QUEER|ART|PRIZE 2021 RECENT WORK FINALIST

Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence (2021) by Le’Andra LeSeur

Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is an artist working primarily with video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her work celebrates blackness, contemplates the experience of invisibility, and seeks to dismantle stereotypes surrounding black female identity, among other subject matters.

Awards include Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), the Time-Based Medium Prize as well as the Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 (2018). LeSeur recently appeared in conversation with Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, presented by the Tory Burch Foundation and has lectured at RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, and SCAD Atlanta, among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at The Shed, NY, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Assembly Room, New York, NY; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Anacostia Art Center, Washington, DC; SITELAB, Grand Rapids, MI; Arnika Dawkins, Atlanta, GA; and others. Residences include NARS Foundation, Marble House Project, and Mass MoCA.

Le’andra leseur: in reverence (2021)

Le’Andra LeSeur: In Reverence (2021) is an exhibition of video, installation, photography, and performance celebrating blackness, contemplating the experience of invisibility, and seeking to dismantle stereotypes surrounding Black female identity, among other subject matters. LeSeur offers, “My work is about honoring – honoring ancestors, honoring lives I’ve never met, honoring family, and most importantly honoring myself through this process – and recently I’ve been focused on how the presence and absence of language aids us in this honoring.” These artworks engage the senses as well as the intellect and operate on intensely personal levels and simultaneously raise macro-social questions.