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Zoe Leonard

(American, born 1961)

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Biography

Timeline

1961: Born in Liberty, New York
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2088 - 2008: Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, New York Public Library, NY
2015: Zoe Leonard, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2014: Green Lankton, LOVE ME, Participant Inc., New York, NY
The Sea. Salut D’honeur Jan Hoet, Mu.ZEE Kunstmuseum aan zee, Ostend
Petals on the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Staring at the Sun, Griffin Editions, New York, NY
From Speaker to Receiver, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Memento, Galerie Mai 35, Zurich
Blicke! Körper! Sensationen! Ein anatomisches Wachskabinet und die Kunst / Roll Up, Roll Up! An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet Meets Art, Deutsches Hygiene- Museum, Dresden
Pictures, Before and After. An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
Art & Activism, Kunst und politischer Aktivismus in New York, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
Abandon the Parents, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
(Mis) Understanding Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen
La disparation des lucioles (The disappearance of the fireflies), Sainte-Anne Prison, Avignon
Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Gordon Matta-Clark, Murray Guy, New York Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Masculine / Masculine, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
: L'Image Papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg
: Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
: Looking back – The Seventh White Columns Annual, curated by Richard Birkett, White Columns, New York, NY
: Expo 1 New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
: White Petals Surround Your Heart, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: A Love Meal, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
: Love and Death, Bergen Museum of Art, Bergen, Norway
: Une Préface, Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
: NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
: Photography Now and Forever, Mathew, Berlin, NY
: Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
: Glory Hole, LLS 387 Ruimte voor Actuele Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
: Masculine / Masculine, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
: L'Image Papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg
: NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
2013: NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
: Masculine / Masculine, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
: L'Image Papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg
: Something about a Tree, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
: “Out-of-_________” (organized by Leila Khastoo), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA
: Heart to Hand (curated by Pati Hertling), Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Circus Wols. Eine Hommage, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
: True Stories. Amerikanische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
: Le Feuillagisme, Hôtel de Région (in collaboration with Le Pôle Image Haute-Normandie), Rouen, France
: Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, travelling to The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Ein Wunsch bleibt immer übrig. Kasper König zieht Bilanz, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Voice of Images, Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy
: Murray Guy, New York, NY (solo)
: Sun Photographs, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy (solo)
2012: Zoe Leonard. Observation Point, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (solo)
: Ändere dich, Situation!, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz/Tirol, Austria
: Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
: White Columns. 1970-2011 / 40+ Years of Support for Artists (2011 benefit auction), White Columns, New York, NY
: Vision is elastic. Thought is elastic. (curated by Moyra Davey & Zoe Leonard), Murray Gallery, New York, NY
: He disappeared into complete silence: re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, Netherlands
: Vor dem Gesetz. Skulpturen der Nachkriegsmoderne und Räume der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: You have been there – departures, bifurcations (a proposition by Marie Muracciole), Marian Goodman, New York, NY
: PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING!, Sammlung Wilhelm und Gaby Schürmann, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
: Vanity. Fashion Photography from the F.C. Grundlach Collection, KUNSTHALLE wien, Vienna, Austria
2011: Available Light, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Wunschzettel, im Rahmen der Ausstellung: Nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
: Atlas. How to Carry the World on One's Back, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; ZKM
: Karlsruhe; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
: False Divide: representations of abstraction in a few photographic works, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
: Contagious! Reports against normality, Centre d' Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
: In Full Bloom, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
: 50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
: Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Leo Koenig, New York, NY
: Augenschmaus – Vom Essen im Stillleben, Bank Austria Forum, Vienna, Austria
: Mixed Use: Manhattan (curated by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: MOCA's first 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Photographers Gallery, London, UK; traveling to Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2010: The Surreal House, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
: Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
: Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
: Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
: Pivot Points 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: Locus Solus, Yvonne Lambert, Paris, Francek, NY
: Fashion Room (photographs from the F.C. Gundlach collection), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
: The Female Gaze. Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2009: Photographs, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Espèces d'espaces, Yvonne Lambert, New York, NY
: En todas partes. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: Galaxy, BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
: out of the blue, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, NJ
: Nouvelles Collections III, Sammlung Jocelyne & Fabrice Petignat, Centre PasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Biel/Vienne, Switzerland
: Photographs, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Elles @ Centrepompidou. Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
: Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (1/18 – 5/4/08)
: Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Ad Adsurdum – Energien des Absurden von der klassischen Moderne zur Gegenwart, MARTa, Herford, Germany
: Drawing a Tension – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
: listen darling... the world is yours (curated by Lisa Phillips), Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal
: After Nature, New Museum, New York, NY
: Soziale Diagramme/Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
: Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: L'Argent, Le Plateau, Paris, France
2008: You See I am here after all, Dia:Beacon, New York, NY (solo)
2007 - 2008: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland (12/1/07 - 2/17/08)
2007: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (5/12 - 8/26/07)
: Dolls: Destiny Deacon, Virginia Fraser, Zoe Leonard, Maria Marshall & Laurie Simmons, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2/1 - 4/14/07)
: Normal Love, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1/18 - 3/4/07)
: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. 45 Years of Art + Feminism, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao (6/11 - 9/9/07)
: Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany (6/16 - 9/23/07)
: Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Around the Corner: Zoe Leonard and Petra Wunderlich, organized by Christian Philipp Müller, Orchard, New York, NY (11/5 - 12/17/06)
: The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (10/30 - 11/12/06)
: Full House, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (6/28 - 9/3/06)
: Zoe Leonard, Liz Deschenes, and Vija Celmins, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY (6/28 - 8/4/06)
: Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania (3/4 - 5/6/06)
2006: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Koln, Germany (9/20 - 10/28/06)
: Flying Cows and Other Comets – Not Just Comic Things in Art, Villa Merkel and Bahnwartenhaus, Esslingen, Switzerland, (8/20 - 9/15/06)
2005: Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1/21 - 4/24/05)
: Alias & Alibi, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands (1/23 - 5/16/05)
: Theorema, une Collection Privee en Italie, la Collection d’Enea Righi The Collection Lambert in Avignon, France (2/5 - 5/29/05)
: Femme(s), Musée de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland (3/8 – 3/27/05); traveling to Florence, Italy and Brussels, Belgium.
: Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (4/6 - 6/6/05)
: La Hendidura del Tiempo (The Clefts of Time), Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madid, Spain (6/22 - 9/15/05)
: Roe Ethridge, Zoe Leonard, Christopher Williams, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (8/26 - 9/30/05)
: The New City: Suburbia in Recent Photography, TheWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (9/30/05 - 1/15/06)
: Cromosoma X, Galleria d’arte Sabrina Raffaghello Ovada, Italy, traveled to Joyce & Co. Galleria Artistico Letteraria, Genova, Italy
: Les enfants terribles - The Language of Childhood in Art - 1909-2004, curated by Marco Franciolli, Helmut Friedel, Giovanni Iovane, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (10/10/04 - 1/16/05)
: Colección Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Ivam Institut d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
: Yankee Remix, Remix, Green Street Gallery, Boston, MA. (7/23 - 9/04/04)
: Arte in testa. Storia di un¹ossessione da Picasso ai giorni nostri, MACI Museo arte contemporanea isernia, Isneria, Italy
: Vagues 2, Hommages et digressions, musée Malraux, Le Havre, France (6/26 - 9/27/04)
: Portraits d'arbres, Henri Gadeau de Kerville au regard de la photographie contemporaine, Muséed’Evreux, Evreux, France Biennale, Museum of New Art (mona), Pontiac, Michigan
: Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (6/11 - 7/23/04)
2004: Infinitely Specific, Montserrat College of Art Galleries, MA (1/20 - 2/20/04)
: Open Proposition: Artists for the Bill of Rights, The Proposition Gallery, New York (2/7 - 2/28/04)
: Possessed: the things we own and the things that own us, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington (opens 5/22/04)
: Cave Birds, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy (March - April, 2004)
2003: Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
: Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
: “Yankee Remix” Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA
: Eric Hattan, Zoe Leonard, Michel Francois, Swiss Institute, NY (1/14 - 2/15/03)
: Lei. Donne nelle collezioni italiane, curated by F. Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (11/7/03 - 2/8/04)
: Works from the Sammlung Schurmann Collection, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany, (4/4 - 10/12/03)
: Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz/Austria, (4/26 - 8/24/03)
: Yankee Remix, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Ma, (05/24/03-Spring 2004)
: The tale of the thread: Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (5/30 - 9/7/03)
: Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (6/28 - 9/14/03)
: Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, (7/10 - 8/16/03)
: In Nature: 10th International Biennial of Photography, The Italian Foundation of Photography, and Palazzo
: A Clear Vision – Photographic works from the F.C. Gundlach collection, International House of Photography Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (10/29/03 - 1/25/04)
: Recent Acquisitions – Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, (3/03 - 6/03)
: “Prophets of Boom – Werke aus der Sammlung Schurman” Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2002: The Agency Contemporary Art, London, UK
2001: Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
: Raffaella Cortese , Milano, Italy
2000: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
1999: Micheline Szwajczer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
: Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
: Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem, Israel
: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
: Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
1998: Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1997: Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
: Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
: Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia
: Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
: Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
: Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
: Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
1995: Le Casa d'Arte, Milan, Italy
: Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia

Public Collections

: Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
: Fotomuseum Wintertur, Winterthur, Switzerland
: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
: MuMOK — Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
: Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: Secession, Vienna
: Sheldon memorial museum, Lincoln, NE
: New York Public Library, New York
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne
: Tate Modern, Londongne
: Museo Nacional Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
: Generali Foundation, Vienna
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon
: Staad Museum Kassel, Kassel
: The New School, New York
: Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy
: Collezione la Gaia, Busca, Italy
: MP contemporary art collection, Seville, Spain
: Denver Art Museum, Denver
: CCS Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
: Fonds regionald'art contemporain de haute normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Ghent
: Provinciaal Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp
: Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
: Deichtorenhallen, Hamburg
: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
: Western Bridge, Seattle
: The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
: Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas
: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
: Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami
: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
: Musee d'art moderne et contemporain, Genevale
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Zoe Leonard

(American, born 1961)

Zoe Leonard

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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