CV
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Fesitval, Dublin.
2022 the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
2020 STUNTMAN, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2019 Trojan Horse, Stroboskop Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2018 Cervical Can Opener, the Fashion & Design Hub, Derry, United Kingdom.
2018 the child She didn't want; but the State did, the Complex, Dublin.
2016 In sheep’s clothing, Ratakzacka 20, Poznań, Poland.
Selected Festivals & Group Exhibitions
2022 Fringe! Film Fest, London, England.
2022 Live Collision International Festival, recreating Harun Morrison’s Nothing Special, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 TIDING, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone / London, England.
2021 Pallas Ark Life, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2021 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland.
2021 BIFPA 2021, Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2020 ]ps[ Screens, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2020 Slow Sunday, Steak House Live, London, England.
2019 Periodic Review #9, opening performance in collaboration with Jobst Graeve’s, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Exhibition of foreign artists living in Poland, Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 ZABIH Performance Festival, Lviv, Ukraine.
2019 the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 Artist Army, Rebel Live Action # 2, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018 New Spaces: Performative Occupation Interlocutor, the Walled City Brewery, Derry, United Kingdom.
2018 Atelier : Performance #13, Studio : Ilka Theurich, Hanover, Germany.
2018 Performance Night, Galeria Miejska BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2018 What Now, Now What, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 Anticipation:Actualization, NCAD Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Performance Platform Lublin, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
2017 Boondocks III, Hannover, Germany.
2017 Nasty Women, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland.
2017 SANDMAN, the Complex, Dublin, Ireland.
2017 Ban an Tí, the Chocolate Factory, Dublin, Ireland.
2016 Cumulator 12, Echo Echo Dance Studio, Derry, United Kingdom.
2016 The Touching Contract, the Pillar Room, Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland; a performance in collaboration with Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones in relation to their project In the Shadow of the State.
2016 XVIII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
2015 OPWA, Topolowa 1, Orońsko, Poland.
2015 UNEASE//NIEPOKÓJ, Up Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2015 XVII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
2015 Performance Art Meeting, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
Residencies
2021 MART Gallery Residency, Mart Gallery, Dublin.
2020 Steak House Live Artist in Residence, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2019 Assembly #2, Simiane-La-Rotonde, Provence, France.
2017 Greywood Artist in Residence, Cork, Ireland.
2017 The Palace Arts Residency, Piotrowice Nyskie, Poland.
2016 Reitir International Collaboration Project, Siglufjörður, Iceland.
Talks
2022 inhabiting the middle of nowhere: Léann Herlihy & Gabriele Longega in Conversation, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
2021 Intergenerational legacies at Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2019 Assembly #2: Imagining New Performance Art Pedagogies, Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London, England.
2019 Art Forms: Bodies, Objects, and Empathy, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Power Pose, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Léann Herlihy: the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 BASIC TALKS Léann Herlihy, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
2017 HANDS, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork.
Workshops
2022 Making Connections: Spring Survival School, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 REWIND<<FASTFOWARD>>RECORD, IMMA, Dublin.
2017 W O O D S H O P, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork.
2017 Improvisation, The Palace, Piotrowice Nyskie, Poland.
Publications
2022 a cartography of the middle of nowhere, text by Léann Herlihy, design by Kimberly Goes, Dublin: Plus Print; the Arts Council; Project Arts Centre.
2021 you filthy animal: humans, cows and horses, featured in Queer Notes, University College Dublin.
2021 the start of the end / a year, featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.2020 Trojan Horse, featured in Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 9, edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan, Ugly Duckling Presse.
2020 LADA: Featured artist of the month, Live Art Development Agency, London.
2019 CONSENT, featured in Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan, Ugly Duckling Presse. ISBN: 978-1-946433-63-3
2017 The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder, featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review and NERObooks, Boston, New York.
2017 In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Mother featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2017 The Point? featured in Janusz Bałdyga’s publication Studio Workshop. ISBN: 978-83-65578-24-2
2017 a Glove is a Gift featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2016 a wolf in sheep's clothing featured in Hollow IV, Broken Tooth Press, Boston.
2016 As Good as Gold featured in Hollow IV, Broken Tooth Press, Boston.
2016 SELF-SACRIFICE AS SUCCESS, self published.
2015 The Mason featured in All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation. ISBN: 978-83-64653-06-3
2015 Moja-Twoja featured in Classics and Adepts of Polish Performance Art Katowice 2015 ISBN: 978-83-63533-74-8
Reviews & Press
2022 Six Questions: Léann Herlihy, Tique: Publication on Contemporary Art, Antwerp.
2021 Decolonial Esthesis in Contemporary Art, by Aïda Adilbek in Ariadna Media Kazakhstan.
2019 How Do You Teach Performance Art?, by Jasper Llewellyn in Frieze Magazine.
2018 Power in Obscurity by Paul S. Rowe in the Boston literature journal NeroBooks.
2016 PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD OF ANTIMATTER by Malgorzata Kazmierczak in Fragile Magazine.
2015 Tradition is important for young Ukrainian artists by Janusz Bałdyga.
Awards
2022 Recipient of Next Generation Artists Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Visual Arts Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
2020 Recipient of Carlow Arts Festival’s WEDGE Funds.
2018 Recipient of the Travel Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2018 Recipient of the Young Artist Development Award by the South Dublin County Council.
2017 Recipient of the SIAP General Arts Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2017 Recipient of the Travel and Training Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2017 Recipient of the Travel Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Education
2019 - 2020
Masters in Gender Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland
Graduated with a first class honours
2015 - 2016
Bachelors in Fine Art Sculpture & Spatial Awareness
University of Fine Art Ponzań, Poland
Graduated with a first class honours
2012 - 2015
Bachelors in Art History and Fine Art Sculpture
National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Transferred degree to UAP
2022 Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Fesitval, Dublin.
2022 the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
2020 STUNTMAN, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2019 Trojan Horse, Stroboskop Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
2018 Cervical Can Opener, the Fashion & Design Hub, Derry, United Kingdom.
2018 the child She didn't want; but the State did, the Complex, Dublin.
2016 In sheep’s clothing, Ratakzacka 20, Poznań, Poland.
Selected Festivals & Group Exhibitions
2022 Fringe! Film Fest, London, England.
2022 Live Collision International Festival, recreating Harun Morrison’s Nothing Special, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 TIDING, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone / London, England.
2021 Pallas Ark Life, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2021 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon, Ireland.
2021 BIFPA 2021, Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2020 ]ps[ Screens, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2020 Slow Sunday, Steak House Live, London, England.
2019 Periodic Review #9, opening performance in collaboration with Jobst Graeve’s, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland.
2019 Foreign Bodies, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Exhibition of foreign artists living in Poland, Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 ZABIH Performance Festival, Lviv, Ukraine.
2019 the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 Artist Army, Rebel Live Action # 2, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018 New Spaces: Performative Occupation Interlocutor, the Walled City Brewery, Derry, United Kingdom.
2018 Atelier : Performance #13, Studio : Ilka Theurich, Hanover, Germany.
2018 Performance Night, Galeria Miejska BWA Bydgoszcz, Poland.
2018 What Now, Now What, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 Anticipation:Actualization, NCAD Gallery, Dublin.
2017 Performance Platform Lublin, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
2017 Boondocks III, Hannover, Germany.
2017 Nasty Women, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland.
2017 SANDMAN, the Complex, Dublin, Ireland.
2017 Ban an Tí, the Chocolate Factory, Dublin, Ireland.
2016 Cumulator 12, Echo Echo Dance Studio, Derry, United Kingdom.
2016 The Touching Contract, the Pillar Room, Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland; a performance in collaboration with Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones in relation to their project In the Shadow of the State.
2016 XVIII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
2015 OPWA, Topolowa 1, Orońsko, Poland.
2015 UNEASE//NIEPOKÓJ, Up Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2015 XVII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
2015 Performance Art Meeting, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland.
Residencies
2021 MART Gallery Residency, Mart Gallery, Dublin.
2020 Steak House Live Artist in Residence, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, England.
2019 Assembly #2, Simiane-La-Rotonde, Provence, France.
2017 Greywood Artist in Residence, Cork, Ireland.
2017 The Palace Arts Residency, Piotrowice Nyskie, Poland.
2016 Reitir International Collaboration Project, Siglufjörður, Iceland.
Talks
2022 inhabiting the middle of nowhere: Léann Herlihy & Gabriele Longega in Conversation, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
2021 Intergenerational legacies at Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2019 Assembly #2: Imagining New Performance Art Pedagogies, Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London, England.
2019 Art Forms: Bodies, Objects, and Empathy, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Power Pose, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland.
2019 Léann Herlihy: the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Bulgaria.
2018 BASIC TALKS Léann Herlihy, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
2017 HANDS, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork.
Workshops
2022 Making Connections: Spring Survival School, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 REWIND<<FASTFOWARD>>RECORD, IMMA, Dublin.
2017 W O O D S H O P, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork.
2017 Improvisation, The Palace, Piotrowice Nyskie, Poland.
Publications
2022 a cartography of the middle of nowhere, text by Léann Herlihy, design by Kimberly Goes, Dublin: Plus Print; the Arts Council; Project Arts Centre.
2021 you filthy animal: humans, cows and horses, featured in Queer Notes, University College Dublin.
2021 the start of the end / a year, featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.2020 Trojan Horse, featured in Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 9, edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan, Ugly Duckling Presse.
2020 LADA: Featured artist of the month, Live Art Development Agency, London.
2019 CONSENT, featured in Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan, Ugly Duckling Presse. ISBN: 978-1-946433-63-3
2017 The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder, featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review and NERObooks, Boston, New York.
2017 In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Mother featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2017 The Point? featured in Janusz Bałdyga’s publication Studio Workshop. ISBN: 978-83-65578-24-2
2017 a Glove is a Gift featured in in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2016 a wolf in sheep's clothing featured in Hollow IV, Broken Tooth Press, Boston.
2016 As Good as Gold featured in Hollow IV, Broken Tooth Press, Boston.
2016 SELF-SACRIFICE AS SUCCESS, self published.
2015 The Mason featured in All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation. ISBN: 978-83-64653-06-3
2015 Moja-Twoja featured in Classics and Adepts of Polish Performance Art Katowice 2015 ISBN: 978-83-63533-74-8
Reviews & Press
2022 Six Questions: Léann Herlihy, Tique: Publication on Contemporary Art, Antwerp.
2021 Decolonial Esthesis in Contemporary Art, by Aïda Adilbek in Ariadna Media Kazakhstan.
2019 How Do You Teach Performance Art?, by Jasper Llewellyn in Frieze Magazine.
2018 Power in Obscurity by Paul S. Rowe in the Boston literature journal NeroBooks.
2016 PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD OF ANTIMATTER by Malgorzata Kazmierczak in Fragile Magazine.
2015 Tradition is important for young Ukrainian artists by Janusz Bałdyga.
Awards
2022 Recipient of Next Generation Artists Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Visual Arts Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2021 Recipient of Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
2020 Recipient of Carlow Arts Festival’s WEDGE Funds.
2018 Recipient of the Travel Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2018 Recipient of the Young Artist Development Award by the South Dublin County Council.
2017 Recipient of the SIAP General Arts Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
2017 Recipient of the Travel and Training Award by the Arts Council of Ireland.
2017 Recipient of the Travel Award by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Education
2019 - 2020
Masters in Gender Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland
Graduated with a first class honours
2015 - 2016
Bachelors in Fine Art Sculpture & Spatial Awareness
University of Fine Art Ponzań, Poland
Graduated with a first class honours
2012 - 2015
Bachelors in Art History and Fine Art Sculpture
National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Transferred degree to UAP