Leigh McCarthy

B. Ridgewood, NJ
Lives and works in San Francisco

Education
Goldsmiths College, University of London, MFA 2001
Otis College of Art and Design (1 year Program), Los Angeles, 1998
University of Colorado at Boulder, Anthropology, BA, 1995

Group exhibitions include the Getty Center, LACE and Anna Helwing in Los Angeles.

Full CV below images

VIDEO LIBRARY:

david duch
David Duchovny Why Won’t You Love Me? (video still), 2007

levitate
Failure to Levitate in the Studio (video still), 2007

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
LA Art Girls Fluxwear Event, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Total Art Performance Event, Getty Center, Los Angeles
2005
LA Art Girls’ Work, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
Apocalypse Soon!, QED gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Ambulantes, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
Fleamarket, temporarycontemporary, London
2003
Bootleg, Spitalfields Market, London
Exploding Cinema, London
2002
Potential Hits, Unit 2, London
LA Freewaves Digital Film Festival, Los Angeles
Inglesia Universal, Institute of International visual Arts, London
Portobello Film Festival, Bowie Art, Westbourne Grove Studios, London
London is Balling, The Bart Wells Institute, London
Across the Pond, the practice space, Los Angeles
2001
artlab 11, Cal Tech, Pasadena
Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Portobello Film Festival. London
The Tender Trap, 15c, London
2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London
Beck’s Student Prize for Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
It’s a Little Bit Funny, 15c, London
Croma 2, Mercado de Feucarral, Madrid
Globularisation, 17 Starr & Garter, London

Public Collections
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Awards
2000
Beck’s Student Prize in Film and Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Curatorial Projects
2005
The Portrait Show, 1403, Los Angeles
2002
London is Balling, The Bart Wells Institute, Hackney Wick, London
Across the Pond, the practice space, Los Angeles

Publications
“Art Pick” LA Weekly, Mar. 7, 2007
“LA Art Girls at Anna Helwing” artnet.com, Dec. 13, 2005
“Inspiration Can Be Found in Everything: Mike Dawson Picks His Top Three Turn-Ons’”, Dazed and Confused. p.141 August., 2002
“London Is Balling”, Rebecca Geldard, Timeout London, March 13-20, p. 50. 2002
“The Graduates”, i-D magazine. p.100. October. 2001

Location

1355 Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

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