Representative work by Simone Leigh
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Artist

Simone Leigh

b. 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA · American

  • Earlham College

Simone Leigh creates monumental ceramic and bronze sculptures that center Black female subjectivity through references to vernacular architecture, African diasporic material culture, modernism and histories of labor. Her figures often combine human heads and torsos with vessel or architectural forms, shifting between portrait and monument.

Sculpture; ceramics; installation

Major Works

  • 2019Brick House
  • 2022Sovereignty
  • 2022Last Garment
  • 2022Satellite
  • 2022Cupboard
  • 2022Jug
  • 2022Sentinel
  • 2010sVillage Series
  • 2008–17Trophallaxis
  • 2017Anonymous Women of the Black Freedom Movement

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