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Simone Leigh is an American Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1968. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Turner Contemporary in Margate. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Simone Leigh's work in the past.Simone Leigh's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 500 USD to 5,737,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2017 the record price for this artist at auction is 5,737,000 USD for Sentinel IV, sold at Christie's New York in 2025. Simone Leigh has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2025.
Observer got an exclusive first look inside David Adjaye鈥檚 newly redesigned Studio Museum in Harlem, a luminous new home for Black art, history and community.
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..Leigh is known for her archaic, anthropomorphic forms in porcelain, terracotta, tobacco, glass, and steel that employ early African ceramic techniques to evoke contemporary parallels and underlying social...
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..Leigh's research process and artistic production often stand as a veneration of the ingenuity and fortitude of the anonymous female artist and worker...
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..Leigh鈥檚 works are known for their intense physicality, and the New York-based artist is extremely adept at forming and firing ceramics to create singular objects and assemblages that range from the ornamental...
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..Concealment and visibility are also central to Leigh鈥檚 work, pointing to historical instances where people, especially women of color, operated in secret in order to build communities and organize against...
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