Diego Leclery

born in 1978, based in New York, USA



Solo Exhibitions

2022
Brad Farwell: "Diego Leclery's One With Everything", Basketshop. Cincinnati, USA.

2020
Household Name: A Ten-Year Survey of Diego Leclery’s Self-Portraiture in Chicago’s Artist-Run Spaces and Apartment Galleries, Hyde Park Art Center. Chicago, USA

2017
Diego Leclery, Faber and Faber. Chicago, USA

2016
Social Practice, MuseumofAmericabooks. New York, USA

2014
Pro Tool, MPSTN. Chicago, USA
Mature Work, Homeland Security. Dallas, USA

2013
Mom, Kirk's Apartment. Chicago, USA

2012
Words, Important Projects. Oakland, USA

2010
The Natural, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA

2009
Diegobox, Gaucho Social Club. Chicago, USA
Fruit, New York City - Gold Coast. Chicago, USA
Metapsychics, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA

2008
The Bad, The Dead, The Ugly, Deckelew & Bensley. Chicago, USA
IGARBO, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA



Two-person Exhibitions

2019
MPSTN booth, with Michelle Grabner, Barely Fair, organized by Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA

2017
In/Sub Text, with Junseok Jang, curated by Sung Rim Hwang, Diskurs. Berlin, GERMANY

2011
Floating Bull, with Tim Louis Graham, Autumn Space. Chicago, USA
XX Xy, with You Ni Chae, Kirk's Apartment - Bathroom Project Space. Chicago, USA

2010
ʍe, with Tim Louis Graham, Monument2. Chicago, USA
Work and Document and Work and Document, with Tim Louis Graham, Zrobili. Chicago, USA



Selected Group Exhibitions

2018
X, Julius Caesar. Chicago, Illinois
Vapor n°2, organized by Tomás Cunha Ferreira, outside the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk Roller Hockey Rink. New York, USA

2017
The Story Retells, curated by Sung Rim Hwang, Daegu Art Factory. Daegu, Rep. of Korea
Impossible Child, organized by Cheon Pyo Lee at El Museo de Los Sures. New York, USA
Night Bloomers, organized by Sean Ward, Compound Yellow. Oak Park, USA

2016
iDon't, Slow. Chicago, USA

2015
Snuff, Slow. Chicago, USA

2014
Dienstag Abend, Chicago Expo. Chicago, USA
The Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, USA (cat.)

2013
Nothing Special, Tim Schade Curating. Philadelphia, USA

2012
O Fim, Rua Piratininga 36. Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Go Tell it on the Mountain, California African American Museum. Los Angeles, USA
By Hook or By Crook, The Hangar. Beirut, LEBANON
B.A.D., Beverly Arts Center. Chicago, USA
First Love, The O'Connor Gallery at Dominican University. River Forest, USA

2011
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes About The Suburban and The Poor Farm By the Artists Who Have Exhibited There, Yale University School of Art. New Haven, USA
Nasty, Brutish, and Short, Peregrineprogram. Chicago, USA
Overkill, The Mission Projects. Chicago, USA
The Document, at The Great Poor Farm Experiment III, The Poor Farm. Manawa, USA
Irritable Abstraction, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA
Lifestyle Appropriate, New Capital at Balloon/Converso. Chicago, USA
MDW Fair, with Monument2. Chicago, USA
Perlapse, Heaven Gallery. Chicago, USA
Sexier, Zhou B. Art Center. Chicago, USA

2010
Happiness, Kirk's Apartment. Chicago, USA
The Hotel Room Show, coordinated by Kirk's Apartment. Chicago, USA
Process in Product: Work from Summer Studio, SAIC Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, USA
Tough Guy, Sub Basement Gallery. Baltimore, USA
The 2nd Humboldt Moving Picture Show. Chicago, USA
Help Art Heal Haiti. Evanston, USA

2009
Selected Works from the Easton Miller Collection, Heaven Gallery. Chicago, USA
Fest Fest Silenct Auction, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA
GroupSOLO, Swimming Pool Project Space. Chicago, USA
Don't Judge Me, New York City - Pilsen. Chicago, USA
Survey: Chicago Video Art, Monkeytown. New York, USA

2008
Grey Flags, Alogon. Chicago, USA
Bauhaus Art Show, Guertin's Graphics. Chicago, USA
Really Rad Videos 2, lloyd dobler gallery. Chicago, USA

2007
Food Fight, The Food Court. Chicago, USA
Targeting Johns, G2 Gallery. Chicago, USA
HA__&__LF, Sound Art Space. Laredo, USA
HA__&__LF, Centro Cultural De Nuevo Laredo. Nuevo Laredo, MEXICO
Really Rad Videos, lloyd dobler gallery. Chicago, USA
SAIC 2007 Graduate Exhibition, G2 Gallery. Chicago, USA
YPANSMTPVGTWT, Fifty50 Gallery. Chicago, USA

2006
Meet Me For Lunch, The Food Court. Chicago, USA
Balls Out!, Warehouse Space. Milwaukee, USA



Performances and Live Events

2022
Event, Celebrate Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap, 4th Ward Project Space. Chicago, USA

2021
Event, New Holiday Spirit 2021: Let's Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap, 4th Ward Project Space. Chicago, USA

2019
Event, Ten Years of New Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap, 4th Ward Project Space. Chicago, USA

2018
Event, New Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap!, 4th Ward Project Space. Chicago, USA
Performance, Three Small Summer Pieces, as part of Long-Winded by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, at Slummer Nights 2, CANADA. New York, USA

2017
Event, Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap! GOLDFINCH. Chicago, USA
Screening, Diego Leclery on Barbara deGenevieve, Learning Artist, curated by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Rachel Uffner. New York, NY

2016
Event, Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap! The Suburban. Milwaukee, USA

2015
Event, Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap! The Suburban. Milwaukee, USA

2014
Event, Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap! The Suburban. Oak Park, USA

2013
Event, New Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap 2013. The Suburban. Oak Park, USA
Commemoration, 50th Anniversary of Henry Flynt's Protest Against Serious Culture. Outside the Museum of Modern Art. New York, USA

2012
Event, New Holiday Spirit 2012: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap!. The Suburban. Oak Park, USA

2011
Event, New Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap! Again!!. The Suburban. Oak Park, USA
Performance, Moon Unit, Ve.Sch. Vienna, AUSTRIA

2010
Event, New Holiday Spirit: Sit on a Polar Bear's Lap!, The Suburban. Oak Park, USA
Performance, closing reception for Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain, Pilsen Vintage & Thrift. Chicago, USA
Playwright, director, actor, A man has two women, one who loves him who he doesn't love and another who he loves and who doesn't love him, workshop/event at the Summer Studio Residency & Theater Workshop, SAIC Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, USA
Performance, Make a Show of It, performed at Zrobili Szkoła Sztuki, Zrobili. Chicago, USA
Performance, Stand Up, performed at Club Nutz, NEXTFair. Chicago, USA

2009
Playwright, director, actor, Volpi: 5s, performed at Fest Fest, Julius Caesar. Chicago, USA
Performance, Words and Images Live with Charles Mahaffee, at Everything Again: Kevin Gallagher and Friends, Scott Projects. Chicago, IL, USA
Public reading, Nitey Nite, organized by Ryan B. Richey, Spoke. Chicago, IL, USA



Curatorial Engagements and Professional Activities

2014
Guest lecturer, Parsons The New School of Art, Media, Technology. New York, USA
Guest lecturer, The School of Visual Arts - Visual Critical Studies. New York, USA
Panelist, Off Center, symposium and lecture, TASA Conference, Dallas, USA
Visiting artist, Eastfield College. Mesquite, USA
Visiting artist, Youth Insights, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, USA
Workshop leader, Art Club Chelsea Prep, P.S. 33, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, USA

2009 - 12
Part-time faculty, Painting & Drawing Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, USA

2012
Visiting artist, BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists' Coalition. Chicago, USA
Guest lecturer, Life as it Really Is: Documentary Film Study Group, ADDS DONNA. Chicago, USA

2008 - 11
Co-founder and co-director, Julius Caesar gallery. Chicago, USA

2011
Guest curator, Korean Woman Abstract Contemporary Painter Chicago, MegaMall. Chicago, USA

2010
Guest lecturer, as part of the Evening Academies, Harold Washington College. Chicago, USA
Guest lecturer and workshop leader, Chicago Public Schools THINKTANK. Chicago, USA

2008
Guest lecturer, Pas un Pas Papa!, Alogon. Chicago, USA

2007
Guest lecturer and visiting artist, Harold Washington College. Chicago, USA



Publications

2011
Contributor, POSSIBLE PRESS, Vol. 2, Issue 3. Philadelphia, USA

2010
Contributor, catalog for On Happiness, Kirk's Apartment Press. Chicago, USA

2009
Contributor, The Future Has a Keyboard, part of the Twelve Galleries series. Chicago, USA

2007 - present
Editor/contributor, Bdbbdb. Chicago, USA

2005
Mongrel magazine, issue 15, “Show and Tell". Dublin, Rep. of IRELAND



Press

2020
Cardoza, Kerry, “Art Top 5: October 2020”, NewCity (September 28)

2019
Sierzputowski, Kate, “Meet the Polar Bear, Chicago’s Offbeat Holiday Tradition”, Chicago Magazine (December 12)
Cardoza, Kerry, “Come Sit on a Polar Bear’s Lap: 4th Ward Project Space Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary,” NewCity (December 10)

2018
Gunn, Dan, “Julius Caesar X: a ten-year anniversary show”, Chicago Artist Writers (October 31)

2017
Atlas, Anthony. “Consumer Reports”, ArtNews (July 25)

2016
Cardoza, Kerry, “Art that Simply Won’t”, NewCity (December 13)

2014
Simek, Peter. “5 Art Gallery Picks For Your Weekend”, D Magazine (October 23) Chalk, Andy, “Artist Plays Civilization For Three Months In Museum Celebration”, The Escapist (April 4)
Johnson, Jason, “This Artist is Playing Civilization 24/7. You Know, For Art”, Kill Screen (April 4)
Bittanti, Matteo, “Game Art: Diego Leclery's 'Me Playing Civilization' (2014)”, Gamescenes (April 4)
Jones, Rhett, “This Artist is Playing 'Civilization' Outside of the Whitney Every Day”, Animal (April 3)
Richards, Ryder, “Diego Leclery”, Eutopia (March 28)
Robinson, Walter, “The Many Faces of the Whitney Biennial”, Arstpace (March 20)
Pepi, Michael, “Whitney Biennial”, Apollo (March 19)
Foumberg, Jason, “Eye Exam: A Gutsy Whitney Biennial”, Newcity (March 15)
Goldstein, Andrew M., “The Most Spectacular Artworks in the Whitney Biennial”, Artspace (March 14)
De Luca, Isabel, “Artista franco-brasileiro é parte da mostra”, O Globo (March 7)
“A Touch of France in the 2014 Whitney Biennial”, French Embassy in the United States: French Culture (Febraury 18)

2013
Eler, Alicia, “A Polar Bear’s Lap Is the Best Place to Be”, Hyperallergic (December 25)

2012
Fleming-Farrell, Niamh, “Art that’s not theft, exactly, nor forgery”, Lebanon Daily Star (May 29)
“Important Projects, Diego Leclery and Aurora Crispin”, Oakland Art Enthusiast (January 26)

2010
Ise, Claudine, “Center Field: Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010”, Bad at Sports (December 31)
Stabler, Albert, “Fall Arts Guide 2009: Best Bets: Fest Fest”, Chicago Reader (September 13)
Wenzel, Erik, “Play With Your Cards Close to Your Chest”, ARTSlant (May 31)
Nichols, Thea, “Portrait of the Artist”, NewCity (June 8)

2009
Natale, Justin, “Eye Exam: All in a Night's Work”, NewCity (September 21)

2007
Cortez, Tricia, “Innovative new exhibits at Gallery 201 and Sound”, Laredo Morning Times (November 9)



Education

2007
MFA, Dept. of Painting & Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, USA

2000
BA, Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, USA









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