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LEONARDO DREW


Born in Tallahassee, Florida
Lives in 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


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2006

Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena Italy
Jan. 28th - May 7th


2005

Max Hetzler Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Sept. 10th - Oct. 29th

 

2005 Brent Sikkema Gallery, NY
   
2002 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

 
2001 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland


 
2000 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY


 
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


 
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


 
1994

San Francisco Art Institute, Walter/Mc Bean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


 
1992 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY


 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

 
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


 
1994 Promising Suspects, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

 
1993

Markets of Resistance, White Columns,

New York, NY


 
1992 Biennial Dakar, Senegal
Three Sculptors: Leonardo Drew, Lisa Hoke, Brad Kahlhamer, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY


 
1991 From the Studio: Artists in Residence, 1990-91, The Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York, NY



 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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.
Leffingwell, Edward. "Leonardo Drew at Mary Boone", Art in America, April 2001, p. 133.


 
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.


 
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.


 
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.


 
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.


 
1992 Kimmelman, Michael. "Art in Review: Leonardo Drew", The New York Times, 27 November 1992, p. C23.

 
1989 Brenson, Michael. "Sculptors Using the Wall as Venue and Inspiration", The New York Times, 24 February 1989, p. C30.

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