Education
2001-03 MA Virtual Realities, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1998-00 Degree Fine Art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
1992-95 Diploma Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design
Exhibitions
SOLO
2017 Liberty Party Shop, Krieg, Hasslet
2016 Disguise the Limit, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2015 Balor's Mega Ballistic Gall Stones, G126,Galway
The ERROR CELL # 1: G2: Native Cog Dissidents, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Paintings for Atheists, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Art15 London
2014 Serf-Vice Paintings, Art Brussels, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2013 The Most Conservative Game in Town, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The 2nd Most Conservative Game in Town, Ormston House, Limerick
2012 Won-Nil, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
2011 HD SOFTCORE, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angles
A Title in a Haystack (2 Bit Part time Amateur Productions), Triskel Arts Center, Cork
2010 Genuine Irish Mug, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
A Colonial Subject in Washington DC, Solus Nua, Washington DC
A Lively Start to a Dead End, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2009 Heavens Full and the Fire Escapes are Locked, Heavens Full, London
UGLY LOVELY, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2008 Tax Prayers Money, Public Sculpture Commission, Sligo Corporation
2007 Static TV, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2005 Showy Off Shit, Process Room, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2004 AH FUCK, not another art video, The Goethe Institute, Dublin
2003 Feeding the Well-Feed, The Goethe Institute, Dublin
GROUP
2019 P is for Portrait, The Art House Worcester in association with Division of Labor
Together Now the Engagement Project, West Cork Arts Centre
2018 There's no place like Space , Kevin Kavanagh, Manchester Art Fair
Island Life, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport, Mayo
Requiem for the Future Tense, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels, in association with KRIEG
2017 Vacuum Packed Vacation, SCHARFSTELLEN_2, Rotor, Graz
Overpanted Underpaint, The way things go: A Homage, Butler Gallery,Kilkenny
2016 Engagement - Work in Progress- The Courtship, KCAT, Kilkenny Arts Week
IMMA Collection: A Decade
Carnage Visors, Rua Red, Dublin
2015 RHA Annual, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2014 Art for Gaza, Oonagh Young Gallery
Instant Crush, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Carny, FLOOD, Dublin
Coexist, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle
2013 Play, Gothenburg Biennial 2013, Sweden
Measures for Saving the World, < rotor >, Graz, Austria
To Have and Have Not, HALLE 14 Leipzig, Germany
To Have and Have Not, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
The Future Perfect: We are here, RUBICON PROJECTS, Brussels
I want to be your Dog, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2012 Newtopia, Mechelen, Belgium
Cutting a Door, The Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China
Last, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
PERIPHERIES, Gorey school of Art
The Rise and Fall of Meritocracy, Vice & Virtue, Kinsale Arts Week
Horse Show, RHA, Dublin
Into the Light: The Arts Council - 60 Years of Supporting the Arts, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2011 Preview 2012, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Dublin Contemporary, Dublin
Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
CARTOON, Silver Cloud Gallery, London
From Us, Through Them, To You, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Three Colours /Yellow, Soma Contemporary, Waterford
The Horse Show, Kinsale Arts Week, Kinsale, Cork
Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Terminal Convention - Cork Airport, NSF/Static, Cork
Wake Amusements - Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2010 Blasphemy, The Dock, Leitrim
Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room], Parkers Box, Brooklyn
Shop If You Can, Look If You Wan , St. Patricks Festival, Dublin
Backwater Twenty-10, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Blasphemy, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
2009 ABOVE THE FOLD, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Paper Work, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
Moraltarantualla III,The summer of the Vernunft, Valentinskamp 34A, Hamburg
Offcenter, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
The Gold Standard, NES, Skagaströnd, Iceland
Richtiger als Falsch, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg
Grin & Bear It, Cruel humour in art and life, Glucksman, UCC, Cork
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art,
Arizona
2008 Gems from the Collection, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
ART IN THE LIFE WORLD, Ballymun, Dublin
2007 The Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Thirty Two Thousand Years Later, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Aqua Arts Fair, Miami
07 Arts Fair, London - Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Zoo Art Fair, London - Colony Art Gallery
Docks Art Fair, Lyon - Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Drunken Boat, Colony Gallery, Birmingham
Paintaholics #2, Product Arts Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
Moraltarantualla, Electrohaus, Hamburg
Plastercine, Group Show Monster Truck
Group Show, Fenton Gallery, Cork
Group Show, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2006 X-Mass the Spot, Driaocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
The First and Last and Always, Axis Arts Center, Ballymun, Dublin
Fun Factory, Baltimore, Maryland
Failure, Kilkenny Arts Festival
126 Gallery Presents, Galway Arts Center
Utopias, Eigse, Carlow
Spréacha, Driaocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin
Ding Dong, Altona, Hamburg, Germany
EV+A 2006, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Black: Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham
126 Gallery, Galway
Platform 1, Cavan
2005 A moment in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Faculty of Failure, Where's Me culture?, Cork
Eurojet Futures 2005, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Flagged, Visualise, Carlow
From the Liberties to Parramatta, Parramatta Campus, Australia
R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2004 Eurojet Futures 2004, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Contemporary Art in the Cathedral, St. Finbarre's Cathedral, Cork
Looking for Clues, Chamber of Cashel UDC, Cashel
Summer Short's, Parkers Box, Brooklyn
Retreat Billboards, Sydney
Electric Rain, Club 1, Cork
R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2003 50/50, Temple Bar Galley, Dublin
Us Live, Guinness Store House, Dublin
NCAD MA, Virtual Realities, Dublin
2001 Vacationland, Arthouse, Dublin
2000 NCAD Degree Show, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1998 The Mighty Right Show, Fuse 98, Crawford Art College, Cork
1997 Bridget Murphy Dunne, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Articulate Intelligence, Infusion, University of Limerick
1996 Mental Exercise, Volume, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery
Shambolic, Intermedia, Triskel Arts Center, Cork
Beuys Black Board, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
1995 Pain-Thing Diploma Show, Limerick School of Art & Design
1994 Title Unknown, Limerick City Gallery of Art
In The Beginning, Limerick City Gallery of Art
Collaborations
Money'N'Muck (2016- ) Andrew Pike / Nevan Lahart
2 Bit Part time Amateur Productions (1994-2011) Terry Blake / Nevan Lahart
Paintaholics (2006-2011) Thomas Marcus Schumann / Nevan Lahart
Bridget Murphy Dunne (1997) Declan Kennedy / Augustine O'Donoghue / Nevan Lahart
Visiting Lecturer
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Dun Laoighre Institute of Art & Technology, Dublin
CalArts, California
Syracuse University, New York
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Limerick School of Art & Design
Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork
Sligo Institute of Technology
Waterford Institute of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology
Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg
KCAT Studios, Kilkenny
Awards
Culture Ireland 2011
Arts Council Bursary 2005; 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
Arts Council Materials Award; 2000 & 2001
Residences
2013 I.A.S.P.I.S, Gothenburg
2011 18th Street Art Studio, Santa Monica
2010 Solus Nua, Washington D.C.
2005 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2003 St Andrews Community Centre, Rialto, Dublin
1998 National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Publications
Vic Sims of the Hollow Gram
Text: Sebastián Gonzalez de Gortari
Edition: 400
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 64 (full colour)
Graphic design: Jedidja Samyn
Publisher: KRIEG, in collaboration with Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Collections
Lisser Art Museum, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Bank of Ireland, Dublin
Office of Public Works, Ireland