LEONARDO  DREW

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Tallahassee, Florida, 1961
Lives in San Antonio, Texas & Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, B.F.A., 1985
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1981-1982

Grants and Awards

2011

Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2010

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Artpace (Main Avenue widow), San Antonio, TX

2009

Existed: Leonardo Drew, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; travels to Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Fine Art Society, London, UK

2007

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2006

Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

2005

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

2002

The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

2001

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland

2000

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

1999

Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1998

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL

1996

University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Currents: Leonardo Drew, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI

1995

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

The Pace Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

Ground Level Overlay, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collaboration, New York, NY

1994

San Francisco Art Institute, Walter/Mc Bean Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1992

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, Washington, DC

2010

From then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH

2008

30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL

2007

New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Museum, Columbus Georgia

Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee

Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH

2006

Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY

Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

2005

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Leonardo Drew/Kara Walker, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2001

Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida

2000

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

1998

Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

1997

New Work: Words & Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida

1996

Leonardo Drew/Mark Francis/Oliver Herring, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1995

About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Pace Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

1995 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,PA

1994

Promising Suspects, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1993

Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY

1992

Biennial Dakar, Senegal

Three Sculptors: Leonardo Drew, Lisa Hoke, Brad Kahlhamer, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

1991

From the Studio: Artists in Residence, 1990-91, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography

Square Cylinder  April 2011
SF Weekly  April 2011
SF Gate  April 2011
Boston.com  October 2010
Art in America  June 2010
Winston-Salem Journal  April 2010
New York Times  February 2010
Houston Chronicle  July 2009
Downtown Express  June 2009
Houston Chronicle  May 2009
New York Times  May 2008