Leah Gordon
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS
2018
Out of the Whirlwind’s Radiance,50 GOLBORNE, London
Vernacular Universalism: Freemasonry in Haiti,The Clemente Center, NY, USA
Haiti Aqui,Fundacion Casa Cortes, Puerto Rico
Bordering the Imaginary,BRIC Cultural Center, Brooklyn, USA
2017
Hierophant,Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Tailors of Port-au-Prince,Side Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Chita Tann,with Andre Eugene, Havre Magasinet Museum, Boden, Sweden
2016
Atlas [of the ruins] of Europe,CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura Ciudadania, Madrid
2015
From Within and Without: The History of Haitian Photography,MOA|FL Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Meeting Point,Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
2014
11ème Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dak'art 2014, Senegal
Les Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane, French Guiana
Alles Maskerade!MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
Ort Gallery, Birmingham, UK (Solo Show)
HOUSE 2014,Regency House, Brighton, UK
Médiathèque Intercommunale André Labarrère, Pau, France (Solo Show)
It’s Folk, Let’s Dance,99 Mary St, Sheffield, UK
2013
Kanaval,PHI Centre, Montreal, Canada (Solo Show)
2012
Taboo,Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney
Kanaval,New Art Exchange, Nottingham (Solo Show)
Caste,Riflemaker Gallery, London (Solo Show)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2018
Nanne Buurman, Sarah Dornhof, Birgit Hopfener & Barbara Lutz, (eds.), Situating Global Art: Topologies – Temporalities – Trajectories (Transcript 2018)
Leah Gordon, A Legacy of Abstruse Laws: Haitian Cultural Abstraction and the Paintings of Tomm El-Saieh, (ICA Miami 2018)
2017
Leah Gordon (ed.), Ghetto Biennale | Geto Byenal 2009-2015, (No Eraser Publishing 2017)
2016
Natasha Hoare & Rafal Niemojewski (ed.s), The New Curator, (Laurence King Publishing 2016)
2015
Claire Tancons & Krista Thompson (ed.s), EN MAS’: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, (Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 2015)
Barbara Lynes (ed.), From Within and Without: The History of Haitian Photography, (NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, USA 2015)
David Bindman (ed), The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume 5 Part 1, The Twentieth Century: the Impact of Africa, (Harvard University Press 2014)
2013
Brook Andrews (ed), Taboo, (Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia 2013)
2012
Alex Farquharson & Leah Gordon (ed.s) 'Kafou: Haiti, Art and Vodou', (Nottingham Contemporary 2012)
Don Cosentino (ed.) 'In Extremis: Death & Life in 21st Century Haitian Art' (Fowler Museum, UCLA & University of Washington Press)
2010
Leah Gordon, Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti, (Soul Jazz Publishing 2010)
RESEARCH, PRODUCTION GRANTS AND AWARDS
2016
Invited for Artist residency at Hangar: Centre of Artistic Research, Lisbon funded by the Triangle Network
2015
Recipient of the 2015 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean
2014
HOUSE festival commission for the project Caste | Cast at Regency Town House, Brighton
2012
Recipient of Research Institute for Media Art and Design (University of Bedfordshire) award for the Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive in New York
