Simone Leigh
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Born: Chicago, Illinois to Jamaican parents
Lives: Brooklyn, New York
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EDUCATION
BA in Art, Earlham College, Richmond IN
1990
RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS/GRANTS
2009 Art Matters Foundation grant
2009 New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship in Sculpture
2008 Artist In Residence, Hunter College, Art Department
2007 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency
2007 Astraea Foundation Visual Arts grant
2007 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop,
Elizabeth Foundation For The Arts
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
1988 National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009
"the Gods Must Be Crazy", SculptureCenter, In Practice, Summer 2009, Queens, NY, curated by Sarina Basta
"Queen Bee", The Project Room, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2008
"Scratching the Surface, Vol. 1", L'appartement22, Rabat, Morocco, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe
Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY
2007
"Done By the Forces of Nature", CUNY, New York NY, curated by Roberto Visani
2005
Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2009
30 Seconds Off An Inch, The Studio Museum In Harlem, curated by Naomi Beckwith
The Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, curated by David Hunt
AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, curated by Micaela Giovannotti
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
Locus, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA curated by Lauren Wolk
Pulse, Taller Boricua, New York NY, curated by Curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata
2008
Scratching the Surface, Vol. 1, AVA gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, , curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe of manje manje projects
The B-Sides, ALJIRA, Newark, NJ, curated by Edwin Ramoran
The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
Scratching the Surface Vol. 1, AVA gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Gabi Ngcobo
Intransit, Moti Hasson gallery, New York, NY, curated by Omar Chaoud-Lopez
Ethnographies of The Future, Rotunda Gallery, NY, curated by Sara Reisman
2007
Material Culture, Longwood Art gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY, curated by Juanita Lanzo
The Red Badge of Courage, Newark Council for the Arts, Newark, NJ, curated by
Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Visual Jury, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Defensive Mechanisms (INTERSECTIONS) Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY, curated by Martin Dust
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)
2006
Wild Girls, EXIT ART, J, 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
2005
“From the Studio: Wish You Were Here…” curated by Franklin Sirmans, Co-dependent: Artists, Artist/Curators, & Curators Select Artists @ The Living Room, Miami, FL
Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY (with catalog) curated by Heng-Gil Han
Divine Body, 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 (in conjunction with NCECA)
Watershed Kiln Gods, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD (in conjunction with NCECA conference) (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
“SMIRK, Women, Art and Humor”, Firehouse Gallery, Hempstead, NY, curated by Debra Wacks
(with catalog)
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The New York Times, Art In Review, "The Future As Disruption", August 1, 2008
Artforum, Critic's Picks, The Future As Disruption, July 2008, Colby Chamberlain
New York Summer Group Shows, Artinfo.com, July 2008, Claire Barliant
Rhizome News:Futures Exchange, Rhizome.com, July 2008, Ed Halter
"The Aritst'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, 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
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/NY1ToGo/Story/index.jsp?stid=120&aid=60481
Heyoka Magazine (online), Volume 4, May 2006
http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.4.SimoneLiegh.htm
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) www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/maine/maine2-4-12.asp
“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
“The Miseducation of Simone Leigh” One World Magazine, Joy Garnett, winter 2001, Issue 13
“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, 3/30/2001
“Bawdy Burlesque, Raucous Ribaldry” Deborah Frizzell, NYArts Magazine, April 2001
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