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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
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