biography / bibliography
LESLIE WAYNE
Born in 1953, Germany
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1984
BFA (Honors) Sculpture, Parsons School of Design
1971-73
University of California, Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Nature Play, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2010
Nature Play, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2010
One Big Love, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
2008
No Going Back Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2007
Trouble in Paradise, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
The Object of Time, University Art Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Travelling to: Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2003
Analogues of Reality: Sight and Fantasy, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2002
Two Years in the World, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Breaking and Entering, Galerie Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
2000
Re-Entering, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Under my Skin, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
1999
Insides Out, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Doris Wullkopf, Darmstadt, Germany
1998
Breaking and Entering, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Folding Time, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerif, Spain
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Dusseldorf, Germany
1993
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1992
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1990
55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Jerusalem Theater Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2002
Leslie Wayne and Don Porcaro, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz
1997
Don Porcaro, works on paper; Leslie Wayne, paintings, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010
Precious, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
2009
This...is your..., This...is my..., UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
New Abstraction Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Better Half The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
2008
Material Color curated by Mary Birmingham, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Art in Richard Meier on Prospect Park. Richard Meier on Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
The Idea of Nature 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY
Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print, University of Central Florida,
Orlando and College of Visual Art, St Paul, curated by Leslie Wayne
Couples, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2007
Making and Finding, curated by Katy Siegel. The Foundation To-Life, Inc. New York, NY
2006
Selections from the Permanent Collection since 1950’s, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Poiesis, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Peace Tower/Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Pull, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
2005
Surface, Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Muster, Governor’s Island, NY
Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2004
A Charge to Keep, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
A Coat of…, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
Tenth Anniversary, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
2003
A Legacy of Diversity: New Prints 2003, International Print Center, New York, NY
New York Abstract, Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Collectors Vision, II, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Highlights from the Collection of the Fondation Cartier, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
2002
Untitled, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond the Pale, Newberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2001
I Love NY, benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, curated by Bonnie Clearwater
In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
2000
LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
The Blue Space, London, UK
Absolut Bottled Secret, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Galore: The Continuous Painting Wall, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Pushing Paint, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Dimension, Agnes Scott College Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, curated by Cathy Byrd
Beyond Bounds-Beyond Borders!, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, MO
Zwischen Raum #2, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
InSite: Constructing the JCCC Collection, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
1998
Painting Language, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
From Here to Eternity: Painting in the 90s, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
The Corcoran Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Small, Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Theories of the Decorative, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland and Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, curated by David Moos
Absolut Secret 1997, Royal College of Art, London, UK
A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Hollis Sigler
The Resonance of Paint, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
Applied Surfaces, Personal Rituals, Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
New Abstraction, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1996
The Uneasy Surface: Points of Turbulence, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Essence: Twenty Abstract Painters, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
In This Time and Place, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Formal Abstraction/New York, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Robert Kingston
Black - Grey -White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Dusseldorf, Germany
Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995
44th Biennial Exhibition Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: Painting Outside Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Art At The Edge: Tampering - Artists and Abstraction Today, The High Museum, Atlanta, GA, curated by Susan Krane
Transatlantica: The America-Europa Non-Representiva, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Human/Nature, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Paper Works, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Mit Sicherem Griff, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer GMBH, Dusseldorf, Germany
Paper View, Byron Cohen and Lennie Berkowitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Art Without Borders, Ecole du Versant, Larouche, Quebec, Canada
A Grand Affair, Art Initiatives, New York, NY
Untitled Painting, Gallery 148/Art Initiatives, New York, NY
Domestic Policies, College Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
1994
Painting, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Reveillon `94, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Review Preview, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Visions of 6, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
The Pleasures of Paint, Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Matter Matters: Navigating the Terrain of Contemporary Painting, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY Neun Ausstellungen und Sechs Editionen, Sommer 1992 bis Sommer 1994, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1993
Review/Preview, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Irony and Ecstasy, curated by Klaus Ottman, Salamaë Caro Gallery, London, UK
Summer Group Exhibition, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
Thick & Thin, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Introductions, Bill Bace Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Art From New York, Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Beau Dommage,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Silent Echoes, Tennisport Arts, Long Island City, NY
East Coast - West Coast: Five Abstract Painters, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
1992
OIA Benefit Show, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Kinder! Macht Neues!, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York, NY
Large Drawing, 450 Broadway, New York, NY
Salon 91, Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Painters, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY
The 1.5 Show, curated by Russet Lederman and Yvonne Muranushi, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Four Person Alumni Show, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1991
Artwork/Artworkers AC Project Room, New York, NY
1990
Interart de St. Amand Gallery, New York, NY
1986
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Reconstruction: Six Young New York Sculptors, curated by Robert Kirschbaum, Carlson Gallery, University of Bridgeport, CT
Four From 549, Interart de St. Amand Gallery, New York, NY
50 West Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Fifth Holiday Invitational Exhibit, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
50 West Gallery, New York, NY
Women's Invitational Project Number One, curated by Dorothy Gillespie
Art Workers' Art, curated by Robin Sherin and Leslie Wayne, New York Institute of Technology
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1984
A Little Erotica, Pinnacle Gallery, Rochester, NY
1974
Women In America, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Talisman Prints, Laguna Beach, CA
CATALOGUES
2010
One Big Love,
2005
A Coat Of… Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY
The Object of Time; Charting a Decade, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville; Crossley Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota. Essay by Amy Dickerson
2002
Leslie Wayne, Love in the Afternoon, and “Don Porcaro, Oracle,” Samuel Dorsky
Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
2000
Leslie Wayne, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC and Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA. Essay by Robert Mahoney
1997
Theories of the Decorative, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland and Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. Essay by David Moos
The Resonance of Paint, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
1996
Uneasy Surface: Points of Turbulence in Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center
Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
1995
44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: Painting Outside
Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, essay by Barry Schwabsky
Transatlantica: The America-Europa Non-Representiva, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Art at the Edge: Tampering - Artists and Abstraction Today, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1994
Neun Ausstellungen und Sechs Editionen, Sommer 1992 bis Sommer 1994, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1993
Art from New York, Higashi Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Irony and Ecstasy, Salama Caro Gallery, London, UK
1992
Kinder! Macht Neues!, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany
Castillo Cultural Center Benefit Auction, New York, NY
1985
Women's Invitational Project Number One," Spartanburg Day School, Wofford College and Converse College, Spartanburg, NC
1974
Women in America, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
GRANTS & AWARDS
2006
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
2004
Buhl Foundation Award
1994
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Artists Grant
1993
Hillwood Art Museum/New York State Council on the Arts, Projects Residency Grant
1992
Yaddo, Artist¹s Residency Fellowship
1990
Artist¹s Space, Exhibition Grant
1985
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artist¹s Grant
Artist¹s Space, Exhibition Grant
Change, Inc., Artist¹s Grant
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
British Airways
Colleczion Thyssen Bornemisza (promised), Madrid, Spain
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Foundation Cartier pour d’art Contemporain,
Harvard University Business School, Cambridge, MA
Herman Miller, Inc., New York, NY
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
King and Spalding, New York, NY
La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Saks Fifth Avenue, Tampa, FL and Palm Beach, CA
Scott Memorial Study Collection, Bryn Mawr College, PA
Sprint, Overland Park, KS
The Capitol Group, Los Angeles, CA
The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Mount Kisco, NY
The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland OH
Thomas Group, Philadelphia, PA
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2008
Distinguished Lecturer, Critical Dialogues, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Curator, Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print, University of Central Florida, Orlando and College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
Visiting Artist and Panelist, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
Visiting Artist, Drew University, Madison, NJ
2007
New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentor
Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
2006
Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2005
Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City
2005-07
Artist in Residence, Blue Ocean Institute
2004
Visiting Artist, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Visiting Artist, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2003
Visiting Artist, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2002
Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2000 – present
Member: Yaddo Artist Task Force
1999
Visiting Artist, Philadelphia College of Art, University of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Visiting Artist, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1997
Visiting Artist, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Panelist: “Theories of the Decorative” exhibition, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
1996
Visiting Artist, Empire State College, New York, NY
Visiting Artist, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
1995
Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Panelist: “Corcoran Biennial” exhibition, American University, Washington, DC
1992
Curator, “Paintings”, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, “Large Drawings”, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Curator, “Interpretations of the Southwest”, 50 West Gallery, New York, NY
Curator, “Art Workers’ Art”, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
ew York, NY