BIO — VIRGINIA LEONARD

Born Auckland, New Zealand

Education

2001 Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

Up Coming

Collective Visions, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2024

Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery & Martin Browne Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, April 2024

Abstraxt Abstrakt, Northart, Auckland, New Zealand, May 2024

Selected Exhibitions

2024

Melbourne Art Fair, Martin Browne Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)

artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

2023

Cromwell Place, Taste Contemporary, London, UK (group)

Spectral Evidence, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Splintered, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (solo)

Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (group)

Design Miami/Podium Shanghai, Side Gallery, Shanghai, China (group)

Felix Art Fair, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US (group)

Friends & Family, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US (group)

2022

Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)

Urns for Unwanted Limbs, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand (solo)

Canberra Art Biennial, Contour 556, Canberra, Australia

Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)

Splash, Taste Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland (group)

Australian Ceramics Triennale, Alice Springs, Australia

Sabotaje estético, Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain (group)

No One Will See Me Walk to Deny Me Grace, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Exposed Material, Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (group)

artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand

Group Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)

2021

Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group)

Golden Legs and Other Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (solo)

Distorted Duets, Taste Contemporary, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (group)

Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy (Winner - Main Prize)

Odd & Even, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France (group)

Urns For Unwanted Limbs, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (solo)

Full House, Artist-run exhibition, Auckland, NZ (group)

Threshold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group)

Summer Exhibition, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (group)

2020

Design Miami / Basel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group)

Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group)

miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy, September 2020 (group)

Breath Holder, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (solo)

Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group)

The Backbone of Things, Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ (group)

Ladies Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (group)

The Cook and Her Driver, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, Australia (Residency Exhibition)

2019

Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ, (group)

Beau-laid, Masons Yard, St. James, London, UK (group)

The Dowse Art Museum, Dirty Ceramics, Wellington, NZ (group)

International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics 2019, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

Gloria, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (solo)

Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group)

Autumn Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group)

miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (solo)

Trans-Pacific Dialogue, NCECA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (group)

National Treasures, Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)

Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy (group)

artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

2018

I Come Out Of Surgery Looking Golden; Virginia Leonard with Gretchen Albrecht, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

It Only Hurts When I Bend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (solo)

All I Want is a Facelift, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Melbourne Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Melbourne, Australia (solo)

Auckland Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy (group)

Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, US (group)

artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)

Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)

2017

Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, US (group)

Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia (solo)

Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (solo)

Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark (solo)

Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)

2016

HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (group)

Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia (group)

MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (group)

Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)

2015

Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)

2014

The Effects of Crack, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Foursome, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)

2013

Virginia Leonard, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (solo)

2012

The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)

2009

Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

2008

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

2007

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (group)

2003

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

2002

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

2001

Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)

Awards

2021

Winner - Main Prize, Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy

2020

First Runner-Up Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand

2019

Winner Artist-in-Residence Prize in Finland, Open to Art Ceramic Award, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy

2018

Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand

2017

Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland