EDUCATION
2020 MFA in Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2012 BA in Photography, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming
Eat With Your Eyes, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA (Curator: Silvia Bottinelli, Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Visual and Material Studies Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University)
2023
Harmony - Art and Music at the Piano Factory, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
Food Processing 2.0, Mokka-Rubin, Olten, Switzerland, project by Videocity (Curators: Michelle Sacher, Cultural Manager, Olten)
Left Brain, Right Brain, Science and Art Exhibition, Shelley Hoon Keith Gallery, Curry College, Milton, MA
Here’s the Thing, Stop Gap Projects, Columbia, MO
2022
The Curated Fridge Summer 2022 Show, The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA, (Curator: Aline Smithson, Founder: Lenscratch)
Food, Glorious Food, Cape Cod Cultural Center, South Yarmouth, MA
Experimental Film and Video 2022, CICA Museum, South Korea
Food Processing, ECK, Aarau, Switzerland, project by Videocity (Curators: Dr. Andrea Domesle and Michelle Sacher)
2021
Food In Flux; Food For Us, La Petite, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, project by Videocity and La Petite (Curator: Alya Alawadhi)
Quantum Random Transmutation, New Art City Virtual Art Space, Virtual Exhibition
Hollow Graphic: MFA Alumni Exhibition, Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2020
Food II – Between Advertising and Consumption, Congress Center, Basel, Switzerland, project by Videocity (Curator: Dr. Andrea Domesle)
2019
Animals, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Alina Cohen)
Wild/Sun, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Animal Prints (Solo), Graduate and Alumni Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Symptomatic, Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, NY
Arizona Artists Guild Scholarship Exhibition, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Scholarship Exhibition, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
CAA Annual Conference Film Screening, Hilton Midtown MediaLounge, Manhattan, NY
Fundraiser Art Party, Subspace Art Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018
On and Off the Wall, Steinfeld Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Interdisciplinary Exhibition, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Before Hours, The Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ
2017
Bourne Into Sea, Steinfeld Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Group Show, Todd Walker Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2016
Future Visions, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA (Juror: Nancy Adams, Communications Administrator, D Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
Currents/Precedents, Jackson Homestead Museum, Newton, MA
Slideshow, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015
Meat Stacks (Solo), Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Bite, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
Slideshow, Roman Susan Annex, Chicago, IL
2014
Guilford College Alumni Exhibition, Greensboro, NC
Faculty Art Exhibition, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
2013
Ice Breaker 4, Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO (Curator: Nora Burnett Adams, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO)
Permanence|Decay, Trace Gallery, Denver, CO
2012
Flux: Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Spectacle, Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC
Annual Art Department Juried Student Show, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
2011
Annual Art Department Juried Student Show, Greensboro, NC
GRANTS, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2023
Visiting Artist Lecture, Emerson College, Listening to Music, Boston, MA
2020
Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Arizona, ART 244, Tucson, AZ
Graduate and Professional Student Council Research and Project Grant, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2019 '
Medici Scholar Award, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Arizona Artists Guild Erin O'Dell Scholarship, Tempe, AZ
Sponsored Student Representative: A2RU Emerging Creatives Student Summit, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2018
Cheryl Hrudka Art Scholarship in Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Medici Scholar Award, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2016
Guest Juror, Gallery 263 Curatorial Proposal Series, Cambridge, MA
Visiting Artist, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
2013
Guest Juror, Fotostream, Sand Creek Regional Greenway's Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Denver, CO
2011
Merry Moor Winnett Art Scholarship in Photography, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
First Place Prize in Photography, Annual Art Department Juried Show, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Featured on cover & throughout brochures, Klez Kanada, Yiddish Folk Music workshop, Quebec, Canada
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS
2023
Virginia Cannella, “Leah Netsky Artist Interview,” The Piano Craft Gallery, September 24, 2023.
2021
Andrew Brown, Interview, Arizona Illustrated, PBS, Tucson, AZ, August 16, 2021.
2020
Andrew Brown, Interview, Arizona Illustrated, PBS, Tucson, AZ, May 17, 2020.
2018
Robert Williamson, “Art and Life with Leah Netsky,” Voyage Phoenix, September 11, 2018.
2015
Cate McQuaid, “Getting to the Meat of Things”, The Boston Globe, November 4, 2015. G11.
Linda Matchan, “Modern Art is Baloney,” The Boston Globe, November 4, 2015. G2.
“Dig This: Meat Stacks, Beer & Cider Fest, and the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo,” The Dig Boston, October 14, 2015.
2014
S. Nicole Lane, “Leah Netsky: Unification of the Unusual”, Parallel || Planets, April, 2014.
“Leah Netsky,” The Quiet Front, March 31, 2014.
EMPLOYMENT
Current
Historic New England, Collections Photographer, Boston, MA
2013-20
Acorn Street Studio, Founder & Photographer/Videographer, Boston, MA
2016-17
Art Assistant, Studio of MC Ritz, Cambridge, MA
2013-17
Member & Visitor Services Representative, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2010-12
Slide Curator, Guilford College Art Department, Greensoboro, NC
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022
deCordova Museum, Photography Instructor, Lincoln, MA
Light Painting Workshop, Summer 2022
Landscape Photography Workshop, Spring 2022
2022
Endicott College, Adjunct Instructor, Beverly, MA
Photographic Imaging II, Spring 2022
2021-22
Montserrat College of Art, Adjunct Instructor, Beverly, MA
Digital Media I, Spring, 2022
Studio Photography, Fall 2021
Photographic Media I, Fall 2021
2018-20
University of Arizona, GTA, Instructor of Record, Tucson, AZ
Introduction to Photographic Practices and Visual Thinking, Spring 2018
Darkroom Photography, Fall 2018
Darkroom Photography, Spring 2019
Introduction to Photographic Practices and Visual Thinking, Fall 2019
Introduction to Photographic Practices and Visual Thinking, Spring 2020