Biografia Leigh Ledare
Born in Seattle (USA), 1976.
Lives and works in New York.
Exhibition - solo
2011
Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing, RECEPTION, Berlin (with Per Billgren)
2010
Double Bind, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Double Bind, Prix Decouvert, Les Recontres d'Arles (curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Parreno e Gillick)
Le Tit, Giudo Costa Projects, Torino
The Confectioner's Confectioner, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Too Late and Later, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo
2009
Leigh Ledare, Les Recontres d'Arles, Arles
2008
You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air, Rivington Arms, New York
Pretend You're Actually Alive, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Selected exhibitions - group
2011
Cult of the Riun: Strategies of Accumulation, UC Irvine, Irvine
LAXART Curator's Choice Video Show, LAXART, Los Angeles
Sex Drive, Haverfort College, Haverfort
2010
How Soon Is Now, The Garage CCC, Moscow (curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Gillick and Parreno)
Which Witch is Which?, White Flag Projects, St. Louis (curated by Ajay Kurian)
Luma Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles (curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Gillick and Parreno)
Greater New York 2010, MOMA / PS1, New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Hatch and Neville Wakefield)
No More Presence, Laigh Ledare e Corinne Jones, Gresham's Ghost
They Have Not the Art To Argue with Pictures: Robert Heinecken, Guyton, Schorr, Ross Ho, Guagnini, Ledare, Frydenborg, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Support Group, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery
Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley
2009
I'm So Sad, My God, ISCP, New York
Dance, Sons and Daughters, Dance!, The Physics Room, Christenchurch, New Zealand
Selected Works, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York (curated by Laurie Simmons)
Pargue Biennale 4, Prague
Re-Gift, Swiss Institute, New York (curated by John Miller)
House Call, Three's Company, New York
Ca Me Touche, Arles (curated by Nan Goldin)
N-1, Patino Foundation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2008
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Open Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
Swiss Institute benefit auction, Swiss Institute, New York
Colette, Paris
Closer Now, Rivington Arms, New York
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Benefit Auction, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, New York
EPTSOLP, Small a Projects, Portland (curated by Chris Johanson)
Blindspot Benefit Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Kevin Zucker, Sentimental Education, 11 Rivington, New York (contributor)
2007
Leigh Ledare Ari Marcopoulos and JH Engstrom, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Stalemate, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York (curator)
The Dating Show, ISE Foundation, New York
CRG, Open Video Series, New York
Artists' Books: Transgression/Excess, Space Other, Boston
Frieze Art Fair, Rivington Arms, London
Ego, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles
Other infromations
2010
Visiting professor, Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts
2009
Visiting professor, Photography and Media, California Institute of the Arts
2008
Assistant professor, Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York