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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.

2018    
New Spaces: Performative Occupation Interlocutor | Sandra Jõgeva & Léann Herlihy

commissioned by Visual Artists Ireland, Derry, NI.



Group Exhibitions
2026  
EXPO Chicago
Frieze Art Fair, Navy Pier, Chicago, US.

2026  

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE

Gallery Augusta, HIAP, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, FI.

2026  

PLAYING GOD

INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONAL, Innsbruck, AUS.

2025  

The Body Is a Thing in Time

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest x Live Art Development Agency, 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, NI. 

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
   
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
2026    
Askeaton Contemporary Art/Hyde Park Art Centre Residency Exchange
Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, US.  

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

Killeagh, Cork, IE.

2017
   
The Palace Arts Residency

Piotrowice Nyskie, PL.

2016
   
Reitir International Collaboration Project

Siglufjörður, IS.


Talks & Lectures 
2026    
Fine Art Talks: Léann Herlihy
School of Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IE.

2026    
What is a Creative Producer?

KUNSTVEREIN x Mermaid Arts Centre, Dublin, IE.

2026    

LYÓNN WOLF: READING AND IN-CONVERSATION WITH LÉANN HERLIHY

Flat Time House, London, ENG.

2025  

Entangled Life: Intersectionality in Art and Climate
Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin, IE.

2025    

pass the baton: Léann Herlihy and Laura O Connor in Conversation

Galway Arts Centre & Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, IE.

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 Pedagogie
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    
ROOTING 4 U

Léann Herlihy & Laura O’ Connor, Galway Arts Centre & Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, IE.

2025
   
ON THE ROPES: 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.


Texts & Publications
2024    
Beyond Survival School Bus: AUDIO TOUR
Herlihy, L. Galway: TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.

2024    

UTOPIA
Herlihy, L. Dublin.

2024  

Beyond Survival School Bus

Herlihy, L. In M. Horrigan, ed. THE SALVAGE AGENCY, Galway: TULCA Festival of Visual Arts.

2023    

Error_500_Cistem_Failure.
Herlihy, L. In K. Zazenski, ed. POST Production No 2 of ∞, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.

2023    

Extracts from Beyond Survival (2022).
Herlihy, L. In E. Vasquez del Aguila, ed. SEXTANT: Sexualities, Masculinities & Decolonialities, Vol. 1(2), Dublin: University College Dublin.  

2023    

Error_500_Cistem_Failure.
Herlihy, L. In K. Zazenski, ed. The Art of the Internet, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.

2023
   
to be nowhere.
Herlihy, L. In J. Hearns and J. Scollard, eds. What Began As Desire, London: SMUT Press.

2023
   
the centre becomes the new margin.
Herlihy, L. In T. Roseingrave, ed. Frustrated Writers, Vol. 1, Dublin: Frustrated Writers Group.

2023    

the centre becomes the new margin,
Herlihy, L. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.

2022    

a cartography of the middle of nowhere,
Herlihy, L. Dublin: Project Arts Centre.

2021
   
you filthy animal: humans, cows and horses.
Herlihy, L. In E. Vasquez del Aguila, ed. Queer Notes, Vol. 1, Dublin: University College Dublin.  

2021    

the start of the end / a year.
Herlihy, L. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]

2020    

Trojan Horse.
Herlihy, L. 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    

CONSENT.
Herlihy, L. 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.
Herlihy, L. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]

2017    

In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son, in the name of the Mother.
Herlihy, L. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]  

2017
   
a Glove is a Gift.
Herlihy, L. In in:Action Irish Live Art Review. [online]  

2016    

The Point?
Herlihy, L. In J. Bałdyga, ed. Studio / Workshop: Performance Art, Perspective and Synthetic Educational Strategies. Pozńan: University of Fine Art Pozńan.

2016    

a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Herlihy, L. In P. Rowe, ed. Hollow IV. Boston: Broken Tooth Press.

2016    

As Good as Gold.
Herlihy, L. In P. Rowe, ed. Hollow IV. Boston: Broken Tooth Press.

2015    

The Mason.
Herlihy, L. In M. Bartoszek and H. Galjewska, eds. All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation. Orońsku: Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku.

2015
   
Moja-Twoja.
Herlihy, L. In S. Brzoska, eds. Classics and Adepts of Polish Performance Art Katowice. Katowice: Academy of Fine Arts.      


Reviews & Press
2025    
FILE NOTE IX
Więkiewicz, M. Dublin: Firestation Artists Studios.

2025    

Ireland Invites: Joanne Laws reports on a pilot initiative to enhance the international exposure of Ireland-based artists
Laws, J. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.

2025    

Dreamtime Ireland review - Blockbuster show tied together by piquant focus on nationhood
Lordan, T. Dublin: Irish Times.

2025    

False Start
Mooney, P. Waterford: The Munster Express.

2025    

Little Interview with Léann Herlihy

Cork: The Glucksman.

2025    

Studio Spotlight: Sadbh O’Brien in Conversation with Léann Herlihy in 2025 Programme
O’Brien, S. and Herlihy, L. Dublin: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

2025    
The Salvage Agency: El Putnam Reviews TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Putnam, E. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.

2024    

Artists Wrestle With Global Turmoil at the Toronto Biennial
Bélidor, E. Brooklyn: Hyperallergic.

2024  
TULCA 2024: The Salvage Agency
Clarke, C. Issue 482. London: Art Monthly Magazine.

2024
 
Cecily Brennan: PRESSURE / In Pieces: Navigating the body in contemporary Irish art
Glucksman. New York: e-flux.

2024    

Dublin Art Book Fair to showcase array of queer publications and creators
Creighton Keogh, S. Dublin: GCN Magazine.

2024    

How can I get an exhibition?
Hill, M. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.

2024    

to be nowhere
López, M.A. In D. Fontaine and M.A. López, eds. Precarious Joys. Toronto: Art Metropole.

2024    

Features: to be nowhere
Toronto Biennial of Art. Berlin: FRIEZE.

2024    

Apocalypse Anxieties: Michaële Cutaya considers the current group exhibition at Luan Gallery
Cutaya, M. Dublin: Visual Artists New Sheet.

2024    

It’s Hard to Look Away From the End of the World
Tipton, G. Dublin: Irish Times.

2024    

COLD WAR
Guinan, K. Dublin: Irish Arts Review.

2024    

Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy, Reflex Blue, TBG+S, 28 July–24 September, 2023
Donnolly, R. Dublin: Paper Visual Art.

2024
   
PUBLIC SPACE AND THE INTERNET: Digital gestures of radical love, blur, and resistance
Zazenski, K. In K. Zazenski, ed. POST Production No 2 of ∞, Riga: Art Academy of Latvia.

2023
   
Practical Magic: Periodical Review 12
Kelleher, S. Dublin: Paper Visual Art.

2023
   
40th EVA International: Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art
Walsh, M. London: Third Text.

2023
   
EVA '23: Inside Ireland's international biennale of modern art
Wasser, F. Dublin: RTE/ Culture.

2023
   
A Biennial in Ireland Shows What True Engagement with a Local Community Looks Like
Monroe L.M. New York: ARTnews

2022    

f**got
Farhannah Thomas, M. London: ]performance s p a c e[. [online]

2021
 
Decolonial Esthesis in Contemporary Art
Adilbek, A. Kazakhstan: Ariadna Media. [online]

2020    

LADA: Featured artist of the month
Herlihy, L. London: Live Art Development Agency. [online]

2020    

Q&A: Kathryn Zazenski / Stroboskop Art Space
Mazur, A., & Zazenski, K. Warsaw: Blok Magazine. [online]

2019    

How Do You Teach Performance Art?
Llewellyn, J. London: Frieze Magazine. [online]

2018    

Power in Obscurity
Rowe, P.S. Boston: NeroBooks. [online]

2016
   
PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD OF ANTIMATTER
Kazmierczak, M. Poland: Fragile Magazine. [online]

2015
   
Tradition is Important for Young Ukrainian Artists.
Bałdyga, J. Ukraine: ARTUP.


Awards
2025    
Visual Arts Bursary

Arts Council of Ireland, IE.

2025    

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.


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


2024 - 2026
 
Board Member
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE.


2020 - 2026  

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


Teaching
2025    
External MFA Thesis Examiner
Master in Contemporary Art, School of Fine Art, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, EE. 

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 - 2025
  
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.