Simone Leigh

**Simone Leigh** (bɛ dɔɣi o la yuuni 1967) ka o nyɛ African-American nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun yina Chicago ka nyɛ ŋun tumdi New York City din be United States. O tuma shɛŋa n-nyɛ vidiyonima yaabu, binyɛra mɛbu. Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, o tuma dalim la gbansabila binyɛra mini paɣaba binyɛra. Leigh tuma yaa bela gbansabili paɣaba polo ni taarihi polo.

## O piligu mini Shikuru baŋsim
Simone Leigh nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuni 1967, Chicago, Illinois, ka o laamba nyɛ "Jamaican missionaries". O zooi la Chicago South Side.

Leigh chaŋla shikuru Earlham College din be Richmond, Indiana; o malila nima "BA in Art" shɛhira gbaŋ ka bɔhim "Philosophy" bela pahi yuuni 1990.

 

## Tumanima

Leigh tiŋ'duya tuma shɛŋa n-nyɛ: MoMA PS1, Walker Art Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Hammer Museum, The Kitchen, The Bronx Museum of the Arts,  Tilton Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, SculptureCenter, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Kunsthalle Wien din be Vienna, L'appartement 22 din be Rabat, Morocco,  Andy Warhol Museum din be Pittsburgh, ni Association for Visual Arts Gallery din be Cape Town, South Africa. Leigh daa laɣim laɣingu ni paɣaba ban mali nuuni tuunbaŋsim, ban tumdi "Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter" o ko tumanima puuni, "*The Waiting Room"* din be New Museum yuuni 2016. 

O nyɛla ŋun di pina kamani: Guggenheim Fellowship;  Venice Biennale Golden Lion (2022);  Herb Alpert Award;  Creative Capital grant;  Blade of Grass Fellowship;  Studio Museum in Harlem's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize; Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize; United States Artists fellowship; ni Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2018). Bɛ daa piigi o "Artsy Editorial's" "Most Influential Artists" yuuni 2018. Bɛ sabi o tumanima pam niŋ lahabaya wuligibu yaɣa kamani *[[Art in America]]*, *[[Artforum]]*, *[[Sculpture (magazine)|Sculpture Magazine]]*, *[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]]*, *[[The New Yorker]]*, *[[The New York Times]]*, *[[Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism|Small Axe]]*, ni *[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]* magazine.

## Recognition
Leigh nyɛla ŋun deei Venice Biennale Golden Lion (2022);  Studio Museum in Harlem's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2017); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2016); Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2016); Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2016); ni A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art (2016). Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, Creative Capital Grantee, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Micheal Richards Award (2012), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Artist-in-Residence The Studio Museum in Harlem (2010–11), NYFA Fellowship, Art Matters Foundation Grant (2009), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2018),  Hugo Boss Prize (2018) (a $100,000 award din nyɛ Guggenheim Museum ni su shɛli fukumsi ka be dunia pini gahinda ni).

## Art market
Zaŋ kana yuuni 2021, Leigh daa nyɛla Matthew Marks Gallery ni zani ti so. Ŋun daa na zani ti o n-nyɛ Hauser & Wirth (2019–2021), David Kordansky Gallery (2019), ni Luhring Augustine Gallery (2016–2019).

Yuuni 2023, Leigh's tuma *Stick* (2019), daa dala $2.7&nbsp;million, Christie's din be New York,.  *Birmingham* (2012), daa dala $2.2&nbsp;million, Sotheby’s din be New York yuuni 2022.

## Exhibitions
Leigh dɛm o ko dɛmanima oqm United States ni tiŋ'duya. O ko dɛma shɛŋa n-nyɛ *Simone Leigh* (2004) Momenta Art, New York; *if you wan fo’ lick old woman pot, you scratch him back* (2008), Rush Arts Gallery, New York; *You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been* (2012), The Kitchen, New York; *Gone South* (2014), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; *The Waiting Room* (2016), New Museum, New York; *Psychic Friends Network* (2016), Tate Modern, London; *inHarlem: Simone Leigh* (2016), Marcus Garvey Park, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; *Loophole of Retreat* (2019), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; *Brick House* (2019), High Line, New York; *Simone Leigh* (2021), Hauser & Wirth, Zurich; *Trophallaxis* (2008-17), Pérez Art Museum Miami (2022-2023); *Sovereignty* (2022), American pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale; ni *Simone Leigh* (2023), originating at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Leigh mini niriba lahi laɣim tum tuma pam ka di shɛŋa nyɛ Dakar Biennale (2014); Berlin Biennale (2019); Whitney Biennial (2019); *Prospect.5* (2021), Prospect New Orleans; ni *The Milk of Dreams* (2022), 59th Venice Biennale.

Yuuni 2024, Leigh daa lahi malituun shɛŋa Southern California ka di be Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) mini California African American Museum (CAAM).

## Notable works in public collections

**Breakdown* (2011), by Simone Leigh and Liz Magic Laser, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
**My Dreams, My Works Must Wait Till After Hell* (2011), by Simone Leigh and Chitra Ganesh, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Whitney Museum, New York
**Stack II* (2015), KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
**Trophallaxis* (2008-2017), Pérez Art Museum Miami
**Dunham* (2017), Art Institute of Chicago
**Georgia Mae* (2017), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
**103 (Face Jug Series)* (2018), University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City
**Cupboard VII* (2018), Whitney Museum, New York
**Figure with Skirt* (2018), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
**No Face (Crown Heights)* (2018), Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
**No Face (Pannier)* (2018), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
**Opuwo* (2018), Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
**[[Brick House (Leigh)|Brick House]]* (2019), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
**Corrugated* (2019), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm
**Cupboard IX* (2019), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
**Las Meninas* (2019), Cleveland Museum of Art
**Sentinel* (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
**Stick* (2019), Whitney Museum, New York
**Loophole of Retreat* (2019), Brooklyn Museum, New York
**Kasama* (2020), Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
**Quonset* (2020), Whitney Museum, New York
**Sentinel IV* (2020), Landmarks, University of Texas at Austin
**Sphinx* (2021), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
**Village Series* (2021), Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
**Village Series* (2021), Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
**Sentinel* (2022), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

## Bibliography
* Stefan Üner: Black Renaissance. Simone Leigh, Sandra Mujinga und die Biennale 2022, in: *stayinart*, special edition, Innsbruck 2022, p. 82–89.

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Artist Profile by the Guggenheim Museum
*Interview with CBS This Morning
* Creative Time Summit 2015 | Knowledge as Collective Experience: Simone Leigh on YouTube
*Simone Leigh Hugo Boss Prize
*Hauser & Wirth Artist Profile 
*Interview with New York Times (along with Amy Sherald and Lorna Simpson)