at Yale NUS College. His work explores aspects of the phenomenology of light and has been reviewed in Flash Art, Turps Banana and the Sunday Times.