Born Auckland, New Zealand 

EDUCATION

2001 Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Spectral Evidence, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2023 Splintered, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2022 Urns for Unwanted Limbs, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand
2021 Golden Legs and Other Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2021 Urns For Unwanted Limbs, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ
2019 Gloria, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2019 miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2018 I Come Out Of Surgery Looking Golden; Virginia Leonard with Gretchen Albrecht, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 It Only Hurts When I Bend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2018 All I Want is a Facelift, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 Melbourne Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Auckland Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2017 Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
2017 Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark
2016 Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
2014 The Effects of Crack, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2013 Virginia Leonard, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2009 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand
2008 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand
2003 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Jugs, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Design Miami/Podium Shanghai, Side Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 Felix Art Fair, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US
2023 Friends & Family, Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles, US
2022 Design Miami, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2022 Canberra Art Biennial, Contour 556, Canberra, Australia
2022 Composition & Layout: Contemporary Design & Objects, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2022 Splash, Taste Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland
2022 Australian Ceramics Triennale, Alice Springs, Australia
2022 Sabotaje estético, Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain
2022 Exposed Material, Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2022 artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2022 Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
2022 Group Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2021 Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia
2021 Distorted Duets, Taste Contemporary, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2021 Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy
2021 Odd & Even, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France
2021 Full House, Artist-run exhibition, Auckland, NZ
2021 Threshold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2021 Summer Exhibition, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ
2020 Design Miami / Basel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2020 Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia
2020 miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy, September 2020
2020 Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2020 The Backbone of Things, Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ
2020 Ladies Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US
2019 Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ
2019 Beau-laid, Masons Yard, St. James, London, UK
2019 The Dowse Art Museum, Dirty Ceramics, Wellington, NZ
2019 International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics 2019, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2019 Autumn Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
2019 Trans-Pacific Dialogue, NCECA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
2019 National Treasures, Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2019 Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
2019 artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy
2018 Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, US
2018 Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2017 Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, US
2017 Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand
2016 HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand
2016 Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia
2016 MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
2016 Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand
2015 Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2014 Foursome, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2012 The Opening Show, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand
2009 Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
2007 Oedipus Rex, Auckland, New Zealand

SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS

2021 Winner – Main Prize, Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy
2020 First Runner-Up Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2019 Winner Artist-in-Residence Prize in Finland, Open to Art Ceramic Award, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
2018 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland
2017 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2016 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2016 Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand
2016 Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2015 Merit Award Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2015 Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
2015 Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2014 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2014 Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday Sculpture Award, Te kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand
2014 Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand
2014 Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2013 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2013 Finalist Waikato Painting and Printmaking Art Award, Hamilton, New Zealand
2012 Finalist Waikato Painting and Printmaking Art Award, Hamilton, New Zealand
2012 Winner Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2011 Winner of the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2011 Finalist Molly Morpeth Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2010 Finalist Molly Morpeth Art Award, Whakatane, New Zealand
2009 Finalist Waiheke Art Awards, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2008 Finalist Waiheke Art Awards, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2007 Waiheke Art Awards – Zinni Douglas Merit Award, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2007 Finalist Norsewear Art Awards, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
2003 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand

COLLECTIONS

Chatwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū, Nelson, New Zealand
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia
Rigo-Saitta Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand
Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kansas, USA
Ann Tennenenbaum Collection, New York, USA
Girls Club Collection, Miami, USA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Stonehouse-France, Glasshouse-Australia.’ Artist Residency 2019. Published 2023 Stonehouse-Glasshouse 03. Texts Kathy Marks, Antje Geczy and Michael Schwarz
Art New Zealand. ‘Mind, Body, Action’. Vol 183/Spring 2022. Essay by Connie Brown
Contemporary Hum. ‘Don’t Learn Anything More’. 26.10.2021. Essay by Connie Brown
Officine Saffi Award 4. 2020-2021 Published by Officine Saffi, 2022. Introduction by Laura Borghi.
100 Sculptures of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson
Ceramics Art + Perception #113
Ceramics New Zealand, Volume 1 issue 2, Essay by Kim Paton
The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 57 No1, Essay by Anna Briers