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Leigh Ledare

* 1976 in Seattle, Washington, lives in New York City
2008 MFA, Columbia University
2000 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Double Bind, artist book presentation at MFC Michèle Didier Gallery, Paris
Leigh Ledare et. al, WIELS, Brussels

2011
Leigh Ledare / Per Billgren: Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing..., RECEPTION, Berlin

2010
Double Bind, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Double Bind, Prix Decouvert, Les Rencontres d’Arles, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Stephen Parreno and Liam Gillick
Le Tit, Guido Costa Projects, Turin, Italy
The Confectioner’s Confectioner, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London
Too Late and Later, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway

2009
Leigh Ledare, Les Rencontres de Arles, Arles, France

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 Group Exhibitions

2012/13
Privat (curated by Martina Weinhart), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main

2012
Collaborations & Inventions (curated by Friederike Nymphius), CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Andratx, Spain
Americans in New York 2, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Sharon Hayes, Leigh Ledare
curated by Ami Barak, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris

2011
Leigh Ledare, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Jason and Jesse Pearson(curated by Latoya Ruby Frazie), Mason Gross Galleries at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
Sex Drive, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA
A Hole is To Dig, Office Baroque, Antwerp
Cult of the Ruin: Strategies of Accumulation, UC Irvine, Irvine, California
LAXART Curator’s Choice Video Show, LAXART, Los Angeles
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, Ireland
Home Videos, Leigh Ledare and Kenneth Tam, Loisaida, NY, 2011
Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 2011

2010
How Soon Is Now, The Garage CCC, Moscow Russia, Curated by Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Stephen Parreno
Which Witch is Which? White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Curated by Ajay Kurian
Luma Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles,  Curated by Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Stephen Parreno, With Hans Peter-Feldman, Fischli and Weiss, Roe Etheridge and others
Greater New York 2010, MoMA / PS1, New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Hatch, Neville Wakefield
No More Presence, Leigh Ledare and Corinne Jones,  Gresham’s Ghost
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures, 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, Berkely, CA. Screening

2009
I’m So Sad, My God, ISCP, New York
Dance, Sons and Daughters, Dance! The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Selected Works curated by Laurie Simmons, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
Prague Biennale 4, Prague, Czech Republic
Re-Gift, curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, New York
House Call, Three’s Company, New York
Ca Me Touche, curated by Nan Goldin, with JH Enstrom, Anders Petersen, Boris Mikhailov, Jack Pierson, Nan Goldin, Arles, France
N-1, Patino Foundation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

2008
Freeway Balconies, curated by Collier Schorr, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Open Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
Swiss Institute Benefit Auction, Swiss Institute, New York
Colette, Paris, October
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, curated by Chris Johanson, Small a Projects, Portland, OR
Blindspot Benefit Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Sentimental Education, Kevin Zucker (contributor), 11 Rivington, New York

2007
Leigh Ledare Ari Marcopoulos and JH Engstrom, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Stalemate, curated by Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
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

Books and Publications

2012
Double Bind, artist book, published by Michèle Didier, Paris, 85 numbered and signed copies
Leigh Ledare: et al., catalogue WIELS, Brussels / Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2012/13, ed. by Elena Filipovic, Milan: Mousse Publishing 2012.

2011
Commissioned Works, Morel Press,  London

2008
Pretend You’re Actually Alive, PPP Editions, in collaboration with Andrew Roth, New York

Bibliography

2012
Entblößtes Ich: Das Europa-Debüt des amerikanischen Fotografen Leigh Ledare im Brüsseler Wiels, Magdalena Kroener, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 23, 2012, p. 27.

2011
Leigh Ledare / Per Billgren. Something Might Have Been Better Than Nothing, Reception, Berlin, 12 March - 14 May, by Mark Rappolt, in: Art Review, 51, Summer 2011, p. 168
Per Billgren and Leigh Ledare, RECEPTION, by Michele Faguet, in: Artforum International, Summer Issue 2011
Feature Interview, Leigh Ledare, Modern Painters

2010
Review of Double Bind, by Simon Baker. 1000wordsmag.com
A Tale of Two Cities, by Simon Bainbridge on Arles, British Journal of Photograph
Sincerity and Irony Hug it Out,  by Jerry Saltz on PS1 Greater NY, NY Magazine
Take Me Out to the Big Show in Queens, by Roberta Smith, PS1 Greater NY, NY Times, May 27
This Is Tomorrow. ‘Leigh Ledare: The Confectioner’s Confectioner’ review,  May
Satcchi Online: Top Ten London Shows in May and June, by Rebecca Geldard
Dummy Magazine, feature, January
British Journal of Photography, decade’s 10 best photo books, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger

2009
MAP Magazine, Cover interview
The Observer Sons, lovers… and weird things about mothers, London, July 12th
Frieze Magazine, Focus,  May
Artforum review of Re-gift, curated by John Miller, Swiss Institute, NY May
Purple Magazine, Visual Essay, Winter Issue
Der Spiegel, Feature on the Artist, Leigh Ledare, January
Frieze Magazine, Beatrix Ruf, Most Significant Emerging Artists of 2008, January

2008
Monopol Magazin, Interview, Germany, December
Time Out New York, Review, You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air, October 8
The New Yorker, critics picks, You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air, October
Artforum, review, Pretend You’re Actually Alive, September
Collier Schorr, Freeway Balconies catalogue, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Brooklyn Rail, review of You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
Artnet.com, review of You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
Artreview.com, review of You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air
S Magazine Feature Interview, September
Rodeo Magazine, Artist Profile, October
The Journal Magazine, Portfolio of Personal Commissions, September
The New York Times review, show at Andrew Roth, June 6th
The New Yorker, review of Pretend You’re Actually Alive, May
Village Voice, Best in Show, May 2008, featured review of show at Roth
Tokion Magazine interview
The New Yorker, The Book Bench, Review of Show at ICP. November 13, 2008

2007
ANP Quarterly interview
The New Yorker Magazine review of show at Cohan and Leslie
New York Times review of show at Cohan and Leslie
New York Magazine review of show at Cohan and Leslie

2005
Strange Place, Noun Trilogy Art Anthology, Volume One. Ten page arrangement of photographs from Russia

Grants and Residencies

2009
Jerome Foundation Research Grant

2008
Feldman travel grant, Columbia University
Columbia University Fellowship, Co-curator of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Fischer-Landau Fellowship

2005
Bakery artist in residence, Portland, Maine

2003
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts Working Grant

2000
Harry Koregian Memorial Scholarship


Per Billgren

born Calcutta/India, lives and works in New York City
2007–2009 MFA, Columbia University, New York
1989–1993 BA Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle

Exhibitions

2009
Heavier Than A Death In The Family, 25 CPW, New York
Point B Special Project, Brooklyn, NY
Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Columbia University Thesis Exhibition, Fischer Landau Center, New York
Affirmation Arts, New York
Sculpture Sabbath, New York
106 Green, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Fuse Gallery, New York

2006
Artists Space, New York

2005
Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York

Grants and Residencies

2010 Montrose Initiative for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2007–2008 Eric Javits Fellowship, Columbia University, New York
2004-2005 Bakery artist in residence, Portland, ME

Curatorial Projects

2009
Heavier Than A Death In The Family, 25 CPW, New York

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