Aichi Triennale

Over the last twenty years Simone Leigh has created a multi-faceted body of work incorporating sculpture, video, and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of Black female-identified subjectivity. Leigh describes her work as auto-ethnographic, and her ceramic and bronze sculptures often employ forms traditionally associated with African art. Her performance-influenced installations create spaces where historical precedent and self-determination commingle. Leigh first began exhibiting her work in the early-2000s. She has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tate Modern, London, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.

Selected exhibitions

2024–25

Solo exhibitions, Simone Leigh, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2024-25, USA)/California African American Museum (2024-25, Los Angeles, USA) / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2023-24, Washington D.C., USA) / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023, USA)

2022–23

Solo exhibitions, Simone Leigh, Glenstone (Potomac, USA)

2022

59th Venice Biennale (awarded the Golden Lion), United States Pavilion (Italy)

2019

The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA)

2019

Installation, “Brick House,” High Line Plinth at the Spur (New York, USA)