Leah Gordon
Leah Gordon, born 1959 Ellesmere Port, is a photographer, film-maker, curator, collector and writer. Her work focuses on Modernism and architecture; the slave trade and industrialisation; and grassroots religious, class and folk histories.
Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak’art Biennale; the National Portrait Gallery, UK and NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. Her photography book 'Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti' was published in June 2010.
She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; was a curator for the Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale; was the co-curator of ‘Kafou: Haiti, History & Art’ at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; on the curatorial team for ‘In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art’ at the Fowler Museum, UCLA and is the co-curator of 'PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince' at the Pioneer Works in 2018.
In 2015 Leah Gordon was the recipient of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.
