Solo Exhibitions

 
2022    Beyond Survival Bus Tour, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin, IE.
2022    the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE.
2020    STUNTMAN, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, ENG.
2019    Trojan Horse, Stroboskop Gallery, Warsaw, PL.
2018    Cervical Can Opener, the Fashion & Design Hub, Derry, NI.
2018    the child She didn't want, but the State did, the Complex, Dublin, IE.
2016    In sheep’s clothing, Ratakzacka 20, Poznań, PL.

Two Person Exhibitions

2025    pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IE.
2025    False Start →, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, IE.

Selected Group Exhibitions & Festivals 

2025    Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Rich Mix, London, ENG.
2025    Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE.
2025    Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL, Carlow, IE.
2025    Utopia Feeling Feeding Utopia, Eukaryote Gallery, Tokyo, JP.

2024    In Pieces: Navigating the Body in Contemporary Irish Art, The Glucksman, Cork, IE.
2024    The Salvage Agency, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, IE.
2024    Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art, Tkaronto/Toronto, CA.
2024    Apocalypse Anxieties, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. 
2024    Accidentally on Purpose, Turnus Gallery, Warsaw, PL.
 
2024    Orbits and Entropy, BCA Gallery, Burren College of Art, Clare, IE.
2023    FIX23, Catalyst, Belfast.
2023    The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International, Limerick, IE.
2023    Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2023    INTRA (depend on me, bby), Ugly Duck, London, ENG.
2023    Distro: On Artist Publishing, Con Smith Park, Cavan, IE.
2023    Art Works 2023!, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.
2023    Camp Trans, London, ENG.
2023    KIN, Milchhof Pavillon, Berlin, DE.
2023    Fated Love Sky, Singapore Art Week, SG.
2022    Periodical Review XI, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    SPRAWL, Creative Futures Academy, University College Dublin, Dublin, IE.
2022    TRANSFAG: a Celebration and a Manifesto, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Rich Mix, London, ENG.
2022    Live Collision International Festival, recreating Harun Morrison’s Nothing Special, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    TIDING, ]performance s p a c e[, London, ENG.
2021    Dubliners, the 6th Biennial of Painting, HDLU, Zagreb, HR.
2021    Pallas Ark Life, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.
2021    BIFPA 21, Belfast International Festival of Performance, Belfast, NI.
2020    ]ps[ Screens, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, London, ENG.
2020    Slow Sunday, Tonybee Studios, Artsadmin, London, ENG.
2019    Foreign Bodies, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
2019    Periodic Review IX, performance commissioned by Jobst Graeve, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.
2019    Exhibition of Foreign Artists Living in Poland, Warsaw Biennale, Warsaw, PL.
2019    ZABIH Performance Festival, Lviv, UA.
2019    the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, BG.
2018    Artist Army, Rebel Live Action, Bangkok, TH.
2018    New Spaces: Performative Occupation Interlocutor | Sandra Jõgeva & Léann Herlihy, commissioned by Visual Artists Ireland, Derry, NI.
2018    Atelier : Performance #13, Studio : Ilka Theurich, Hanover, DE.
2018    Performance Night, Galeria Miejska BWA Bydgoszcz, PL.
2018    What Now, Now What?, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, BG.
2018    Anticipation:Actualization, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, IE.
2017    Performance Platform Lublin, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.
2017    Boondocks III, Hannover, DE.
2017    Nasty Women, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IE.
2017    SANDMAN, The Complex, Dublin, IE.
2017    B-Open // PAB Open Session, Bergen, NO.
2017    Ban an Tí, Chocolate Factory, Dublin, IE.
2016    Cumulator 12, Echo Echo Dance Studio, Derry, NI.
2016    The Touching Contract, the Pillar Room, Rotunda, Dublin, IE; a performance commissioned by  Sarah Browne & Jesse Jones, In the Shadow of the State.
2016    XVIII International Art Festival Interakcje, Piotrków Trybunalski, PL.
2015    Performance Art Meeting, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.
2015    OPWA, Topolowa 1, Orońsko, PL.
2015    48 Stunden Neukölln, Up Project Space, Berlin, DE.
2015    XVII International Art Festival Interakcje, Piotrków Trybunalski, PL.
2015    UNEASE//NIEPOKÓJ, Up Gallery, Berlin, DE.

Residencies

2025    Sirius Artist Residency,Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, IE.
2024    TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, Helsinki International Artists Programme, Helsinki FI.
2024    Membership Studio (2024-2027), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2023    Next Generation Artists Award Residency, Arts Council Ireland in partnership with Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan, IE.  
2022    The Next Stage, Dublin Theatre Festival in partnership with Theatre Forum, Dublin, IE.
2022    Incubation Space Award, Museum of Everyone in partnership with the LAB, Dublin, IE.
2020    Steak House Live Artist in Residence, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, ENG.
2019    Assembly #2, Simiane-La-Rotonde, Provence, FR.
2017    Greywood Artist in Residence, Cork, IE.
2017    The Palace Arts Residency, Piotrowice Nyskie, PL.
2016    Reitir International Collaboration Project, Siglufjörður, IS.

Talks & Lectures

2025    False Start → Léann Herlihy and Lauren Conway in Conversation, Ba in (Hons) Visual Arts, South East Technological University & GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, IE.
2025    SAVE AS, a screening of An Unfinished Film at the Irish Film Institute, followed by Yujie Zhou and Léann Herlihy in conversation at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.

2024    the centre becomes the new margin, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, Dublin, IE.
2024    With Everything We’ve Got!: From Research to Realisation, Micro Studios, Department Of Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.
2023    NCAD: Zooms In: Léann Herlihy, School of Design, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.  

2023    to be nowhere: a year later, Department of Fine Art, Burren College of Art, Clare, IE.
2023    to be nowhere: a year later, Mirco Studios, STUDIO+, School of Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.
2023    Project Arts Centre Open Day: Artists with Disabilities, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE.
2023    Reflex Blue: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy in Conversation, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    inhabiting the middle of nowhere: Léann Herlihy & Gabriele Longega in Conversation, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, IE.
2021    Intergenerational legacies at Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s, National College of Art and Design in partnership with NIVAL, Dublin, IE.
2020    Art & Gender, Department of Sculpture & Expanded Practice, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.
2019    Assembly #2: Imagining New Performance Art Pedagogies, Live Art Development Agency (LADA), London, ENG.
2019    Art Forms: Bodies, Objects, and Empathy, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, PL.
2019    POWER POSE: QUEERING MONUMENTS, Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, PL.

2019    Léann Herlihy: the Eastern Question, Sofia Underground International Performance Art Festival, BG.
2018    BASIC TALKS Léann Herlihy, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, IE.
2017    HANDS, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork, IE.

Workshops

2025    Summer School on Landscape (post) Conflict, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE.
2023    Hedge School, Making Connections: Spring School, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    Go Deep, Museum of Everyone, Incubation Space, the LAB, Dublin, IE.
2022    Spring Survival School, Making Connections: Spring School, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    REWIND<<FASTFOWARD>>RECORD, IMMA, Dublin, IE.
2017    W O O D S H O P, Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Cork, IE.
2017    Improvisation, The Palace, Piotrowice Nyskie, PL.

Publications

 
2024    Herlihy, L., 2024. Beyond Survival School Bus: AUDIO TOUR, Galway: TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.
2024    Herlihy, L., 2024. UTOPIA, Dublin.
2024    Herlihy, L., 2024. Crimes Against Nature, In D. O’ Mullane & M. Ryalls, ed. CRUISING: Outdoors, Issue 4, London: Middlesex University.
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. Error_500_Cistem_Failure. In K. Zazenski, ed. POST Production No 2 of ∞, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. Extracts from Beyond Survival (2022). In E. Vasquez del Aguila, ed. SEXTANT: Sexualities, Masculinities & Decolonialities, Vol. 1(2), Dublin: University College Dublin.  
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. Error_500_Cistem_Failure. In K. Zazenski, ed. The Art of the Internet, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. to be nowhere. In J. Hearns and J. Scollard, eds. What Began As Desire, London: SMUT Press.
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. the centre becomes the new margin. In T. Roseingrave, ed. Frustrated Writers, Vol. 1, Dublin: Frustrated Writers Group.
2023    Herlihy, L., 2023. the centre becomes the new margin, Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.
2022    Herlihy, L., 2022. a cartography of the middle of nowhere, Dublin: Project Arts Centre.
2021    Herlihy, L., 2021. you filthy animal: humans, cows and horses. In E. Vasquez del Aguila, ed. Queer Notes, Vol. 1, Dublin: University College Dublin.  
2021    Herlihy, L., 2021. the start of the end / a year. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]
2020    Herlihy, L., 2020. Trojan Horse. In Y. Gluzman, S. Cleary and Z. Guttenplan, eds. Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 9, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse.
2019    Herlihy, L., 2019. CONSENT. In Y. Gluzman, S. Cleary and Z. Guttenplan, eds. Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, New York: Ugly Duckling Presse.
2017    Herlihy, L., 2017. The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]
2017    Herlihy, L., 2017. In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Mother. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online] 
2017    Herlihy, L., 2017. a Glove is a Gift. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online] 
2016    Herlihy, L., 2016. The Point? In J. Bałdyga, ed. Studio / Workshop: Performance Art, Perspective and Synthetic Educational Strategies. Pozńan: University of Fine Art Pozńan.
2016    Herlihy, L., 2016. a wolf in sheep's clothing. In P. Rowe, ed. Hollow IV. Boston: Broken Tooth Press.
2016    Herlihy, L., 2016. As Good as Gold. In P. Rowe, ed. Hollow IV. Boston: Broken Tooth Press.
2015    Herlihy, L., 2015. The Mason. In M. Bartoszek and H. Galjewska, eds. All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation. Orońsku: Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku.
2015    Herlihy, L., 2015. Moja-Twoja. In S. Brzoska, eds. Classics and Adepts of Polish Performance Art Katowice. Katowice: Academy of Fine Arts.

Reviews & Press

2025    Mooney, P., 2025. False Start, Waterford: The Munster Express.
2025    Little Interview with Léann Herlihy. Cork: The Glucksman.
2025    O’Brien, S. and Herlihy, L., 2025. Studio Spotlight: Sadbh O’Brien in Conversation with Léann Herlihy in 2025 Programme. Dublin: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
2025    Putnam, E., 2025. The Salvage Agency: El Putnam Reviews TULCA Festival of Visual Arts. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.
2024    Bélidor, E., 2024. Artists Wrestle With Global Turmoil at the Toronto Biennial. Brooklyn: Hyperallergic.
2024    Clarke, C., 2024. TULCA 2024: The Salvage Agency. Issue 482. London: Art Monthly Magazine.
2024    Glucksman, 2024. Cecily Brennan: PRESSURE / In Pieces: Navigating the body in contemporary Irish art. New York: e-flux.
2024    Creighton Keogh, S., 2024. Dublin Art Book Fair to showcase array of queer publications and creators. Dublin: GCN Magazine.
2024    Hill, M., 2024. How can I get an exhibition?. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.
2024    López, M.A., 2024. to be nowhere. In D. Fontaine and M.A. López, eds. Precarious Joys. Toronto: Art Metropole.
2024    Toronto Biennial of Art, 2024. Features: to be nowhere, Berlin: FRIEZE.
2024    Cutaya, M., 2024. Apocalypse Anxieties: Michaële Cutaya considers the current group exhibition at Luan Gallery. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.
2024    Tipton, G., 2024. It’s Hard to Look Away From the End of the World. Dublin: Irish Times. 
2024    Guinan, K., 2024. COLD WAR. Dublin: Irish Arts Review.
2024    Donnolly, R., 2024. Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy, Reflex Blue, TBG+S, 28 July–24 September, 2023. Dublin: Paper Visual Art.
2024    Zazenski, K., 2024. PUBLIC SPACE AND THE INTERNET: Digital gestures of radical love, blur, and resistance. In K. Zazenski, ed. POST Production No 2 of ∞, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.
2023    Kelleher, S., 2023. Practical Magic: Periodical Review 12. Dublin: Paper Visual Art.
2023    Walsh, M., 2023. 40th EVA International: Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. London: Third Text.
2023    Wasser, F., 2023.  EVA '23: Inside Ireland's international biennale of modern art. Dublin: RTE/ Culture.
2023    Monroe L.M., 2023. A Biennial in Ireland Shows What True Engagement with a Local Community Looks Like. New York: ARTnews
2022    Farhannah Thomas, M., 2022. f**got. London: ]performance s p a c e[. [online]
2021    Adilbek, A., 2021.  Decolonial Esthesis in Contemporary Art. Kazakhstan: Ariadna Media. [online]
2020    Herlihy, L., 2020. LADA: Featured artist of the month, London: Live Art Development Agency. [online]
2020    Mazur, A., & Zazenski, K., 2020. Q&A: Kathryn Zazenski / Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw: Blok Magazine. [online]
2019    Llewellyn, J., 2019. How Do You Teach Performance Art?. London: Frieze Magazine. [online]
2018    Rowe, P.S., 2018. Power in Obscurity. Boston: NeroBooks. [online]
2016    Kazmierczak, M., 2016. PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD OF ANTIMATTER. Poland: Fragile Magazine. [online]
2015    Bałdyga, J., 2015. Tradition is Important for Young Ukrainian Artists. Ukraine: ARTUP.

Awards

2024    Evolve Practice Award (Digital Media), Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin, IE.

2024    Project Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2024    Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2024    Regular Grant Scheme, Culture Ireland, IE.
2023    Membership Studio (2024-2027), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2023    Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2023    Chronic Connections: Networking for Sick and Disabled Artists, Chronic Collective in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin, IE.
2022    Next Generation Artists Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2022    Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2022    The Next Stage Wild Card Award, Dublin Fringe Festival, IE.
2022    Make Space for Art, Dublin Fringe Festival, IE.
2021    Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2021    Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.
2021    Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2020    WEDGE Funds, Carlow Arts Festival, IE.
2018    Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, NI.
2018    Young Artist Development Award, South Dublin County Council, IE
2017    SIAP General Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, NI.
2017    Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE.

2017    Travel Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, NI.

Collections

2022    Beyond Survival (2022), docu-film, Arts Council Collection, IE.
2022    Beyond Survival Expert (2022), billboard, Arts Council Collection, IE.
2022    i’d rather be a fag than be your bird (2022), performance, Arts Council Collection, IE.

Member

2024 - 2027    
Studio Member, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.


2024 - 2025    
Board Member, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.


2020 - ongoing 
Member, Praxis: The Artists’ Union of Ireland, SIPTU, IE.

Teaching

2024   
Visiting Lecturer
Queer Art Histories 
School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, IE.

2024   
Visiting Lecturer 
Master in Contemporary Art 
School of Fine Art, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE.

2023   
Visiting Lecturer
MFA/MA in Art & Ecology
School of Fine Art, Burren College of Art, Clare, IE.

2023   
Lecturer,
STUDIO+: FIELD 
School of Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IE. 

2022 - present   
Lecturer
STUDIO+: Placement
School of Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IE.

2021 - present   
Lecturer 
STUDIO+: Micro Studios
School of Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IE.

2021   
Lecturer 
Department of Sculpture & Expanded Practice 
School of Fine Art, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IE.

Education

2019 - 2020
Masters in Gender Studies
School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, IE.
Graduated with first class honours

2015 - 2016
Bachelor in Fine Art Sculpture & Spatial Awareness
University of Fine Art Ponzań, PL.
Graduated with first class honours

2012 - 2015
Bachelor in Art History and Fine Art Sculpture
National College of Art & Design, IE.
Transferred degree to UAP