Born 1976 in Seattle, Washington (USA)
Lives and works in New York
2016
Vokzal - The Walk - The Large Group
, Place du Jardin aux Fleurs, Paris
2014
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2013
An Invitation, Reception, Berlin,
Leigh Ledare, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2012
Double Bind Publication, Michele Didier Gallery, Paris
Leigh Ledare, WIELS, Brussels,
An Invitation, Pilar Corrias, London
Leigh Ledare, The Box, Los Angeles
2011
Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing, RECEPTION, Berlin
2010
Double Bind, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Double Bind - Prix Decouvert, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (France)
Le Tit, Guido Costa Projects, Turin
The Confectioner’s Confectioner, Pilar Corrias, London
Too Late and Later, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo
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
2017
Whitney Biennal 2017, Whitney Museum, New York
2016
Give Me Yesterday, Fondazione Prada, Milan
2014
It happens Without You, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow
Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque Gallery, Brussels
Walk-ins Welcom, Marlborough Broome St, New York
Layers Thaw, Minerva, Sydney
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists' Scrapbooks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Ana and Carl and Some Other Couples, Andrew Roth, New York
Simulacra, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Bad Conscience, Metro Pictures, New York
2013
Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks (New York Artist’s Book Fair), PS1/MoMA, New York
5th Moscow Bienniale, Pomeranz Collection. Moscow
News / Prints: Printmaking & The Newspaper, International Print Center, New York
9 Ways to Say it's Over, Farringdon Street, London
Revelations, Stonescape, Calistoga (USA)
Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim (Norway)
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities Department of Light Recordings - Section IV: Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Secession Secession, Fitzroy Gallery, New York
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Nevermore, On Stellar Rays, New York
2012
Privacy, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Hidden Mother, L'Avenir Dure Longtemps, Paris
Take Off Your Silver Spurs and Help Me Pass the Time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Collaborations & Inventions, CCA - Kunsthalle Andratx, Andratx (Spain)
Americans in New York 2, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
2011
Leigh Ledare - Paul Mpagi Sepuya - Jason and Jesse Pearson, 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 (Belgium)
Cult of the Ruin: Strategies of Accumulation, UC Irvine, Irvine (USA)
LAXART, LAXART, Los Angeles
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade, National Photographic Archive, Dublin
Home Videos - Leigh Ledare and Kenneth Tam, Loisaida (USA)
Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford (USA)
2010
How Soon Is Now, The Garage CCC, Moscow
Which Witch is Which?, White Flag Projects, St. Louis (USA)
Luma Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (France)
Greater New York
2010, PS1/MoMA, New York
No More Presence - Leigh Ledare and Corinne Jones, Gresham’s Ghost, New York
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures: Robert Heinecken - Guyton, Schorr - Ross Ho - Guagnini - Ledare - Frydenborg - Cherry - Martin, Los Angeles
Support Group, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Screening, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkely (USA)
2009
I’m So Sad, My God, ISCP, New York
Dance, Sons and Daughters - Dance!, The Physics Room, Christchurch (New Zealand)
Selected Works, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
Prague Biennale 4, Prague
Re-Gift, Swiss Institute, New York
House Call, Three’s Company, New York
Ca Me Touche, Arles (France)
N-1, Patino Foundation, Santa Cruz (Bolivia)
2008
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Open Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
Swiss Institute Benefit Auction, Swiss Institute, New York
Colette, Paris
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, Small a Projects, Portland (USA)
Blindspot Benefit Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Kevin Zucker - Sentimental Education, 11 Rivington, New York
2007
Leigh Ledare - Ari Marcopoulos - JH Engstrom, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Stalemate, 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
Awards
2009
Jerome Foundation Research Grant
2008
Feldman Travel Grant, Columbia University
2007-2008
Fellowship - Co-curator of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Columbia University,
Fischer-Landau Fellow
2005
Bakery Artist in Residence, Portland (USA)
2003
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts Working Grant
2000
Harry Koregian Memorial Scholarship