Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh
Born 1967 (age 48–49)
Chicago, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater Earlham College
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, Creative Capital Grantee, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Michael Richards Award, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Artist-in-Residence The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYFA Fellowship, Art Matters Foundation Grant

Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist born to Jamaican parents. She works in various media including sculpture, video installation and social practice. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism.[1]

Leigh is the creator of the Free People's Medical Clinic a social practice project created with Creative Time in 2014.[2] The installation was located in a 1914 Bed-Stuy brownstone called the Stuyvesant Mansion, previously owned by notable African-American doctor Josephine English (1920-2011). As an homage to this history, Leigh created a walk-in health center with yoga, nutrition and massage sessions, staffed by volunteers in 19th-century nurse uniforms.[3]

Leigh has exhibited internationally including: PS1/MoMA; The Walker Art Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Kitchen; Tilton Gallery; Contemporary Museum of Art Houston; SculptureCenter; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; L’Appartement22 in Rabbat, Morocco; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; and the AVA Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.[4]

Leigh's work has been written about in many publications, including: Art In America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Small AxE and Nka:Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Bomb Magazine.[5] In addition, she teaches in the Ceramics Department of the Rhode Island School of Design.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Grimes, William. 2015. “Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope.” The New York Times, April 16. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/arts/design/distinct-prisms-in-an-ever-shifting-kaleidoscope.html.
  2. ↑ Davis, Samara. 2015. "Room for Care." TDR: The Drama Review 59, no. 4: 169-176.
  3. ↑ Cotter, Holland (2014-10-07). "‘Funk, God, Jazz & Medicine,’ Black Heritage in Brooklyn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. 1 2 "Simone Leigh | Ceramics | Academics | RISD". www.risd.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
  5. ↑ "Simone Leigh CV / Bio".
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