Lana May Fleming

Lana May Fleming is a visual artist based in Dublin, working across video and performance. Her practice explores the modification of food imagery and the female body highlighting the pressure women face to physically and digitally alter their bodies for social media, comparing it to the historical sexualisation of food in commercial imagery. 

Selected solo exhibitions include Watering Hole, DIVA, Dublin, Ireland (2022); meat clown, aerial, Bergen, Norway (2022). Selected group exhibitions include REAL, B63, Witten, Germany (2024); LOCKJAW, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin, Ireland (2023); FAKE BODY, Platform Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2023); MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat), Feminist streaming service, Prøverommet with Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen, Norway (2022); You breathe differently down here, Draíocht, Dublin, Ireland (2022); Mart Annual Awards Show, Mart HX, Dublin, Ireland (2021).

Recent Awards/Residencies include Kulturforum Witten Residency, Germany (2024); Kunstverein Aughrim, Micro Residency, Cowhouse Studios, Wexford, Ireland (2024); Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary (2024), Fingal Artist Support Scheme (2024+2023); Culture Ireland’s Zeitgeist Irland 24 (2024); SÍM Residency, Reykavík, Iceland (2022); IADT/Pallas Projects/Studios Mentorship Award (2020); Fingal Graduate Award with Mart Gallery and Studios (2020).

Lana May is a co-founder of CRUX, an experimental nomadic platform, recently exhibited in REAL, Witten, Germany (2024) and Return to Disintegration – Periodical Review 11, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland (2021).

Instagram: @lanamayfleming

Website: https://cruxproject.net/