Simone Leigh
simone@simoneleigh.com

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2012
You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been curated by Rashida Bumbray
The Kitchen, New York, NY,
She’s Too Fast
Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Divine Horsemen, with Chitra Ganesh, curated by Latoya Ruby Frazier
Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,

2009
The Gods Must Be Crazy, for In Practice, SculptureCenter, Queens, NY
Queen Bee,G Fine Art Project Room, Washington, D.C.

2008
Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Evidence of Accumulation, AIR exhibition, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, NY
15 x 15, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2010
Else, Jack Tilton Gallery, curated by Derrick Adams
Wide Sargasso Sea, Deustche Bank, curated by Kimberli Gant
Comedy and Tradgedy, Marvelli Gallery, curated by David Hunt
Bunny Redux, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA, curated by Eric Shiner
Hair Tactics, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ,  curated by Rocio Aranda,Alvarado
ves·sel,  Brennan Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, curated by Kenya (Robinson)

2008
The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, New York NY, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
Intransit, Moti Hasson Gallery, curated by Omar Lopez-Chadoud
The B-Sides, ALIRA a Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Edwin Ramoran
Archeologies of Wonder,Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, curated by Kristina Newman-Scott
Ethnographies of the Future Remixed, Tides Foundation, New York, NY, curated by Sara Reisman
Scratching The Surface VOL 1,  L’appartement22, Rabat, Morocco and AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe
Ethnographies of the Future, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY curated by Sara Reisman

2007
Material Culture, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY, curated by Juanita Lonzos
Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council for the Arts, Newark, NY, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Done by the Forces of Nature, City of College of New York, New York, NY curated 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 curated by Martin Dust

2006
Wild Girls, EXIT ART, curated 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,, curated 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, curated by Franklin Sirmans
Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY (with catalog) curated by Heng-Gil Han
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, curated 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, curated by Lea K. Green

2000
SMIRK, Women, Art and Humor, Firehouse Gallery, Hempstead, NY, curated by Debra Wacks
 (with catalog)

Education   1990  BA  in Art, minor in Philosophy,  Earlham College, Richmond IN   

Residencies/Internships/Grants
2010-2011
The Candace Worth Residency
The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence Program
2009
New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship in Sculpture
2009
Art Matters Grant
2009
Bronx Museum AIM program
2008- 09
Artist in Residence, Hunter College
2007-08
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace grant
2007-08
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
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

2011
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, September 12, 20011
Uptown, Turning Over a New Motif, The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2011, by Pia Catton

2010
Else, Art in Review, The New York Times, September 24, 2010, by Holland Cotter

Studio Visit profile in STUDIO Magazine: The Studio Museum of Harlem, Fall 2009,
Written by Uri McMillan

Introducing Simone Leigh, Modern Painters, November, 2008, by Quinn Latimer

Art Review, “Collective Strangeness in Hartford” The New York Times, December 21, 2008, Benjamin Gennochio

Art in Review, “The Future As Disruption”, The New York Times, August 1, 2008, Karen Roxenberg

“The Future As Disruption”, critic’s picks, ARTFORUM.com, July, 2008, Colby Chamberlain

“New York Summer Shows: Artinfo.com, July 2008, Clair e Barliant

“Futures Exchange”, Rhizome, July 7, 2008, Ed Halter

SUPERNATURE, Small Axe, A Journal of Carribean Cultural Criticism
Issue 28, February, 2008

The Artist’s Kitchen, Recycled and Curated, The New York Times, by 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, Issue 29, 2006
By Douglas Max Utter

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

New York 1 News interview with Stephanie Simon at Wild Girls exhibit aired on June 23, 2006

Heyoka Magazine(online), Volume 4, May 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, 2.8, 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” Deborah Frizzell, NYArts Magazine, April 2001

Conferences/Panels/Symposia

2010
Panelist
Venus 2010: They called Her “Hottentot”, An Interdisciplinary Symposium at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, organized by Deborah Willisin conjunction with the publication of Venus 2010

2007
Supernatural, artist talk at Fine Art Work Center, 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, curated 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