Based in Louisville, KY, USA
Contact: julieleidner (at) gmail.com
Founding curator of Sheherazade, Louisville KY, January 2018 - present
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, MFA Painting 2010
Hite Art Institute at University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, BFA Painting 2006
Group Shows
Scrims and Blurs, Museo de los Sures, Brooklyn NY 2018
Secondary Growth: Andrew Dailinger, Julie Leidner, and Kathleen Lolley in Collaboration with their Students from St. Francis School, Lenihan-Sotheby’s International Realty, Louisville KY 2018
III (Instant Installation Invitational), Louisville Visual Art, Louisville KY 2016
Larry and Ladonna Was Here: The Artist-Collector Relationship, Kentucky, Museum of Art and Craft with the Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY 2015
Analogue/Analogy: Project 3, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY 2014
13 Artists, Gallery 849, Kentucky School of Art, Louisville, KY 2014
Stone Age Daydream, 57Cell, curated by Gregory Kalliche, sponsored by Blonde Art Books, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Storytellers and Mystics, ACNY Spattered Columns, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Making It: Now, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 2012
Aliens, Bulldogs, and Snowglobes, JCC, Louisville, KY 2012
On The Floor: Louisville Commission on Public Art, selected ideas competition participant, Louisville Metro Hall, 2012
Chain Letter 2011, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, 2011
Rust Melt: New Abstractions from Pittsburgh, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, 2011 (co-curator)
Fools Gold, UnSmoke, Braddock, PA, 2010
RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Convention Center, Providence, RI, 2010
Whatever Forever, Eddy Street Gallery, Providence, RI, 2010
As Seen On TV, The Kinship Gallery, Louisville, KY, 2009
Crit 4, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY, 2009
RISD Graduate Painting Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, 2008
Launching, The Water Tower, Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, KY, 2008
Cultivate Beauty, The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY, 2008
GeneratioNEXT, The Loudon House Gallery, Lexington, KY, 2007
Recent Honors/Awards
2018 Great Meadows Foundation Grant to attend Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Mary Alice Hadley Prize
Kentucky Foundation for Women Art Meets Activism Grant, 2015
Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant, 2011
Teaching Positions
Artist-in-residence, St. Francis High School, Louisville, KY, 2014 - Present
Museum Educator, Carnegie Center for Art and History, 2019
Adjunct professor: Kentucky College of Art and Design, Bellarmine University, Indiana University Southeast, 2013 - 2019
Teaching Artist, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, 2013 - 2014
Instructor, Louisville Visual Art, Louisville, KY, 2011- 2019