LEAH SOLOMON
BFA - School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2019
PERFORMANCES
2024 CUP OF STORM, REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, California, in collaboration with Qur'an Shaheed & Tate Egon Chavez
SCREENINGS
2024 JIGNA, London Migration Film Festival, London, England
2024 JIGNA, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), Los Angeles, California
2023 JIGNA, Black Harvest Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2023 JIGNA, We-Ho Pride Festival, BrainDead Studios, Los Angeles, California
2022 JIGNA, MoCADA Museum Governer’s Island, New York, NY
2022 JIGNA, Berlin Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany
2022 JIGNA, Independent Short Awards, Los Angeles, California
2020 In Hot Time, ‘there is no place that cannot be home’, NOW Gallery, London, England
2020 In Hot Time, “Science of the Word”, CalArts, Santa Clarita, California 2020 In Hot Time, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2019 All Fruits Ripe, Trauma Bar Und Kino, Berlin, Germany
2019 In Hot Time, Opalescent II, Pro Arts Commons, Oakland, California 2019 In Hot Time, AfroFuture Youth Present: And Stay There, Norwest Gallery of Art, Detroit, Michigan
2019 In Hot Time, Gene Siskel Film Centre, FVNMA Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2019 Incoming, Afrikana Film Festival, Richmond, VA
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hermoso Mundo Saludable, Centro Cultural Benjamín Carrión, Quito, Ecuador
2019 Ars Electronica: Out of the Box, Linz, Austria
2019 Shut Up Stone Mountain, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, Illinois 2019 ATS Fest, “Future Conditions”, Maclean Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2018 VR Show, Flex Space, Chicago, Illinois
2018 Undergraduate BFA Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
RESIDENCIES
2024 Student Artist in Residence, Barnard Movement Lab, New York, New York
2023 Virginia Creative Center for the Arts Residency, Amherst, Virginia
2022 Vashon Artist Residency, Vashon, Washington
2022 Nave Proyecto, Quito, Ecuador
PRESS
NOW Later: there is no place that cannot be home* – NOW Gallery