| LEONARDO DREW Born in Tallahassee, Florida, 1961 Lives in San Antonio, Texas & Brooklyn, New York EDUCATION The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, B.F.A.,1985 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1981-1982 |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Existed: Leonardo Drew, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of
Houston, TX Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, NC Fine Art Society, London, UK
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| 2007 | Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
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| 2006 | Palazzo Delle Papesse
Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena Italy
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| 2005 | Brent Sikkema Gallery, NY | ||
| 2002 | The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA | ||
| 2001 | Mary Boone Gallery, New
York, NY Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland |
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| 2000 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
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| 1999 | Madison Art Center, Madison, WI | ||
| 1998 | Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| 1996 | University at Buffalo Art
Gallery, Center for the Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo,
NY Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Currents: Leonardo Drew, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI |
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| 1995 | Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego, CA The Pace Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX Ground Level Overlay, Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collaboration, New York, NY |
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| 1994 | San Francisco Art Institute,
Walter/Mc Bean Gallery, San Francisco, CA Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY |
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| 1992 | Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY | ||
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EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 | From then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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| 2008 | 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
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| 2007 | New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, Allen Memorial
Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
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| 2006 | Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta
National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
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| 2005 | Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY Leonardo Drew/Kara Walker, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany |
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| 2001 | Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida | ||
| 2000 | Vanitas: Meditations
on Life and Death in Contemporary Art,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia |
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| 1998 | Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY | ||
| 1997 | New Work: Words & Images, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida | ||
| 1996 | Leonardo Drew/Mark Francis/Oliver Herring, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| 1995 | About Place: Recent
Art of the Americas, The Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, IL Pace Roberts Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX 1995 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
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| 1994 | Promising Suspects,
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
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| 1993 | Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, NY |
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| 1992 | Biennial Dakar, Senegal Three Sculptors: Leonardo Drew, Lisa Hoke, Brad Kahlhamer, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY |
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| 1991 | From the Studio:
Artists in Residence, 1990-91, The Studio
Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
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| SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| 2009 |
Britt, Douglas. “Blaffer’s Leonardo Drew Survey Hits a Home Run.” Houston Chronicle 10 July 2009. Britt, Douglas. “Existed explores death and decay,” Houston Chronicle, 14 May 2009. Schmuckli, Claudia. Existed: Leonardo Drew, (exhibition catalog) Houston: Blaffer Gallery, 2009. ISBN: 1-904832-58-4 |
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| 2008 |
Nichols, Matthew Guy. “The Taxonomy of Ruin,” Art in America, January 2008, pp. 112-115 Klein, Jennie. ‘Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, Artpapers, Mar-Apr, p. 65 Rosenberg, Karen. ‘Where have all the Paintings gone?” The New York Times, May 30, 2008 The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art . (exhibition catalogue). National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts. 2008. ISSN 2008-1590-National Academy of Design. Kunitz, Daniel. “The Grab Bag Anthology”. ARTS+ June 2008 “The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”. Journal of the Print World, Inc. Summer 2008. ISSN 0737-7436 |
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| 2007 |
Baker, Kenneth. “Grand Tour Detours,” Art & Auction, June 2007, pp 170-175 New Directions in American Drawing, (exhibition catalog) c. 2007 Columbus Museum, Columbus Georgia. ISBN: 1882650190 |
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| 2006 |
Drake, Cathryn. “Leonardo Drew: Palazzo delle Papesse- Centro Arte Contemporanea.” Artforum. Summer 2006 Richer, Francesca, and Matthew Rosenzweig, ed. No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p. ISBN 1-933045-09-4. Brewinska, Maria. Black Alphabet – contexts of Contemporary African American Art, (Exhibition Catalogue) Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland. Sims, Lowery Stokes, Hulser, Kathleen, Copeland, Cynthia R. Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, The New York Historical Society, NY, NY (Exhibition catalog) Wolin, Joseph R. “Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery,” Time Out New York, July 6 – 12. “Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery Opens at the New York Historical Society,” Daily Challenge, June 30. Boyd, Herb. “A Fresh Perspective on Slavery,” New York Amsterdam News, July 6. Bloomberg.com, posted June 23. ABN. “Exhibit Shows Slavery’s Cultural Impact,” Art Business News, May 1. “Artist Reflect on Slavery at N-YHS,” artnet.com, posted March 17. “New York to Chicago…,” David Patrick Columbia’s New York Social Diary, posted July 6. Bernard, Audrey J. “Kickin’ It: Exquisite Show Deals with How Racially Based Slavery Has Shaped Our Society,” The New York Beacon, July 6 – 12. “Exhibit to Focus on the Legacy of Slavery,” The Bronx News, June 1. |
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| 2005 | Amy, Michael. Art in America, September 2005, p. 152 |
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| 2001 | “Leonardo Drew”, The New Yorker, 29 January 2001, p. 18. Glueck, Grace. “Walls That Talk to You About Talking to Walls”, The New York Times, 2 February 2001, p. E38. |
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| 2000 | Dobrzynski, Judith H. "Extracting
Metaphors From Life's Detritus", The New York Times, 2 February
2000, pp. E1, E8. O'Sullivan, Michael. A Trash Course in Sculpture", The Washington Post, 26 March 2000, pp. G1, G4-G5. |
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| 1997 | Edwards, Lorraine. "Navigating
a Sea of Chaos", Sculpture, February 1997, pp. 18-21. (illus:
"Number 56", Cover, C). Haye, Christian. "Leonardo Drew", Frieze, May 1997, pp. 81-82. |
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| 1996 | Kimmelman, Michael. "New
things that look old and ravaged", The New York Times, 13
September 1996, p. C26. Yablonsky, Linda. "Leonardo Drew", Time Out New York, 10 October 1996, p. 30. Johnson, Ken. "Leonardo Drew at Mary Boone", Art In America, November 1996. pp. 113-114. Mac Adam, Barbara A. "Leonardo Drew", Art News, November 1996, p. 130. |
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| 1995 | Melrod, George. "Material Witness", World Art, December 1995, pp. 34-39. | ||
| 1994 | Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Leonardo Drew, Barbara Toll Gallery & Thread Waxing Space", The New York Times, 1 April 1994, p. C20. | ||
| 1993 | Nesbitt, Lois. "Leonardo
Drew, Thread Waxing Space", ArtForum, January 1993, p. 87.
Als, Hilton. "Openings: Leonardo Drew", ArtForum, February 1993, p. 94. Naves, Mario. "Reviews: Leonardo Drew, Thread Waxing Space", New Art Examiner, February 1993, p. 29. Heartney, Eleanor. "Leonardo Drew at Thread Waxing Space", Art In America, March 1993, pp. 112-113. |
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| 1992 | Kimmelman, Michael. "Art in Review: Leonardo Drew", The New York Times, 27 November 1992, p. C23. |
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| 1989 | Brenson, Michael. “Sculptors Using the Wall as Venue and Inspiration”, The New York Times, 24 February 1989, p. C30. |
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