person

Rollin Leonard

Details

• Nationality: American
• Birthday: 1984
• Url: http://rollinleonard.com
• Url: https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/d7bvwa/rollin-leonard-crash-kisses-raindrop-selfies-mug-mugs
• Url: https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/portrait-photography/leonard-rollin-cetus/id-a_1214003/

Description

Rollin Leonard was born 1984. He is a digital artist known for his web-based photographic experiments. He also does animation, resin wall sculptures, and print work. He says his chosen mediums serve different purposes, with each medium informing his ideas to the point where he feels instructed by it (ViceRollin Leonard was born 1984. He is a digital artist known for his web-based photographic experiments. He also does animation, resin wall sculptures, and print work. He says his chosen mediums serve different purposes, with each medium informing his ideas to the point where he feels instructed by it (Vice).

Rollin grew up in Wisconsin, attended Art School in Cleveland, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Philosophy. After college, he lived in New York City, where he worked at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and began to develop a presence within the community of artists whose expression is primarily through the internet. He moved to Portland, ME. in 2011, where he made his work in a small in-home studio, and then at a studio in the State Theater Building. His computer skills enabled him to earn a living doing animations on a free-lance basis.

He has had solo exhibitions at Transfer Gallery in New York, and at Xpo Gallery in Paris. In the summer of 2016 Leonard was one of three artists selected for a solo show in the inaugural exhibition at the new building of The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland, ME; the other two were the painter Alex Katz and the sculptor Jonathan Borofsky. (1stdibsHe has had solo exhibitions at Transfer Gallery in New York, and at Xpo Gallery in Paris. In the summer of 2016 Leonard was one of three artists selected for a solo show in the inaugural exhibition at the new building of The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) in Rockland, ME; the other two were the painter Alex Katz and the sculptor Jonathan Borofsky. (1stdibs)

Solo Shows

Rollin Leonard / Vernal Pond, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME, USA, 2016

New Portraiture, xpo gallery, Paris, 2015

Group Shows

About Face, Stone + Press Gallery, 2018

Fair Booth

Transfer Gallery at Moving Image New York 2014, Transfer Gallery, 2014