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Joe Leavenworth
Ayngel
Native Son
Late Night Boys
Tulsa
(31821)
Divola
Portraits
Info
Joe Leavenworth is an artist and photographer based in Los Angeles, CA

joe.leavenworth@gmail.com


Photography is at the heart of Joe's visual practice, which includes book-making, drawing, painting, and video. Joe's first monograph, Native Son, was published by VUU in 2014 and his forthcoming second monograph, Ayngel, will be published by Trespasser in 2025. His books are held in the library collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Joe has exhibited internationally, including the recent group show Trespasser, held at Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE (2024). Joe is a recipient of the L.A. Art Workers Grant (2020), finalist for The Print Center’s 95th Annual Award selected by David Campany and Larissa Goldston (2020), finalist for the Kodak Film Photo Award - New Project Award (2019), nominee for Rema Hort Mann Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant (2018), and he is twice recipient of the Gluck Teaching Fellowship (2016 & 2017). His photographs have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, W Magazine, Apartamento, The Fader, Bloomberg Businessweek, FT Weekend, Oxford American, and Novembre, among others. Joe has taught photography at the Cooper Union, International Center of Photography, and UC Riverside. He holds a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Visual Art from UC Riverside. 


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Education

2018 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, University of California, Riverside

2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Maryland Institute College of Art

Awards & Honors

2020 The Print Center 95th Annual International Award, selected by David Campany and Larissa Goldston, Finalist

2020 L.A. Art Workers Relief Fund Emergency Grant, Recipient

2019 Film Photo Award, New Project Award, Fall 2019, Finalist

2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Los Angeles, Nominee

2017-18 Gluck VIP Teaching Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2016-17 Gluck Teaching Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2015 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2015 PDN 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee

2012 Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI

2012 Kodak Film Grant, Recipient

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Ayngel, Stevie, Custer, Muldoon, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA

2015 Native Son, Mast Books, New York, NY

2014 Native Son, Aviary, Jamaica Plain, MA

2014 Native Son, VUU Studio, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Autumn Blues, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI


Select Group Exhibitions

2024 Trespasser, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE

2023 Postcards for Palestine, Claire de Rouen Books, London, UK

2023 Postcards for Palestine, Berlinskej Model Gallery, Prague, CZ

2021 When in Athens, The Humid, Athens, GA 

2021 The Print Center 95th Annual International Award, Finalists, Philadelphia, PA

2020 ACP Open, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta, GA

2018 Benefit Auction Preview, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

2018 Citrus, Grand, Cherry, MFA Thesis, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA

2017 Polylogue, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2017 SoCal MFA, juried by Amanda Ross-Ho, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA

2017 Feral Gamut, FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA

2016 Liquid Suspension, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA

2016 There Was a Pool Here, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2015 Can You Move It All Up One Inch, Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Staff Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2014 The American South, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

2014 The American South, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, GA

2014 In One Place or Another, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

2014 Across the Gutter, Oranbeg Press, 110 Meserole, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Hindsight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2013 Empty Stretch, Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, Washington DC

2013 Blog/Re-Blog, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Working Professionals, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY

2012 Slow Exposures, R.F. Strickland, Concord, GA

2012 3200K, Sarah Pollman Gallery, Allston, MA

2012 All Visual Slideshow Boston, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, MA

2010 Food, Garfield Art Works, Pittsburgh, PA

2010 Food, 709 Railroad St., Johnstown, PA

2010 Work Progress Collective, LMCC Swing Space, New York, NY

2009 Dreamboats Collective, Umbrage Gallery, New York, NY


Books

2025 Ayngel, Trespasser, (forthcoming)

2016 Angel (xeroxero), artist book

2015 Native Son, second edition, VUU

2014 Native Son, first edition, VUU

2013 Late Night Boys, artist book

2010 Pictures from Home, artist book


Select Publications

2023 John Divola, Apartamento #32

2021 A New Nothing: No. 1, Sleeper Studio

2019 American Chordata, Issue 8

2014 The United States 2003-2013, Mossless

2014 The American South, Ain’t Bad

2012 Volume no. 2, The Things We've Seen, VUU

 

Public Collections

Brooklyn Museum Library

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Balch Art Research Library

Whitney Museum of American Art, Bulwark Special Collections Library

 

Teaching Experience

2023-present Lecturer, University of California, Riverside

Course: Introduction to Photo Processes 


2022-2023 Visual Art Instructor, Emerson Elementary, Public Montessori School, Tulsa, OK

Foundations of Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Collage, and Sculpture


2018-2019 Lecturer, University of California, Riverside

Course: Introduction to Photo Processes

 

2016-2018 Graduate Instructor, University of California, Riverside

Courses: Introduction to Image Manipulation; Alternative Materials and Photographic Processes 

 

2016-2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside

Courses: Intermediate Photography; Introduction to Photo Processes; Visual Art & Theory After 1945

 

2016-2018 Drawing Instructor, Gluck Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

Course: Drawing in Perspective

 

2013 Teaching Assistant to Irina Rozovsky, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Course: Photography I: Digital

 

2010 Teaching Assistant to Corinne May Botz, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Course: Street Photography


2006 Teaching Assistant to Camille Gustus, Maryland Institute College of Art

Course: Darkroom Photography

 

Artist Visits & Lectures

University of California, Riverside

Maryland Institute College of Art

Rhode Island School of Design

International Center of Photography

Maine College of Art

Ox-Bow School of Art

The Cooper Union School of Art




Joe Leavenworth is an artist and photographer based in Los Angeles, CA

joe.leavenworth@gmail.com


Photography is at the heart of Joe's visual practice, which includes book-making, drawing, painting, and video. Joe's first monograph, Native Son, was published by VUU in 2014 and his forthcoming second monograph, Ayngel, will be published by Trespasser in 2025. His books are held in the library collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Joe has exhibited internationally, including the recent group show Trespasser, held at Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE (2024). Joe is a recipient of the L.A. Art Workers Grant (2020), finalist for The Print Center’s 95th Annual Award selected by David Campany and Larissa Goldston (2020), finalist for the Kodak Film Photo Award - New Project Award (2019), nominee for Rema Hort Mann Foundation's Emerging Artist Grant (2018), and he is twice recipient of the Gluck Teaching Fellowship (2016 & 2017). His photographs have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, W Magazine, Apartamento, The Fader, Bloomberg Businessweek, FT Weekend, Oxford American, and Novembre, among others. Joe has taught photography at the Cooper Union, International Center of Photography, and UC Riverside. He holds a BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Visual Art from UC Riverside. 


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Education

2018 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art, University of California, Riverside

2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography, Maryland Institute College of Art

Awards & Honors

2020 The Print Center 95th Annual International Award, selected by David Campany and Larissa Goldston, Finalist

2020 L.A. Art Workers Relief Fund Emergency Grant, Recipient

2019 Film Photo Award, New Project Award, Fall 2019, Finalist

2018 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Los Angeles, Nominee

2017-18 Gluck VIP Teaching Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2016-17 Gluck Teaching Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2015 Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship, UC Riverside, Recipient

2015 PDN 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, Nominee

2012 Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI

2012 Kodak Film Grant, Recipient

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Ayngel, Stevie, Custer, Muldoon, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA

2015 Native Son, Mast Books, New York, NY

2014 Native Son, Aviary, Jamaica Plain, MA

2014 Native Son, VUU Studio, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Autumn Blues, Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI


Select Group Exhibitions

2024 Trespasser, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, DE

2023 Postcards for Palestine, Claire de Rouen Books, London, UK

2023 Postcards for Palestine, Berlinskej Model Gallery, Prague, CZ

2021 When in Athens, The Humid, Athens, GA 

2021 The Print Center 95th Annual International Award, Finalists, Philadelphia, PA

2020 ACP Open, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta, GA

2018 Benefit Auction Preview, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

2018 Citrus, Grand, Cherry, MFA Thesis, Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA

2017 Polylogue, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2017 SoCal MFA, juried by Amanda Ross-Ho, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA

2017 Feral Gamut, FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA

2016 Liquid Suspension, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA

2016 There Was a Pool Here, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2015 Can You Move It All Up One Inch, Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Staff Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2014 The American South, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

2014 The American South, Oglethorpe Gallery, Savannah, GA

2014 In One Place or Another, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA

2014 Across the Gutter, Oranbeg Press, 110 Meserole, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Hindsight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2013 Empty Stretch, Petworth Citizen & Reading Room, Washington DC

2013 Blog/Re-Blog, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Working Professionals, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY

2012 Slow Exposures, R.F. Strickland, Concord, GA

2012 3200K, Sarah Pollman Gallery, Allston, MA

2012 All Visual Slideshow Boston, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, MA

2010 Food, Garfield Art Works, Pittsburgh, PA

2010 Food, 709 Railroad St., Johnstown, PA

2010 Work Progress Collective, LMCC Swing Space, New York, NY

2009 Dreamboats Collective, Umbrage Gallery, New York, NY


Books

2025 Ayngel, Trespasser, (forthcoming)

2016 Angel (xeroxero), artist book

2015 Native Son, second edition, VUU

2014 Native Son, first edition, VUU

2013 Late Night Boys, artist book

2010 Pictures from Home, artist book


Select Publications

2023 John Divola, Apartamento #32

2021 A New Nothing: No. 1, Sleeper Studio

2019 American Chordata, Issue 8

2014 The United States 2003-2013, Mossless

2014 The American South, Ain’t Bad

2012 Volume no. 2, The Things We've Seen, VUU

 

Public Collections

Brooklyn Museum Library

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Balch Art Research Library

Whitney Museum of American Art, Bulwark Special Collections Library

 

Teaching Experience

2023-present Lecturer, University of California, Riverside

Course: Introduction to Photo Processes 


2022-2023 Visual Art Instructor, Emerson Elementary, Public Montessori School, Tulsa, OK

Foundations of Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Collage, and Sculpture


2018-2019 Lecturer, University of California, Riverside

Course: Introduction to Photo Processes

 

2016-2018 Graduate Instructor, University of California, Riverside

Courses: Introduction to Image Manipulation; Alternative Materials and Photographic Processes 

 

2016-2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of California, Riverside

Courses: Intermediate Photography; Introduction to Photo Processes; Visual Art & Theory After 1945

 

2016-2018 Drawing Instructor, Gluck Fellowship, University of California, Riverside

Course: Drawing in Perspective

 

2013 Teaching Assistant to Irina Rozovsky, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Course: Photography I: Digital

 

2010 Teaching Assistant to Corinne May Botz, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Course: Street Photography


2006 Teaching Assistant to Camille Gustus, Maryland Institute College of Art

Course: Darkroom Photography

 

Artist Visits & Lectures

University of California, Riverside

Maryland Institute College of Art

Rhode Island School of Design

International Center of Photography

Maine College of Art

Ox-Bow School of Art

The Cooper Union School of Art