Leelee Kimmel

Born 1983 in New York City
Lives and works in New York City
 

Education

2001 Trevor Day School, New York City
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Solo Exhibitions

2022
Almine Rech, Shanghai, China (upcoming)

2019
'Leelee Kimmel', Almine Rech, Paris, France

2018
‘Wormhole’, Simon Lee Gallery, London
‘Channels’, The Journal Gallery, New York City

Group Exhibitions

2018
'100 Sculptures', Anonymous Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico

2017
'Feedback', Marlborough Contemporary, New York, New York

Selected Press

2018

Nadja Sayej, ‘Leelee Kimmel Drops a new Vr Video, And Boy Is It Trippy’, The Georgeous Art, August 1st

Irina Baconsky, ‘Drop down wormhole with a new VR video from Leelee Kimmel’, Dazed, July 25th

Emily Gosling, ‘The Extraordinary Actress-Turned-Artist Painting Electricity’, AnOther Magazine, July 13th

Kat Herriman, ‘Artist Leelee Kimmel Abstractions Land at Simon Lee’, Cultured Magazine, July 5th

David Rimanelli, ‘Leelee Kimmel’, Artforum, February 12th

Sarah Cascone, ‘‘Painting was always my goal’ : Former actress Leelee Kimmel on Why She Gave Up Hollywood for Art’, Artnet, February 7th

Dan Duray, ‘In the Studio With an Actress-Turned-Painter’, New York Times, January 26th

Lilah Ramzi, ‘Artist Leelee Kimmel Attracts a Buzzy Crowd to Her First Solo Exhibition’, Vogue, January 22nd

Alec Coiro, ‘Leelee Kimmel at the Journal Gallery’, Ravelin Magazine, January

2017

Haley Weiss, ‘Why Leelee Kimmel Traded the Silver Screen For the Art Gallery’, Interview Magazine, December 8th