Leonardo Drew
Born 1961
Born 1961 in Tallahassee, FL
Lives in San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY
Education
1985 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, BFA
1981-82 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Selected Awards
2011 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2011 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010 Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Artpace (Main Avenue Window), San Antonio, TX
2009 Existed: Leonardo Drew, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX; Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, NC
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
1996 University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, State University of NewYork, 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
2012 Memory, International Contemporary Sculpture, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Naoli, Naples
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, GA;
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
2006 Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, New York, 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, FL
2000 Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1998 Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1997 New Work: Words & Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
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