Virginia Leonard

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

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
(Forthcoming) Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2023
Splintered, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Spectral Evidence, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2022
Urns for Unwanted Limbs, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
No One Will See Me Walk to Deny Me Grace, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2021
Golden Legs and Other Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

2020
Breath Holder, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2019
Gloria, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy

2018
I Come Out Of Surgery Looking Golden; Virginia Leonard with Gretchen Albrecht, Two
Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
It Only Hurts When I Bend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
All I Want is a Facelift, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Melbourne Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Melbourne, Australia
Auckland Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Auckland, New Zealand
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

2017
Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark

2016
Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

2014
The Effects of Crack, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand

2013
Virginia Leonard, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2009
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

2008
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

2003
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

2002
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

2001
Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Abstrakt Abstrakt, Northart, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery & Martin Browne Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Collective Visions, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Melbourne Art Fair, Martin Browne Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

2023
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery, Martin Browne Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia
Cromwell Place, Taste Contemporary, London, UK
Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Design Miami/Podium Shanghai, Side Gallery, Shanghai, China
Felix Art Fair, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA
Friends & Family, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Canberra Art Biennial, Contour 556, Canberra, Australia
Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Splash, Taste Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland
Australian Ceramics Triennale, Alice Springs, Australia
Sabotaje estético, Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain
Exposed Material, Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Group Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2021
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia
Distorted Duets, Taste Contemporary, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy (Winner – Main Prize)
Odd & Even, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France
Full House, Artist-run exhibition, Auckland, NZ
Threshold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Summer Exhibition, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ

2020
Design Miami / Basel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia
miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy
Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
The Backbone of Things, Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ
Ladies Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
The Cook and Her Driver, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, Australia (Residency Exhibition)

2019
Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ
Beau-laid, Masons Yard, St. James, London, UK
The Dowse Art Museum, Dirty Ceramics, Wellington, NZ
International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics 2019, Geneva, Switzerland
Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Autumn Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
Trans-Pacific Dialogue, NCECA, Minneapolis, Minnesota
National Treasures, Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian,
Matakana, New Zealand
Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

2018
miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy
Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2017
Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand

2016
HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia
MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand

2015
Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2014
Foursome, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand

2012
The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand