Daphne Wright (b. 1963, County Longford, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin.

Wright creates sculptural installations that address often unspoken human experience. Working across materials including plaster, tinfoil, unfired clay, sound, and video, she employs fragile and ephemeral media to explore vulnerability, care, and impermanence. Her practice focuses on thresholds and transitional states, examining the spaces between childhood and adulthood, presence and absence, and life and death.

Wright has exhibited internationally, including at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the Tate Gallery, Liverpool; the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; the Davis Museum, USA; the Hellenic Parliament with NEON, Athens; the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon; and Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2018, she curated The Ethics of Scrutiny at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).

She is the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award, the Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship, and the British School at Rome Fellowship. Wright is a member of Aosdána and is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London.

Her work is held in major public collections including Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; the National Gallery of Ireland; Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA); Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; and the RISD Museum, Providence.