EDUCATION
Bucknell University | B.S.B.A
Savannah College of Art and Design | B.F.A Photography
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 There are other hues of blue, Marlborough Gallery, NY, NY
2021 Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2019 Maybe rainbows do exist at night, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 brown, carmine, and blue., Melton Gallery at UCO, Edmond, OK
2019 Girls Girls Girls, Assembly Room, NY, NY
2018 brown, carmine, and blue., SiTE:LAB Public Space 415, Grand Rapids, MI
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 In Conversation: Gyun Hur and Le’Andra LeSeur, The Tank, NY, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 AntiVenom, LMCC at Governor’s Island, NY, NY
2021 Wild at Heart, Marlborough Gallery, NY, NY
2021 Open Call, The Shed, NY, NY
2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020 CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2019 Cosmic to Corporeal: Contemporary Queer Performance Practices, The MAC, Dallas TX
2019 Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together), Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 The Body Responds By Lying Down, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Se Aculilló? | la sutura tierna, AS220 Resident Gallery, Providence, RI
2017 Society of Spectacle, The Fed Galleries at KCAD, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 On Being Black, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014 Rights of Passage, Whitespace, Atlanta, GA
2014 Silver & Ink, Gallery See, Atlanta, GA
2014 Symbiosis, Graffiti Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2013 SCAD Small Works, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
2013 Silver & Ink, Dewberry Gallery, Atlanta, GA
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2022 New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2020 Jamaica Flux: Workspaces and Windows
2020 Gener8tor Art Fellowship
2020 Elsewhere Museum SOCO Fellowship
2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship
2019 SCAD40 Prize presented at SCAD 2019 deFINE ART Fest
2018 Artprize 10 Grand Prize Juried Award
2018 Artprize 10 Time-Based Category Award
2018 Artprize 10 Frey Foundation Seed Grant
2017 ArtPrize 9 Contemporary Black Art Award
RESIDENCIES
2024 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OK (forthcoming)
2023 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (forthcoming)
2023 iLab Artist Residency, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Pioneer Works Visual Arts Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2022 EPI Residency, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2022 ArcAthens Virtual Residency
2021 i-Park Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale, East Haddam, CT
2021 AllArts Residency
2021 Ekard Artist-in-Residence, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2020 StoveWorks Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2020 Andrew Freedman Home Residency, Bronx, NY
2020 Elsewhere Museum Residency, Greensboro, NC
2019 The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA
2019 Marble House Project Residency, Dorset, VT
2019 NARS Foundation International Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY
LECTURES & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2023 “Kara Walker: Artists Respond“ with Ksenia M. Soboleva, Lola Flash, and Pamela Sneed, NY Historical Society, NY, NY
2020 “The Role of Art in Social Movements“ with Michael James O’Brien, SCAD Guests & Gusto
2019 The Tory Burch Foundation’s “Embrace Ambition” Discussion Series with American Artist Marilyn Minter, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2019 “On Photography” Lecture in conjunction with SCAD + The Atlanta Photography Group, SCAD deFINE ART 2019 Festival, SCAD-Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
COLLECTIONS
The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022/2023 | Segue Foundation at Artists Space w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Fred Moten, Jjjjjerome Ellis, Jessica Lynne, Onyx Collective, and others.
2023/2024 | DisArt’s “The Art of Disruption” w/ Alex Dolores Salerno, Finngean Shannon, Jerron Herman, Jjjjjerome Ellis, Krystal C. Mack, and others.
Ongoing | The Heartbr(ache) Club w/ Ksenia M. Soboleva
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
Visiting Artist/Speaker
HCCFL, Tampa, FL, 2023
UW-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, 2022
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 2022
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 2022
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, 2019
Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY, 2019
Ringling Collge of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, 2019
RISD, Providence, Rhode Island, 2019
KCAD, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
Visiiting Lecturer
SCAD, Atlanta, GA & Savannah, GA, 2019-2021
Part-time Faculty, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY, 2022-2023
Spring 2022 | MFA Core One-on-One Studio Visits
Fall 2022 | MFA Core One-on-One Studio Visits
Fall 2022 | MFA Advanced Practice: Sonic Remnants
Fall 2022 | BFA Topics in 4D: Poetics of Self
Spring 2023 | MFA Group Critique
Spring 2023 | BFA Core Seminar 4: Systems and Networks
Fall 2023 | MFA Group Critique
Fall 2023 | MFA Advanced Practice: Expanded Video
Fall 2023 | BFA Core Seminar 3: Site and Context
Part-time Faculty, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Fall 2023
Fall 2023 | Contemporary Studies
Part-time Faculty, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, Fall 2022
Fall 2022 | Time Studio
PRESS
Hyperalleric: In Governors Island, Seven Video Artists Imagine Radical Futures
The New York Times: Shed’s Open Call Showcases City’s Emerging Visual Talents
Burnaway: Care In Its Extensive Form: 2021 Atlanta Biennial
New Art Examiner: Other Hues of Blue: A Pandemic-Era Biennial in Atlanta
AJC: 2020 reverberates at this year’s Atlanta Biennial exhibition
The Dallas Morning News: The MAC’s visually rich ‘Cosmic to Corporeal’ explores sexuality, identity
Refinery29: Meet Artist Le’Andra LeSeur
ConnectSavannah: 5 Questions with Le’Andra LeSeur
Culture Hustlers Interview
PhotoShelter: Diving Deep Into brown, carmine, and blue. with Le’Andra LeSeur
WoodTV8: ArtPrize Shortlist piece about trauma,joy
WZZM13: ArtPrize finalist creates pieces exploring the oppression of black women
Cultured.GR: Le’Andra LeSeur to perform at Spiral with “Ain’t I” body of work
Cultured.GR: Black artists offer unflinchingly direct portrayal of racism for viewers at ArtPrize 9
WoodTV8: ArtPrize Shortlist artist addresses controversial shootings
MLive: ArtPrize With a Message: The political and activist entries of 2017
In the Moment: Timely Work Lands KCAD Community Members on ArtPrize Nine Jurors’ Shortlist
Detroit Free Press: Not to Miss Works at ArtPrize 9
GR Mag: The Fed Galleries Explore Artificial vs. Authentic Experiences in ArtPrize Nine Exhibition
ArtsATL: Strong and subtle, “On Being Black” is a must-see, at Arnika Dawkins Gallery
Burnaway: The Plurality of Blackness, at Arnika Dawkins
ArtSlant: On Being Black: Portraits, Identity, Surface