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Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist & abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops & radical pedagogies.
Rigorously & creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from & moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement & resistance when we abolish colonial & capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender.
Refusing disciplinary coherence, their research dwells in the often incompatible & unarchived fragments physically found at the back of storage rooms or virtually spiralling down the threads of online forums as they scavenge for remnants of those who have been deliberately or accidentally excluded from society.
Léann Herlihy is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021, 2023, 2024, 2025] & Project Award [2024]. Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin [2022]; Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival [2022]. Select two person shows include pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre [2025]; False Start, GOMA, Waterford [2025]. Select group shows include EXPO CHICAGO, US [2026]; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria [2026]; Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art [2025]; Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Carlow [2025]; Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art [2024]; The Salvage Agency, TULCA [2024]; The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International [2023]; Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios [2023]. They are a Member Studio Artist [2024-27] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
I use ‘trans*’ rather than ‘trans’ to emphasise the unfixed category of transgender & refuse the conventional work of easy classification that such terminology usually performs.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist & abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops & radical pedagogies.
Rigorously & creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from & moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement & resistance when we abolish colonial & capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender.
Refusing disciplinary coherence, their research dwells in the often incompatible & unarchived fragments physically found at the back of storage rooms or virtually spiralling down the threads of online forums as they scavenge for remnants of those who have been deliberately or accidentally excluded from society.
Léann Herlihy is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021, 2023, 2024, 2025] & Project Award [2024]. Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin [2022]; Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival [2022]. Select two person shows include pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre [2025]; False Start, GOMA, Waterford [2025]. Select group shows include EXPO CHICAGO, US [2026]; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria [2026]; Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art [2025]; Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Carlow [2025]; Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art [2024]; The Salvage Agency, TULCA [2024]; The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International [2023]; Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios [2023]. They are a Member Studio Artist [2024-27] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
I use ‘trans*’ rather than ‘trans’ to emphasise the unfixed category of transgender & refuse the conventional work of easy classification that such terminology usually performs.