"Courtney M. Leonard is one of the strongest emerging voices in the field of ceramics today,” said Johnson. “Her art manages to be both poetic and political, and also simultaneously personal and universal." - Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics - ASU Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
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RECENT & UPCOMING:
May 22 - November 1, 2026
Courtney M. Leonard "BREACH: Logbook 26 CONVERGENCE"
East End Seaport Museum | Greenport, New York
Sep 14, 2025 – Jun 21, 2026
GROUNDED
Los Angeles County Museum of Art | LACMA, Los Angeles, California
May 29, 2025 - March 8, 2026
Weather and the Whale
Institute of the Arts and Sciences | Santa Cruz, California
May 3 – November 2, 2025
Emily Cole: Ceramics, Flora & Contemporary Responses
Thomas Cole National Historic Site | Catskill, New York
ONGOING:
SELECTED PAST EVENTS
June 17 - July 19, 2019
Artist-in-Residence
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida
January 22 - May 19, 2019
Courtney M. Leonard: Intermodal
Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
October 18, 2018 - January 26, 2019
MATRIARCHS
ESMoA, El Segundo, CA
April 27 - 28, 2019
Zooetics+ Symposium at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
April 2 - April 27, 2018
Opening Reception and Lecture April 5
Trees Also Speak
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Westbury, NY
January 28 - March 2, 2018
EUPHOTIC, A Solo Exhibition by Courtney M. Leonard
Tansey Contemporary, Denver, Colorado
November 24, 2017 - January 7, 2018
The Full Picture: Oxford In Portraits
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
August 5 - March 18, 2018
We The People: Serving Notice
AMOCA: American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
June 2017
The Andy Warhol Visual Preserve Artist Residency The Andy Warhol Preserve, Montauk, NY
March 31 - November 2, 2017
Without A Theme Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Mashantucket, CT
January - March 2017
SFAI: Water Rights Artist Residency Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
December 10, 2016
Sea Change Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America And The Sea, Mystic, CT
September 16 - November 16, 2016
Rasmuson Artist Residency
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
September 11 - 15, 2016
ART IN EMBASSIES Artist Residency & Exchange
Geneva, Switzerland
May 8 - July 24, 2016:
Radical Seafaring Radical Seafaring is a multidisciplinary exhibition, publication, and program initiative. Under the direction of Andrea Grover, Century Arts Foundation Curator of Special Projects, the exhibition features twenty-five artists with works that range from artist-made vessels, to documentation of creative expeditions, to speculative designs for alternative communities on the water.
The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
April 15 - August 2016:
BREACH: LOG 16 Exhibition Opening & Lecture, Friday, April 15, 2016
ASU ART MUSEUM Ceramics Research Center and Brickyard Gallery
February 5 - April 24, 2016:
The Path We Share Exhibition Opening Friday, February 5, 2016 - Sunday, April 24, 2016
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS
November 5, 2015 - February 4, 2016:
Elements Selections From Art & Design Faculty
SFCC Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
August 10-14, 2015:
The Path We Share Artist Residency, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Yarmouth, NS - Exhibition Opening Friday, February 5, 2016 - Sunday, April 24, 2016
July 17 - September 2015:
Courtney M. Leonard & Frank Buffalo Hyde, Collaborative Exhibition, Modern West Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT - Opening Reception: Friday, July 17, 2015 - 6-8pm
June 15-21, 2015:
ART IN EMBASSIES, IAIA Printmaking Studio, IAIA, Santa Fe, NM - Artists Reception: September 2015, Washington, D.C.
February 23 - March 20, 2015: BREACH: LOG 15, Stephens Gallery-University of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR - Opening Reception: Monday, February 23, 2015 – 5-7pm | Lecture: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 – 7pm
August 13 - September 22, 2014: LEVEL / LAND, MoCNA's Lloyd Kiva New Gallery, Santa Fe, NM - Opening Reception: Thursday, August 21, 2014 – 5-7pm
August 22 - December 31, 2014: BREACH: LOG 14, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM - Opening Reception: Thursday, August 21, 2014 – 5-7pm
March 26, 2014 - June 15, 2015: Salutations: 1st IAIA Public Art Biennial, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
The Maker's Tag by Courtney M. Leonard...Published in Studio Potter
January 22 - 26, 2014: Toi Ngapuhi, International Invitational Exhibition, Northland College, Ngapuhi, New Zealand