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Simone Leigh

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Simone Leigh
artist-in-residence (en) Translate

2010 - 2011
Chicago, 1967 (run 56/57)
O ya TiŋgbaŋAmerica
ResidenceBrooklyn (mul) Translate
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋEarlham College (en) Translate
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibuSilmiinsili
Tuma
Tumasculptor (en) Translate, ceramicist (en) Translate, filmmaker (en) Translate ni video artist (en) Translate
Ŋun kpuɣi o tumaRhode Island School of Design (en) Translate
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee

Simone Leigh (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1967) ka o nyɛ African-American nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun yina Chicago ka nyɛ ŋun tumdi New York City din be United States.[1][2] O tuma shɛŋa n-nyɛ vidiyonima yaabu, binyɛra mɛbu. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, o tuma dalim la gbansabila binyɛra mini paɣaba binyɛra.[3][2][4] Leigh tuma yaa bela gbansabili paɣaba polo ni taarihi polo.[5][6]

O piligu mini Shikuru baŋsim

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Simone Leigh nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuni 1967, Chicago, Illinois, ka o laamba nyɛ "Jamaican missionaries".[7] O zooi la Chicago South Side.[8]

Leigh chaŋla shikuru Earlham College din be Richmond, Indiana; o malila nima "BA in Art" shɛhira gbaŋ ka bɔhim "Philosophy" bela pahi yuuni 1990.[9][10]

Leigh lecturing in 2013
Leigh working in her studio

Leigh tiŋ'duya tuma shɛŋa n-nyɛ: MoMA PS1, Walker Art Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Hammer Museum, The Kitchen, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Tilton Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, SculptureCenter, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Kunsthalle Wien din be Vienna, L'appartement 22 din be Rabat, Morocco, Andy Warhol Museum din be Pittsburgh, ni Association for Visual Arts Gallery din be Cape Town, South Africa.[11] Leigh daa laɣim laɣingu ni paɣaba ban mali nuuni tuunbaŋsim, ban tumdi "Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter" o ko tumanima puuni, "The Waiting Room" din be New Museum yuuni 2016.[12][13]

O nyɛla ŋun di pina kamani: Guggenheim Fellowship; Venice Biennale Golden Lion (2022); Herb Alpert Award; Creative Capital grant; Blade of Grass Fellowship; Studio Museum in Harlem's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize; Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize; United States Artists fellowship; ni Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2018).[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Bɛ daa piigi o "Artsy Editorial's" "Most Influential Artists" yuuni 2018.[23] Bɛ sabi o tumanima pam niŋ lahabaya wuligibu yaɣa kamani Art in America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Small Axe, ni Bomb magazine.[24][25][26][27][28][29]


Leigh nyɛla ŋun deei Venice Biennale Golden Lion (2022); Studio Museum in Harlem's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2016); Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016); Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2016); ni A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2016).[30] Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, Creative Capital Grantee, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Micheal Richards Award (2012), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Artist-in-Residence The Studio Museum in Harlem (2010–11), NYFA Fellowship, Art Matters Foundation Grant (2009), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2018), Hugo Boss Prize (2018) (a $100,000 award din nyɛ Guggenheim Museum ni su shɛli fukumsi ka be dunia pini gahinda ni).[14][31][32][5]

Zaŋ kana yuuni 2021, Leigh daa nyɛla Matthew Marks Gallery ni zani ti so.[33] Ŋun daa na zani ti o n-nyɛ Hauser & Wirth (2019–2021), David Kordansky Gallery (2019), ni Luhring Augustine Gallery (2016–2019).[34][35]

Yuuni 2023, Leigh's tuma Stick (2019), daa dala $2.7 million, Christie's din be New York,.[36] Birmingham (2012), daa dala $2.2 million, Sotheby’s din be New York yuuni 2022.[37]

Leigh dɛm o ko dɛmanima oqm United States ni tiŋ'duya. O ko dɛma shɛŋa n-nyɛ Simone Leigh (2004) Momenta Art, New York;[1] if you wan fo’ lick old woman pot, you scratch him back (2008), Rush Arts Gallery, New York;[38] You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been (2012), The Kitchen, New York;[39] Gone South (2014), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center;[40] The Waiting Room (2016), New Museum, New York;[41] Psychic Friends Network (2016), Tate Modern, London;[42] inHarlem: Simone Leigh (2016), Marcus Garvey Park, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York;[43] Loophole of Retreat (2019), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;[44] Brick House (2019), High Line, New York;[45] Simone Leigh (2021), Hauser & Wirth, Zurich;[46] Trophallaxis (2008-17), Pérez Art Museum Miami (2022-2023);[47] Sovereignty (2022), American pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale;[48] ni Simone Leigh (2023), originating at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.[49]

Leigh mini niriba lahi laɣim tum tuma pam ka di shɛŋa nyɛ Dakar Biennale (2014);[50] Berlin Biennale (2019);[51] Whitney Biennial (2019);[52] Prospect.5 (2021), Prospect New Orleans;[53] ni The Milk of Dreams (2022), 59th Venice Biennale.[54]

Yuuni 2024, Leigh daa lahi malituun shɛŋa Southern California ka di be Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) mini California African American Museum (CAAM).[55]

Notable works in public collections

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  • Stefan Üner: Black Renaissance. Simone Leigh, Sandra Mujinga und die Biennale 2022, in: stayinart, special edition, Innsbruck 2022, p. 82–89.
  1. 1 2 Tomkins, Calvin (2022). The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh: Recognition for the American sculptor, who is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, may have come late but it seems foreordained. The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. ““I guess the biggest failed utopia right now would be America””
  2. 1 2 Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room (en).
  3. Grimes, William. 2015, "Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope", The New York Times, April 16.
  4. Simone Leigh :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
  5. 1 2 Greenberger, Alex (2020-01-17). Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on 'Black Female Subjectivity,' Heads to Hauser & Wirth (en-US).
  6. "Time 100". Time. April 13, 2023. https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/.
  7. Pogrebin, Robin; Sheets, Hilarie M. (2018-08-29). "An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/arts/design/simone-leigh-sculpture-high-line.html.
  8. Golden, Ryan McGinley,Thelma (2019-09-07). Zendaya and Simone Leigh Are Going Beyond Beauty (en).
  9. Simone Leigh.
  10. Simone Leigh (en-US). Guggenheim Museum  Collections Online. guggenheim.org.
  11. Simone Leigh | Ceramics | Academics | RISD.
  12. Best, Tamara (2016-09-02). "At New Museum, a Pop-Up Support System for Black Lives Matter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/arts/design/at-new-museum-a-pop-up-support-system-for-black-lives-matter.html.
  13. Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh - Hammer Museum (en).
  14. 1 2 BIENNALE ARTE 2022: OFFICIAL AWARDS (en-US) (23 April 2022).
  15. Simone Leigh | The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2016-04-29).
  16. Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future (en).
  17. "A Blade of Grass Announces 2016 Fellows for Socially Engaged Art" (en-us). artforum.com. https://www.artforum.com/news/id=59597.
  18. Greenberger, Alex (2017-10-31). Simone Leigh Wins Studio Museum in Harlem's $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (en-US).
  19. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Simone Leigh (en-US).
  20. Battaglia, Andy (2018-10-18). Simone Leigh Wins the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize (en-US).
  21. Greenberger, Alex (2019-01-22). United States Artists Names 2019 Fellows, Including Firelei Báez, Wu Tsang, and Cecilia Vicuña (en-US).
  22. Who Is the Activist Sculptor Simone Leigh? Here Are 5 Things to Know About This Year's Hugo Boss Prize Winner (en-US) (2018-10-19).
  23. The Most Influential Artists of 2018 (en) (2018-12-17).
  24. Going Underground: An Interview with Simone Leigh - Interviews - Art in America (2015-08-20).
  25. Simmons, William (March 5, 2015). "500 Words Simone Leigh". Artforum.
  26. Puleo, Risa (June 2016). ""Simone Leigh" Modern Painters". Modern Painters.
  27. "Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  28. Grimes, William (2015-04-16). "Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/arts/design/distinct-prisms-in-an-ever-shifting-kaleidoscope.html.
  29. BOMB Magazine — Simone Leigh by Malik Gaines (en).
  30. Simone Leigh :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
  31. Pogrebin, Robin; Sheets, Hilarie M. (2018-08-29). "An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream" (en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/arts/design/simone-leigh-sculpture-high-line.html.
  32. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Simone Leigh (en-US).
  33. Simone Leigh, the Celebrated Sculptor Who Left Hauser and Wirth After Less Than Two Years, Has Joined Matthew Marks (30 November 2021).
  34. Alex Greenberger (October 29, 2021), Simone Leigh Departs Hauser & Wirth Ahead of Venice Biennale Pavilion ARTnews.
  35. Alex Greenberger (January 17, 2020), Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on ‘Black Female Subjectivity,’ Heads to Hauser & Wirth ARTnews.
  36. At Christie’s ‘21st Century’ Auction, the Sound of Records Breaking for Women (15 May 2023).
  37. Scott Reyburn (19 May 2022), Spring Auction Sales for Two Blockbuster Weeks Top $2.5 Billion New York Times.
  38. Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been.
  39. SIMONE LEIGH: Gone South. Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
  40. Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room.
  41. Psychic Friends Network with Simone Leigh.
  42. inHarlem: Simone Leigh. Studio Museum in Harlem.
  43. The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  44. Simone Leigh: Brick House. Friends of the High Line.
  45. Simone Leigh. Hauser & Wirth.
  46. Simone Leigh: Trophallaxis • Pérez Art Museum Miami (en-US).
  47. Simone Leigh: Sovereignty. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
  48. Simone Leigh. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
  49. Simone Leigh & Chitra Ganesh (fr). Dakar Biennale.
  50. Simone Leigh.
  51. Whitney Biennial 2019, Simone Leigh. Whitney Museum.
  52. Simone Leigh - P.5. Prospect New Orleans.
  53. Simone Leigh, Biennale Arte 2022. Venice Biennale.
  54. admin (2024-07-09). Simone Leigh (en-US).
  55. Breakdown. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  56. Breakdown. Smithsonian Institution.
  57. My Dreams, My Works Must Wait Till After Hell. Smithsonian Institution.
  58. My Dreams, My Works Must Wait Till After Hell.
  59. Simone Leigh.
  60. Trophallaxis. Pérez Art Museum Miami.
  61. Dunham. Art Institute of Chicago.
  62. Georgia Mae. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  63. 203 (Face Jug Series). University of Iowa.
  64. Cupboard VII. Whitney Museum.
  65. Figure with Skirt. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
  66. No Face (Crown Heights).
  67. No Face (Pannier). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  68. Opuwo. Rhode Island School of Design.
  69. Brick House. University of Pennsylvania.
  70. Corrugated. North Carolina Museum of Art.
  71. Corrugated.
  72. Cupboard IX. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
  73. Las Meninas.
  74. Sentinel.
  75. Stick. Whitney Museum.
  76. Loophole of Retreat.
  77. Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent New Gifts and Acquisitions to the Collection (1 June 2022).
  78. Quonset.
  79. Sentinel IV. University of Texas at Austin.
  80. Sphinx. Joslyn Art Museum.
  81. Village Series. Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
  82. Simone Leigh.
  83. Sentinel. National Gallery of Art.