Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist from Chicago born to Jamaican parents. She currently works in New York City.

Leigh’s practice incorporates sculpture, video, and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity and ethnography. Her objects often employ materials and forms traditionally associated with African art; her performance-influenced installations create spaces where historical precedent and self-determination comingle. Through her investigations of visual overlaps between cultures, time periods, and geographies, she confronts and examines ideas of the female body, race, beauty, and community.

Solo exhibitions include

Tilton Gallery, New York 2012

Group shows include

Sabsay, Copenhagen 2016
Edelman Arts, New York 2014
Gallery Wendi Norris 2012
Tilton Gallery at Expo Chicago 2012
Tilton Gallery, New York

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Simone Leigh, Hugo Boss Prize 2018 winner, works in sculpture, video, and socially engaged performance and programming. Leigh's oeuvre extends from her research in the fields of ethnography, political history, feminism, and folklore. The artist's social-practice projects place black female subjectivity at their center, with a focus on notions of community, healing, and self-care.