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Leslie Hewitt
American artist

Leslie Hewitt

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American artist
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Gender
Female
Birth
Place of birth
New York City, USA; Queens, USA
Age
47 years
Education
New York University
Yale University
Cooper Union
Awards
Berlin Prize
(2012)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
 
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Biography

Leslie Hewitt (born 1977) is an American contemporary visual artist.

Education

Leslie Hewitt was born in 1977 in Saint Albans, New York. Hewitt received a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union's School of Art in 2000 and later received an M.F.A. from Yale University in 2004. She studied Africana Studies and Cultural Studies at New York University from 2001 to 2003. Hewitt has held residencies at the Core Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Career

Hewitt explores political, social, and personal narratives through photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Her work varies in scale from small compositions to billboard sized photographs which rest in wooden frames that lean against the wall and invite viewers to experience a space that rests between sculpture and traditional photography. She references notions of non-linear perspective and double consciousness through arrangements of objects from popular culture and personal ephemera. She is interested in how much we rely on images to provide memories of personal experience, how collective memory of past events is shaped and preserved, and in how the two overlap, coexist, and inform each other. Hewitt draws much of her material from black popular culture of the 1970s and ’80s. Items such as VHS tapes of black cinema, graffitied documents, and books by Alex Haley and Eldridge Cleaver often appear in her photographs or reside within her installations.

Hewitt has an extensive residency and exhibition history. In 2007 she spent a significant amount of time in Houston participating in the Core Program and served as the Project Row Houses/ Core Fellow from 2006–07. Hewitt participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial with her piece Make it Plain and received a 2008 Art Matters research grant to travel to the Netherlands to research Dutch still-life paintings created during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Rijksmuseum in Holland. From 2009–10 Hewitt was the Mildred Londa Weisman fellow as part of the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University. During her fellowship Hewitt examined the origins of the camera obscura and used the camera as a tool to explore cultural memory through the construction of temporary still lifes. By repeatedly composing and photographing her arrangements she captured changes in daylight, gravity, and perception.

She was the recipient of the Guna S. Mundheim Berlin Prize in the Visual Arts and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2012. In the fall of 2012 a solo exhibition of her work, Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun, was presented at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Hewitt was the 2014 USA Artists Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow in Visual Arts. Her work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, among others. In 2016, her work was included in Photo-Poetics: An Anthology at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Leslie Hewitt: Collective Stance, a solo exhibition with collaborative works made with cinematographer Bradford Young, was presented at Sculpture Center in Queens NY in 2016.

Hewitt is represented by contemporary art gallery Perrotin.

Work

Riffs on Real Time (2006-2009)

Hewitt's exhibition featured a collection of 10 highly stylized photographs from an ongoing series started in 2002. Shown together for the first time by the same name in a sleek installation, Untitled, 2011. Described as "postmodern takes on the still life", Riffs on Real Time is an exploration of how the juxtaposition of different materials can comprise a cultural identity. Created from 2002–2009, a primary image, usually culled from the American media and sociopolitical in bent, is centrally placed on a larger book, photo, or other document so that the image appears framed; in turn, this arrangement is photographed laid out on a hardwood or carpeted floor, which adds yet another frame. Also riffing on the premise of "same but different" was the photo installation Untitled, in which a large starch-white slab was propped against the wall, scaled to the dimensions of the gallery's doorway. Here, Hewitt's iconography and conceptual choices echoed her previous work, as she insinuated this particular offering into the material legacies of the 1960s and 1970s.This exhibition confirms Hewitt's rightful place among a generation of artists confronting the historical legacies of the 1960s through an amalgamation of artistic strategies that test the premises of photography. It also raises the perplexing issue of what happens when formerly radical strategies have been tamed and naturalized into a generational style.

Untitled (Structures)

The exhibition at the Menil Collection, 'Untitled (Structures),' (2013) was a collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young and producer Karen Chien. Untitled is a series of short silent film vignettes created in 2012. The films include footage from 2010 – 2012 of locations where iconic civil rights photographs were taken in the 1950s and 1960s in Chicago, Memphis, and parts of Arkansas, which were all palpably transformed by the Great Migration. The works are 35mm film transferred to HD video, dual-channel video installation. In an Artforum interview, Hewitt says of the dual-channel video projection: "You can decide to look at one or the other, but your eyes have to contend with both."

Still Life Series

In 2013, Hewitt released a series of photographs that were displayed at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. within tilted maple box-frames, that brings into focus the morphing of images in a studio into object-like artworks shown in a gallery. In Untitled (Perception), 2013, the block of maple that rests on a stack of three books, the only identifiable one being a collection of James Baldwin's essays, matches the work's wooden frame. Also nearby was an untitled work comprising two free-floating walls leaning against the gallery architecture. These minimalist objects are made of drywall and wood and were modeled on the texture and size of the gallery walls. They assert a content-free physicality that harmonized with the rest of the exhibition's pictorial and physical material.

Solo shows [23]

LocationYear
Perrotin, New York, NY (forthcoming)2019
Contemporary Focus: Leslie Hewitt, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX2019
Perrotin, Seul, South Korea2018
Leslie Hewitt, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY2017
New Pictures: Lesli Hewitt, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN2016
Collective Stance: Featuring work in collaboration with Bradford Young, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY2016
Leslie Hewitt: Untitled, Olaga Korper Inc., Toronto, Canada2016
Untitled (Structures): Lesli Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL2014
Leslie Hewitt, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY2013
Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun, Contemporary Art Museum St. Lous, MO2012
Untitled (Structures): Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; traveled to the Menil Collection, Houston,TX2012
Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY2011
Untitled (Level): Leslie Hewitt with Bradford Young, Studio Museum, Harlem New York, NY2010
Riffs On The Real, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN2009
Art Statements, Art 40 Basel, Basel, Switzerland2009
the everyday, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY2009
Replica of a Lost Original, Artist Space, New York, NY2007
Leslie Hewitt: It's Just a Feeling, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY2007
Make It Plain, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA2006

Group Shows [26]

LocationYear
Place, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX2019
Prisoner of Love, curated by Naomi Beckwith, MCA Chicago, IL2019
Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, curated by Andrea Andersson, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA2019
Out of Easy Reach, curated by Allison Glenn, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois in collaboration with DePaul Art Museum and Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL; will travel to Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana2018
Out of Easy Reach, curated by Allison Glenn, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois in collaboration with DePaul Art Museum and Rebuild Foundation, Chicago, IL2017
An unassailable and monumental dignity, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada2017
Women with a Camera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL2017
Fond Illusions, Perrotin, New York, NY2017
The 11th White Columns Annual, New York, NY2017
Resistance, Protest, Resilience, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN2016
Crisis of Presence, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland2016
A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY2016
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN2016
Human Interest: Portrait's from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art2016
Line of Flight, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY2016
Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX2016
Signal Noise, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY2016
Jennie C. Jones, Josephine Halvorson, Leslie Hewitt, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY2015
Time/ Image, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX2015
A Story within a Story, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Göteborg, Sweden2015
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany; traveled to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY2015
Picture Thing, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT2015
Power Structures, P!, New York, NY2015
Speaking of People, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2015
ICA Collection: In Context, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA2014
The Material Image, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY2014
Material Histories, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2014
On Artworks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY2014
A Public Fiction, In the Room: Leslie Hewitt, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA2014
Palimpsest, Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art, Miami, FL2013
Under Another Name, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2013
Untitled (Structures), Leslie Hewitt in collaboration with Bradford Young, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær and Kabelvåg in the Lofoten archipelago, Norway2013
Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY2013
Body Language, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY – Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL2013
19 New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY2013
Herbert Matter, Leslie Hewitt, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Louise Lawler,

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2013
La Bibliothéque Comme Mémoire, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France2012
Terrain Shift, Works from the Miller Meigs Collection, Lumber Room, Portland, OR2012
Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH2012
Momentum Series 15: Leslie Hewitt, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA2011
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; traveled to The Jones Center at The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas2011
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA2011
Maisterra Valbuena Galería, Madrid, Spain2010
Lush Life – Wolf Tickets, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY2010
At Home-Not At Home: The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College CCS, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY2010
Mutiny Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy2010
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY2010
The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO2010
30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2009
New Photography 2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY2009
The Garden of Forking Paths, Maisterra Valbuena Galería, Madrid, Spain2009
Cumanana, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA2009
Photodimensional, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL2009
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY2009
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY2008
The Fullness of Time, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland2008
New Intuitions, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY2008
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA2008
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY2008
Alabama, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium2007
Civil Restitutions, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK2006
Study Hall: The Carbonist School, Eyedrum Art/Musical, Atlanta, GA2006
Double Exposure, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT2006
Being There, Cuchifritos Gallery / Project Space, New York, NY2005
Happenstance, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY2005
Gimme Shelter, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA2005
Talk to the Land, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY2005
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, New York2005
Make it Now, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY2005

Awards

AwardsYear
Tangier Mentor in the Arts, Cornell University2015
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award2014
USA Francie Bishop Good and David Hovitz Fellow2014
Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize2010
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award2010
Urban Visionaries: Emerging Talent, The Cooper Union, New York, NY2009
Art Matters Grant2008
The Helena Rubinstein Foundation Fellowship Award2008
The Helena Rubinstein Foundation Fellowship Award2007
The Rema Sort Mann Foundation Fellowship Award, New York, NY2007
The Eliza Prize, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX2007
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What is Leslie Hewitt known for?
Leslie Hewitt is known for her work in photography, sculpture, and installation art.
What is Leslie Hewitt's artistic style?
Leslie Hewitt's artistic style is often described as conceptual and minimalist, influenced by her background in photography and her interest in the archival nature of images.
Where was Leslie Hewitt born?
Leslie Hewitt was born in 1977 in Saint Albans, Queens, New York City.
What themes does Leslie Hewitt explore in her artwork?
Leslie Hewitt explores themes of collective memory, the passage of time, and the intersection of personal and historical narratives in her artwork.
What awards has Leslie Hewitt won?
Leslie Hewitt has won several awards for her work, including the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.
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