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	Leah Oates MFA Awards & Honors 2001 Independent Project Grant, Artists Space, Awarded for the Production of Minute: A Collection of Miniature Multiples, New York, New York 1999 Community Arts Assistance Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, Illinois 1998 Artemisia Gallery, Membership Scholarship and Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois Community Arts Assistance Grant, Department Of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, Illinois 1995 Trustee Scholarship, The School at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1993-94 Fulbright Fellowship, United Kingdom Grant, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Andrew Grant Materials Award, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Andrew Grant Bequest, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Transitory Space Art4Love Gallery, New York, New York 2004-05 The University of the Arts Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Part of "The Big Nothing", A Philadelphia-wide project exploring the ideas of nothing and nothingness initiated by the Institute of Contemporary Art & The University of Pennsylvania 2003 PARADURA 2 Real Art Ways, Real Room, Hartford, Connecticut PARDURA 4 Henry Street Settlement, New York, New York PARADURA 2 & PARADURA 3 Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, New York 2002 PARADURA 2 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2001 Durations A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York Time Lapse Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois 2000 Hush Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Secret Selves 69 West Washington Building, Curated by the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois Selected Two-Person Exhibitions 2003 Fragments A Taste of Art Gallery, with video artist Pierre St-Jacques, New York, New York 2002 Curious Pastorial Galleria Joella, with video artist Pierre St-Jacques, Turku, Finland Selected Group Exhibitions 2003 4th International Artists¹ Book Biennial The King St. Stephen Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary draw_drawing _2 The London Biennial, part of an artist project by Giacomo Picca, London, England, U.K. Full Circle/Random Journey University of Northampton, Northampton, England, U.K. 4th International Artists¹ Book Triennial Vilnius, Lithuania Open Photo Interactive Gallery Swinton Arts Centre, Swinton, England, United Kingdom Drawing the Line Benefit Invited by Robert Curcio & Hosted by Vara Art, 26 + Helen Mills Theatre, New York, New York Re-Shelving Initiative 2 Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada ArtSPACE Benefit & Auction, New Haven, Connecticut Flux Factory Works on Paper & Auction, Lennon-Weinberg Gallery, New York, New York & Long Island City, Queens, New York Bailey House Benefit The Puck Building, New York, New York AJIS Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Bookstore Show About Glamour Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2004-05 Photolucida Critical Mass 2005 Portland, Oregon Artists¹ Books from the Centre for Fine Print Research Selected by Sarah Bordman, Broekhuis Boekhandel, Enschede, Netherlands Square Foot Project AWOL Gallery, Toronto, Canada & Project Spaceman Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Cover to Cover MFA Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland AFF Contemporary Art Fair A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, New York Power: Sex, Politics and the Pursuit of Global Domination Florida State University Museum, Tallahasse, Florida Brooklyn Artists Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York Our World World Art Media Gallery, New York, New York, Curated by Julie Peppito Color by Digital ArtSPACE@16, Malden, Massachusetts Book Arts Show Herbst International Exhibition Hall, San Francisco, California The Nature of Paper Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Just Good Art Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois Bookish Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Dark Nature: Part 1 111 Front Street Galleries, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York Untitled Before Summer A Taste of Art Satellite Space, Co-Curated by Laurence Asseraf and Damien Montalieu, New York, New York Kiana Malekzadeh Gallery Summer Group Show 2005, New York, New York Meeting in the Middle University College of Northampton Gallery. Northampton, England, U.K. Art Futura An Exhibition of American Art 2005 Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Corporate Collection, Juror James Rondeau, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Bound_less Curated by Henry Meyric Hughes, in conjunction with the Coordinated Project, www.leahoates.com/coordinates, www.janchristensen.org/boundless.htm Traveling to the following venues in Norway through 2005; Stenersenmuseet, Oslo Bodø Kunstforening Bodø Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum Eikaasgalleriet Jølster Trondarnes Distriktsmuseum Harstad Eidsberg kommune Kulturkontoret Eidsberg Grenselandmuseet Kirkenes Stavanger Kunstforening Stavanger Photography 2005 Fraser Art Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, Curated by Connie Imboden Paper, Papel, Papier NURTUREart, Non-Profit, Inc. Brooklyn, New York What the Book? The Fisher Art Gallery at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Magical Landscape A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, New York Multiple Strategies Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, Ohio What the Book? Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York Elaine J. Jacob Gallery Wayne State University, Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Images of Landscape, Detroit, Michigan Urban Decay The Arcade and A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, New York Binding Picture House Center for Photography, Leicester, England, United Kingdom Artist Books 2004 Cuesta College, Fine Arts Department, San Luis Obipo, California Multi Tasking Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Images of Landscape Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York Document TIXE Art Space, New York, New York The Reading Room Time Line Exhibition Regional Center for the Visual Arts, Sherborne House, Dorset, England WORKart Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio 2003 La Superette Annual Art Market, Deitch Projects and Participant, Inc. , New York, New York Nexus Foundation for Todays Art, Photoimage 03, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Remix Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York K.O.A.P. Gallery, Book Market Show, Exspace curatorial project, New York, New York The Knitting Factory, Book Market Show, Exspace curatorial project, New York, New York Hello Dolly, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York Brave New World, Gallery 402, O.I.A., New York, New York Recession 2003 $99 Show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, Curted by Tim Thyzel, New York, New York Analog/Digital, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey Now and Then, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2002 Affordable Art Fair, Sarah Nightingale Gallery, New York, New York Parallel World of Sensation, Williamsburg Arts & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, Curated by Sung Soo Kim Majority Rules, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Organized by Letha Wilson and Tara McDowell Orihon and More: Books by Artists, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Access Gallery,Staten Island, New York, Curated by Helen Levin Paradura One, PS122, New York, New York Minute, Artists Space, New York, New York Digitally Bound, Artists Books in the 21st Century, Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Participating in the College Art Association Tours, Curated by Rene Lynch Collage/Assemblage/Montage, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,Curated by Kristy Krivitsky Curious Pastorial, Galleria Joella, Two Person Show, Turku, Finland 2001 Boundless: Prints by Six Contemporary Artists, Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon Center for Book Arts, Members Juried Show, New York, New York Kingston Art Center, The New Book Forum, Kingston, Massachusetts Galerie 5020, 2nd International Artists Book Triennial 2000, Salzburg, Austria Library Project, Temporary Services and The Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Illinois Reflections in Hope, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois Doppleganger, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois/li> 2000 Arka Gallery, 2nd International Artists Book Triennial 2000, Vilnius, Lithuania Society of Scottish Artists 2000 Contemporary Art Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland Fireworks, Purgatory Pie Press and the Organization of Independent Artists, New York, New York Bound Images, Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater, Massachusetts A.R.C, 7th Annual Regional Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois Show Girl Exhibition, Gallery Fresh, London, England The New Book Forum, Kingston Arts Center, Kingston, Massachusetts Secret Selves 69 West Washington Building, Curated by the Hyde Park Art, Chicago, Illinois hush, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Free For All, Temporary Services, Chicago, Illinois Free For All 6/6, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Collections & Archives 2005-06 A:List Hyde Park Art Center Artists Database, Chicago, Illinois Momenta Gallery Artists Archive Brooklyn, New York Revolution Studios Artwork featured in Perfect Strangers staring Halle Berry & Bruce Willis, New York, New York Centre des Livres d¹Artistes Sainte-Yrieix-la-Perche, France Center for Photography Woodstock Archive Woodstock, New York Caldera Art Center Library Portland, Oregon Boekie Woekie Amsterdam, The Netherlands Neo Images Online Archive http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=1332 2004-05 Francis Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts White Columns On-Line Archive New York, New York Art & Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries Collections New York, New York Artspace Flat File Archive, New Haven, Connecticut Getty Research Institute Artists¹ Book Collection, Los Angeles, California New Line Cinema Artwork featured in Little Children, Directed by Todd Fields, Staring Kate Winslett & Jennifer Connelly Artists Book Archive Paris, France Blue Star Contemporary Art Center Image Library, San Antonio, Texas Banff Arts Centre Paul D. Fleck Library & Archive & Artists¹ Book Collection, Banff, Canada Centre for Fine Print Research University of the West of England, School of Fine Arts, Bristol, England, United Kingdom Bookville Byker, England, United Kingdom Bibliograph Book Collection Montreal, Quebec, Canada Collection of Actress Julianne Moore, New York, New York Revolution Studios, New York, New York Gignatic Art Space, Flat Files, New York, New York Sloan Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Re-Title On-Line Archive, www.re-title.com, London, England Boston Public Library Artists Book Collection, Boston, Massachusetts University of Wisconsin, Madison Kohler Art Library Artists Book Collection, Kohler, Wisconsin University of Iowa, Special Collection & Rare Books, Iowa City, Iowa Epoch Films, New York, New York The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca 2002-2003 Pierogi Gallery, Flat File Archive, Brooklyn, New York Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Massachusetts The Tate Museum, Artists Book Collection, London, England The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Artists Book Collection, Brooklyn, New York The Walker Art Center, Artists Book Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota Museum of Contemporary Art, Artists Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois The Victoria and Albert, National Art Library, Artists Book Collection, London, England Fresh: A Collection of Works from NURTUREart , Inc. Registry Artists Independent curatorial project for annual NURTUREart benefit, New York, New York Included in the following collections; University of Wisconsin, Golda Meir Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota The Joan Flasch Collection, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois The Tate Museum, London, England 2001 Rochester Insitute of Technology, Rochester, New York Rhode Island School of Design, Artists Book Collection, Providence, Rhode Island Minute: A Collection of Miniature Multiples Minute is distributed through Artists Space, New York and is included in the following collections; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota The New York Public Library, New York, New York The Joan Flasch Collection, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago,Illinois 1999-2000 New York Public Library, Artists Book Collection, New York, New York The British Library, Modern English Collections, London, England Chelsea College of Art and Design, Artists Book Collection & Artist Files Archive, London, England University of Illinois, Heath and Wellness Center, Chicago, Illinois Carnegie-Mellon University, Hunt Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.C.L.A. Art Library, Artists Book Collection, Dickson Art Center, Los Angeles, California Yale University, Art of the Book Collection, New Haven, Connecticut Institute of International Visual Arts, Artists Archive, London, England National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artists Book Collection, Washington, District of Columbia Museum of Modern Art, Artists Book Collection, New York, New York The School, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, Chicago, Illinois Women's Art Library, Archive on Women Artists, London, England Bibliography 2003-05 Big Red & Shiny Online Arts Journal for Boston Color by Digital at ARTspace@16, by Rachel Gepner, Issue #28, October 2005 New York Arts Magazine Dark Nature: Part 1 Opens September 8th, September/October 2005, Volume 10, No 9/10 The Aurora Review Online Magazine http://www.theaurorareview.com/magazine/ The New Jersey Star Ledger Fresh Perspectives: International Show¹s Hidden Meanings, by Dan Dischoff, page 3-14, 2005 The Village Voice Savvy Magazine Members only: Editions clubs offer great deals on fine-art prints, April 6-12, page 3,New York, New York New York Cool On-Line Listings Urban Decay: Artists Response to and Urban Environment, April, 2005, http://newyorkcool.com/listings/arts.html Off Off Off Art Online Magazine Urban Decay, March, New York, New York, www.offoffoff.com/arts/listing Creative Thriftshop Online Newsletter March Edition, Paper, Papel, Papier, New York, New York, www.creativethriftshop.com Absolute Arts. com Online Magazine ³Urban Decay: Artist¹s Response to and Urban Environment², Indepth Arts News Section, Taste of Art at the Kaufmann Arcade, www.absoluteart.com New York Arts Magazine Urban Decay, May-June Issue, by Laurence Asseraf, 2005 The World Journal, Small Works Show, Local News, Section B1, Saturday, December 4th, ArtSpace@16, Malden, Massachusetts The Boston Weekly Dig Tasty Little Numbers, By Kate Ledogar, Screaming from the Gallery Section, Small Works Show , ArtSpace@16, Malden, Massachusetts The New York Times When Painting Picture is Just One of Your Jobs, Multitasking, Islip Art Museum,By Helen A. Harrison, Sunday, October 24th, 2oo4, Long Island Art Section The Brooklyn Rail What the Book? By Sonya Shrier, Flux Factory, November 2004, Art Section Dayton City Paper Are We Defined by Our Occupation, By Jud Yalkut, Arts & Culture Visuals Section, Dayton, Ohio Dayton Daily News The Job of Art, By Pamela Dillon, Entertainment Section, Dayton, Ohio Artlines Women¹s Caucus for Art, Spring Newsletter, Page 4, Matrix: Coordinate Section, New York, New York Radio Taipei International Sound Stage and Studio News Program, Featured Artist, Interviewed by Doris Owyang, February 26th, Taipei, Taiwan Crains New York Business Art group shows promise, By Emily DeNitto, New York/New York Section,Volume XIX, No. 39, September 29-October 5, 2003 Womens Wear Daily Art School, Too Fresh at NURTUREart, Front Page and Page 7, Thursday, November 20th, 2003 The Southampton Press, At the Galleries Section, May 8, 2003, page B 18, Eastern Edition, Featured Artist The Star Ledger, Analog or digital? Gallery offers a game, By Dan Bischoff, March 28, Newark, New Jersey 2002 Spleen Online Magazine, Dreams Travel East as well as West, by Ricardo Miranda ZuOiga, April 29, 2004 Staten Island Advance, Newhouse exhibit suggests new ways of viewing books, by Michael Fressola, August 23, Orion and More: Books by Artists, Staten Island, New York Tribeca Tribune, Cheap Art for Cheap Arts Sake, by Ronald Drenger, September 2002, Page 44, Arts Section, Gallery 402, New York, New York Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation, Doppelganger: Undermining The Original, By Julie Charmello, Volume XV111, pp. 49-62, Published by Routledge Turun Sanomat, Milta maailma nayttaa, By Mia Tykklainen, May 29, 2002, Curious Pastoral, Gallerie Joella Abo Underrattelser, Da Verkligheten ifragasatts, By Hanna Hermansson, May 18th, 2002, Page 15, Curious Pastoral, Gallerie Joella Turun Sanomat, Mehukkaita vahingonlaukauksia, By Anna Heinila, Kulttuuri/Culture Section, May 15th, 2002, Curious Pastoral, Gallerie Joella Unikankare Kuvataide, Uteliasuuden Kutinaa, By Kati Kostinen, May 19, 2002, Curious Pastoral, Gallerie Joella 2001 Chicago Reader, Time Lapse, Anchor Graphics, The Culture Club, Section Two, Galleries, June 15, 2001 Rockford Art Museum, New Exhibitions, Reflections in Hope, Rockford, Illinois, 2001 Rockford Register Star, More compelling images in ŒReflections in Hope¹ exhibit, by Peter Szatmary, Rockford Art Museum, Life & Style Section, Rockford, Illinois, March 2001 Doppelganger, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalog, Essay by Curator Julie Charmelo, Chicago, Illinois, January 2001 Apokalipse/Apocalypse, Gallerie Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania and Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Austria, Exhibition Catalog, Essay by curator Kestutis Vasiliunas, January 2001 2000 The Society of Scottish Artists, 2000 Contemporary Art Open Royal Scottish Academy, Exhibition Catalog, Essay by Giles Sutherland, Art Critic for ŒThe Times¹ Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Chicago Reader, Secret Selves, by Fred Camper, 69 West Washington Building, Section One, July 21, 2000, Page 36 Art Now Gallery Guide , Women Artist Under Thirty, Invited Juror for Show at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, May 2000 New Art Examiner, Woman Artists Under Thirty, Recommended Shows,Invited Juror for Show at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois May 2000 Residencies Kolin Kulttuuriseura Arts Council of Northern Keralia, Joensuu, Finland Pouch Cove & James Baird Foundation, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada Taipei International Artists Village, Taipei, Taiwan, Fellowship Award Dorland Mountain Arts Community, Temscula, California Caldera Foundation, Sisters, Oregon, Fellowship Award Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, Fellowship Award Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, Education 1995-97 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, M.F.A., Full Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship 1993-94 Edinburgh College of Art,Edinburgh, Scotland, Post-Graduate Diploma, Fulbright Fellowship 1988-91 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, B.F.A., Merit Scholarship 1987-88 Massachusetts College of Art, Foundation Studies, Boston, Massachusetts Critical Writings 2005-06 NY Arts Magazine Site 92: at Smack Mellon, July/August, Vol.15, No.7/8 NY Arts Magazine Sonics of Environment: An Interview with Simo Alitalo & Andrea Polli, July/August, Vol.15, No.7/8 NY Arts Magazine Family Resemblance: An Interview with Nina Levy, May/June, 2006, Vol 14, No. 5/6 NY Arts Magazine Stranger the Fiction: The Photography of Edward Burtynsky at the Brooklyn Museum, March/April,2006, Vol 14, No. 5/6 2004-05 NY Arts Magazine The Elusive as Physical Experience, Nimbi and Penumbrae at d.u.m.b.o. art center, Brooklyn, New York,January / February 2006, Vol.11, No. 1/2 AC: Collaborative Utopic Visions of the World: Artists as Social and Political Agent, Summer 20005, Writing on the work of PRAXIS ( Delia Bajo & Brainard Carey ), Peter Walsh & Deidre Hoguet and Andrea Polli NY Arts Magazine A Brief History of Finitude, November/December 2005, Vol. 10, No. 11/12, Interview with Pablo Helguera NY Arts Magazine The New Pop Art: Culture Vultures, July/August 2005, Vol.10. No. 7/8, Review of an exhibition by curator David Gibson at Jack the Pelican Presents in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Curatorial Projects 2005-06 States of Longing Independent Co-Curator with Damien Montalieau, New York, New York Pop Art 2006 Independent Co-Curator with Laurence Asseraf, The Kaufmann Arcade and A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, New York Reconstruction Independent Curator, Chashama, New York, New York Locations of Elsewhere Independent Curator, New York, New York 2004-05 Dark Nature Part 1 Indepent Curator, 111 Front Street Galleries, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York Dark Nature Part 2 Indepent Curator, Chashama, New York, New York Nurturing the New Emerging Curators¹ Showcase, NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. Annual Benefit, New York, New York Urban Decay Independent Co-Curator with Laurence Asseraf, The Kaufmann Arcade and A Taste of Art Gallery, New York, New York Small Works Show Juror, ArtSPACE@16, Malden, Massachusetts Chashama Residency Program Selection Committee Member, New York, New York 2002-03 Too Fresh Independent Curator, NURTUREart, Non-Profit, Inc, Brooklyn, New York Continuums Independent Curator, Gregory King at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Shells Independent Curator, Ping-Yu Pan at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Faulty Diction Independent Curator, Catherine Gass at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Deluxe Independent Curator, Jennifer Chapek and Damon Crain at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Fresh NURTUREart, Non-Profit, Inc., Independent Curator for Multiples Project, New York, New York Archetypes Independent Curator, Matt Deleget at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Discursive Space Independent Curator, William Crow at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York Recent Multiples Projects x 5 Independent Curator for multiples group show at OIA/ Gallery 402, New York, New York 2000 Lakeshore Arts Festival Juror, Evanston, Illinois Women Artist Under Thirty Woman Made Gallery, Juror , Chicago, Illinois 1999 Transforming Community; Women¹s Peace Initiatives The Peace Museum, Curator, Chicago, Illinois Drive by Peace The Peace Museum, Curator, Chicago, Illinois Secondary Spaces Evanston Arts Council, Co-Curator and Public Relations Coordinator, Evanston, Illinois <<