Born in Haiti where he acquired his love for the ocean,
Leslie Jean-Bart has been living in New York City since he arrived in the US in 1967.
After earning a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University,
Jean-Bart embarked on a photography career that resulted in the creation of images
that have garnered awards and recognition.
Earlier days found Jean-Bart on staff at Sotheby's and Christie's where he was
surrounded daily by the world's greatest art. Freelance assignments took him all over
the world, as he shot for clients in Japan, Brazil, Iceland, Cyprus and Portugal.
His commitment to his craft and his defined vision, resulted in a variety of commercial
projects, and several published award winning books. A special collage project of Billie
Holiday and Charlie Parker for the Verve Music Group was cited for excellence.
Jean-Bart began exhibiting in 2001, when a number of his collages were part of the exhibit
"Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers" at The Brooklyn Museum.
From 2001-2003 he took part in a number of group exhibits at Monique Goldstrom Gallery
in SoHo, NYC.
During the last several years Jean-Bart put his career, but not his art on hold.
Committed to the care of his mother who has dementia, Jean-Bart became her daily guardian.
During this very trying time he soothed his soul by photographing water and reflections.
The call to somehow combine the ocean or water and the camera was never far from his mind
during the past two decades, and in 2009 the call became a mission and a project was birthed.
The ensuing series titled "Reality and Imagination" is the culmination of years of working the
science and magic that is photography and a never ending love of water, light, shape, form and
collage.
CV
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2018 Juried Portfolio Showcase, Memories of Childhood, Curator Karen Davis, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017 Memories and Mysteries, Curator Debra Vanderburg Spencer, Kenkeleba Gallery, NYC
2017 Griffin Museum of Photography Virtual Gallery, Curator Paula Tognarelli, Winchester MA
2016 Xavier University of Louisiana, Curator Sarah Clunis, New Orleans, LA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 YOU WILL REMEMBER ME: Migration Stories, Curator Tara Sabharwal, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India
2020 The Heart Goes Nine, Juror J. Sybylla Smith, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2020 In Between: KC Crossroads, Curator Tara Sabharwal in collaboration with Roger Gann, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO
2020 Portals: Windows, Mirrors, and Doors, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2020 inBetween, Curator Tara Sabharwal, hosted by Karen Kunc, Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE
2020 Family, Juror Aline Smithson, The SE Center For Photography, Greenville, SC
2020 Texas Photographic Society 29: The International Competition, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, Houston, Tx
2020 Selects 2020, Juror Francis Thompson, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
2020 Abstraction, Juror Kirsten Hoving, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2020 Black + White, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, South x Southeast Gallery, Molena, GA
2020 Light, Juror Christa Dix, The SE Center For Photography, Greenville, SC
2020 The 2020 Lenscratch Vote Exhibition, Juror Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
2020 Water: Element of Change, Juror Hannah Frieser, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2020 Vision 1020, Curator Beuford Smith, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, NYC
2020 The 2020 Self-Quarantining Exhibition, Juror Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
2020 Portraits, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2020 The 2020 Members Show, Center for Photography At Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2020 26th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition, Juror Alexa Dilworth, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2020 Corona: It's All About the Light, Online Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2020 The Your Favorite Photograph of 2019 Exhibition, Lenscratch
2019 In Your Mother Tongue: A Word and Image Dialogue, Juror Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette
City Center, Boston, MA
2019 IN BETWEEN, Curator Tara Sabharwal, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
2019 Immigrants, Curators Ellen Jacobs and Pierre-Yves Linot, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
2019 Primary source, Juror Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette City Center, Boston, MA
2019 2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition, Jurors Elizabeth Avedon, Julie grahame, Ann M. Jastrab, David Garnick, San Francisco, CA
2019 2019 SoHo Photo National Competition, Juror Julie Grahame of aCurator, SoHo Photo Gallery, NYC
2019 Time Zero and Beyond, Juror John Reuter, Rhode Island Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2019 Warter 2019, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
2019 25th annual Member's Exhibition, Juror Julie Grahame, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2019 5th Annual Group Show, Juror Paula Tognaelli, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 The Curated Fridge, Jurors David Carol and Ashly Stohl of Peanut Press, Somerville, MA
2019 The Curated Fridge, Jurors David Carol and Ashly Stohl of Peanut Press, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Momentum, Juror Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery, NYC4 PA, New York City
2019 Diptych, Juror Kevin Tully, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2019 Winter Solstice 2019 Member's Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2019 The 2019 Family Exhibition, Lenscratch
2019 2019 Photographs In Conversation, Lenscratch
2019 The 2019 Kiss Exhibition, Lenscratch
2018 Group Exhibition, Curator Debra Vanderburg Spencer, Clinton Foundation, NYC
2018 Abstraction, Curator Paula Tognarelli, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2018 Winter Solstice 2018 Member's Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2018 Interior, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2018 2018 National Juried Photography Exhibition, Juror Paula Tognarelli, Wickford Art Association, North Kingstown, RI
2018 San Franscico Bay International Photo Show, Jurors: Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery, Aline Smithson of
Lenscratch, David Garnick of Bokeh Bokeh Photo
2018 Fourth Annual Group Show, Juror Paula Tognarelli of The Griffin Museum, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Environmental Portraits, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2018 Metamorphosis, Juror Wendi Schneider, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., VT
2018 Center for Photography Woodstock Squared - Juried Exhibition Fundraiser| Juror Hannah Frieser| "Glimpse of...|Woodstock, NY
2018 Camera USA 2018, Jurors: Christopher Jones of The Ringling Museum of Art, Mark Sloan of Halsey Institute of
Contemporary Art, Paula Tognarelli of Grifin Museum of Photography, Naples Art Association, Naples, Florida
2018 Coney Island, Curators: Rob Levy, Rick Kopstein, Lauren Welles, Charles P. Sifton Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 ONE 2017 Call for Entry, Juror Aline Smithson of Lenscratch, NYC4PA, New York, NY
2018 Small Works Baruch 2018, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Winter 2018 Show, Juror J. Sybylla Smith, The Curated Fridge, Somerville, MA
2018 One-2017 Exhibition, Juror Aline Smithson of Lenscratch, NYC4PA, New York, NY
2018 The 2017 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch,
2017 Small Works Baruch 2017, Juror Elizabeth Avedon of L'Oeil De La Photography, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Analog v. Digital, Juror Michael Foley, Michael Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Water 2017, Juror Jennifer Murray of Filter Photo, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2017 4th Annual Open Call Juried Exhibition, Juror Julie Grahame of aCurator, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2017 Portrait: Within Time & space, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, South x Southeast Gallery, Molena, GA
2017 Liquid Exhibition, Juror Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery, NYC4PA, New York, NY
2017 3rd Annual Open Call Group Exhibition, Juror Paula Tognarelli of Griffin Museum of Photography, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2017 "Black & White", Juror Elizabeth Avedon of L'Oeil De La Photography, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2017 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror Paula Tognarelli of Griffin Museum of Photography, Providence Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI
2017 Second Annual Fine Art Exhibition (On Line), Juror Crista Dix of Wall Space Gallery, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Virtual The Curated Fridge, Juror Yorgos Efthymiadis
2017 Fourth Annual Members Exhibition (On Line), Juror Paula Tognarelli of Griffin Museum of Photography, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2017 WInter Solstice, Members Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2017 The 2017 Unnatural Exhibition, Juror Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
2017 The 2017 Summer Fun Exhibition, Lenscratch
2017 The 2017 Snow Exhibition, Lenscratch
2017 2017 Annual Members Show, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
2017 The 2016 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch
2016 The Airport Exhibition, Atlanta Photography Group (APG), Juror Amy Miller, Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport
2015 Illuminate, Juror Elizabeth Avedon of L'Oeil De La Photographie, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2015 Mary Stanley Selects, Atlanta Photography Group (APG), Atlanta, GA
2015 Kamoinge's Timeless, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
2004-13 Mother diagnosed with dementia & was sole caretaker
2001 Committed to The Image, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Nicola Wood Retrospective, (A Collage of Mine) Petersen, Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California
2001 Group Show, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Group Show, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
Awards
2020 Portals: Windows, Mirrors, and Doors at PhotoPlace Gallery| Juror's Award| Juror Elizabeth Avedon| "View"
2020 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition at The Griffin Museum of Photography|Arthur Griffin Legacy Award| Juror Alexa Dilworth| "The Prayer"
2020 Texas Photographic Society 29: The International Competition|First Place Award|Juror Elizabeth Avedon|"The Prayer"
2019 2019 San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition|"Silver Award| Jurors Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann M. Jastrab, David Garnick| "Running"
2019 2019 SoHo Photo National Competition| Honorable Mention| Juror Julie Grahame of aCurator| "Pas de Deux"
2019 Water 2019| Honorable Mention| Juror Elizabeth Avedon| "Running"
2019 Momentum| Second Place| Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "Leaping"
2018 San Francisco Bay International Photo Show|Silver Medal Award|Jurors: Debra Klomp Ching, Aline Smithson, and
David Garnick|"The Seeker"
2018 ONE 2017 Call for Entry|Honorable Mention| Juror Aline Smithson of Lenscratch|"Striding"
2017 4th Open Call Exhibition|Best of Show|Juror Julie Grahame| "Anticipation"
2017 Liquid Call Exhibition|First Place|Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "The Seeker"
2017 Liquid Call Exhibition|Juror's Choice|Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "Laughter"
2017 3rd Open Call Exhibition|Honorable Mention|Juror Paula Tognarelli|"Engagement"
2017 "black & white"|Juror's Honorable Mention|Juror Elizabeth Avedon|"The Cargo has Arrived"
2000 Marion Vannett Ridgway Honor Book Award for “Strong to the Hoop”
2000 “Strong to the Hoop” was listed in Between the By-Road and the Main Road
list of recommended global children’s literature that use collage.
"Strong to the Hoop" was chosen as an American Library Association Notable Book.
"Strong to the Hoop" was named one of the Choice Books by the Cooperative
Children's Book Center.
"Strong to the Hoop" was picked as A Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young
People by the Children's Book Council.
"Strong to the Hoop" was chosen as a Best Children's Book of the Year by the Children's
Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education, New York.
"Strong to the Hoop" was Selected as a Notable Book for a Global Society by the
International Reading Association
Selected Bibliography
2020 Aline, Smithson, "Leslie Jean-Bart: Echoes of Imagination" Lenscratch, June 20, 2010
2016 Rosen, Sara, "Profile / Leslie Jean-Bart: Reality & Imagination" Crave, March 2, 2016
2014 Gonzalez, David, “Mirrors in the Sand” Metropolitan Section Sunday New York Times, July 6, 2014
2014 Grahame, Julie, “Reality and Imagination: Photo Collage in Coney Island, Huffpost Art & Culture, July 22, 2014
Born, Aquin, Haiti. Currently resides in New York City.
Education
B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY
M.S.J., Columbia University, New York, NY
Leslie Jean-Bart has been photographing and giving visual shape to verbal ideas for varied clients
ranging from companies to magazines to book publishers for more than 30 years.
Partial List of Clients
1979-1995 IBM Corporation
The New York Times
BMW of North America
American Can
Columbia University
Newsweek Magazine
New York Magazine
Publishers Weekly
Simon & Schuster
United Way of New York
Verve Music Group
New York Transit Authority
Time Warner
Harper Collins Publishing
Chronicle Books
FUSE180.org
GARP
Traveled On Assignment To-
Japan; Venezuela; Iceland; Portugal;
Dominican Republic, among others.
1995-2000 Sotheby’s
2000-2003 Christie’s
Books
2013 Raising the Bar, (Zondervan /Harper Collins)
2006 Military High Life, (University Press of the South)
1999 Strong to the Hoop, (Lee & Low Books)
1998 Blue Guitar, (Chronicle Books)
