zoe leonard
zoe leonard
Crossing the Gateway International Bridge from Matamoros to Brownsville, 2020
Artist Biography
New York-based artist Zoe Leonard balances rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision in her work, which merges photography, sculpture, and installation. By employing strategies of repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard’s practice probes the politics of representation and display. Leonard explores themes such as gender and sexuality, loss and mourning, migration, displacement, and the urban landscape. Her photography specifically invites us to contemplate the role that the medium plays in constructing history, and to consider the roots of contemporary photographic culture. More than its focus on any particular subject, however, Leonard’s work encourages the viewer to reconsider the act of looking itself, drawing attention to observation as a complex, ongoing process.
Zoe Leonard is represented by Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth.
Installation view of Zoe Leonard, Crossing the Gateway International Bridge from Matamoros to Brownsville, 2020 for TITAN, New York City, October 12, 2020 – January 3, 2021
Image courtesy of the artist, kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth
Photo: PJ Rountree