Education
2016
Limerick School of Art & Design LIT
MA SPACE, Master of Arts Art and Design Social Practice and the Creative Environment
2014
Limerick School of Art & Design LIT (Limerick Institute of Technology)
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Art, (Sculpture & Combined Media)
Memberships
126 gallery,15 St Bridget’s Place
Hidden Valley, Woodquay, Galway Cityhttps://126gallery.com/
Artlink Ltd ,Fort Dunree ,Inishowen, County Donegal , http://www.artlink.ie/
VAI Visual artists Ireland, the Representative Body for Visual Artists in Ireland Professional member,http://visualartists.ie
Former Member Wickham Street Studios, Wickham Street Limerick.
Recent Exhibitions & Projects
2019 Assembly required(tactical urban fabrications) | Laboratory of Common Interest, Limerick.
Co-Production with Fiona Woods, Freespace . 15th April ,Fab Lab.
2018 Everyday Encounters : Artlink Members Show Curated by Rita McMahon Fort Dunree, Buncrana, Co. Donegal 21st July-9th September.
Cairde Visual The Model, The Mall, Sligo Jul. 11, 2018 – Aug. 19, 2018
OH Everywhere there’s gladness
Michael Cleary &Maeve Lynch
Curated by Alison Fogarty
Cork Photo Gallery, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park
Jan 13th -28th
2017
Quarter Block
North & South Main Street, Cork.
Friday 3 February 2017 (participatory public art event)
http://quarterblockparty.com/line-up/alternativeroutes/
2016
Alternative Route/Tactical Devices Workshop,
Ormston House.
10th September 2016. (participatory public art event)
Ormston House 9-10 Patrick Street, Limerick
https://www.facebook.com/Tacticalwalk/
2015
Peep
PEEP’ at Hive Emerging. 17th Apr. – 2nd May Hive Emerging, 25 Michael St.,
Waterford, Ireland
Horror Formalism
Exhibition dates 19 February – 16 March.
Group show assisted by Helmut Stallerts.
InBetween Gallery
Elsensesteenweg 211, 1050 Elsene
Belgium
2014
Overture
Exhibition dates 19th July -16th Aug.
Exhibition showing the work of selected graduates of Fine Art from:
The Centre for Creative Arts Galway (GMIT), Limerick School of Art(LIT),
Crawford College of Art
Damer House, Roscrea.
First Light
LSAD Degree Show
Exhibition dates:31st May -8th June
LSAD Clare Street Limerick.
2013
What Has Been Shall Never Be The Same Again.
Group Show: curator: Dr. Ian Alden Russell
Exhibition dates: 16th August – 5th September 2013
Ormston House, 9-10 Patricks Street, Limerick.
BeSpectacleD
Belfast Photography festival 2013, Platform Arts, Belfast, May
2012
Extinct Like Us
Group Show: Multiples,
Curator: Steve Maher
Exhibition dates: 3rd August 2012- Dec 2012
Ormston House, 9-10 Patricks Street, Limerick.
Adaptive Identity
Group show: Curator: Annette Moloney,
Exhibition dates: 26th April -1st May
Integrated Media Solutions, no.8 Chapel Court, Limerick.
2011
Vitiate
Group show: Curator: Maeve Mulrennan & Kate Mangan,
Exhibition dates: April 3rd
Franciscan Church, Henry St. Limerick.
Outside: Insight
Group show: Curator Jenny Beale
Exhibition dates: 10th July -4th Sept
Brigids Garden, Rosscahill, Galway
2008
178th RHA Annual
Exhibition dates: Nov 11th – Dec 13th
Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin.
Residencies/Workshops
2016
Guest House Project, Residency.
Tactical Devices Workshop. “Get Over It”
1st -3rd June
Guest House Project, 10 Chapel Street, Shandon, Cork,
Collaborative Work
2015
Caucus Race,
Parklife Collective
Michael Cleary, Baerbel Schlueter, Marc Rome, Liz Nilsson.
The Peoples Park, Pery Square, Limerick.
10 December 2014.
2014
The Museum of Alternative History.
Michael Cleary & Wendy Wright
Fuerza Bruta, The Culture Factory: Limerick City of Culture 2014
Exhibition Dates 20th -27th March 2014
Michael Cleary 