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Zoe Leonard
Biography
1961 Born in Liberty, NY Lives and work in New York, NY Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer 1998 Bowdoin College, New Brunswick, ME 1997 Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ 1989 Yale University, New Haven, CT
Solo Exhibitions 2003 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany 2002 The Agency Contemporary, London, England 2001 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 2000 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Micheline Szwajczer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem, Israel Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1997 Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL 1995 Le Casa d'Arte, Milan, Italy Photographs and Objects, at artist's studio, New York, NY, presented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia 1993 The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1992 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, CA University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, CA Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent, Belgium Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 1990 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany 1985 Greathouse, New York, NY 1983 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1979 Fourth Street Photo Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions 2003 Yankee Remix, Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA Phantom of Pleasure, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria 2002 RE: ACTION 2002, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO Recent Accessions: Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX American Academy International Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy White Columns Benefit Auction and Gala, New York, NY Prophets of Boom: Werke aus der Sammlung Schürman, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany Mask & Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Sie Träumt von Threm Lieblingsstar: Er Spricht mit einer Fremden Sprache, Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf, Germany Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France Le Regard de l'Autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France Photographier: To Photograph, Collection Lambert, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France My Marilyn, Liljewachs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Praz-Devallade, Paris, France Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Photographic Impulse, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA With and Without You: Re-visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland In Focus Display Within the Collection 2002, Tate Modern, London, England Group Show, The Agency, London, England Disturbance, Rafaela Cortese, Milan, Italy 2001 Full Frontal, Photographic Portraits, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas, MO Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria 2000 Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Brave New World, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Kwangju Bienial, Kwangju, Korea The Wounded Diva, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Germany Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA Positions to a political discourse, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Nieuw Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium Lignes d'horizon: Acquisitions recentes du FRAC Haute-Normandie, Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France Voila: Le Monde dans la tete, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Sensitive, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; traveled to The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL Others Worlds, curated by Erika Belle, New York, NY 1999 A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France The Sentiment of the Year 2000, Milano Triennale, Milan, Italy Persona II, Carousel Gallery, Paris, France Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Larmes Blanches, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Rouen, France Sleuth, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales (travelling to Oriel Mostyn, Llandedno, Wales; Barbican Gallery, London, England) A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia, Spain The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum on Modern Art, New York, NY (travelling to The Museum on Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain) Dramatis Personae, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA Veronica's Revenge: Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse, Casino Luxembourg and Musee national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg Skin Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel in passing, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Les Fleurs du Mal, Galerie Seitz-von Werder, Berling, Germany Gender Trouble, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany Exhibition of Visual Art 1998, EVA, Limerick Corporation, Limerick, Ireland Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott & David Teplitzky, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO 1998 Crossroad, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Three Generations, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Fast For ward (Body Check), Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany Some Like it Hot, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY Jardin d'artistes: De memoire d'arbre, Musee Zadkine, Paris, France L'Hypothese du tableau vole, la Fondation Mamco et le Musee d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Sculpture - Figure - Woman, Upper Austrain Regional Gallery, Linz, Austria (travelling to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany) The Precious Image: Contemporary Platinum Photography, University Art Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Embedded Metaphor, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, New Brunswick, ME 1997 Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent zu Gast im Kunstverein Schwerte, Germany Still and Moving: Contemporary Photography and Video, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, Miami, FL Short Cuts: Links to the Body, Deutsche Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Dortmund, Germany The Veiled Face (Transvestism and Identity in Art): The 80's and 90's, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Exhibition Gallery, Donostia-St. Sebastian, Spain Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia The Matrix of Geography, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia 1997 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Leisure Sector, Annika Sundvik Gallery, New York, NY Skin Deep, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Gothic, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Fashion Moda, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Veronica's Revenge: Oeuvres Photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 1996 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY The Wild Good; Lesbian Photography and Writings on Love, A Different Light Bookstore, New York, NY Groninger Museum's Collection and Proposals for Future Acquisitions, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Nudo and Crudo: Sensitive body, Visible body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Black and Blue: Eight American Photographers, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Passage a l'acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France Vija Celmins, Zoe Leonard, Jorge Pardo, Joe Scanlan, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium Points of View: Photography from the Collection, Gallery 2, University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan L'Ev idence, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Sosie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan Push Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL 1995 In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Zoe Leonard and Mauri Formigoni, Sangamon State University Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, IL Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA L'immagine riflessa: una selezione di fotografia contemporanea dalla collezione LAC, Svizzera, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy Fashion Moda, curated by Lisa Marie Marks, Entwistle, London, England Feminin/Masculin: Le Sexe de l'Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Nature Studies II, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusettes, Amherst, MA Obliquely, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1994 The Art of Seduction, The Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL The Use of Pleasure, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), curated by Robert Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (travelled to Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Le Capitou, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Frejus, France; Stadischa Galerie, Goppingen, Germany; Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan) Sum of the Parts, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA Sosie, Herve Mikaeloff, Paris, France Sea Sights, curated by Nessie Pope, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Saints and Survivors in a Time of Plague, Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (travelled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea) Dissent, Difference & The Body Politic, Otis Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Art & Aids in New York, Munchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY Rewriting History: The Salon of 1993, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN Coming to Power: 25 of Sexually Explicit Art by Women, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY The Uncanny, Sonsbeek Exhibition, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands Eau de Cologne: 1983-1993, Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne, Germany Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, with Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France Robert Gober, Zoe Leonard..., Fawbush, New York, NY Nulle Part et Partout, Espace Paul Boye, Sete, France Imaginaries, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Independent Study Program, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY What happened to the institutional critic?, American Fine Arts-Colin de Land, New York, NY The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (travelled to The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico; The Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO) Kunstverein Kippenberger Kassel, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Friedrichsplatz, Germany Gent de Gast in De Beyerd Breda: De Keuze Van Jan Hoet, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium 1992 Zoe Leonard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Auction, Neiman Marcus, Union Square, San Francisco, CA 1991 From Desire: A Queer Diary, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, New York, NY Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany New Museum Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 12 Brussels Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium John Baldessari, Burt Barr, Robert Gober, Sherrie Levine, Ronald Jones, On Kawara, Zoe Leonard, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY outrageous desire, DAB Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ 8th Annual Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, CA Nancy Brooks Brody, Paula Hayes, Zoe Leonard, Jack Pierson, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Shooter's Hill, AC Project Room, New York, NY Act Up Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Luhring Augustine, New York, NY The Koln Show, Cologne, Germany Wendy Jacob and Zoe Leonard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Ponton Temse, Museum van Hedendaagse, Ghent, Belgium Survey of Gay and Lesbian Artists, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY Act Up Auction For Action, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY War Resisters' League Benefit, New York, NY The Center Show, Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York, NY Erotophia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY AIDS Timeline, An Installation by Group Material, University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 1988 Selections from the Artists' File, Artist Space, New York, NY 1987 Consonance, ISD, New York, NY 1986 The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C. Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York, NY Myth, Greathouse, New York, NY New Math Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Getting off, Civilian Warfare, New York, NY 1984 Soon to Be A Major Motion Picture, Greathouse, New York, NY Just Appearances, New Math Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Twenty Nine Downtown, Piezo Electric, New York, NY 1982 Times Square Show, Times Square, New York, NY 1980 Club 57, New York, NY Film and Video 1996 The Watermelon Woman, written and directed by Cheryl Dunye, produced by Barry Swimar and Alexandra Juhasz. Leonard created a group of 82 photographs which were used in the film. 1991 East River Park, directed by Zoe Leonard, with assistance from Nancy Brody, 4 minute super-8 black and white silent film. 1988 Before the Dawn, directed by Amy Goldstein, 16mm film (production stills, photographs of sets, props and special effects) 1987 Keep Your Laws Off My Body, with Catherine Saalfield, 12 minute video. Public Collections Denver Art Museum,
Denver, CO Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The New School, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Secession, Vienna, Austria Sheldon Memorial Museum, Omaha, NE Smith College, Art Department, Northapmton, MA Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Ghent, Belgium Staad Museum, Kassel, Germany University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | ||||||
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