Simone Leigh - Wikipedia
WEBSimone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist from Chicago who works in New York City in the United States. [1] [2] She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice.
Who Is Simone Leigh, and Why Is She Doing the U.S. Biennale …
WEBOct 19, 2020 · Simone Leigh is doing the 2022 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Here's why she's important.
Simone Leigh - Artnet
WEBSimone Leigh is a celebrated contemporary African-American artist. Working with ceramics, video, installation, and bronze, her art explores issues of identity, race, beauty, and feminism.
The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh - The New Yorker
WEBMar 21, 2022 · When this year’s Biennale opens, on April 23rd, the artist in the United States pavilion will be Simone Leigh, the first Black woman to be designated for this honor.
Simone Leigh - Smithsonian American Art Museum
WEBJun 23, 2023 · Simone Leigh is an interdisciplinary artist known for her ceramic and bronze sculptures, alongside decades of video, social practice, and collaborative performance. Her work centers Black femme interiority, collectivity, communality, and care.
Simone Leigh - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
WEBNov 3, 2023 · Simone Leigh (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1967) represented the United States at the 2022 Venice Biennale, one of the largest and most important contemporary art exhibitions in the world.
Simone Leigh Is First Black Woman to Represent U.S. at Venice …
WEBOct 14, 2020 · Simone Leigh, a Brooklyn-based sculptor whose large-scale works address the social histories and subjective experiences of Black women, will represent the United States at the next Venice...
Meet the First Black Woman to Represent the U.S. at the Art …
WEBOct 19, 2020 · Leigh, whose works explore notions of beauty, strength, colonialism and black womanhood, is the first African American woman to hold the coveted position.
Simone Leigh: Acts of Transformation - National Gallery of Art
WEBJul 21, 2023 · Leigh’s work creates settings that nurture Black women while calling out histories of their marginalization. Highlighting Black women’s perspectives on her own terms, Leigh has created a body of formally extraordinary work by a Black woman, unabashedly and unapologetically for Black women.
Simone Leigh, in the World - The New York Times
WEBApr 14, 2022 · Leigh, 54, is hovering near art-celebrity status. She won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2018, took part in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and even prompted a market kerfuffle last year when she left the...