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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2009
The Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, curated by David Hunt
Living and Dreaming, AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, curated by Micaela Giovannotti
"The Gods Must Be Crazy", In Practice, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY, curated by Sarina Basta
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
"Queen Bee", G Fine Art Project Space, Washington, D.C.
2008
"The Future As Disruption", The Kitchen, New York NY, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
"Scratching The Surface VOL 1", L"appartement22, Rabat, Morocco and AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe
"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
"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
"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
Momenta Art gallery, New York, NY
"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
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)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
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
"The Miseducation of Simone Leigh" One World Magazine, Joy Garnett, winter 2001, Issue 13, edited by Paul Laster
"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
EDUCATION 1990 BFA Earlham College, Richmond IN
RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS/GRANTS
2009 Art Matters grant
2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for Sculpture
2009 Bronx Museum AIM program
2008-09-Artist in Residence, Hunter College
2007-08 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace grant
2007-08 Artist in Residence, 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
CONFERENCES/PANELS/SYMPOSIA
2007
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
"The Disconnect Between women's studies and Art and Art history� National Womens Studies Association Conference, Simmons College, Boston, Mass,moderated by Mary Jo Aagerstoun and Mary Ross Taylor
2009
The Pleasure of Hating, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, curated by David Hunt
Living and Dreaming, AIM 29, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, curated by Micaela Giovannotti
"The Gods Must Be Crazy", In Practice, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY, curated by Sarina Basta
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
"Queen Bee", G Fine Art Project Space, Washington, D.C.
2008
"The Future As Disruption", The Kitchen, New York NY, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons
"Scratching The Surface VOL 1", L"appartement22, Rabat, Morocco and AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Mwenya Kabwe
"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
"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
"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
Momenta Art gallery, New York, NY
"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
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)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
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
"The Miseducation of Simone Leigh" One World Magazine, Joy Garnett, winter 2001, Issue 13, edited by Paul Laster
"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
EDUCATION 1990 BFA Earlham College, Richmond IN
RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS/GRANTS
2009 Art Matters grant
2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship for Sculpture
2009 Bronx Museum AIM program
2008-09-Artist in Residence, Hunter College
2007-08 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace grant
2007-08 Artist in Residence, 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
CONFERENCES/PANELS/SYMPOSIA
2007
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
"The Disconnect Between women's studies and Art and Art history� National Womens Studies Association Conference, Simmons College, Boston, Mass,moderated by Mary Jo Aagerstoun and Mary Ross Taylor