Leah Renee Monsour
Brooklyn, NY
leahmonsour@gmail.com / 315-439-4383
Education:
2018: BFA, Photography. Honors. The State University of New York at New Paltz.
Awards / Residencies:
2022, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Photo and New Media, Artists-in-Residence Program.
Lectures:
2021: Artist talk, SUNY New Paltz.
2021: Artist talk, Emerson College.
2018: Gallery Talk, Dorsky Museum of Art.
2018: Artist Talk, The Honors Center at SUNY New Paltz.
Exhibitions:
2020: Did That Just Happen?, Online Exhibition, Don't Smile.
2020: Dreamers Welcome Television, Feature, 24hr stream.
2020: Members Show, Center for Photography at Woodstock.
2018: American Identities, GAMU at FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018: Looking at You, Online and at the University of Georgia, Photo-Emphasis.
2018: School's Out for the Summer, Online Exhibition, Don't Smile.
2018: Between Home and Everything Else, From Here On Out, Online and in Spokane, Washington.
2017: SUNY 2017-2018 Best of Student Art, Albany, NY, Honorable Mention.
2017: Don’t Look, ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY.
2016: M.A.C, The Gallery MC, New York, NY.
2016: Beijing, In the Streets, Solo Show, Honors Center, New Paltz, NY.
2016: Annual Student Show, The Photography Center of the Capital District, LLC, Troy NY.
2016: Form and Focus, ArtBar Gallery, Kingston, NY.
2015: Identity/Crisis, McKenna Theatre, New Paltz, NY.
Publications / Features:
2023: Love Story, Hoxton Mini Press, Feature.
2021: Visual Propaganda #2: Leah Renee Monsour's "Voters and Children of the Movement", Safety Propaganda, Substack.
2020: Indoor Thoughts, Self Published.
2020: Ward Report Zine, Issue 4.
2019: Lock Up When You Leave, Self Published.
2018: Draft 15.
2018: Underexposed Magazine.
2018: Aint-Bad.
2017: Lace, Self Published.
2016: Uncommon Tendency
2016: Ward Report Zine, Issue 3.
2016: Shutter Zine.
Professional Experience:
August 2021 - present, Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
January 2020 - present, Technician, Media Resources, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
2019, Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Sex, New York, NY.
2018, Personal-Photo Curator, Aspen, CO.
2018, Workshop Assistant, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO.
2016 - 2019, Photo Assistant, Keith Ferris Photography, New Paltz, NY.
2016, Workshop Intern, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
2015 - 2018, Lab Assistant, Photography Program, The State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY.