CONTACT
Leigh Cunningham
b. 1991
Lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey
EDUCATION
2013 BFA, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY
Graduated with honors
2012 Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
First Contentful Paint, Somos Art House, Berlin, Germany
2014
Faces Revealed, Cowwarr Art Space, Victoria, Australia
SELECTED GROUP OR ONLINE EXHIBITIONS
2025
Melted City 5, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2023
Is it a dream or a memory?, Marathon Gallery, Ellenville, NY
2022
Within/Without, Fireflies Gallery online exhibition
2021
Humanity’s Many Faces, Orenda Art Works online exhibition
2017-2018
Melted City 4, Blanc Gallery, Mandalyuong, Philippines; ISB Gallery RISD, Providence, RI; Yui Gallery, NYC
2016
Natural Selection, Mayson Gallery, NYC
2015
Great Dark, Dress Shop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Face It, OnSite: Brooklyn, NY
Melted City 2, Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Hrönir: Un-Lost Things, BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Dime Bag 4, The End is Near, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Exhibition, The National Association of Women Artists, NYC
Content in Absence, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2013
Drawable, FLA Gallery, Gainesville, FL
My Generation, Mayson Gallery, NYC
In My Room, Pop-up gallery, South Slope, NYC
Reading Paintings, Pop-up gallery, Dumbo, NYC
Abject Beauty, Postcrypt Gallery, Columbia University, NYC
Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, NYC
2011
Falling Faintly, Faintly Falling, Bowery Wine Co., NYC
2010
The Parsons 2010 Show, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, NYC
Palimpsest, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, NYC
RESIDENCIES
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
November 2024 - December 2024
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
April 2023-May 2023
SomoS, Berlin, Germany
September 2021 – November 2021
Cowwarr Art Space, Victoria, Australia
November 2013 – February 2014
AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS
2021 Somos
2021 Oyedrum Magazine, Volume 4
2013 American Illustration 32, two pieces selected
2013 Piece chosen for American Illustration web archive
2010 Piece selected for Bologna Children’s Book Fair
2009-2013 Dean’s List at Parsons