Kerrie O'Leary (b. 1992) is an Irish artist and producer based between Dublin and London. Her practice integrates technology and kinetic movement to create immersive installations that transform raw data into living, evolving forms. By merging computational techniques, mathematical algorithms, and machine learning, O'Leary explores systems—natural and artificial—revealing hidden patterns that shape our world. Her work serves as both aesthetic experience and critical inquiry, inviting audiences to reconsider their relationship with technology and the environment.

Her background in Management Science and Information Systems (MSISS, Trinity College Dublin) informs her data-driven approach, while her MFA in Computational Art from Goldsmiths University, London, deepened her research into environmental systems, the sublime, and hyperobjects. Rooted in hydrofeminist and ecofeminist thought, her work challenges anthropocentric views by making ecological interdependencies tangible. She is particularly interested in the ways quantum mechanics—where particles exist in multiple states at once—offers a metaphor for fluidity, interconnectedness, and the instability of our climate systems.

Currently, O’Leary is an artist-in-residence at Makerversity, Somerset House, where she is exploring the increasing prevalence of flooding in the UK. Through kinetic sculptures and generative installations, she examines water’s agency, mapping the intersections of data, crisis, and materiality. Previously, she undertook a residency in Berlin, hosted by Goethe Institut, Akademie der Künste, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, where she investigated quantum computing as a framework for understanding complex environmental systems.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as Somerset House and the V&A in London, as well as internationally in New York, China, and Dublin. She has collaborated with The Eco Show Boat and Emergency Exit Arts to create public artworks that interrogate climate crisis narratives. Past residencies include College Lane Gallery (Dublin) and Tides Institute and Museum of Art (Maine, USA).