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Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh’s practice incorporates sculpture, video, and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity and ethnography. Her objects often employ materials and forms traditionally associated with African art; her performance-influenced installations create spaces where historical precedent and self-determination comingle. Through her investigations of visual overlaps between cultures, time periods, and geographies, she confronts and examines ideas of the female body, race, beauty, and community. Leigh is a recipient of the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016), Herb Alpert Award for Visual Art (2016), and A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2016). She has also been the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award (2013), Creative Capital Grant (2012), LMCC Michael Richards Award (2012), and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Sculpture (2011). Recent projects and exhibitions include Trigger: Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon (2017) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Psychic Friends Network (2016) at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London; The Waiting Room (2016) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Free People’s Medical Clinic (2014) a project commissioned by Creative Time; inHarlem, a public installation presented by The Studio Museum in Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park, New York; and a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

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Years of Seeing Red: Simone Leigh and Andrianna Campbell, Co-Presented with Denniston Hill

Image: Simone Leigh, A particularly elaborate imba yokubikira, or kitchen house, stands locked up while its owners live in diaspora (installation view), 2016. Presented by The Studio Museum of Harlem in Marcus Garvey Park, New York, NY, August 25, 2016–July 25, 2017. © Simone Leigh; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Years […]

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