Bio

Leah Raintree is an artist based in New York City and raised in rural Virginia. Her practice focuses on the human connection to earth, with an interest in how we frame and experience time, matter, scale, and phenomena. Her work is rooted in an experimental drawing practice that spans media, with projects developing through a combination of process-based mark-making and direct engagement with materiality and place. Raintree primarily works across drawing, ceramic, and cameraless photographic processes, often drawing with site-specific materials to explore how we mark, shape, and understand the earth, and our interconnection with the planet. These investigations occur at the scale of the body, revealing interrelationships between human and geologic scales.

Raintree is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Lower East Side Printshop. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA, at W&L University’s Staniar Gallery in Lexington, VA, and at The Noguchi Museum in Queens, NY. She has been awarded numerous Artist-in-Residence fellowships including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace and Process Space, NYC, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, and the Banff Centre, Canada. Raintree holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA from Parsons, the New School for Design.