Born in New York, New York; lives and works in San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
| 1989 | M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute |
| 1985 | B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute |
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Léonie Guyer: Nothing kept happening, P.Bibeau, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Gate, Mitsui Fine Arts, San Rafael, CA |
| 2018 | Léonie Guyer: form in the realm of , CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Anthony Huberman) |
| 2016 | Léonie Guyer, odium fati, San Francisco, CA [permanent installation] |
| 2013 | Night walks on night, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2012 | Léonie Guyer: Drawings, Rover Dig, Cambridge, MA |
| 2011 | Léonie Guyer: Drawings and Paintings, littlebigspace, Albany, CA |
| 2010 | Constellation, Lumber Room, Portland, OR [permanent installation] |
| 2006 | Gift, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, NY [permanent installation] |
| 2004 | Léonie Guyer, Marjorie Wood Gallery, San Francisco, CA [installation/web project] |
| 2000 | Léonie Guyer, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 | Léonie Guyer: Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1992 | Léonie Guyer, Untitled Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1990 | Materia Prima, 30 Rose Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
TWO & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | Untitled (flag residency), Delaplane, San Francisco, CA |
| 2020 | Threshold | Léonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA |
| 2019 | Léonie Guyer, Dan Max, Tony May, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2018 | Flower(s) in Concrete: Léonie Guyer, Wayne Smith, Lynne Woods Turner, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR |
| 2014 | Norma Cole, Léonie Guyer, Wayne Smith, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Abstract: Léonie Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (curated by Stephanie Snyder) |
| 2005 | Michael Damm, Léonie Guyer, Kyle Knobel, Remote Satellite, Oakland, CA |
| 2002 | brilliant pebbles: Sarah Cain, Michael Damm, Léonie Guyer, PlusKunst, Düsseldorf, Germany |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Mock Sun, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curated by Ivan Iannoli) |
| 2022 | The Formless Body, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada (curated by Jarrett Earnest) The Last Waltz, Delaplane, San Francisco |
| 2018 | Seven Places of the Mind, 2nd Floor Projects / fused space, San Francisco, CA (curated by Margaret Tedesco) Way Bay 2, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (curated by Lawrence Rinder, Kathy Geritz, David Wilson) |
| 2016 | Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (curated by Jacquelynn Baas) |
| 2013 | I Want That Inside Me, Feature Inc., New York, NY Traces and Accumulations, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA |
| 2012 | Drawing a Line in the Sand, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Connected, Feature Inc., New York, NY Poems and Pictures, Center for Books and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL Ladies’ Choice: Works by Women Artists chosen by Women Artists, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2011 | Interior Margins, Lumber Room, Portland, OR (curated by Stephanie Snyder) Museion, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (curated by Stephanie Snyder) Power to the People, Feature Inc., New York, NY Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2009 | 50 very small works on paper, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Out of the Flat Files II, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2008 | Form +, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curated by Lawrence Rinder) Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT; travelled to Mead Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, et al. (curated by Rickie Solinger) |
| 2006 | Gallery Selections, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 2005 | Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR (curated by Laurie Reid) Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (curated by Julie Sasse) |
| 2004 | Traces, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Sid Sachs) small works, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Three Week Show, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 | Crossing Bridges, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA New Place-oriented Works, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA |
| 2002 | Sight Unseen, Walter and MacBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2001 | Taking Stock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA ExtraOrdinary, Walter and MacBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2000 | Introducing—Drawings by Four Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Flat Files, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1998 | pFORMative ACTS, Walter and MacBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (curated by John Killacky) Gallery Survey, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Work in Progress, Second Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 | Discards, Secession Gallery and Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 | Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (curated by Keith Lachowicz) Joyce Burstein, Léonie Guyer, Laurie Reid, Kathryn VanDyke, Push Artspace, San Francisco, CA Optimism & Sarcasm, The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
| 1995 | Big Jesus Trash Can, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA Black, White and Grey Matter, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Window, Artopia Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994 | The 6 x 9 Show, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA |
| 1993 | The Return of the Exquisite Corpse, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Mondo Lot—Sine Qua Non (The Essential Thing), Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1992 | Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice, San Francisco, CA |
| 1991 | Contemporary Art: Part 1, Upaya Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fresh Squeezed, Budapest Galéria, Budapest, Hungary Evidence of Life, ATLA, Los Angeles, CA Lingua Franca, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA (curated by Carrie Lederer) |
| 1990 | Chain Reaction VI, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA A.M.D.G. Exhibition, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Good Friday the Thirteenth: A Flower Show, Emmanuel Radnitzky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1989 | Pro Arts Annual Exhibition, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA (juror: Mary Jane Jacob) Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 1988 | Chain Reaction IV, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1987 | El Dia de Los Muertos / Day of the Dead Exhibition, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA |
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS / ARTIST RESIDENCIES
| 2017 | odium fati, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Lumber Room, Portland, OR |
| 2006 | Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, New Lebanon, NY |
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
| Léonie Guyer (two site-based works) and Phillip Greenlief (saxophone improvisation), odium fati, 2017 |
| Bill Berkson (poetry) and Léonie Guyer (artwork). Not an Exit. Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 2010 |
| Franck André Jamme (poetry) and Léonie Guyer (artwork). Mantra Box, Paris, France: Festina Lente, 2009 |
AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
| 2020 | Artist Production Grant, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College and the lumber room, Portland, CA |
| 2018 | Tosa Studio Award: Finalist Award |
| 2012 | Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant |
| 2006 | Sites ReSeen Grant, New York State Council on the Arts |
| 2002 | Fellowship, John Anson Kittredge Foundation |
| 1997 | Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council |
| 1996 | Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council |
| 1995 | Artist in Residence Grant, California Arts Council |
| 1987 | Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Foundation |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
| Harvard University Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Reed College Art Collection |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon |
| Stanford University Special Collections |
| UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives |
| Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
ART WRITING
| 2020 | Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Gate 3: pick up a few things.” Open Space, SFMOMA. October 6. Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Gate 2: the energy in the emptiness.” Open Space, SFMOMA. September 27. Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Gate 1: a box of scraps.” Open Space, SFMOMA. September 13. |
| 2019 | Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Between a shop soiled smoke ring and a rock-hard gray.” Open Space, SFMOMA. April 17. Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Forest of Steles.” Open Space, SFMOMA. March 20. Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “In the Place Just Right.” Open Space, SFMOMA. February 20. Léonie Guyer. Columnist in Residence: “Wild little things.” Open Space, SFMOMA. January 23. |
| 2018 | Léonie Guyer. Impermanent Collection: “Amitié: Meret Oppenheim's Miss Gardenia.” Open Space, SFMOMA. July 9. |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Bullwinkel, Rita. Gate: Léonie Guyer at Mitsui Fine Arts. San
Rafael, CA: Mitsui Fine Arts, 2022 (exhibition brochure)
Guyer, Léonie (artwork), with McGinnes, Mac (essay) and Snyder, Stephanie
(poem). Archive. Oakland, CA: Land and Sea, 2022. (limited edition artist book)
Huberman, Anthony (Ed.). Abbas to Yuki: Writing Alongside Exhibitions. San Francisco, CA: CCA Wattis Institute
Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2019.
Huberman, Anthony. Leonie Guyer: form in the realm of . San
Francisco, CA: CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2018. (exhibition brochure)
Ashlock, Benjamin and Guyer, Léonie. Léonie Guyer | odium fati.
San Francisco, CA: odium fati. 2016 (limited edition artist book)
Geary, Linda, with Cole, Norma. Studio Visit. Berkeley: Edition One, 2013.
Berkson, Bill (poetry) and Guyer, Léonie (artwork). Not an Exit.
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 2010. (limited edition artist book)
Jamme, Franck André (poetry) and Guyer, Léonie (artwork). Mantra Box, Paris, France: Festina Lente, 2009. (limited edition artist book)
Snyder, Stephanie, with Rinder, Lawrence and Jamme, Franck André. Abstract: Léonie Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne
Woods Turner. Portland, OR: Cooley Gallery, Reed College. (catalogue)
Rinder, Lawrence. New Exercises, Dhyãna, Form +. San Francisco,
CA: Meridian Gallery, 2008. (catalogue)
Rinder, Lawrence, et al. Kiki. San Francisco, CA: Ratio 3, 2008.
(zine / catalogue)
Snyder, Stephanie and Grant, Jerry. Léonie Guyer: Gift.
Portland, OR: Shaker Museum and Library and Reed College, 2007. (catalogue)
Newman, Denise (Ed.). Five Fingers Review, vol. 22, 2005, pp.
31-36. (six inkworks)
Sasse, Julie. Paint on Metal. Tucson, AZ: Tucson Museum of Art,
2005. (catalogue)
Ellis, Stephanie. Sight Unseen. San Francisco, CA: Walter and
McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002. (catalogue)
Lachowicz, Keith. Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters.
Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Museum, 1996. (catalogue)
Junker, Howard (Ed.) "Self-Portraits from the 6 x 9 Show at Victoria Room. ” Zyzzyva, vol. X, no. 3, 1994.
SELECTED REVIEWS & ESSAYS
| 2020 | Maier-Katkin, Hannah. “Léonie Guyer and Rebeca Bollinger: Threshold.” The Brooklyn Rail. October. Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Interface Marks its Final ‘Threshold’ with an Elegant Two-Person Show.” KQED Arts. September 24. “Léonie Guyer, Rebeca Bollinger at Interface.” Contemporary Art Daily. September 18. |
| 2018 | Cuguoğlu, Naz. “Thought Experiments with Léonie Guyer’s Work: November 27–December 7, 2018: 11 days.” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. https://www.wattis.org. January 26. Van Proyen, Mark. “Léonie Guyer @ CCA Wattis Institute.” Squarecylinder.com. November 14. Hotchkiss, Sarah. “At fused space, 'Seven Places of the Mind' Is No Slouch.” kqed.online, November 27. Mooney, K.r.m. “Closing Attunements.” Flash Art Online. September 20. Maziar, Paul. “Flower(s) in Concrete at Fourteen30: Why we write about art.” Oregon ArtsWatch. April 9. |
| 2013 | Graves, Jen. “Three Abstractionists Make Stuff: The Life of Forms Is A Mystery.” The Stranger. September 18. Heinrich, Will. “‘I Want That Inside Me’ at Feature Inc.” The New York Observer: Gallerist NY. July 9. |
| 2012 | Miller, Helen. “‘Drawing a Line in the Sand’ at Peter Blum SoHo.” The Drawing Center: The Bottom Line. March 13. Wolin, Joseph R. “Anonymous Tantra Paintings/Connected.” Time Out New York. February 7. Dillon, Noah. “Connected.” Brooklyn Rail. February. |
| 2011 | Motley, John. “‘Interior Margins,’ featuring regional women artists working in abstraction.” The Oregonian. November 30. |
| 2010 | Blake, Victoria. “Subtle Lines Connect ‘Abstract’.” Oregonian. September 19. Radon, Lisa. “Stargazing: Léonie Guyer's Constellations no. 1-7.” lumberroom.com. May. |
| 2008 | Baker, Kenneth. “Local artists in ‘Form +’ at Meridian.” San Francisco Chronicle. April 19. Jancar, Ava. “Form +.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 42, No. 28. April 9-15. |
| 2006 | Komater, Chris. “Remote Satellite: Michael Damm, Léonie Guyer, Kyle Knobel.” www.Stretcher.org. March 3. |
| 2005 | Rinder, Lawrence. “The Year in Art: Lawrence Rinder’s Top 10.” San Francisco Bay Guardian. December 21. |
| 2004 | Rosof, Libby. “the artblog.” http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com April 22. Tromble, Meredith. “West Coast Blog." www.Stretcher.org. July 5. |
| 2003 | Tromble, Meredith. “West Coast Blog.” www.Stretcher.org. July 11. |
| 2000 | Van Proyen, Mark. “San Francisco: Melissa Pokorny; Lauren Davies; Léonie Guyer.” Art Issues. Summer. Wilson, Megan. “Critic's Choice: Pierogi 2000: Flat Files". San Francisco Bay Guardian. August 16. Baker, Kenneth. “At the Galleries". San Francisco Chronicle. March 11. Sozenski, Edward. “Drawn Together". Philadelphia Inquirer. March 3. |
| 1998 | Carter, Ann. “Léonie Guyer at Patricia Sweetow Gallery.” Zingmagazine. Issue 7 (Fall): 245. Helfand, Glen. “Best of Culture". San Francisco Focus. January. |
| 1996 | Bonetti, David. “Return of the abstract at Mills College.” San Francisco Examiner. December 6. Roche, Harry. “Critic’s Choice". San Francisco Bay Guardian. December 4. |
| 1995 | Davis, Randal. “‘Big Jesus Trash Can’ at Victoria Room.” Artweek. March. |
| 1991 | Cebulski, Frank. “Old and Whispered Secrets”. Artweek. April 1. Bragdon, Phyllis. “‘Lingua Franca’ at Falkirk.” Marin Scope. April 8. |
| 1989 | Baker, Kenneth. “Judging the Art and the Jury”. San Francisco Chronicle. February 2. Van Proyen, Mark. “A Fashionable Pluralism”. Artweek. February 2. |
LECTURES & PANELS
| 2022 | LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA Program, visiting artist lecture |
| 2020 | Portland State University MFA Program, guest artist lecture |
| 2018 | CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, artist and curator conversation with Anthony Huberman in conjunction with solo exhibition San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Seminar, visiting artist lecture Real Time & Space, Oakland, CA, RTS Talks: Johnny Bicos and Léonie Guyer |
| 2012 | Harvard University, The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, visiting artist lecture |
| 2010 | Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College, visiting artist lectures and panel in conjunction with “Abstract” exhibition |
| 2009 | Portland State University, visiting artist lecture |
| 2007 | California College of the Arts, guest artist lecture University of California at Berkeley, guest artist lecture |
| 2006 | Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, visiting artist lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition Dominican University, guest artist lecture Jewish Community High School of the Bay, guest artist lecture |
| 2005 | University of California at Berkeley, visiting faculty lecture |
| 2003 | University of California at Berkeley, visiting faculty lecture |
| 2001 | San Francisco Art Institute, visiting faculty lecture |
| 1999 | California College of Arts & Crafts, visiting faculty lecture Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA, guest artist lecture |
| 1996 | Mills College Art Museum, panel in conjunction with “Abstraction Absolved: Ten Bay Area Painters" |
| 1997 | California College of Arts & Crafts, guest artist lecture |
| 1995 | University of California at Berkeley, guest artist lecture San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, guest artist lecture |
| 1993 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, guest artist lecture |
| 1991 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, guest artist lecture |