Kerrie O'Leary (b 1992) is an Irish artist currently based between Dublin and London. Her work explores using technology as a tool to replicate patterns in nature, creating organic movements with physical computing components and pushing the boundaries of traditional artistic mediums. Combining computational methods with mathematical algorithms and machine learning she turns datasets into tangible artefacts and abstract visualisations. 

With a background in Management Science and Information Systems, O'Leary's introduction to algorithms and data laid the foundation for her interdisciplinary practice. In 2022, she completed her MFA in Computational Art at Goldsmiths University, London, delving deeper into environmental systems, the sublime, and hyperobjects. Informed by her interdisciplinary education, she intricately interlaces art and science, with the aim of making nature’s complexities visible.

The artist has exhibited at major institutions and museums in the UK such as Somerset House; The V&A, London, as well internationally in New York, China and Dublin. She has worked alongside multiple organisations delivering public artworks that draw attention to the climate crisis including The Eco Show Boat and Emergency Exit Arts. She has also been selected as artist in residence at College Lane Gallery, Dublin and Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Maine, USA. Currently she is working on a project that involves ways of combining machine learning and artificial intelligence with kinetic sculpture which is being funded by Arts Council England.

email: olearykerrie@gmail.com
instagram: @kerrieoleary.ie