Leah Beeferman
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EDUCATION

MFA - Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia (2010)

BA - Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island (2004)


AWARDS

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Finland (2016-17)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

TBD - Penumbra Foundation Project Space, New York, NY (forthcoming, 2024)

Cloud-Scale Uncertainties - Peeler Art Center, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN (forthcoming, 2024)

A Warm Cold - CO-OPt, Lubbock, TX (2022)

Weather Gestures - Arcade on Stadium, Provo, UT (2021)

Light Matter - Sorbus, Helsinki, Finland (2017)

Cold Color - Rawson Projects, New York, NY (2016)

Strong Force - Rawson Projects, New York, NY (2015)


SELECTED GROUP OR TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Apoca... SPRING/BREAK Art Fair New York, NY (2023)

Gateways into the Polycene Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI (2023)

Something Strange is Afoot...
Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki, Finland (2022-23)

The Dissolution caus'd by Fire is in all Bodies
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (2022)

Heaven Either Burning Farther
Lumen Crypt Gallery, London, England (2022)

Grams [Tuukka Kaila with Leah Beeferman]
Kosminen, Helsinki, Finland (2022)

Photosonic Landscapes
[duo exhibition with Minna Långström]
SOLU, Helsinki, Finland (2020)

The Production of Place
[duo exhibition with Jen Hitchings]
HVCC Teaching Gallery, Troy, NY, US (2020)

0°C
NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, Japan (2019-2020)

Beings with
Fiskars Village Biennale, Fiskars, Finland (2019)

Field Recordings
[duo exhibition with Alex Yudzon]
Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, Ireland (2019)

Between Clouds and Screensavers
Toy Returns, Fremantle, Australia (2019)

Surface Tenses, Surface Tensions
[duo exhibition with Daniel Everett]
The Anderson, Richmond, VA, US (2019)

Screenscapes
Roesler Hotel, Galeria Nara Roesler
São Paolo, Brazil (2018)

Hydrodynamics
Studio 17, Stavanger, Norway (2018)

Dense Bodies Bend Solid Ground
Radiator, Queens, NY, US (2018)

Event Horizon
SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA, US (2018)

Romantic Destinations
Crush Curatorial, New York, NY, US (2017)

Geography of the Senses
OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017)

Infinity Cove
[duo exhibition with Kristine Eudey]
Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA, US (2016)

Liquid Pictures
Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York, NY, US (2016)

Singing Material
Tyson, Cologne, Germany (2016)

Sense Objects
[duo exhibition with Stephen Vitiello]
Fridman Gallery, New York, NY, US (2014)

Field Positions / Render Garden
[duo exhibition with Rick Silva]
Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR, US (2014)

Magnetic North
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery
New York, NY, US (2014)

6<<<>>>6: In Free Fall
Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, US (2013)

C-H-A-M-B-E-R-S
The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, online (2013)

The Order of Things
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY, US (2013)

Hypotheticals II
Free Range Gallery, Perth, Australia (2013)

Beyond the Barrier
Camera Club of NY, New York, NY, US (2013)

In Search Of...
TSA, Brooklyn, NY, US (2013)

1201.2280v1
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (2012)

Non-Measurable Objects
Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA, US (2012)

What Do You Believe In?
NY Photo Festival 2012, Brooklyn, NY, US (2012)

Prune in the Sky
Toves Galleri / Niels Bohr Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark (2012)

LOST
Invisible-Exports, New York, NY, US (2011)

The Spirit of the Signal
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, US (2011)


TEACHING

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI, US (2020-present)

Brown University
Providence, RI, US (2018-2022)

Aalto University
Helsinki, Finland (2017-2018)

School of Visual Arts Learning Online
New York, NY, US (2018-present)

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, US (2009-2010)


SELECTED RESIDENCIES

Climate Whirl Hyytiäläa, Forestry Field Station, Hyytiäläa, Finland (2023)

Tiputini Biodiversity Station
Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador (2019)

Troms Fylkeskultursenter, Tromsø, Norway (2019)

Arsbioarctica
Kilpisjärvi, Finland (2017, 2018, 2019)

Titanik Gallery Artist Residency, Turku, Finland (2017)

Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland (2016)

Island Press Emerging Artist Fellowship
St. Louis, MO, US (2016)

Sirius Arts Center Residency, Cobh, Ireland (2016)

SÍM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (2014)

Digital Painting Atelier Residency
Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada (2014)

The Arctic Circle
International Territory of Svalbard (2012)

Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, US (2012)

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency
New York, NY, US (2010-11)


TEXTS/PUBLICATIONS

Weather Forms (RI-BAND)
Online artwork commissioned by Providence Arts & Letters (2022-23)

Three Weathers [with New Information]
Ongoing weather poster project collaboration (2023)

If you show me what you know, can I tell you what I see? [with Tuukka Kaila]
Published by Rooftop Press, Helsinki (2022)

Approximations [artist text]
Published by Taupe Magazine (2020)

Bees and Stones [conversation with Christian Tunge]
Published in Objektiv: Picture Perfect II, Oslo (2018)

Coast Forms [artist text]
Published by Contemporary Art Stavanger (2018)

Acts of Sensing [essay for Johan Rosenmunthe's exhibition, Hidden in Plain Sight]
Overgaden, Copenhagen (2018)

Triple Point [artist book]
Published by Lodret Vandret, Copenhagen (2016)

Sense Objects
[Split 7" record with Stephen Vitiello]
Catalog for exhition at Fridman Gallery (2014)

Parallelograms
Co-creator/co-curator of Parallelograms.info
Online artist project (2010-2015)