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Solo Exhibitions


2022    Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival,  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


2023    FIX23, Catalyst, Belfast, NI.
2023    The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International, Limerick, IE.
2023    Group show, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.
2023    Camp Trans, London, ENG.
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    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    TRANSFAG: a Celebration and a Manifesto, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, 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[, Folkestone, ENG.
2021   
Pallas Ark Life, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.

2021    BIFPA 2021, Belfast International Festival of Performance Art, Belfast, NI.
2020    ]ps[ Screens, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, ENG.
2020    Slow Sunday, Steak House Live, Tonybee Studios, Artsadmin, London, ENG.
2019    Periodic Review #9, opening performance in collaboration with Jobst Graeve’s, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IE.
2019    Foreign Bodies, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL.
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, BG.
2018    Artist Army, Rebel Live Action # 2, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018    New Spaces: Performative Occupation Interlocutor, the Walled City Brewery, 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, 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    Ban an Tí, the 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 and Jesse Jones for In the Shadow of the State.
2016    XVIII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, PL.
2015    OPWA, Topolowa 1, Orońsko, PL.
2015    UNEASE//NIEPOKÓJ, Up Gallery, Berlin, DE.
2015    XVII International Art Festival Interakcje , Piotrków Trybunalski, PL.
2015    Performance Art Meeting, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, PL.


Residencies


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

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.
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, 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


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


2023    to be nowhere, London: SMUT Press.
2023   
the centre becomes the new margin, Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.
2022    a cartography of the middle of nowhere, Dublin: Project Arts Centre.
2021   
you filthy animal: humans, cows and horses. In: E. Vasquez del Aguila, eds. Queer Notes, Vol. 1, Dublin: University College Dublin.
2021    the start of the end / a year, Dublin: in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
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.
2020    LADA: Featured artist of the month, London: Live Art Development Agency.
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    The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder, Dublin: in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2017    The sacrificed calf feeds from the swollen udder, Boston: NERObooks.
2017    In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Mother, Dublin: in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2016    The Point? In: J. Bałdyga, eds. Studio / Workshop: Performance Art, Perspective and Synthetic Educational Strategies, Pozńan: University of Fine Art Pozńan.
2017    a Glove is a Gift, Dublin: in:Action Irish Live Art Review.
2016    a wolf in sheep's clothing. In P. Rowe, eds. Hollow IV, Boston: Broken Tooth Press.
2016    As Good as Gold. In P. Rowe, eds. Hollow IV, Boston: Broken Tooth Press.
2016    SELF-SACRIFICE AS SUCCESS, Dublin: self-published.
2015    The Mason. In: M. Bartoszek and H. Galjewska, eds. All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation, Orońsku: Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku.
2015    Moja-Twoja. In: S. Brzoska, eds. Classics and Adepts of Polish Performance Art Katowice, Katowice: Academy of Fine Arts.



Reviews & Press


2022    f**got by Madinah Farhannah Thomas in ']performance s p a c e[‘.
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    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.



Education


2019 - 2020
Masters in Gender Studies
University College Dublin, Ireland
Graduated with first class honours

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

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






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