Leeza Meksin

Leeza Meksin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, drawing, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin has created site-specific installations for The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Academy of Design, The Uptown Triennial, NYC, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, BRIC Media Arts. She has also exhibited her paintings at Regina Rex Gallery, Thomas Erben Gallery and Brandeis University, among many other venues. In 2021 Meksin was awarded the NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, and in 2015 received the emerging artist Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant. In 2019, Meksin was artist-in-residence at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Her work has been featured in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn that she continues to co-direct. Meksin received a MFA from Yale School of Art, a BFA from The SAIC and a BA/MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University in the College of Architecture, Art, Planning (AAP).