Biography

Leah Markov-Lindsey was born in Oakland, California in 1980 and raised in Austin, Texas. She currently lives and works in Oakland. Since graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Studio Art in 2002, she has exhibited her work at Arthouse, Volitant Gallery, OnCongress Space, and Hideout Coffeehouse in Austin; Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek; and the University of California, San Francisco Kalmanovitz Library. Leah’s work has been reviewed in the Austin American-Statesman, the Austin Chronicle, Voices of Art Magazine, Emvergeoning, and …might be good. In 2007, the Austin Critics Table nominated her project Memento Mori in the Best Work of Art category. She is a member of Cadresquad, a cross-disciplinary artist collective in the Bay Area.

BORN
Oakland, California, 1980.

EDUCATION
2002   BA in Art, University of California, Santa Cruz.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009  
Life Support: The Emergency Kit Project, Rock, Paper, Scissors Collective, Oakland, California.
4th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California.
Vital (A)(R)(T), Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center and Boston Public Library, Parker Hill Branch, Boston, Massachusettes.
Unreal, 31 Rausch, San Francisco, California.

2007  
Impressions, Hideout Coffeehouse, Austin, Texas.
Stitch in Time, University of California SF, Kalmanovitz Library, San Francisco, California.

2006  
Take Me to Bed or Lose Me Forever, Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas.
Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California.

2005  
New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, Texas. Curated by Dan Cameron, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
New Works, OnCongress Space, Austin, Texas.

HONORS
Nomination, Best Work of Art in the 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards.

COLLECTIONS
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Santa Cruz, McHenry Library.

PUBLICATIONS
Emvergeoning, "Take Me to Bedlam or Lose Me Forever," January 2, 2007.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Take Me To Bed Or Lose Me Forever,” XLENT, Austin American-Statesman. December 12, 2006.
Exhibition Notes, Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery.
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, “Don’t judge work of ‘New American Talent’ artists by the curator’s essay.” XLENT, Austin American-Statesman. June 30, 2005.
Rachel Koper, “Oh give me a home.” Austin Chronicle. July 1, 2005.
“New American Talent at Arthouse.” …might be good (a project of fluent~collaborative), Issue #47. June 24, 2005.
Sanders, Gail, “New American Talent at Arthouse.” Voices of Art Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 2. 2005.
Exhibition Catalog, New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition, Arthouse.

LECTURES / PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Panelist. Arthouse, ART 101: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Going to Art School, 2006.
Visiting Artist/Instructor. Arthouse, Art Today! with the Girl Scouts Lone Star Council, 2005.