Katelyn Ledford
Katelyn Ledford is an artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, but born and bred in the American South. She received her MFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019.
Ledford’s work is a consideration of the role of images in shaping the curated portrait of women at large and individually while also reflecting on the complex and often painful reality of what it means to be a woman and artist. She uses appropriated images sourced from historical paintings, television shows, social media, and Google fever dreams while contrasting them against improvisational symbols and shapes in order to create deconstructed portraits. The tone across her work lies in a mix of cynicism, humor, and absurdist logic— like the feeling of sucking on a sour candy, you smile through the pain and pleasure.
Ledford was featured in SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2020 in a two-person booth, “The Person- Less Portrait,” curated by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery. She has been featured in exhibitions internationally with select group exhibitions at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY; Public Gallery, London, UK; Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA; and Plan X Art Gallery, Milan, IT.
生於美國南部。目前在波士頓生活和工作。
Katelyn Ledford 於 2019 年在羅德島設計學院獲得了繪畫碩士學位。她的作品始終反映了作為女性和藝術家需要面對何種複雜而痛苦的現實。她的母親曾為人像攝影師，這段家庭經歷也定下了Ledford的創作基調。她使用來自歷史繪畫、電視節目、社交媒體和搜尋引擎上找到的合適圖像，並將它們與即興的符號和形狀配合產生對比，以創造解構的肖像。她的作品基調混合了玩世不恭、幽默和荒謬的邏輯――就像品嘗酸味糖一般，使觀眾在痛苦和愉悅交織中微笑。
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
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2024
Untitled | Dio Horia | Athens, GR2023
Virtuous Virtuosity | M+B | Los Angeles, CA2022
Pleased as Punch | Long Story Short Gallery | New York, NY2021
Untitled | DUVE Berlin | Berlin, Germany
Underbelly | AISHONANZUKA | Hong Kong -
2023
The Salon Show | Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Boston, MA
The Summer | AISHONANZUKA | Hong Kong2022
Transformation | AISHONANZUKA | Central, Hong Kong
Hospitality Suite | Mindy Solomon Gallery | Miami, FL
After Hope | Dio Horia | Athens, GR
Escape from New York | Another Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
Eve Presents II | Eve Leibe Gallery | London, United Kingdom
2021
In Crystallized Time | Museum of Museums | Seattle, WA
Fantasy World | Galerie Slika | Lyon, France
A Vase Is a Vase Is a Vase | Deanna Evans Projects | New York, NY
Over the Borderline | Galeria Fran Reus | Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Back Together | Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Boston, MA
CURE/rated: Bigotry, A Societal Cancer | House of Fine Art | London, UK
Cave Canem | Eve Leibe Gallery | Online
Unmasked | Southern Vermont Arts Center | Manchester, VT2020
Universes 3 | WOAW Gallery | Hong Kong
Bull in a China Shop | Tchotchke Gallery | Online
Oh To Be a Painting | Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Boston, MA– curator
Katelyn Ledford | Shelter in Place Gallery | Boston, MA
Drawn Together | Unit London | Online
Cut, Copy, Paste | Plan X Art Gallery | Milan, Italy
No Time Like the Present | Public Gallery | Online
The Person-Less Portrait | SPRING/BREAK Art Show | New York , NY2019
Woven Profiles | Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Boston, MA
Eye Contact | AREA Gallery | Boston, MA
RISD Second Year Grad Show | Monya Rowe Gallery | New York, NY
RISD Grad Show | Rhode Island Convention Center | Providence, RI
Smear Frame Digital Commons, Providence, RIFresh Faces | Abigail Ogilvy Gallery | Boston, MA -
“Artist Spotlight: Katelyn Ledford” by staff, Booooooom, January 2023– online
“Plastic Smile: Katelyn Ledford at Duve, Berlin” by Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz, December 2021– online
“What I Buy and Why: Danish Collector Claus Risvig on Buying Emerging Art, and the Pitfalls of Living With Sculptures and Young Children” by Kate Brown, Artnet, November 2021– online
“Katelyn Ledford – An Artist Who Describes Her Art As Tart, Pseudo + Thwart” by Peigi Mackillop, The Art Gorgeous, October 2021– online
“New art exhibition explores prejudice in western society” by Sean Joyner, Archinect, February 2021– online
“International Artists Explore Alternate Realities in "Universes 3" Group Exhibition” by Keith Estiler, HYPBEAST, December 2020– online
“A regola d’arte” by Roberta Maddalena, Forbes Italia, December 2020– print
“Katelyn Ledford critiques selfie-culture and the superficiality of social media” by Verity Babbs, Art Plugged, October 2020– online
Self-Interview Feature, Archive 01 by Saint Maison, August 2020– print & online
“AEIVA Face-to-Face Interview Series” interviewed by Tina Ruggieri, Abroms-Engel Institue for the Visual Arts, July 2020– video
“1:12 scale: Katelyn Ledford and Miles Jaffe Go Miniature @ Shelter In Place Gallery, Boston” by Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, July 2020– online
“Una nuova mostra digitale per parlare direttamente ai millennials” by the Forbes editorial team, Forbes Italia, May 2020– online
“Stuck at home, these Boston artists are doing great things on Instagram” by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, April 2020– print & online
“Social media addiction, a blood-soaked Salvator Mundi and more at the Spring Break Art Show” by Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper, March 2020– online
“Art Uncovered: Spring Break 2020” by Kimberly Ruth, BTRtoday, March 2020– online
“AO On-Site – New York: SPRING/BREAK Art Show, March 3rd – 9 th, 2020” by D. Creahan, Art Observed, March 2020– online
“Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week” by Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, July 2019– online
“Katelyn Ledford” by Kate Mothes, Young Space, July 2019– online
Create! Magazine curated by Tax Collection, Issue 8, Feb. 2018– print