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Simone Leigh
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
The Kitchen, New York, NY, organized by Rashida Bumbray
jam packed and jelly tight
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
What's Her Face
Gavlak Galley, Palm Beach, FL
2009
The Gods Must Be Crazy
for In Practice, SculptureCenter, Queens, NY
2008
if you wan fo' lick old woman pot, you scratch him back
Rush Arts Project Space, organized by Derrick Adams
2005
Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Houston, TX, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver
Pose/Re- Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, organized by Isolde Brielmaier and Melissa Messina
The Whitney Biennial, as a part of Alica Hall Moran and Jason Moran's BLEED, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Transforming Function, Building 110, Governor's Island, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Unevenness, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, organized by Raphael Chikukwa
In the Making, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2011
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Evidence of Accumulation, Artist In Residence program exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, organized by Naomi Beckwith
Weltraum / Space – Exploration and Exploitation, KUNSTHALLE wein, Vienna, Austria, organized by Catherine Hug
The February Show, Ogilvy and Mather, New York, NY organized by Jun Lee and Heather Hart
2010
Else, Jack Tilton Gallery, organized by Derrick Adams and Jack Tilton
Divine Horsemen, with Chitra Ganesh, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, organized by Latoya Ruby Frazier
Digression, Hendershot Gallery, organized by Jessica Shaefer
Comedy and Tradgedy, Marvelli Gallery, organized by David Hunt
Bunny Redux, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, organized by Eric Shiner
Hair Tactics, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, organized by Rocio Aranda, Alvarado
ves·sel, Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ,organized by Kenya (Robinson)
Brucennial, Recess Space, NY
2009
30 seconds off an inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, organized by Naomi Beckwith
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, organized by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer
Herd Thinner, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, FL
The Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, organized by David Hunt
AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, organized by Micaela Giovannotti
Locus, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA organized by Lauren Wolk
Pulse, Taller Boricua, New York NY, organized by organized by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata
2008
The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, New York NY, organized by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
Intransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, organized by Omar Lopez-Chadoud
The B-Sides, ALIRA a Center for Contemporary Art, organized by Edwin Ramoran
Archeologies of Wonder, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, organized by Kristina Newman-Scott
Ethnographies of the Future Remixed, Tides Foundation, New York, NY, organized by Sara Reisman
Scratching The Surface VOL 1, L’appartement22, Rabat, Morocco and AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, organized by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe
Ethnographies of the Future, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY organized by Sara Reisman
2007
Material Culture, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY, organized by Juanita Lonzos
Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council for the Arts, Newark, NY, organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Done by the Forces of Nature, City of College of New York, New York, NY organized by Roberto Visani
Visual Jury, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Defensive Mechanisms (part of INTERSECTIONS) Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY organized by Martin Dust
2006
Wild Girls, EXIT ART, organized by Jodi Hanel, , Sarah Ryhanen, and Juana Gallo.
Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, AIR exhibition
Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures,, organized by Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, various venues including The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Mc Dounough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Univeristy of Richmond, Richmond, VA, (with catalog)
2005
“From the Studio: Wish You Were Here...”,Co-dependent: Artists, Artist/Curators, & Curators Select Artists @ The Living Room, Miami, FL, organized by Franklin Sirmans
Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY (with catalog) organized by Heng-Gil Han
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, organized by Bruce W. Ferguson and Milena Honigsberg
James E Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD)
Watershed Kiln Gods, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD) (with catalog)
2004
Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, for the Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD
2003
Skylight gallery, Bedford Styvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY and The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2002
The Center for African American Art and NOEL gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
2001
Unspeakable, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY, organized by Lea K. Green
2000
SMIRK, Women, Art and Humor, Firehouse Gallery, Hempstead, NY, organized by Debra Wacks (with catalog)
EDUCATION
BA in Philosophy and Art
Earlham College, Richmond, IN
RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS/GRANTS
2012
Creative Capital Grantee
The International Art Programme, Center For Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Michael Richards award for Visual Arts
2011
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Scultptors
The Worth Residency in Bovina, NY
2010-2011
The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence Program
2009
New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship in Sculpture Art Matters Foundation
Grant Bronx Museum AIM program
2008- 09
Artist in Residence, Hunter College
2007-08
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace grant
Visiting Artist,School of Visual Arts Computer Art MFA program
2007
Astraea Foundation Visual Arts grant
2006
Artist In Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
2005
Wheeler Foundation grant
2004
Artist in Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2001
Kiln God fellowship, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Watershed, ME
2000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Chitra Ganesh, Simone Leigh", Tilton gallery, Modern Painters, September 2012, Nova Benway
"Simone Leigh": Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, Februray 27th, 2012
"The Surrealist Art of Simone Leigh", EBONY Magazine, March 5, 2012, Una-Kariim A. Cross
"Simone Leigh: Mouthing Off", artnet, Elisabeth Kley, January 27, 2012
"Simone Leigh and the Fruits of Her Labor", Art21, Nicole Caruth, January 20, 2012
"You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been", TimeOut, February 23-March 7, 2012
"You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been", Highsnobette, Dian
e McClure, February 1, 2012
"The Whitney Biennial Catalog", Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012
"A Griot for A Global Village", The New York Times, Holland Cotter, December 8, 2011
"Evidence of Accumulation", Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, September 12, 2011
"Uptown, Turning Over a New Motif", The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2011, by Pia Catton
"Else", Art in Review, The New York Times, Holland Cotter, September 24, 2010
Studio Visit, STUDIO Magazine: The Studio Museum of Harlem, Uri McMillan, Fall 2009
"Introducing Simone Leigh", Modern Painters, Quinn Latimer, November 2008
Art Review, “Collective Strangeness in Hartford” The New York Times, Benjamin Gennochio, December 21, 2008
Art in Review, “The Future As Disruption”, The New York Times, Karen Roxenberg, August 1, 2008
“The Future As Disruption”, critic’s picks, ARTFORUM.com,Colby Chamberlain, July, 2008
“New York Summer Shows: Artinfo.com, Claire Barliant, July 2008
“Futures Exchange”, Rhizome, Ed Halter, July 7, 2008
SUPERNATURE, Small Axe, A Journal of Carribean Cultural Criticism, Issue 28, February, 2008
The Artist’s Kitchen, Recycled and Curated, The New York Times, Penelope Green, June 14, 2007
SIMONE LEIGH, REBEL SOUL, TRACE Magazine, Issue #66, Yolanda Sangweni, October 2006
The Thinkers, ANGLE, A Journal of Arts and Culture, Douglas Max Utter, Issue 29, 2006
Wild Girls, Flavorpill, issue 327, September 12, 2006, link to review
Women Gone Wild, The Next Generation of Provocative Female Artists, New York Blade, Rafael Risemberg, July 31, 2006
They Called Her Hottentot: The Art, Science and Fiction of Sarah Baartman, anthology edited by Deborah Willis-Kennedy and Carla Williams, February 2006
“Goings On About Town: Art,” The New Yorker, January 17, 2005
“Dateline Brooklyn” ARTnet Magazine, Stephen Maine, (2005)
“In the Realm of the senses: Lisa DiLillo and Simone Leigh,” Flavorpill, issue 241, January 6, 2005
“Brooklyn Artist Who Prefers To Show Others’ Work” The New York Times, Penelope Green, February, 8, 2004
“Freedom of Exclusion: The Rise of the Female Spirit in Contemporary Art” L.P Streifeld, NYArts Magazine, December 2001
“Some Laughing Matters, Women’s Art exhibit: More than funny, girl” Steve Parks, Newsday, March 2001
“Bawdy Burlesque, Raucous Ribaldry”, NYArts Magazine, Deborah Frizzell, April 2001
LECTURES/SYMPOSIA/SCREENINGS
2012
Ancient to Future: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Simone Leigh, a conversation with Claire Barliant, LIVE at the NYPL, New York Public Library
Radical Freedom: Feminist Collaborations and Hybrid Aesthetics, Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh, Center for The Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
BREAKDOWN, artist talk and video screening, with Liz Magic Laser, Brooklyn Museum
Rhode Island School of Design, Visting Artist Lecture, Providence, RI
New York University, Visiting Artist Lecture, New York, NY
2011
Kessler conversations: In Memory of Monique Wittig, Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh, CLAGS, November 28, 2011, moderated by Dean Daderko, CUNY Graduate Center
Caribbean Cultural Production, The Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium, March 29, 2011, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center
Parsons School of the Arts, Visiting Artist Lecture organized by Coco Fusco
2010
Rutger's University, Visiting Artist Lecture, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2007
Fine Art Work Center, Visiting Artist Lecture, Provincetown, Mass
Mining History, Contemporary Art,The African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Tyler School of Art, moderated by Sophie Sanders
2005
Unparalleled salon, with Carrie Yamaoka, organized by Martha Southgate, Stacey D’Erasmo and Bliss Broyard
2001
Symposium for the creation of the David Driskell Center on Africa and The Americas, panel on the Art of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park, moderated by Carla Peterson Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, Chicago, Il, “Body Language: Image and Art”, moderated by Marianne Woods
2000
“Slave Markets, Lynched Bodies and Hottentot Vessels: The Black Female Body in 19th. and 20th Century Art”, Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY, moderated by Adrienne Childs