NEWS
Solo show You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been, curated by Rashida Bumbray, is currently on view at The Kitchen.
LIVE at NYPL Ancient to Future panel featuring Simone, Sharifa Rhodes Pitt and Claire Barliant.
Group exhibition The Bearden Project on view at Studio Museum in Harlem through March 11th.
Simone was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors grant 2011.
Simone's work was reviewed by Holland Cotter for The Bearden Project exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Read Uri Mcmillan's essay "Relics of the Future: The Aesthetic Wanderings of Simone Leigh"HERE.
Simone Leigh was awarded the 2011 Worth Residency in Bovinia, NY.
The New Yorker reviews Simone Leigh's work in Evidence of Accumulation on view at Studio Museum in Harlem.
Evidence of Accumulation Artists in Residence 2010-11: Simone Leigh, Kamau Amu Patton, Paul Mpagi Sepuya opens at Studio Museum in Harlem July 14th 2011. Be sure to check it out!
Simone will talk on a panel at the upcoming Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium at the CUNY Graduate Center April 15th.
Visit Simone's Studio at Studio Museum in Harlem during upcoming Artists-in-Residence Open Studios April 10th.
Be Black Baby Party April 1st, 2011 at Recess curated by Simone Leigh and Naomi Beckwith.
The February Show, curated by Heather Hart and Jun Lee, @ Ogilvy & Mather through June 30th.
AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Parsons The New School of Art and Design, March 9th.
Divine Horseman, two person show with Chitra Ganesh, curated by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mason Gross Galleries.
See Simone's work at Art Basel Miami Beach! Visit Tilton Gallery's Booth A13.
Simone has been awarded the Artist in Residence program at The Studio Museum in Harlem 2010 - 2011.
Simone's work is included in the group exhibition Else at Tilton gallery on view Sept. 9th - October 23rd. Read Holland Cotter's review in The New York Times.
Simone's work is included in the group exhibition Digression at Hendershot gallery on view Sept 12 - October 17th.
Be Black Baby; A House party is an ongoing performance event organized by Simone Leigh and RECESS Activities, Inc.
Simone gave an artist talk at The National Gallery of Zimbabwe as part of the new series Harare Conversations organized by Raphael Chikukwa.
Simone was awarded an Art Matters grant to travel to Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa this summer to research material culture and to study traditional Zulu ceramic forms with Clive Sithole.