Bio
Gal Leshem is a London based artist and facilitator. Her work is developed through a site specific and research-based approach, often engaging with heritage sites, objects and plants embedded in myth, memory and folklore.
Her work has been recently shown at: Christie's (London, 2022), Untitled Art (Miami Beach 2021), Photo Paris (2021), Huxley-Parlour Gallery (solo, London 2021), San Mei Gallery (London 2020), Visions at the Nunnery, Bow Arts (London 2020), Broadway Gallery (Letchworth 2019), Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem 2019), T J Boulting (London 2019), CCA Video Greenhouse at Fresh Paint Fair (Tel Aviv 2019), Wesserhale (Berlin 2019), APT Gallery (London 2019) , White House Dagenham (London 2018), Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Block 336, (London 2018), The Israeli Centre for Digital Art, (Holon, Israel 2018), Water Tower Art Fest (Sofia 2018), Flat Time House, (London 2018), Mostyn/Agore, Mostyn (Wales 2017), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Newcastle 2017).
Gal has won the Sarabande Emerging Artist prize for her Slade MA graduation show in 2022. In 2021 she had a studio residency at Gasworks gallery in London and was commissioned an edition of prints. In 2017-18 she was part of Up Projects' Constellations, a research and development programme for artists working in community contexts. In 2017 she was artist in residence at Tate Modern and Tate Britain School Workshop Programme. She graduated from Goldsmiths University with a joint First Class Hons BA in Fine Art & Art History in 2016 and completed an MA Fine-Art Media at Slade School of Art in 2022.
galinkut@gmail.com