Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Master of Fine Arts 1994-1997
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Bachelor of Fine Arts 1989-1993
Exhibitions Solo (select)
2025 LOVER, video installation, No Call No Show, Boston, MA
2024 Parts and Pieces of the Universe, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2023 Healer Feeler, CleaRsky, Boston, MA
2020 Metamorphic, Shelter in Place Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Gateway, Curated by GRIN at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, New York
2016 Parallel Universe, GRIN, Providence, RI
Kalpa, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State University, Salem, MA
2015 Sweven, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
2014 !SuperVision!, GRIN, Providence, RI
2013 Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2009 Ecstasies, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
New Visions 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, OperationMakeArt, Boston, MA
2006 Afterglow, 412 Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Lovers: Botanical Pornography, Paintings, OperationMakeArt, Boston MA
1998-2004 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, Bed-rest for 16 Weeks with a Two Year Old, Birth with Drugs, Kitchen Mama, fucked, Kindergarten is Just Like High School, The Mama’s are All Right, Everything is Coming Together Perfectly
1997 Lacus Somniorum, Point State Park, Three Rivers Arts Festival, 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 Performance, Pittsburgh, PA
Wedding Machine with Colin Piepgras, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, 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: Group Shows (select)
2025 States of Being, University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA
Backscatter, Overlap gallery, New Port, RI
Muskeg at Mother-in-Law with Field Projects, Germantown, NY
Goddesses and Monsters Works on Paper: Towards a Feminist Iconography, SUNY Potsdam, NY
2024 Racket of Banshees, Video Screening, Wonzimer, Los Angeles, CA
Draw Lowell: Confluence, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
Karma, Gallery Very, Boston,MA
A Summer Breeze, Breezeway Projects, Concord, MA
2022 Then or Now, Take it Easy, Atlanta, GA
2021 In Place: a return, University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA
2020 Ortega y Gasset ProjectsFlat Files, Brooklyn, NY
Camayuhs Flat Files, Atlanta, GA
2017 Material Matters, Contemporary Art Meets Frank Lloyd Wright, Curated by Jeffery Mueller, Petra, NY
International Painting Exhibition and Symposium, China Academy of Art, Hang Zhou, China
2016 Relative Ground, Machines with Magnets, Pawtucket, RI
Drawing Project, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
Crystal Vision, Carol Calo Gallery, Stonehill College, Easton, MA2015
Drawing Project, HallSpace, Dorchester, MA
Annulus, Spring Break Art Show, New York, New York
2014 TEEM, Flat File Show, GRIN Providence, RI
HallSpace Drawing Project, Dorchester, MA
Moving Targets, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Moving Targets, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Portrait Gallery, Ithaca, NY
Moving Targets, Gumberg Library, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
Moving Targets, Brushwood Center, Riverwoods, IL
Flat File Show, GRIN, Providence, RI
2013 Beast, Grin Gallery, Providence, RI
Museum of Motherhood, New York, NY
her DESIRE, Cushing Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA
University Museum, University of New Hampshire
2012 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant Recipient Show, Boston, MA
Millliseme, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Fine Arts, Summer Auction, Boston, MA
Model Citizens NYC, SOHO Show, New York, NY
The Collective, ICFF, New York, NY
Consumption Dinnerware, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Collective, NYGF, New York, NY
2011 Grey Area pop-up at The Hole NYC
Grey Area at the Bass Museum, Art Basel, Miami, FL
Anonymous Drawing Archive,Visarte Zurich, Sihlquai55 Offspace, Zurich, Switzerland.
Model Citizen, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Pearl Necklace at Pulse with Grey Area, Los Angels, CA
2010 blütenweiss presents Archive of Anonymous Drawings, Uferhallen Berlin, Germany
About Face, Gallery1581, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Boston, MA
Off The Wall 2010 Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
2009 Anonymous Drawings, 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
New Art 2008, curator Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
2007 Anonymous Drawings 7, Bluetenweiss at GLUE, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
Heat, Bromfield Gallery, curator Carole Anne Meehan of Boston’s ICA, Boston, MA
2006 DeCordova Museum, Annual Benefit Show and Auction, Lincoln, MA
Cell Division, New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA
2004 White Light, in collaboration with Colin Piepgras, private event, Guggenheim Museum, New York
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
A Perfect World, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Grants
2016 Berkshire Taconic, Artist Resource Trust
2012 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant
Registries, Reviews and Publications
“Backscatter: Light Studies and Everyday Alchemy at OVERLAP” by Persephone Allen, Art Spiel, 2025; “Body Light and Other Portals: On Leah Piepgras’s Sensory Light Realms” by Jane Freiman, Boston Art Review, 2025;” Here Comes the Sun” by Cate McQuaid, Ocean in a Drop, 2025; "Through the Looking Glass: Innovative Women Artists Who Reclaimed the Gaze" D/RAILED, Audra Lambert, 2017; "Scenes of Madness from High Above Times Square at Spring/Break Art Fair", W MAGAZINE, Stephanie Eckardt, 2017; "The Messy DIY Aesthetic of SPRING/BREAK Art Show", Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian, 2017; "A Curated View of SPRING BREAK Art Show”, Colleen Blackard, HiConcept Magazine, 2017; "New York Art Fair Coverage”, New York 1, Stephanie Simon, 2017; We Went To SPRING/BREAK: Who Let the Dogs Out?” Art F City, Harrison Curley + Molly Rhinestones, 2017; "A Tour of the 2017 Spring/Break Art Show”, ArtNews, Maximilíano Durón, 2017; "Our Favorite Rooms at Spring/Break Art Show”, ArtZealous, 2017; SPRING/BREAK Art Show Highlights, Untitled Magazine, 2017; Inside Spring/Break, The Best Armory Arts Week Fair Inside A Times Square Office Building, Gothamist, 2017; “Top Art Exhibitions of 2016”, Law and Order Party; Big Red and Shiny, “Parallel Universe” by Leah Triplett Harrington,2016; Take Magazine, April/May 2016; Printer’s Devil Review, featured interview, May 2015; Hyperallergic, Spring Break Art Show, March 2015; Vernissage.TV, Spring Break Art Show NYC, March 2015; HaHaMag, Spring Break Art Show, March 2015; Boston Globe, Sculptures and Paintings Becoming, June 2014; Art New England, Grin Gallery, June 2014; The Phoenix, “Brightness and Darkness”, June, 2014; Artsy Editorial, Leah Piepgras, June 2014; Temporary Land Bridge, “Swell”, Jan 2014; The Phoenix, Adventure Land, January 2014; New York Magazine “Collective Genius”, May 2012; New York Times - Design Notebook, May 2011; Tracey Lewis - Model Citizens NYC 2011; New York Magazine “The City Throws Itself a Design Party” 2011; Good “Feast Your Eyes: Dinner Plates Designed to Reflect Your Digestion”, 2011; MATERIALOGY - Model Citizens NYC 2011; The Green Education “ Feast Your Eyes: Dinner Plates Designed to Reflect Your Digestion”, 2011; CollabCubed - Consumption Dinnerware, 2011; Inked, The Sex Issue, Feb. 2011; Sleek Magazine, Hard/ Soft, November, 2010; Jezebel, October 2010; Boing Boing, October 2010; New York Magazine, October 2010; Animal NY, October 2010; 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, Cate McQuaid, Feb. 7, 2008; Berkshire Fine Arts.com, Aug, 2007; The Phoenix, Feb. 2007; Beautiful Decay, Feb. 2007; Hacking the Future by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, 1996
Permanent Collections
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO; New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA; Meditech, Westwood, MA; Wilmer Hale, NY, NY; IXIS Asset Mgt., Boston, MA; Tokio Millennium RE Ltd.- Hamilton, Bermuda