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\n\tZoe Leonard, a celebrated artist whose work is headed to the Venice Biennale next week, has departed one of the world\u2019s biggest art galleries and joined the roster of a much smaller one based only in New York.<\/p>\n
\n\tUntil earlier this year, Leonard was represented by Hauser & Wirth, a gallery with 14 locations worldwide. She has now departed that gallery and joined Maxwell Graham, a much less blue-chip space that is known for its spare presentations of conceptual art. Maxwell Graham will represent Leonard alongside her longtime galleries, Cologne\u2019s Galeria Gisela Capitain and Milan\u2019s Raffaella Cortese.<\/p>\n
\n\tMaxwell Graham\u2019s roster is dominated mainly by artists at least a generation younger than Leonard, among them Cameron Rowland, Ser Serpas, Hamishi Farah, and Tiffany Sia.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cZoe Leonard\u2019s work has observed the world,\u201d Maxwell Graham wrote in its announcement on Friday. \u201cFor over 40 years Leonard has been among the most critically acclaimed artists of her generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLeonard\u2019s work is often marked by an interest in loss and decay, in ways both literal and not. One of her most famous works, Strange Fruit<\/em> (1992\u201397), is an installation composed of 300 fruit skins that she sewed back together, as though the lemons, grapefruits, and bananas featured were whole once more. She is also well-known for I want a president<\/em>, a 1992 piece consisting of text describing dissatisfaction with America\u2019s leadership during the time of the AIDS crisis.<\/p>\n \n\tPhotography has been her primary medium, and in recent years, she has turned her lens on the US-Mexico border for a series called \u201cAl r\u00edo \/ To the River\u201d (2016\u201322). She\u2019s also worked in more conceptual modes, turning a room of the Whitney Museum\u2019s former Marcel Breuer\u2013designed home into a camera obscura for a work in the 2014 Whitney Biennial that won her the show\u2019s top prize.<\/p>\n \n\tLeonard is participating in Koyo Kouoh\u2019s Venice Biennale exhibition \u201cIn Minor Keys\u201d as part of fierce pussy, a New York\u2013based collective of queer women artists.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOur collaboration with Zoe began over a decade ago, and during these years it has been a great pleasure to work with an artist of her sensitivity and conviction,\u201d Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth told ARTnews<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019ve been honored to support very substantially such epic works as her ongoing \u2018Al Rio\/To the River\u2019 project and look forward to watching her practice continue evolving in its next phase\u00a0as she joins Maxwell Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMaxwell Graham\u2019s release did not provide a reasoning for why she had left Hauser & Wirth, which began staging exhibitions for her in 2016. Maxwell Graham staged its first Leonard exhibition last year with \u201cDisplay,\u201d featuring photographs of historical objects in museums that were shot in the 1990s but not printed until recently.<\/p>\n \n\tShe is the second artist to leave Hauser & Wirth in the past year. In November, George Condo exited the gallery and joined Skarstedt and Spr\u00fcth Magers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/zoe-leonard-departs-hauser-and-wirth-maxwell-graham-1234783305\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-961439424.jpg?w=1024″] Zoe Leonard, a celebrated artist whose work is headed to the Venice Biennale next week, has departed one of the world\u2019s biggest art galleries and joined the roster of a much smaller one based only in New York. Until earlier this year, Leonard was represented by Hauser & Wirth, a gallery with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1913817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}