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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009	Existed: Leonardo Drew, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX May 16- August 15 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Feb. 6 – May 9 Fine Art Society, London, UK Oct. 6 – Oct. 29
2007	Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY April 14 – May 12
2006	Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena Italy Jan. 28th - May 7th
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
2010	From then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH Jan. 29 – May 9
2008	30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Dec. 30, 2008 – May 30, 2009
2007	New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia Feb 25 - June 10 Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia June 27 - Sept 16 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee Oct 26 - Jan 13, 2008 Repeat Performances: Seriality and Systems Art since 1960, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH Sept 4 - Dec 23
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 Sept 23 – Nov 19
2005	Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY Leonardo Drew/Kara Walker, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
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
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
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
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
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.
2005	Amy, Michael. Art in America, September 2005, p. 152
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.
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.