"Using his body as a conduit for communion, Fay aims to reframe physical presence, offering rhizomatic reflections of the self that humbly navigate subject and environment. His practice incorporates a process of embodied knowing, exploring connection to and reclamation of the self, both in the physical reality and from/through the virtual. Each piece, though unique in tone, is honest, undeniably true to his demeanor. As a performer, Fay’s physical language is chameleonic, shifting between investigative narratives of humor, love, longing, pain and absence with confident ease."

— Yell Freeman, New York

Francis Fay is an Irish artist active on the domestic scene since 2012, and whose performance and curatorial projects have been presented nationwide at galleries, theatres, libraries and public spaces. 

Recent projects include 'Your Self-Made Super Human', his 2019 performance at Wexford Arts Centre. Francis's video trilogy, 'Queering the Landscape', developed at a Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency, premiered the same year at the 'Diffraction' screening,126 Gallery, Galway. In 2016, he was commissioned by Arts Council Ireland to perform at historic Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin in 'Future Histories', a response to the 1916 Rising.

Co-founder and curator of http://livestock-art.com/, a platform building audiences and promoting Irish performance art, Francis was also co-director of the Dublin Live Art Festival 2015. He gives annual performance arts workshops to graduates of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design.

The themes of his photographic montages include self portraiture and cityscapes, specifically that of the Dublin imaginary.