Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh
Leigh in 2017
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materEarlham College
Awards
Websitesimoneleigh.com

Simone 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. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and her interests include African art and vernacular objects, performance, and feminism.[3] Her work is concerned with the marginalization of women of color and reframes their experience as central to society.[2][4] Leigh has often said that her work is focused on “Black female subjectivity,” with an interest in complex interplays between various strands of history.[5] She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.[6]

  1. ^ Tomkins, Calvin (2022). "The Monumental Success of Simone Leigh: Recognition for the American sculptor, who is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, may have come late but it seems foreordained". newyorker.com. The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2022-03-25. "I guess the biggest failed utopia right now would be America"
  2. ^ a b "Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room". newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. ^ Grimes, William. 2015, "Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope", The New York Times, April 16.
  4. ^ "Simone Leigh :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  5. ^ Greenberger, Alex (2020-01-17). "Simone Leigh, Sculptor with a Focus on 'Black Female Subjectivity,' Heads to Hauser & Wirth". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
  6. ^ "Time 100". Time. April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2023.