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