11 Facts About Leslie Hewitt

Leslie Hewitt was born in 1977 in Saint Albans, Queens in New York City.

Leslie Hewitt studied Africana Studies and Cultural Studies at New York University from 2001 to 2003.

Leslie Hewitt explores political, social, and personal narratives through photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations.

Leslie Hewitt is interested in how much we rely on images to provide memories of personal experience, how collective memory of past events is shaped and preserved, and in how the two overlap, coexist, and inform each other.

Leslie Hewitt participated in the 2008 Whitney Biennial with her piece Make it Plain and received a 2008 Art Matters research grant to travel to the Netherlands to research Dutch still-life paintings created during the period of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade at the Rijksmuseum in Holland.

Leslie Hewitt was the recipient of the Guna S Mundheim Berlin Prize in the Visual Arts and Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for Spring 2012.

Leslie Hewitt was the 2014 USA Artists Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Fellow in Visual Arts.

Leslie Hewitt's work is in the public collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, among others.

Leslie Hewitt's exhibition featured a collection of 10 highly stylized photographs from an ongoing series started in 2002.

Leslie Hewitt has staged a large number of solo shows at galleries and museums in the United States and internationally.

Leslie Hewitt has participated in many group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial ; and A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.