Miriam de Búrca studied Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art and the Ulster University, Belfast where she received an Award of Excellence for a practice-based PhD in 2010.

De Búrca works with film, photography, installation and drawing, examining contemporary legacies of patriarchy and colonialism through a feminist, post-colonial lens. She mimics imperialist aesthetics and methods of knowledge-gathering that she feels at once attracted to and repelled by. Interrogating her subjects as if performing forensic examinations, she seeks to turn the scrutiny back on the scrutinisers.

Her drawings and film and video works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is represented by the Cristea Roberts Gallery, London and has works in several public and private collections. Her drawing has been published in Phaidon’s Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing, 2021, Irish Art 1920–2020: Perspectives on a Century of Change, eds. Yvonne Scott and Catherine Marshall, 2022, Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art, ed. Yvonne Scott, 2023 and The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art, ed. Susan Owens, Yale University Press, 2024. Miriam de Búrca lives and works in Galway, Ireland.