Leah Beeferman

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EDUCATION

MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (2010)

BA, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2004)


AWARDS

Fulbright Finland Alumni Award (2026)

RISD Professional Development Fund (2026)

RISD Professional Development Fund (2025)

RISD Professional Development Fund (2024)

RISD Professional Development Fund (2023)

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


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

title tbd - OPEN, Providence, RI (2027)

Overclouded - Penumbra Foundation Project Space, New York, NY (2024-25)

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

Cloud Studies, photo access 2026, Manuka Arts Centre, Griffith ACT, Australia (2026)

MUDROOM, Foyer-LA, Los Angeles, CA (2025)

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 with Minna Långström], SOLU, Helsinki, Finland (2020)

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

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

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

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

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

Surface Tenses, Surface Tensions [duo with Daniel Everett], The Anderson, Richmond, VA (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 with Kristine Eudey], Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA (2016)

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

Singing Material, Tyson, Cologne, Germany (2016)

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

Field Positions / Render Garden [duo with Rick Silva], Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR (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 (2012)

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

Prune in the Sky, oves 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 (2011)


TEACHING

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

Brown University
Providence, RI, US (2018-2022, 2025-present)

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)