Biography Rollin Leonard work is rooted in crude but systematic studio photography. The subjects are often bodies and body parts and most of the work has been designed to be experienced online. Rollin was born in 1984 in Wheat Ridge Colorado, USA is currently based in Maine. The artist’s work has been shown at such venues as: The Photographer’s Gallery, London, Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Moving Image Art Fair, New York; Moving Image Art Fair, London, Fach & Asendorf Gallery, online; Bitforms, New York; Postmasters, New York; and NADA art fair, New York and Miami. His work is included in international collections including 53 Museum Guangzhou, China. Leonard is represented by Xpo Gallery, Paris and Transfer Gallery, NYC. Curriculum Vitae Art Shows (solo + group) Ways of Something, curated by Lorna Mills, group screening at the Western Front, Vancouver Canada, March 2015 Ways of Something, curated by Lorna Mills, group screening at the Photographer’s Gallery, London February 2015 Premium Bundle, curated by Claudia Mate, group show, Bronx Art Space, Bronx New York, December 2014 Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, curated by Eliot Dudik, group show, The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, October 2014 Water Lens, Wave, solo show presented by Transfer Gallery at the Moving Image Art Fair, Istanbul September 2014 Hypersalon Xpo, group show curated by Philippe Riss, Hypersalon Miami FL, December 2014 Wallpapers, group show curated by Nicolas Sassoon, NADA, Miami FL, December2014 Wallpapers, group show curated by Nicolas Sassoon, New Forms Festival at Science World, Vancouver Canada, September 2014 100 Contemporary Photographers, curated by Eliot Dudik, College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, September 2014 GIF Free For All, group show, curated at by A Bill Miller. Computer Art Congress 4 - CAC4 Rio de Janeiro, University Whitewater Wisconsin, Transfer Gallery Brooklyn. Outdoor Screening of GIFS, group screening curated by Molly Soda, Detroit, September 2014 After Hours: DTV GIF, group show curated by Rea McNamara, Drake Hotel, Toronto, September 2014 Hacktist, group show curated by Systaime & Matthieu Delourme, The Sanshan Museum, Hangzhou, China, April 2014 Ways of Something, group collaborative project curated by Lorna Mills. Oude Ker, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2014. Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, September 2014. New Work by Lorna Mills and Rollin Leonard, two-person show, Presented by Transfer Gallery, Moving Image Art Fair, March 2014 Dashboard, group show, curated by Kamilia Kard and David Quiles Guilló, KALPANY Artspace, Milan, January 2014 Crazy, Sexy, Cool, group show, presented by Studio XX, curated by Jennifer Chan, dip Journal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 2013 Cloaque At Untitled, group show, presented by Art F City, United Art Fair, Miami, December 2013 PostPictures, group show, Bitforms Gallery, New York, December 2013 Casting a Wide Net, group show, Postmasters Gallery, curated by Magdalena Sawon, November 2013 PAF - Festival of Film Animation, group screening, curated by Fach & Asendorf Gallery, Olomouc Czech Republic, December 2013 Lilia/360, solo show, Moving Image Art Fair presented by Transfer Gallery, London, October 2013 Trunks, Stems, & Heads, solo show, Transfer, New York, October 2013 Via Festival, group screening of selected work, Pittsburgh, September 2013 _MON3Y AS AN 3RRROR, M0US310n.net, curated by Vasily Zaitsev, M0US310n.net, September 2013 Balloon Head, Kunstfenster für Aktuelle Kunst, Kassel, curated by Hunter Longe & Fritz Laszlo Weber, May 2013 Art F City Selects, curated by Art F City, NADA Art Fair, May 2013 That's What Friends Are For: RM Vaughan's Video Collaborations, Sur La Montagne, May 2013 Decenter, group show, presented by the Armory Show, Curated by Andrianna Campbell and Daniel S. Palmer, New York 2013 DVD Dead Drop Vol. 5 - BEST OF, Compiled by Ole Fach & Kim Asendorf, Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35 Avenue Astoria, NY 2013 Cloaque 1st Anniversary, video screening, curated by Claudia Maté and Carlos Sáez, cloaque.org, 2013 When Analog was Periodical, curated by Anthony Antonellis and Lorna Mills, z-Bar Berlin, 2013 SPAMM: Cupcake, group show, Musee Des ARTs Super Modernes, France and spamm.fr, 2013 Show Up Cupcake, public video screening, arranged by Mark Brown curated by Ellectra Radikal & Michael Borras A.K.A Systaime, New York 2013 The Shortest Video Ever Sold!, Moving Image Art Fair, curated by ANIMAL’s Art Editor Marina Galperina and Hyperallergic’s Senior Editor Kyle Chayka, New York 2013 Born in 1987: The Animated GIF, public screening, The Photographers Gallery curated by Katrina Sluis, London 2012 Transfer3D SPEED SHOW, NAVIG@TOR Internet Cafe, Wroclaw, Poland, 2012 GIF Wrapping, presented by netartnet.net, gifwrapping.net, 2012 Exciting Virtuals, Melina, Drama, Greece, 2012 It's A Small, Small World, group show, Family Business, curated by Hennessey Youngman, New York 2012 Melodramz, group show, curated by Rea Toronto, Canada 2012 #D, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, New York, 2012 Extra Credit, group show, curated by A Bill Miller Altoona, PA 2012 1MB ZIP, group show, Fach & Asendorf Gallery, Stuttgart, Kassel 2012 Detroit Billboard Project, public screening (on billboards), Detroit 2012 NOVA Festival, video screening, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012 Automata- Electric Picnic, Block-T, curated by Grace McEvoy, Dublin 2012 USB Show, Point Ephémère, Paris, France 2012 Voyeurism, group show, NYC, London, 2012 Special Ellipse, group show, The Front, New Orleans, LA 2011-2012 CODAME, art & technology festival, San Francisco, 2012 Self Portrait, solo guest presenter, cloaque.org, 2012 Self Portrait, Widget Art Gallery (cellphone and internet gallery), SPAMM, group show, Musee Des ARTs Super Modernes, France (online) 2011-2012 Attending, group show, Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig 2011 Friends, group show, curated by Kim Asendorf, Fach & Asendorf Gallery, Stuttgart 2011 Sheroes - Yoko Ono, group show, curated by Lorna Mills, NACO Gallery in Toronto 2011 Sheroes - Madonna, group show, curated by Lorna Mills, NACO Gallery in Toronto 2011 BYOB São Paulo, Rojo Nova Festival, São Paulo, Brasil, 2011 Sheros - Tina Turner, group show, NACO Gallery in Toronto 2011 INFINITO.GIF, group show, Galería ALugar, Santiago de Chile 2011 Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Heart: The Grey Market New Year's group show, NYC 2010 The Architecture of Cooking, solo show, Minneapolis 2007 The Man From Another Place, group show, Cleveland 2006 Box Fence, two-person show, Cleveland 2005 Curated Projects Anatomize, Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn & xasyasz.com, November 2013 Shadow Box, presented by The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, São Paulo & thewrong.org, November 2013 Parcel, traveling group show, Portland Maine & Bronx Arts Space, Bronx New York, 2012 Island (5caaarr3d amp pr0f4nee), group video projection and installation, Portland Maine, 2011 Residencies/Awards Hewn Oaks, Maine, 2014 Moving Image Award, London, 2013 Hewn Oaks, Maine, 2012 Museum Collections 53 Museum Guangzhou, China. 2013 Selected Press The Top 10 Digital Artworks of 2014, Paddy Johnson for Art F City, December 24, 2014 The Years Best Art On the Internet, Marina Galperina for Fast Company, December 12 2014 From Virtual Wallpapers to Emoji Gardens, We Explored Digital Art at Miami Art Week, Benoit Palo for Vice, December 8 2014 The GIF Free For All Awards, Paddy Johnson for Art F City, September 11 2014 In Conversation: Rollin Leonard & Lorna Mills, Noo Art, April 2014 Rollin Leonard: The Visual Interview, By Christian J Petersen for Societe Perrier, December 2 2013 Destroy 3D Treasure With This Arcade-Style Installation, By Zach Sokol for Creator’s Project, December 13 2013 PostPictures: A New Generation of Pictorial Structuralists is Introduced by New York's bitforms gallery., by G. Roger Denson for Huffington Post, December 13 2013 Best Of The Rest: Japan's Robot Cafe, Eyelid Art, And Monster Michael Jackson, Creators Project, December 13 2013 Rollin Leonard: Trunks, Stems, & Heads, by Emilio Gomariz for Triangulation Blog, November 14 2013 Artists Jessica Faiss and Rollin Leonard Win Moving Image Award From London Fair, by Benjamin Sutton for Art Info, October 18 2013 Surreal 360° Portraits Slice The Human Head Into Rotating Parts, by Kevin Holmes for Creators Project Vice, Jun 13 2013 Off Your Phone and On View: The National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, by Eugene Reznik for TIME, October 16 2013 The Wrong Biennial Claims A Stake for Net Art, by Joseph Henry, November 6, 2013 Artists Jessica Faiss and Rollin Leonard Win Moving Image Award From London Fair, by Benjamin Sutton for Art Info, October 18 2013 001.mp4 – Rollin Leonard 360°, by netartnet.net staff, May 9, 2013 25 Internet Artists You Need To Know, by Emily Leisz Carr for Complex, April 26, 2013 Brooklyn Is Getting A New Gallery, A Net Art GAllery, by Animal, March 1, 2013 Yes, Bushwick, You're Getting a Net Art Gallery, by Art Fag City for L Magazine, March 1, 2013 Happy Thanksgiving GIFs from Rollin Leonard, by Art Fag City for L Magazine, November 22, 2012 Artist’s Notebook: Rollin Leonard, By Marina Galperina for Animal New York August 20, 2012 11 Net Artists You Should Know, by Marina Galperina, Flavorwire, The Atlanic, Huffington Post, September 4, 2012 Rollin Leonard El carnicero de Colorado (interview), Notodo (Spain), June 6, 2012 GIFmondo (I), Píxel nivel Dios, Notodo (Spain), May, 29, 2012 Rollin Leonard’s World of Invention, by Micheal K. Corbin for artbookbuy.com, 2012 Rollin Leonard, OFluxo, book and ofluxo.net, March 13, 2012 Rollin Leonard at Fach & Asendorf, tranulationblog.com, February 10, 2012 Sinusoidal Waves: F(x) A(y) by Rollin Leonard, Prostethetic Knowledge, November 6 2011 Education UNIVERSITY of MINNESOTA Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy 2007 Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art 2007 CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Cleveland, OH Bachelor of Fine Art Program
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