Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies.
Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender.
Employing a methodology of interdisciplinary collaboration, their practice actively de-centres the author and strives for multiplicity over a single narrative. Through this methodology, time and space become shared communal resources between an array of individuals as the parameters of individualism are resisted through a process of imagining how a collective might begin to live Otherwise.
Léann Herlihy is a lecturer at 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) and Project Award (2024). Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre (2022); Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival (2022). Select group shows include 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). Select residencies include TBG+S/HIAP International Residency Exchange, Helsinki International Artists Programme (2024); Steak House Live Artist in Residence, ]performance s p a c e[ (2020).