Simone Leigh

(American, born 1967)

untitled #97 (cowrie) by simone leigh

Simone Leigh

Untitled #97 (cowrie), 2014

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blossom by simone leigh

Simone Leigh

Blossom, 2014

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cowrie (candomble) by simone leigh

Simone Leigh

Cowrie (Candomble), 2015

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octoroon by simone leigh

Simone Leigh

Octoroon, 2015

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Biography

Timeline

1990
BA in Art, Earlham College, Richmond, IN
2000
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2001
Kiln God Fellowship, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Watershed, ME
2005
Wheeler Foundation Grant
Artist in Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY
2006
Artist In Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
2007
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Grant
Astraea Foundation Visual Arts Grant
2008
Artist in Residence, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009
NYFA Sculpture Fellowship

Exhibitions

2009
HERD THINNER, Curated by David Hunt, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, FL
30 seconds off an inch, curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Pleasure of Hating, curated by David Hunt, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, NY
AIM 29, Bronx Museum, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Bronx, NY
Pulse, curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata, Taller Boricua, NY
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (solo)
G Fine Art Project Room, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2008
Ethnographies of the Future, curated by Sara Reisman, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Future As Disruption, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, New York, NY