Leigh Wells

lives and works in Sausalito, Californien

Visage 08
2024, mixed media and graphite on vintage paper, 10.5 x 8.5 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)

1988	BFA, Design, Summa Cum Laude, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
1998-2021	Studio Art Studies at Parsons/New School, New York,
	Crown Point Press, San Francisco Art Institute and NYC Crit Club

2022	Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant Recipient SFMOMA SECA Award Nominee
2021	Anonymous Was a Woman Award Nominee
2020	Minnesota Street Studios, San Francisco, Artist member (2018-2020)

2025	Upcoming, Van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2022	Tensile Strength, The Fourth Wall, Oakland, CA
2019	Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012	Remains, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011	Deception, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008	New Drawings, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

2024	Limen, Tappan Collective, Los Angeles, CA
2023	The Schuh Show, Van der Grinten Gallerie, Cologne, Germany
	True North, diRosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
2020	Mind Reader, Markel Fine Arts Viewing Room, New York, NY
2019	Portrait, The Jones Institute, San Francisco, CA
	Still Yet Forward, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018	No Rhyme or Reason, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Paper Cuts: Large-Scale Collage, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2016	Fog a Mirror, CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Cutting Edge: New Works in Collage, 2731 Prospect, Cleveland, OH
2015	Variations on Abstraction 2010-2015, Transmission Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014	Mountain, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
	The Age of Collage, Gallery Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany
	Feature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2013	The Age of Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
	col-la-ge, mini \| galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	In Spite Of, The Holland Project, Reno, NV
	Summer Group Show, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Range, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2012	Decade, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
	Ninth Annual Benefit Auction, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2011	Tensile Strength, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
	Building Context, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008	These Are the People in Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA


2022	Pritikin, Renny. “Leigh Wells at The Fourth Wall”, Squarecylinder, September 22, 2022
	Taylor, Mark. “Tensile Strength: Leigh Wells”, SF/Arts, September 3, 2022
2021	“Reviewing the Book Review”, New York Times Book Review, February 16, 2021
2020	“To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die”, New York Times Opinion Pages, April 11, 2020
2019	“It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance”, New York Times Opinion Pages, July 27, 2019
2016	“What Do We Know?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, December 31, 2016
	“I Am a Dangerous Professor", New York Times Opinion Pages, November 30, 2016
	“What is the Use of Regret?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, November 12, 2016
	“Why Do Anything?”, New York Times Opinion Pages, September 17, 2016
2015	Seligman, Craig. “Fitted to the Occasion,” Elle Decor, March 2015. pp 138-141
2013	The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, Berlin: Gestalten, 2013. pp 114-117
	Danza, Emmie. "Leigh Wells", The Drawing Center, The Bottom Line, August 5, 2013
	Grattan, Nikki, "Leigh Wells", In The Make, March 2013
	Gallagher, James. "Cut-Up Nostalgia." UnFLOP Paper 4. Fall/Winter 2012-2013
2012	Baker, Kenneth. “Leigh Wells: Remains.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2012
2011	Baker, Kenneth. “Don't Miss,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2011
	Baker, Kenneth. “Collage, culture and mulching at Guerrero Gallery,” SF Chronicle, August 27, 2011
2008	Untitled (Robert Frost), 2008. Harper’s Magazine. September 2008. p 93

Chevron Corporate Collection, San Francisco, CA

Norwegian Cruise Lines

Salvatore Ferragamo Collection, Milan, Italy

Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Superba Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA