Leslie Jean-Bart is a mixed-media photographer who uses analog photography, printmaking, and the ocean and its shores to explore immigration, identity, and personal narratives that particularize universal themes.
He has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad.
Leslie is honored to have been one of the artists asked by Art Alive Gallery in India to contribute to their Art For Hope initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic.
His love for the ocean was acquired in his native country of Haiti. And he has been a United States citizen living in New York City for well over 50 years.
Leslie’s work can be found in various private collections.
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Awards 2022 HIGHLIGHT 10th Anniversary NYC4PA |Grand Prize Winner | Juror Elizabeth Avedon | “An Offer” 2020 HIGHLIGHT Portals: Windows, Mirrors, and Doors at PhotoPlace Gallery| Juror's Award| Juror Elizabeth Avedon| "View" 26th Annual Juried Members' Exhibition at The Griffin Museum of Photography|Arthur Griffin Legacy Award| Juror Alexa Dilworth| "The Prayer" Texas Photographic Society 29: The International Competition|First Place Award|Juror Elizabeth Avedon|"The Prayer" 2019 HIGHLIGHT San Francisco Bay International Photography Competition|"Silver Award| Jurors Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Ann M. Jastrab, David Garnick|"Running" SoHo Photo National Competition| Honorable Mention| Juror Julie Grahame of aCurator| "Pas de Deux" Water 2019| Honorable Mention| Juror Elizabeth Avedon| "Running" Momentum| Second Place| Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "Leaping" 2018 HIGHLIGHT San Francisco Bay International Photo Show|Silver Medal Award|Jurors: Debra Klomp Ching, Aline Smithson, and David Garnick|"The Seeker" ONE 2017 Call for Entry|Honorable Mention| Juror Aline Smithson of Lenscratch|"Striding" 2017 HIGHLIGHT 4th Open Call Exhibition|Best of Show|Juror Julie Grahame| "Anticipation" Liquid Call Exhibition|First Place|Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "The Seeker" Liquid Call Exhibition|Juror's Choice|Juror Debra Klomp Ching| "Laughter" 2000 HIGHLIGHTMarion Vannett Ridgway Honor Book Award for “Strong to the Hoop” “Strong to the Hoop” was listed in Between the By-Road and the Main Road 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 A Picture Gallery of the Soul, Juror Howard Oransky, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, 2021 HIGHLIGHT inBetween, Curator Tara Sabharwal, LowellArts, Lowell, Michigan 2021 Texas Photographic Society 29: The International Competition, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Tx 2021 27th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition, Juror Arnika Dawkins, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2021 30 Over 50 in Context, Juror Arnika Dawkins, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 2021 Migration Stories, Curator Tara Sabharwal, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY 2020 HIGHLIGHT YOU WILL REMEMBER ME: Migration Stories, Curator Tara Sabharwal, Art Alive Gallery, Delhi, India In Between: KC Crossroads, Curator Tara Sabharwal in collaboration with Roger Gann, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO inBetween, Curator Tara Sabharwal, hosted by Karen Kunc, Constellation Studios, Lincoln NE 2019 HIGHLIGHT IN BETWEEN, Curator Tara Sabharwal, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA 2018 HIGHLIGHT Group Exhibition, Curator Debra Vanderburg Spencer, Clinton Foundation, NYC 2017 HIGHLIGHTAnalog v. Digital, Juror Michael Foley, Michael Foley Gallery, New York, NY Small Works Baruch 2017, Juror Elizabeth Avedon of L'Oeil De La Photography, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY2017 Annual Members Show, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY 2016 HIGHLIGHT The Airport Exhibition, Atlanta Photography Group (APG), Juror Amy Miller, Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport 2015 HIGHLIGHT 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 HIGHLIGHT Committed to The Image, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Group Show, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
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
B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY M.S.J., Columbia University, New York, NY |
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