b. 1988, Austin, Texas
info@leahshirley.com
also: chthonicastrology.com
EDUCATION
2022 MFA, Sculpture & Extended Media, University of Texas, Austin
2011 BFA, Photography, Columbia College Chicago
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 DANCER, (solo exhibition) Sibyl Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 Here’s What I Was Thinking, Sibyl Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 No Butterflies, No Nothing, Leila Greiche, New York, NY
2022 Painted Hooves, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2021 Mirror Drama, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2018 Free Bleed (solo exhibition), Genesis, Milwaukee, WI
2018 Grace Slick, Leah Shirley and Aaron Anderson, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Small Exceeds, New Release Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Essence, with Willow Gibbons, Planeta, New York, NY
2016 (she) who causes the throat to breathe, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
2012 Twenty in Their Twenties, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Manifest BFA Photography Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
PRESS
2024 Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Burnaway, “Leah Shirley: DANCER at Sibyl Gallery, New Orleans,” March 7th
2022 O FLUXO, “No Butterflies, No Nothing,” July 27th
2017 Roberta Smith, The New York Times, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," August 10th
2013 “Leah Shirley: Phenomena of Light and Instinct,” VIA Publication Issue 01
RESIDENCIES
2022 The Leroy Neiman Fellowship Program, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2016 Hotbox Artist-In-Residence, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
2020 - 22 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, College of Fine Art, University of Texas, Austin
2021 Eugenie Kamrath Mydgal Endowed Scholarship in Sculpture, University of Texas, Austin
2021 Helen Milam Hughes Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Art, University of Texas, Austin
2020 William McVey Endowed Scholarship in Sculpture, University of Texas, Austin
2020 David Bruton Jr. Endowed Scholarship, University of Texas, Austin