Virginia Leonard

Available Works

Virginia Leonard, Urn For Unwanted Limbs And Other Things, 2023, Clay, lustre and resin, 13.5″ x 10.5″ x 10.5″

Virginia Leonard, No Sleeping Pills For Me, 2023, Clay, lustre and resin, 23″ x 21.5″ x 21.5″

Virginia Leonard, Urn For Unwanted Limbs and Other Things, 2023, Clay, lustre and resin, 14″ x 13″ x 13″

Virginia Leonard, Stained Sheets 11, 2023, Clay, lustre and resin, 17″ x 17″ x 17″

Virginia Leonard, UrnFor Unwanted Limbs and Other Things, 2023, Clay, lustre and resin, 13″ x 9.5″ x 9.5″

Virginia Leonard, Prickly Legs, 2022, Clay and resin, 17″ x 18″ x 16″

Virginia Leonard, Urn for Unwanted Inlaws, 2022, Clay and resin, 12.5″ x 11″ x 5.25″

Virginia Leonard: Golden Legs and Other Bits

Virginia Leonard, Golden Legs and Other Bits, installation view. Photography by Zachary Balber.

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The visceral materiality of clay is an emotive assemblage that represents the chronic pain in my body.

About CV

About Virginia Leonard

Virginia Lives and works in Aotearoa. She graduated with a MFA in painting and moved to ceramics in 2013. She is represented in the US, Europe, Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand. Virginia is in public collections in Europe the US, Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand.
When Virginia was twenty she was in a serious road accident and her work is a daily dialogue that she has with her body, chronic pain and bodily scarring. Her studio practice gives her body a voice.

Recent exhibitions include: Canberra Art Biennial, Australia. Hastings City Art Gallery, Aotearoa, New Zealand. Sow and Tailor, USA. Design Miami, Shanghai, Side Gallery. Design Miami, USA, Mindy Solomon Gallery.

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EDUCATION/POSITIONS

2003-2004
Supervisor, Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

2001-2002
Teacher, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

2001
Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

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

EXHIBITIONS

Up Coming

Auckland Art Fair, Solo Installation, PAULNACHE, May 2018

Melbourne Art Fair, Solo Installation, PAULNACHE, August 2018

Solo Exhibition, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, October 2018

Solo Exhibition, Two Rooms, Auckland, October 2018

NCECA, Claytopia, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, March 2019

2018

miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy

Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, US

artgenève, Solo Installation, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2017

Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, US

Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia

Solo exhibition, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark

Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark

40, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark

Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand

2016

HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand

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

Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia

MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark

Curiosity: 5 Artists / 5 Artworks / 5 Tools, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, New Zealand

Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand

2015

The Assemblage Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2014

The Effects of Crack, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand

Foursome, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

The Flower Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2013

The Small Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

The Local Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

Virginia Leonard & Louise McRae, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

The Landscape Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

The January Group Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2012

The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2009

Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand