Rena Leinberger works primarily in sculpture, installation, public projects and photography. The projects utilize building materials as object, image and artifice, navigating our surroundings as simultaneously constructed and imaged space. She positions materials, images and environments in duplicative and reciprocal relationships, producing an inquiry into material failure, progress, and the collapse of ideologies that accompany our architectures.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Gallery 400 at University of Illinois of Chicago, Zg Gallery (Chicago), the Evanston Art Center (Evanston, Illinois) and 1R Gallery (Chicago). She has been included in group exhibitions at Queens Museum of Art (Queens, New York), Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, New York), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, New York), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center (Staten Island, New York), CUE Art Foundation (New York), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts), the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, Michigan), and the City of San Antonio International Center (San Antonio, Texas), among others.
Awards include grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a sponsored residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, residencies at threewalls and Catwalk, and a fellowship in the Bronx Museum's AIM program. In 2012, she will participate in LMCC's Swing Space residency on Governor's Island in New York.
Her work has been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, FiberArts, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, New City, Artnet, ArtSlant, Bridge Magazine, mouthtomouth and the Brooklyn Rail, among others.
b. Ludington, Michigan
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lives and works in New York
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Gallery 400 at University of Illinois of Chicago, Zg Gallery (Chicago), the Evanston Art Center (Evanston, Illinois) and 1R Gallery (Chicago). She has been included in group exhibitions at Queens Museum of Art (Queens, New York), Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, New York), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, New York), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center (Staten Island, New York), CUE Art Foundation (New York), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts), the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art (Grand Rapids, Michigan), and the City of San Antonio International Center (San Antonio, Texas), among others.
Awards include grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a sponsored residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, residencies at threewalls and Catwalk, and a fellowship in the Bronx Museum's AIM program. In 2012, she will participate in LMCC's Swing Space residency on Governor's Island in New York.
Her work has been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, FiberArts, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, New City, Artnet, ArtSlant, Bridge Magazine, mouthtomouth and the Brooklyn Rail, among others.
b. Ludington, Michigan
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lives and works in New York
