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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Cards in the Air, Daphne Art Foundation, Laredo, TX – 2024
• catches, Union Hall, Pittsburgh – 2023
• Recent Works, Arsenal Motors, Pittsburgh – 2021
• Antechamber, at Moss Architects, Pittsburgh – 2019
• Leah Patgorski/New Work, Assemble, Pittsburgh – 2018

GROUP AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

• Great Lakes Invitational Art Fair, curated by Christian Rieben, Keuwanee, WI – 2025
• You’re Doing It Wrong, curated by Blaine Siegel, Gallery at the Icehouse, Pittsburgh – 2024
• Open Studio Exhibition, Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina – 2022
• 107th Annual, juried by Juana Williams for the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP), Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA – 2019
• — — — — — —, photo project and exhibition organized by Brett Yasko, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh – 2019
• Sift 2, virtual exhibition curated by José Carlos Diaz for the Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh – 2018
• Metamorphosis, curated by Dafna Rehavia and Taya Hanauer, Percolate Gallery, Pittsburgh – 2018
• Conversations in Red, curated by Judy Barie, Strohl Arts Center, Chautauqua, NY – 2017
• 105th Annual, juried by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer for the AAP, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh – 2016
• John Riegert, organized by Brett Yasko, who invited 252 artists to make a portrait of John. Space Gallery, Pittsburgh – 2016
• Nothing is Itself, group show curated by Kara Skylling, The Mine Factory, Pittsburgh – 2016
• Whose Sleeves, 4-person show curated by Peter Mandradjieff, Union Hall, Pittsburgh – 2015
• Winter Garden Show, curated by Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, PPG Building, Pittsburgh – 2015
• Sunday Afternoons, group show curated by ADDS DONNA at SWDZ, Vienna, Austria – 2014
• Disambiguate, a group show curated by Sarah Humphrey and Stephen Tuomala, Kipp Gallery at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA – 2013
• Jason Karolak & Leah Patgorski / Recent Work, 2-person show at Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL – 2012
• MDW Fair with ADDS DONNA, Chicago – 2011
• Not Just Another Pretty Face, group show of commissioned work at Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago – 2010
• Office Romance, gala and art show for threewalls, Chicago – 2010
• What is a Hammer?, 3-person show with Leah Patgorski, Ilia Ovechkin, and Jared Madere, at ADDS DONNA, Chicago – 2010
• The Promise of This Moment, Morlen Sinoway Auxiliary Space | Chicago – 2009
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago – 2006
• Fall Group Show, featuring the installation of Patel-Patgorski, Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago – 2005

COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATIONS

• Knit One Then What?, group installation led by Michelle Litvin, In Process Gallery, Chicago – 2009
• Soundings, sculpture and video with Pey-ying Kuan, Gallery 2, Chicago – 2007
• Watershed, a project by 16 artists and designers to create an immersive installation for Salone Satellite at Fiero Milano in Milan, Italy, which was subsequently exhibited in the 12 x 12 Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – 2006-2007
• Play Ball, installation, Base Space Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago – 2009

ACTIVITIES WITH COLLECTIVE

• Tereneh Idia, Jenn Meridian, and Leah Patgorski worked together as a collective, known as Other Border Wall Project, from 2017-2022.
• PRESS/ Our irreverent submission to the Department of Homeland Security’s request for border wall proposals was featured in national and international publications, including Guardian UK and Chicago Tribune – 2017
• EXHIBITION/ The Other Border Wall Prototypes, curated by David Janesko, was shown at Flatland Gallery, Houston, TX – 2018
• MURAL/ “Disrespecting the Border”, a mural workshop to paint together and raise the profile of the local Latino community, co-organized with Camilo Ruiz and taught by Gil Rocha, Pittsburgh – 2019
• PODCAST/ Other Border Wall Podcast, a series of interviews with 19 artists and creative professionals, edited by INEZ, available on major podcast platforms – 2020-2021
• EXHIBITION/ The Border is a Weapon, curated by Gil Rocha, a group show featuring artists working in a wide range of media from the US/Mexico border region, first exhibited at 937 Gallery, Pittsburgh, and subsequently traveling to Laredo Center for the Arts, Laredo, TX, and to Punto de Contacto Gallery at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY – 2022

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

• Matter, installation for offices of The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh – 2025
• Untitled (after carburetor), installation for workspace, Pittsburgh – 2020
• Two Panels, wall piece for residence, New York – 2016
• Dhobi Ghat, corridor installation for residence, Miami – 2014-2016
• Tent 4, portable sculpture, Chicago – 2010
• Boat sculpture for a project of Wafaa Bilal, Chicago – 2006

PUBLICATIONS

• Exhibition catalogue for Cards in the Air, Daphne Arts Foundation, Laredo, TX, with introductory essay by Executive Director Maritza Bautista, and reflective essay by Tereneh Idia, “Cards In The Air, Hands, Hearts, Minds, Dreams…”, 2024
• Exhibition poster for catches, featuring essay by Paula Victoria Kupfer, “Picking Strawberries,” 2023
• Book project organized by Brett Yasko, — — — — — —, in which artists were invited to photograph with instant cameras, 2019
• Dhobi Ghat, a book documenting the process and outcome of a site-specific installation for a Miami residence, self-published, 2016
• Catalogue of the complete project and exhibition, John Riegert, compiled and curated by Brett Yasko, with an essay by Eric Lidji, 2016
• Exhibition catalogue for Jason Karolak and Leah Patgorski: Recent Works, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, with essay by Jason Foumberg, “The Phenomenological Unconscious,” 2012
• Exhibition catalogue for group exhibition Not Just Another Pretty Face, for which Leah Patgorski and Michelle Litvin were interviewed by Christina Jensen and Katie Campbell, 2010

PRESS & MEDIA

• “In Review: Great Lakes Invitational Art Fair 2025,” Frank Juarez, Artdose: A Midwest Art Magazine, July 2025
• “Five Women Artists to Watch in Pittsburgh,” Emma Riva, Table Magazine, March 2025
• Talk Pittsburgh live interview for “You’re Doing it Wrong,” with fellow artists Blaine Siegel and Andrew William Allison, KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, June 2024
• “You’re Doing It Wrong Redefines Artmaking and Artviewing,” Renee Dubaich, The Commentary. June 2024
• “Clothes Make… Pittsburgh artist and designer Leah Patgorski,” Tereneh Idia, Pittsburgh City Paper, September 2021
• “Leah Patgorski,” Interview, Museum of Non-Visible Art Podcast, Yale Radio, Brainard Carey, June 2020
• “Beauty Shoppe furnishes Cleveland co-working space with local artists,” Bridget Cogley, Dezeen, August 2018
• “An Imagined Border of Safety, Humanitarian Relief, and Creativity,” Nicole Scalissi, Contemporaneity, journal of the Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, 2018
• “Artistas presentan proyecto ‘el otro muro’,” Melissa Santillana, Laredo Morning Times, February 2018
• “Guest Critic: Conversations in Red encourages open-ended dialogue,” Vicky Clark, The Chautauquan Daily, August 2017
• “From a Row of Hammocks to One Million Gravestones: An Art Collective’s Alternative Border Wall Proposals,” Claire Voon, Hyperallergic, April 2017
• “The Disambiguate Group Show at The Inn,” Alex Oliver, Words &TC. August 2013
• “Lawrenceville Galleries: One’s First Opening, Another’s Final Closing,” Bill O’Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper, June 2013
• “Portrait of the Gallery: Adds Donna,” Joe Jeffers, New City Art, October 2010
• “Watershed in the Windy City,” Juanita Dugdale, ID Magazine, Sept/Oct 2006

RESIDENCIES

• Proyecto´ace, Buenos Aires – 2022

SELECTED COSTUMES

• Orion, Cosmonaut, Purple Crayon, Winter Queen, Ancient Queen, Unicorn, Foil-wrapped Candy Kiss, Park Ranger, Mad Hatter, WMD, Mummy, Pepper Shaker, Sketchy, Postal Worker

EDUCATION

• MFA, Studio Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006
• BS, Architecture, University of Virginia, 2000