SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Polymorphic Polka, 325 Project Space, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
2020 Held, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 Archaeology Through the Looking Glass, McIninch Art Gallery, SNHU, Manchester, NH
2010 ReCreation, Barton College Art Galleries, Wilson, NC
2009 Clearing the Path, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2008 Ruinations, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, FL
2007 Accumulated Mysteries, Brattleboro Art Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2004 Cast-Offs: Girls, Riddles, Fates, Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT
2002 TransPlants, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1997 The Gingerbread Museum, Exquisite Corpse Artsite, Burlington, VT
1996 Recent Work: Arts/Industry, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1990 Monoprints, Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1988 Sculpture, The Penson Gallery, New York, NY.
1987 Relief Sculpture, The Albany Academy Gallery, Albany, NY
1982 Limbo, Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT
1977 Bodywork, La Galerie Suzele Carle, Montréal, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Grounding, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
collage/uncollage, The Phoenix, Waterbury, VT
2023 Select 2023, Garvey Simon, New York, NY
2022 Drawings and Sculpture by Women, Zwitscher Machine Gallery, Berlin, Germany
I5olation Project, ProjekTraum FN, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Exposed, The Current, Stowe, VT
2021 Context 2021, FilterPhoto, Chicago, IL
Drawings by Women Sculptors, Zoller Gallery, Penn State, PA
2020 Suffrage and Struggle, Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
2019 Art on Paper 2019, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro, NC
No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
#CollageNow, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Public Sculpture, The Avenue Concept, Providence, RI
Face to Face, Beaux-arts des Amériques, Montreal, Canada
Atlanta Print Biennial, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA
2018 Foreign Affairs, Austro-American Institute, Vienna, Austria
Abortion, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Backstory, Kent Museum, Calais, VT
2017 Tympanum, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sweet Tooth, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Garden of Earthly Delights, Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Dysfunction, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT
2015 The Body in Eden, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dig, Central Booking, New York, NY
Still Life: Revisited, Beaux-arts des Amériques, Montreal, Canada
Repeat, Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
2014 Raw vs Cooked, Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Arts/Industry: Collaboration and Revelation, Kohler Arts Center, WI
Word Up, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
Of Land and Local, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT
2013 deCordova Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
littleSCULPTURE, Fountainhead Studios, Miami, FL
2012 International Sculpture Festa, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Paperwork, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2010 Foreign Affairs, Universitat fur Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria
2009 Steps to Hope, Windspiel Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2008 Drawing Beyond the Plane, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2003 Hybrids, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Efflorescence, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2001 Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1999 Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, traveling museum exhibition
Femmes, Corps et Âme, Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France
1998 After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Art Museum, Middlebury, VT
Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1996 Femmes, Corps et Âme, Musée de la Civilisation, Québec
Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Casts of Character: The Factory and Beyond, Kohler Arts Center, WI
Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Stockbridge, MA. Curator: Dan Cameron
1995 A Distinct Grace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1994 Disembodied: Clothing Forms in Contemporary Sculpture, Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT
Corpus, Centre des Arts Visuels, Montréal, Quebec
1993 Empty Dress: Clothing as Surrogate in Recent Art, Traveling museum exhibition
1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art, New York, NY
Artists Select, Artists Space, New York, NY
States of the Art, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Lowery Sims, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1991 Drawings, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT. Juror: Howardena Pindell
1990 Works on Paper, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. Juror: Charlotta Kotick, Brooklyn Museum
Arte de los Noventa, El Instituto de Cultura de Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
1989 New Dimensions Art Exhibit, Galeria La Merced, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
Clay Works, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Small Works, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Sharon Jacques, Museum of Modern Art
1988 Dolls by Artists: Fetish Objects, Textile Arts Centre, Chicago, IL. Juror: Joyce Scott
Monoprints, Image Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
COMMISSIONS
Double Visionaries. Outdoor sculpture, private commission, VT. 2019
Eight sculptures for hotel mezzanine. Freehand New York, NYC. 2018
Building Stories and Book Leaves. Two installations for The Kent Museum, Calais, VT. 2018
Colossal AcornHead. Outdoor sculpture, Tufts University, Boston, MA. 2014
MountainHead. Outdoor sculpture, Songchu International Sculpture Park, South Korea. 2012
NestBuilder. Outdoor sculpture, Seminole Heights Garden Center, City of Tampa Public Art, FL. 2010
Wild Life Sculpture Search. Six outdoor sculptures, Boca Ciega Millennium Park, Pinellas County Cultural Affairs, FL. 2007
Interior wall reliefs for four libraries. Fort Lauderdale, Broward Public Art and Design Program, FL. 2005
Quercus Emancipation. Installation for Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY. 2003
Mermaid House. Exterior sculpture, Housing Vermont. Burlington, VT. 2003
Pomerleau Neighborhood Park. With architect Steven Schenker, Burlington City Arts, VT. 1999
Pear. 16-foot high outdoor sculpture. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. 1996
Medée. Installation created for a performance by Marthe Mercure. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal. 1981
HONORS AND AWARDS
Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2023
Creation Grant, Vermont Arts Council, 2022
Chateau d’Orquevaux, France. The Denis Diderot Grant, 2022
Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, MA. 2021
Monson Arts, ME. Fellowship 2020
Norton Island, ME. Fellowship, 2020
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA. Fellowships, 1990, 1997, and 2019
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Fellowship, 2018
Marble House Project, Dorset, VT. Fellowship, 2016
Arts/Industry Program, Kohler Company, WI. Fellowships, 1996 and 2014
Sculpture Symposium. Crown Haitai Studios, Songchu Art Valley, South Korea. 2012
Creation Grant. Vermont Arts Council. 2011
Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain. Fellowships, 1998 and 2010
U.S. Embassy Vienna, Austria. Grant, 2009
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY. Fellowship, 2008
I-Park, East Haddam, CT. Fellowship, 2008
Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT, Artist-in-Residence, 2004
Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship, 2001
Women and Minorities Print Project, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. Artist-in-Residence, 2000
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. Fellowship, 1998
Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL. Fellowship, 1997
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI. Artist-in-Residence, 1996
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Fellowship, 1991
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY. Fellowships, 1989, 1988, and 2006
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY. Grant, 1989
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY. Fellowship, 1987
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Freehand New York, New York, NY
Tufts University, Boston, MA
International Sculpture Park, Songchu Art Valley, South Korea
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Kohler Company, Kohler, WI
City of Winooski, VT
Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jeff Feld, Exhibition essay for Polymorphic Polka, May 2024
Avalon Styles-Ashley, “Sculpted,” Stowe Magazine, Summer/Fall 2024
Interview on CCTV’s “Moments with Melinda”, August 2023
Vermont Arts Council interview, July 2023
William Lipke, “Leslie Fry: Sculpture 1976-2019,” 05401 Magazine, May 2020. Also available as an illustrated book.
Margaret Winslow, “Curated Artists,” Create Magazine, Issue 13, February, 2019
Jen Townsend and Renée Zettle-Sterling, Cast: Art and Objects, Schiffer Publishing, 2017
Donna Dodson, “Two Heads Are Better Than One,” Artscope, January 2015
Charlet Davenport, “Studio Visit,” Art New England, July/August 2014
Julie K. Hanus, “More than Human,” American Craft Magazine, April/May 2013
Joyce Wadler, “Living Small,” New York Times, January 30, 2013
Philip Jordan, “Carving Out a Career,” Vermont Magazine, May/June 2012
Gwendolyn Purdom, “Making a Difference,” Preservation, July/August, 2011
Joyce Wadler, “Sowing Enchantment,” New York Times, June 16, 2011
Arlene Distler, “Accumulated Mysteries: Leslie Fry,” Art New England, August/September 2007
Lennie Bennett, “Wild Art,” St. Petersburg Times, April 2, 2007
Nick Capasso, “Leslie Fry’s Wild Times,” Wild Life, 2007. Illustrated book available here.
Ann Albritton, “Leslie Fry,” Sculpture Magazine, November 2003
Grace Glueck, “Silo Meets Satellite Dish,” New York Times, September 4, 1998
Eleanor Heartney, essay for After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1998
Nina Parris, “The Gingerbread Museum: Installation by Leslie Fry,” Art New England, Feb./March 1998
Akiko Kotani and Bernard Freydberg, “Crossover in the Arts,” Fiberarts, Summer 1997
Hajo Schiff, “Feminismus, Trivialitat und Kunsterkenntnis,” Taz Hamburg, January 4, 1996
Leslie Fry, contribution to “Women’s Work,” in Art Journal: “Clothing as Subject,” Spring 1995
Nancy Smith, “Empty Dress, Loaded Images,” Ms. Magazine, December 1993
Richard Brown, “Leslie Fry: Recent Work,” Art New England, May 1986
Pierre-A. Larocque, “Sculptures-Masques” (interview with Leslie Stevenson Fry), Le Baroque, cahier 3, Montréal, Québec, November 1977
EDUCATION
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale, NY. M.F.A. 1993
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. B.A. 1975
Central School of Art and Design, London, England. 1973-74
