Zoe Leonard: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk

Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 5:30 - 7pm

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Detail of Zoe Leonard's Al río / To the River showing a 3 by 4 grid of black and white photographs.

Al río / To the River (detail), 2016-2022. Gelatin silver prints, C-prints and inkjet prints. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Hauser & Wirth, New York.

Fall 2025 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Zoe Leonard gives an artist talk about her work.

 

 

Zoe Leonard’s exhibition Al río / To the river was recently on view at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa from 2024-2025 after traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; MUDAM, Luxembourg; and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris in 2022 and 2023. A survey of Leonard’s work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2018. A previous survey of photographic work took place at the Fotomuseum Winterthur; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich in 2007 and 2008. Other solo exhibitions have occurred at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Camden Arts Centre, London; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Dia: Beacon, New York; Villa Arson, Nice; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Kunsthalle Basel; Secession, Vienna; The Renaissance Society, Chicago and other museums. Her work was included in Documenta IX in 1992 and Documenta XII in 2007 and in the Whitney Biennial in 1993, 1997 and 2014 for which she won the Bucksbaum Award. Leonard was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2020 and received an Anonymous was a Woman Award in 2005.

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