CV
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2025 With Everything We’ve Got! [title pending], Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IE.
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.
Selected Group Exhibitions & Fesitvals
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
2024 With Everything We’ve Got!: From Research to Realisation, 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
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
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 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