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DAVID LEGGETT
(b. 1980, lives and works in Chicago)
EDUCATION
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Their funeral, our dance floor, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Black Drawls, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2015 Sugar foot rain dance, Arts Incubator in Washington Park, Chicago, IL
2014 Going to bed angry, 65 Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Coco River Fudge Street, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
It’s getting to the point where nobody respects the dead, Fresh to death, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
David Leggett New Paintings, Hinge Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Up for the Down Stroke, 65 Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Council, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Alex Becerra, David Leggett, William J. O’Brien, Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany
Death: A Summer Show, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Three the hard way, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
If They Mated, The Honey Hole, Chicago, IL
Now Chicago! The Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia,
Poems in a Room, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Recess, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
Thru-Lines, 65 Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL
Whisper Down the Lane, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
(I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY
Squirts: April Childers, David Leggett, Max Maslansky, Regina Rex, Queens, NY
2012 Romancing the Tone, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Afterimage, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Where My Clone At? Double Break, San Diego, CA,
Where My Clone At? 2, POVevolving Fine Art Printing Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Blaque Lyte, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
B.A.D., Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2011 Museum as Hub: Alpha’s bet is not over yet! The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Kodra 11 Contemporary Art Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Is this thing on?, Cobalt Studio, Chicago, IL
People Don’t Like to Read Art, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
The MDW Fair, The Geolofts, Chicago, IL
West, Wester, Westest Pt. 2, Fecal Face Dot Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Futuro Perfecto, Zora Space, Brooklyn, NY
Drop it like it’s not, Murder Town Gallery, Chicago, IL
Psycha-Bobble, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY
Heads on Poles, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2010 Ah, Wilderness!, Ebermoore Gallery, Chicago, IL
SK10-New works from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Class of 2010, Tompkins Projects,
Brooklyn, NY
2008 Disinhibition: Black Art Blue Humor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Re:visions, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Sierzputowski, Kate, “David Leggett’s User Generated Satire”, Inside/Within.
2015 Ungur, Laura, “Dry Magazine Artist Interview”, Dry Magazine.
2014 Forrest, Nicholas, “Now Chicago!” at The Hughes Gallery, Sydney,” Blouin Artinfo.
2013 Ise, Claudine, “A New style of art communication,” The Chicago Tribune.
Eler, Alicia, “A Midsummer Group Show Dream,” Hyperallergic.
Perry, Eve, “Not Taking the 1990’s Very Seriously,” Hyperallergic.
Scott, Andrea, “(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man,” The New Yorker.
2012 Langbein, Julia, “Critic’s Pick: ‘After Image’ at DePaul University Museum,” ArtForum.
Jackson, Danielle, “Cotton Candy Sweet as Gold: A Conversation with David Leggett,” Sixty Inches From Center.
Yeapanis, Stacia, “Other Peoples Pixels Interviews David Leggett,” Other Peoples Pixels Blog.
Bellware, Kimberly, “Coco River Fudge Street,” The Chicagoist.
Ritchie, Abraham, “It’s getting to the point where nobody respects the dead, Fresh to death at Western Exhibitions,
Now That’s Fresh,” Art Slant.
Ritchie, Abraham,“Coco River Fudge Street,” Flavorpill.
Ritchie, Abraham, “Rackroom Interview,” Art Slant.
Glass, Claire, “Portrait of the Artist: David Leggett,” Newcity Art.
Beautiful/Decay Book: 7, Class Clowns.
2011 Weinberg, Lauren, “People Don’t Like To Read Art’ at Western Exhibitions:
John Parot, Deb Sokolow and other artists make text sexy,” Time Out Chicago.
Ritchie, Abraham, “People Don’t Like to Read Art at Western Exhibitions,” Art Slant.
Burke, Stephanie, “Drop it like it’s not at Murdertown Gallery,” Art Talk Chicago.
Ritchie, Abraham, “Heads on Poles at Western Exhibitions,” Art Slant.
2010 “Interview: David Leggett,” Black Visual Archive.
Ritchie, Abraham, “Chicago’s Best of 2010 Pick: ‘Up for the Down Stroke’ at 65 Grand,” Art Slant.
Schmidt, Shannon, “David Leggett at 65GRAND,” Chicago Art Magazine.
“Up for the Down Stroke at 65 Grand Gallery,” Daily Serving.
“Up for the Down Stroke at 65 Grand Gallery,” Beautiful Decay.
TALKS AND LECTURES
2015 Painting and its Humors, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 SAIC in Chicago artist talk at 65 Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Interlink Visiting Artist Program, Chicago, IL
Coco River Fudge Street, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2014-15 University of Chicago, Arts and Public Life, Artist in Residence
2013 Robert Rauschenberg Residency, 3Arts Fellow, Captiva, FL
Maker Grant Runner-Up, Chicago IL
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Fellowship Award, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
The Drawing Center Viewing Program
2009 3Arts, Visual Artist Award, Chicago, IL
2005-07 Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2005 Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2000-03 Merit Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA