Leah Netsky uses photographs as a material to create larger works. Pairing images with other images, as well as digital or mechanical processes and products, she explores the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science, and technology.
Netsky’s work has been featured in the Boston Globe and on PBS. She has exhibited nationally in New York, Boston, and Chicago, and internationally in Switzerland, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates. Venues include La Petite in Abu Dhabi, UAE and the Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland (exhibitions by videocity), the Hilton Midtown MediaLounge at the College Art Association Conference and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Manhattan, NY, Site Brooklyn Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ, the Shemer Art Center and Museum in Phoenix, AZ, and the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea. Netsky holds an MFA degree in Photography from the University of Arizona, where she received two Medici Grants, the Graduate and Professional Student Council Research and Project Grant, and an Arizona Artist’s Guild Scholarship. In 2019, she was selected as a sponsored student representative at the A2RU Emerging Creatives Student Summit. She has taught photography courses at the deCordova Museum, Montserrat College of Art, and Endicott College in greater Boston as well as the University of Arizona. Netsky currently works as Collections Photographer at Historic New England.