Simone Leigh (American)

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
2005
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
2007
Astraea Foundation Visual Arts Grant
2008
Artist in Residence, Hunter College, New York, NY
2009
NYFA Sculpture Fellowship
2009
Art Matters Grant
2009
Bronx Museum AIM Program
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
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Exhibitions

2009
HERD THINNER, Curated by David Hunt, Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
30 seconds off an inch, curated by Naomi Beckwith, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2009
Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art, curated by Kristina Newman-Scott and Yona Backer, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2009
The Pleasure of Hating, curated by David Hunt, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, NY
2009
AIM 29, Bronx Museum, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Bronx, NY
2009
Pulse, curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata, Taller Boricua, NY
2009
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY (solo)
2009
G Fine Art Project Room, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2008
Ethnographies of the Future, curated by Sara Reisman, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
The Future As Disruption, curated by Rashida Bumbray and Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2008
Intransit, curated by Omar Chadoud-Lopez, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
2008
B-Sides, curated by Edwin Ramoran, ALIJIRA, Newark, NJ
2008
Rush Arts Gallery Project Space, New York, NY (solo)
2008
Scratching The Surface, curated by Gabi Ngcobo, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2007
Material Culture, curated by Juanita Lonzos, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY
2007
Red Badge of Courage, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newark Council for the Arts, Newark, NY
2007
Done by the Forces of Nature, curated by Roberto Visani, City of College of New York, New York, NY
2007
Visual Jury, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2007
Defensive Mechanisms (part of INTERSECTIONS) Henry Street Settlement, curated by Martin Dust, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2006
Wild Girls, curated by Jodi Hanel, Sarah Ryhanen, and Juana Gallo, EXIT ART, New York, NY
2006
AIR exhibition, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2006
Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006
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
From the Studio: Wish You Were Here…, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Co-dependent: Artists, Artist/Curators, & Curators Select Artists @ The Living Room, Miami, FL
2005
Remnants and Relics: Reinterpretations in African American Art, curated by Heng-Gil Han, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2005
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and LeRoy Neiman Gallery, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson and Milena Honigsberg, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005
James E Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2005
Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
2005
Watershed Kiln Gods, Gallery 1448, Baltimore, MD
2004
Art Downtown: Connecting Collections, for the Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
2004
Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore MD
2003
Skylight gallery, Bedford Styvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, NY
2003
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2002
The Center for African American Art and NOEL Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2001
Curated by Lea K. Green, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2001
SMIRK, Women, Art and Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse Gallery, Hempstead, NY
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