Leah Piepgras

EDUCATION
1994-1997
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Fine Arts

1989-1993
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Bachelor of Fine Arts


EXHIBITIONS—SOLO
2009
Ecstasies
, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
New Vision Series, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

2008
Super Bliss Enlightenment
, Paintings and Installation, OperationMakeArt, Boston, MA
Euphoria, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA

2007
Pleasure Maps,
OMA, Boston, MA
Flesh and Bones, Walter Jacob Architects, Marblehead, MA

2006
After Glow
, 412, Boston, Ma
Paintings at Walter Jacob Architects
, Marblehead, MA

2005
Lovers: Botanical Pornography
, New Paintings, 412, Boston Ma

1998-present location variable
Daily life performances including but not limited to:
Gardening for Earthly Delights, Knocked-up, Trick or Treat, Birth for 23 Hours, Laundry, Lunch at the Juicy Boob Café, Responsible Wife and Mother Sells House and Moves, Cake!, Secrets of Painting in a Cold Basement, Miscarriage with Bruce Nauman at the Tate Modern in London, Still for 16 Weeks with a Two Year Old, Birth with Drugs, Kitchen Mama, fucked, Kindergarten is Just Like High School, Boys are Really Different than Girls, The Mama's are All Right

1997
Lacus Somniorum
, Installation and performance at Point State Park, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Invited Artist, Pittsburgh, PA

1996
Positively Consumed
, performance, Performance House, Pittsburgh, PA
Heavy Weather/ lacus mortis, performance, Carlow College, Pittsburgh, PA
Disembodied, installation, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1995
Week of Wearing White
, Pittsburgh, PA
Wedding Machine, performance and installation w/ Colin Piepgras, Hewlett Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1993
Tango Boxers, performance, Bell Recreation Boxing Gym, Kansas City, KS
Wish, performance, Southmoreland Park, Kansas City, MO
Women in the House, performance, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO


EXHIBITIONS—2 PERSON AND GROUP
2010
About Face, Gallery 1581, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Boston, MA
Off the Wall, 2010 Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

2009
Anonymous Drawings with blütenweiss, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
Fruehsorge /contemporary drawing, Berlin, Germany
Hess Gallery
, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill MA

2008
Anonymous Drawing No. 9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
The World We Are Living In, with Jennifer Muskopf, OperationMakeArt, Boston MA
SOWA May Open Studios, @ OMA, Boston MA
New Art 2008, curator Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo of DeCordova Museum of Art, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA

2007
Essex Art Center Juried Exhibition
, curator Carole Anne Meehan of Boston’s ICA, Lawrence, MA
Anonymous Drawings 7, Bluetenweiss at GLUE, Berlin, Germany
Drawings
, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
DeCordova Museum Annual Fundraising Exhibition, Lincoln, MA
Heat, Bromfield Gallery, curator Carole Anne Meehan of Boston's ICA, Boston, MA
New Visions
, Gallery 181, Lawrence, MA
Home Show, The Pen Mark, Boston, MA
Paintings
, EWFA, Boston, MA
12x12
, OMA, Boston, MA
Group, OMA, Boston, MA

2006
Homage
, Diamond Newman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Open Studios
, Harrison, Boston, MA
DeCordova Museum Annual Fundraising Exhibition,
Lincoln, MA
OMA@SOWA
, Boston, MA
Cell Division,
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
Nervous Systems,
Ojai, CA
eros, paintings, 412, Boston, MA

2005
Home Show
, Paintings, Diamond-Newman Fine Art, Boston, MA
5 Star, Paintings, 412, Boston, MA
SOWA: Open Studios, Paintings, 412, Boston, MA
White Light, White Heat, Sculpture in collaboration with Colin Piepgras, Reception, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2000
Cavalcade of Cod
, White Cod Nebulae, Boston, MA

1997
Remains
, AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1995
Edinburgh Arts Festival
, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Marriage Project, Indiana University, Indiana, PA

1993
A Perfect World
, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX


PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Wilmer Hale, New York, NY
IXIS Asset Mgt., Boston, MA
Tokio Millennium RE Ltd. - Hamilton, Bermuda
Meditech, Westwood, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Color Kinetics, Boston, MA
New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO


REGISTRIES, REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Anonymous Drawings - Archive Selection 2009
Studio Visit, Volume One, The Open Studios Press
Contemporary Women Artist Files, Margery Somers Foster Center, Rutgers University
The Boston Globe, Feb. 2008     article (PDF)
Bershire Fine Arts, August 2007     article (PDF)
Hacking the Future by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
The Phoenix, Feb. 2007
Beautiful Decay, Feb. 2007