Leigh Ledare

Born 1976 in Seattle, Washington
Lives and works in New York City

leighledare.com

EDUCATION

Columbia University, MFA 2008
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA 2000
University of Washington, 1994-1997

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Zürich, Office Baroque Gallery, Brussels – BEL 

2019
L'Hôte, Office Baroque Gallery, Brussels – BEL 

2017
The Plot, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - USA 
VOKZAL, The Box, Los Angeles - USA

2016
Place Du Jardin Aux Fleurs, Office Baroque Gallery, Brussels – BEL 
The Here and The Now, Manifesta 11, Zurich - CHE

2015
Double Bind, Art Unlimited at ARt Basel, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Basel - CHE

2014
Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples (with Nic Guagnini), Max Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf - DE
Leigh Ledare, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York - USA
Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples (with Nic Guagnini), Andrew Roth, New York - USA

2013
An Invitation, Reception, Berlin - DE
Leigh Ledare, et al. (solo survey), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen - DE

2012
Double Bind Publication, Michele Didier Gallery, Paris – FR
Leigh Ledare, et al. (solo survey), WIELS, curated by Elena Filipovich – BE
An Invitation, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London – UK
Leigh Ledare, The Box, Los Angeles – USA
Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing… (with Per Billgren), RECEPTION, Berlin – DE

2010
Double Bind, The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow – RUS
Double Bind, Prix Decouvert. Les Rencontres d’Arles, curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Parreno and Gillich, Paris – FR
The Confectioner’s Confectioner, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London – UK
Too Late and Later, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo – NOR
Le Tit, Guido Costa Projects, Turin – IT 

2009
Leigh Ledare, Les Rencontres de Arles, Arles – FR 

2008
You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air, Rivington Arms, New York – USA
Pretend You’re Actually Alive, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York. – USA

BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS AND EDITIONS

2019
Between a Punk and Picasso, essay and photographs broadsheet, published by PPP Editions/Andrew Roth

2015
Double Bind (Leigh Ledare in conversation with Rhea Anastas) A.R.T. Press
Artist edition for A.R.T. Press

2014
Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples (with Nic Guagnini), published by PPP Editions/Andrew Roth

2012
Double Bind (3 volumes: Ephemera, Husbands, Diptychs) published by mfc-michele Didier, Brussels/Paris
Leigh Ledare, et al. published by WIELS Center for Contemporary Art and Mousse Publishing, Brussels
An Invitation published by Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Comumbia University, New York

2011
A Modest Exchange artist edition curated by Tom Eccles for Invisible Exports, New York

2008
Pretend You’re Actually Alive, published by PPP Editions/Andrew Roth, New York

FILMS AND VIDEOS

2017     The Task, single channel HD video with sound, 118 minutes
2016     Vokzal, color 16mm film with sound and installation, 60 minutes
            The Here and the Now (Zurich 1:1) (13 channel video installation), approximately 16 hours
            The Large Group, subtitled, single-channel video, 68 minutes
2008     The Gift single channel video, 9 minutes and 18 seconds
            Shoulder single channel video, 9 minutes and 45 seconds
            The Model single channel video, 4 minutes and 5 seconds

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020    
Faktura, KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga – LV

2019   
Acting Out (Works from the Hessel Collection), curated by Leigh Ledare and Tom Eccles, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY – USA
Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin – DE
50 Years, 50 Books: Masterworks from the Library of Martin Parr, Les Rencontres d’Arles – FR
Diaristic Photography and the Photobook, curated by Sarah Allen, Tate Modern, London – UK
Lignes de Vies, curated by Frank Lamy, Museum d’art Contemporain du Val-de Marne – FR
On Fire, curated by Benedikt Wyss, SALTS Birsfelden, Basel – CHE

2018
Measures of Authority, with Chris Kraus and Terence Sellers, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson - USA
Frieze New York, The Box, main section

2017
THE PUBLIC BODY 2.0, Artspace, Sydney – AUS
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - USA
Roberte Ce Soir: Pierre Klossowski, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin - DE
Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples, Sammlung Philara Collection, Dusseldorf - DE
Vocales, CAC Bretigny, Bretigny-sur-Orge - FR
Feedback, Marlborough Chelsea, New York - USA

2016
Give Me Yesterday, curated by Francesco Zanot, Fondazione Prada, Milan - IT
An Invitation, Sammlung Philara Collection, Dusseldorf - DE
Private Exposure, Sammlung Olbricht Collection, Berlin - DE
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson - USA
Manifesta 11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich - CHE
Un Certain Regard, Durst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague - NL
Bread and Roses: Artists and the Class Divide, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw - PL
Love, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York - USA

2015
Love, Nymphius Projekt, Berlin - DE
The School of Kyiv - Kyiv Biennial 2015, Kyiv - UKR
Sexe, Beatitude et Logique, Michele Didier, Paris – FR
Sitter, Canzani Center Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio – USA
Between Strength and Crisis, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz – AUT 

2014
Boys Don’t Cry, Musee D’art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne – FR
La Vie Domestique, Parc Saint Leger Centre D’Art Contemporain. Porugues-les-Eaux, – FR
Kendall Koppe Gallery (with Charlotte Prodger, Michael Fullterton and Nicholas Duschayes), Glasgow
Bad Conscience, curated by John Miller. Metro Pictures, New York – USA
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks. ICA, London – UK
Simulacrum (with Pierre Klossowski, Dan Graham and others), Max Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf – DE
Layers Thaw, Minerva Gallery. Sydney -AU
Ana and Carl and some other couples (with Nic Guagnini), Andrew Roth Gallery, New York – USA
Ana and Carl and some other couples (with Nic Guagnini), Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles – USA

2013
Home Truths, curated by Susan Bright. Photographers’ Gallery, London – UK
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks. New York’s Artist’s Book Fair, PS1/MoMa
5^th Moscow Bienniale, Special Project curated by Ami Barak, Pomeranz Collection – RUS
News/Prints: Printmaking & The Newspaper. International Print Center, New York – USA
9 Ways to Say it’s Over, curated by Natasha Cox and Keira Greene, Farringdon Street, London – UK
Revelations, curated by Thea Westreich and Susan Modica. Stonescape, Calistoga, CA – USA
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities: Lens Drawings, curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris – FR
Lips Painted Red. Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim – NO
Secession Secession. Fitzroy Gallery, New York – USA
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks. Andrew Roth Gallery, New York – USA
Nevermore. On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York – USA

2012
Privacy curated by Dr. Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt – DE
Take Off Your Silver Spurs and Help Me Pass The Time, curated by Gerold Miller, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg – AT
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Andratx, Mallorca – Spain

2011
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade, National Photographic Archive, Dublin -IE
A Hole Is to DIg, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp – BE
Miguel Abreu Gallery. Curated by Nicolas Guagnini, New York – USA
Cult of the Ruin: Strategies of Accumulation, UC Irvine, Irvine, California – USA
LAXART Curator’s Choice Video Show, LAXART, Los Angeles – USA
Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford, PA – USA
Home Videos, Leigh Ledare and Kenneth Tam, Loisaida, NY – USA

2010
How Soon is Now, The Garage CCC, Moscow Russia, Curated by Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno – RUS
Les Rencontres d’Arles, curated by Beatrix RufHans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno – FR
Greater New York 2010, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Neville Wakefield and Connie Butler, P.S. 1 MoMA, New York – USA
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York – USA

2009
Dance, Sons and Daughters, Dance! The Physics Room, Christchurch – NZ
Selected Works curated by Laurie Simmons, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY
Prague Biennale 4, Prague – CZ
Re-Gift, curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, NY – USA
House Call, Three’s Company, Leigh Ledare, Rich Aldrich, Lisa Tan. New York – USA
Ca Me Touche, curated by Nan Goldin, with JH Engstrom, Anders Petersen, BorisMikhailov, Jack Pierson, David Armstrong, and others. Arles – FR
N-1, curated by Gandalf Gavan, Patino Foundation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2008
Freeway Balconies, curated by Collier Schorr, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin – DE
Open Secret, International Center of Photography, New York – USA
Swiss Institute benefit auction, Swiss Institute, New York – USA
Colette, Paris – FRCloser Now, Rivington Arms, New York – USA
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Benefit Auction, Cohan and Leslie, New York – USA
Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, New York – USA
EPTSOLP, curated by Chris Johanson, Small a Projects, Portland, Oregon – USA
Blindspot Benefit Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, New York – USA
Kevin Zucker, Sentimental Education, (contributor), 11 Rivington, NY, October

CURATED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS

2019    
Acting Out (Works from the Hessel Collection) (curated by Leigh Ledare and Tom Eccles), Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, New York – USA

2018    
Authority, Emotion and Exclusion, film screening Series in collaboration with Group Relations conference (co-curated with Fred Schmidt-Arenales and Netta Tea), UPENN, Philadelphia – USA

2008    
Stalemate (curated by Leigh Ledare), Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York – USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

SELECTED LECTURES, ARTIST TALKS, PANELS AND SCREENINGS

2020
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (artist talk and conversation with Christopher Williams)

2019   
The Box (four screenings of The Task and conversation with Catherine Taft), Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, conversation on Andy Warhol with Lynne Tilmann, New York, NY
UPenn screening series (co-curator) (The Task, screening and conversation with Homay King) Rijksakademie (screening of The Task), Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of New South Wales (The Task, screening and symposium, Empathy Clinic), Sydney, Australia
BAM (screening of The Task for Triple Canopy’s On Resentment), BAM Rose Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
Yale University (artist talk and screening of The Task), New Haven, CT
Hessel Museum/Bard CCS (conversation with Lynn Tilmann and Lyle Ashton Harris around Acting Out, curated by Leigh Ledare and Tom Eccles), Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY

2018    
SPACE (The Task screening and conversation), Portland, ME
Sheffield Documentary Festival (screening of The Task), Sheffield, England
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (with Selby Nimrod), Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY
BAM Cinema Fest (screening of The Task), Bam Rose Cinema, Brooklyn, NY
American Academy Rome (screening of The Task), Rome, Italy
Paris Photo, Paris, France, Conversation between Leigh Ledare and Laure Prouvost
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Lomex Gallery, New York, Conversation between Leigh Ledare and Lynne Tilmann Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY True/False film festival (screening of The Task), Columbia, MO
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2017   
The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT

2016   
The Speaker with Vanessa Place and Jamieson Webster, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Columbia University, New York, NY
Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
Friends of Manifesta talk. Zurich Kunsthal, LUMA Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

2015    
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Barnard College, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Paris Photo, conversation with Jeff Rosenheim, Elisabeth Bronfen and Donatien Grau, Paris, France
The Box, Los Angeles. Double Bind book release and Conversation with Anastas, Liz Kotz and Andrew Freeman, Los Angeles, CA
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Leigh Ledare and Paul McCarthy moderated by Chrissie Iles, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY
San Francisco Institute of Art, San Francisco, CA
Printed Matter Book Fair, PS1/MoMA, talk with Andrew Roth and Vincent Aletti. New York, NY
Artists Space Books + Talks, book release and conversation with Rhea Anastas, John Miller, Daniel
Bozhkov, K8 Hardy and Leigh Ledare, New York, NY

2014    
Paris Photo, LA. Conversation with Frances Stark, moderated by Douglas Fogel, Los angeles, CA
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Aperture Foundation/Parsons lecture series, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
State Academy of Arts and Design, Stuttgart, Germany
New York City Public Library, moderated by Christophe Cherix, with Andrew Roth, Alex Kitnick, Phil Aarons, coinciding with Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks
Panel on Robert Heinecken moderated by curator Eva Respini, New York, NY

2013    
Charlottenborg Kunsthal, conversation with Mette Sandby and Per Aage Brandt), Copenhagen, Denmark
Charlottenborg Kunsthal (in conversation with Elena Filipovic), Copenhagen, Denmark
Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI

2012    
WIELS Center for Contemporary Culture, Brussels, Belgium
School of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2011    
The Garage Center for Contemporary Art in conversation with Tom Eccles. Moscow, Russia
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2009    
Les Rencontres de Arles, conversation with Nan Golden, JH Engstrom and Anders Petersen. Arles, France

GRANTS

2017     
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 
Ruttenberg Foundation Fellowship, The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago

2013     
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award

2010     
Luma Foundation Grant

2009     
Luma Foundation Grant 
Jerome Foundation Research Grant

2008     
Feldman travel grant, Columbia University   
Columbia University Fellowship, Visiting Artist Lecture Series Curator
Fischer-Landau Fellowship

PROFESSORSHIPS

Yale University (MFA, Sculpture), Visiting Critic, 2015-2021
Princeton University (BFA, Photography), Lecturer Associate Professor, 2019-2020
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Adjunct Professor (BFA, Photography), 2019
The Cooper Union, New York, Howard Wolf Chair in Photography, 2018
New York University, Steinhardt Department of the Arts (MFA), Adjunct Professor, 2012-2019 
Columbia University, New York, Visiting Professor (BFA) 2008/Visiting Critic (MFA) 2016-2018
School of Visual Arts (MFA), New York. Adjunct Professor, 2014-2017
California Institute of the Arts (MFA/BFA), Visiting Professor, 2009-2011
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte,,Torino, Italy, Visiting Professor, Spring 2011