CV

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