Leah Raintree info@leahraintree.com
Born 1979, lives and works in New York City
Education
MFA, 2012, Parsons, the New School for Design, New York, NY, Visual Art
BFA, 2003, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Painting and Art History
Exhibitions
2022
Leah Raintree: Timekeepers, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo exhibition)
Leah Raintree: the landscape is not still, Staniar Gallery, W&L University, Lexington, VA (solo exhibition)
2020
Leah Raintree: the landscape is not still, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo exhibition)
2019
The Edge Effect, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, curated by Akili Tommasino
Leah Raintree, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY
2018
How to Flatten a Mountain, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland, presented by PhotoIreland Foundation and Cow House Studios
2016-17
Another Land: After Noguchi, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, curated by Dakin Hart and Matt Kirsch (solo exhibition)
Traverse, William Holman Gallery, New York, NY
2015
EAF15: 2015 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, Curatorial Advisors Gary Carrion-Murayari and Nora Lawrence
Edge Effects: Christine Howard Sandoval & Leah Raintree, King Street Gallery, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD (two-person exhibition)
Creative Climate Awards & Exhibition 2015, The Human Impacts Institute, Taipei Cultural Offices, New York, NY
Soft Eyes, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA, curated by Pete Schulte
an other land, and in the other, our own, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway, curated by Ian Cofre
2014
Pier 54, High Line Art, New York, NY, curated by Cecilia Alemani
Matter to Scale, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn NY
Fluid, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
Created in Company: An Exhibition of LMCC Residents, Convene, New York, NY
2013
Rising Waters, 2.0, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Pleinairism, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, curated by Kitty Scott
Along the Lines, Homage to Richard Long, Glasshouse, Brooklyn, NY
Workspace Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Spring, The Willows, Brooklyn, NY
2012
American Landscape, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
The New Brutalists, Parallel Art Space, Queens, NY
The Child Alberta Said Red, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
…Is This Free?, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Marco Antonini
Everything is Index, Nothing is History, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell
(Re)Purpose:The Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Jane Panetta and Veronica Roberts
Not Wanting to Say Anything About John Cage, The Skybridge Art & Sound Space, New York, NY
2011
No One is an Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Building 110, Govenors Island, New York, NY, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Prix Canson pour l’Art et du Papier 2011, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France
(HOW) DOES CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECT YOU?, The New School, Sheila Johnson Design Center, New York, NY
Small Works, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Rupture, Parsons 25 East Gallery, New York, NY
Noir: The New School Arts Festival, The New School, Sheila Johnson Design Center, New York, NY
Stone’s Throw, College Art Association: MFA Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY (two-person exhibition)
2010
The Language of Space, ligne roset, New York, NY
The Doubtful Guest, Kill Devil Hill, Brooklyn, NY
More Simple, More Fun, Atlantic Center For the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2009
Operable Chambers and Other Biological Fictions, Foley Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Involuntary Action, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (solo exhibition)
2008
Rococo: the Continuing Curve, 1730 – 2008, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution – New York, NY
Moraine Park Museum – Estes Park, CO
2007
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donné – New York, NY
Project to Surface, m127 Gallery – New York, NY
Let’s Bolt!, CSV Cultural Center – New York, NY
Reynold’s Gallery – Richmond, VA
The Drawing Room, VCU Fine Arts Gallery – Richmond, VA
Artist Residencies, Fellowships, and Awards
Lower East Side Printshop, Keyholder Residency, New York, NY 2022-23
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island, New York, NY, 2019-20
The Banff Centre – Winter BAiR, Banff, Canada, 2019
Ceramics in a Transdisciplinary Studio, Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts, Newcastle, ME, 2018
How to Flatten a Mountain Arts Residency, Cow House Studios, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 2018
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY, 2016
Emerging Artist Fellowship 2015, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, 2015
The Quarry At Marble House Project, Dorset, VT, 2015
Process Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 2014
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, 2014
Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, 2012-2013
The Banff Centre, A PAPER A DRAWING A MOUNTAIN with Silke Otto-Knapp and Jan Verwoert, Banff, Canada, 2012
Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA, 2011 With funds granted from Parsons, The New School for Design
Atlantic Center for the Arts – With Jean-Marc Bustamante – New Smyrna Beach, FL, 2010 With funds granted from the Center and the Joan Mitchel Foundation
Vermont Studio Center – Johnson, VT, 2009
Big Cypress National Preserve – Ochopee, FL, 2007
Rocky Mountain National Park – Estes Park, CO, 2006
Artist Talks
Another Land: Noguchi & Imaging Space in the Anthropocene, The Noguchi Museum, Queens NY, 2015
Edge Effects: Christine Howard Sandoval & Leah Raintree, Montgomery College, Silver Springs MD, 2015
Bibliography
Hart, Dakin, “Leah Raintree, Another Land: After Noguchi” The Noguchi Museum, 2016 (exhibition catalog)
Roniger Taney, “Leah Raintree, Another Land: After Noguchi” The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 6, 2016
Nunes, Andrew, “Celestial Photography” Creators Project, Vice, Sept 3, 2016
Coon, Ella, “Becoming the 4th Dimension – Leah Raintree at The Noguchi Museum” NYAQ, Aug 25, 2016
Asboe, Eric, “From the Road: Slow Heat” Bad At Sports, Aug 18, 2015
Rosenberg, Karen, “Pier 54” The New York Times, Dec 4, 2014
“The Child Alberta,” Ed. David Giordano, Silke Otto-Knapp, Charlie Satterlee, Mitch Speed, and Jan Verwoert. Banff: The Banff Centre and Vancouver: Setup, Issue 3.5, Summer 2013
D’Agostino, Paul, “The New Brutalists: Not So Brutal,” The L Magazine, Nov 7, 2012
Kress, Melanie and Natalie Bell, “Everything Is Index, Nothing Is History,” Exhibition catalog to accompany exhibition presented by Recession Art at the Invisible Dog, May 2012
Panetta, Jane and Veronica Roberts, “(RE)PURPOSE,” May 2012
Schultz, Charlie, “MFA Thesis Shows: Columbia and Parsons,” ARTSlant New York, Reviews and Critic’s Pick
Behm-Steinberg, Hugh, Eleven Eleven Issue 9, California College of the Arts, Summer 2010
Clarke, Daniel, Feature Article, Niche Magazine, February 2010, pp. 42 – 51
Cofré, Ian, “Constructed Forms” culturehall Feature Issue 37, February 2010
Hegardt, Bjørn, “In Focus”, FUKT a magazine for contemporary drawing, Issue 8/9, June 2010
“More Simple, More Fun” Limited Edition Catalog with Jean-Marc Bustamante,
Atlantic Center for the Arts, March 2010
Peck, Derek, “Leah Raintree: Mind and Matter”, Planet Magazine, August 2009
“Leah Raintree – Excerpts / The Incredible Machine”, suckerPUNCH, August 2009
Coffin, Sara D., “Rococo: The Continuing Curve”, 1730-2008, Assouline, 2008,
pp. 242 – 245
“Leah Raintree – Operable Chambers”, suckerPUNCH, April 2008
Ha, Jihae, “Project to Surface”, Interior World, Volume 60, pp. 188 – 191, 2007
“Review”, The Architects Newspaper, June 2007, p. 38, 2007
Sokol, David, “Higher Planes”, Surface Magazine – Annual Design Issue,
May 2007, pp. 92-94