Leni Paquet-Morante

Léni Paquet-Morante (BFA Mason Gross) is a multi-disciplinary artist who has lived in Jersey since 1984. Her interpretations of landscape through painting, drawing, sculpture, and monoprint projects have been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the northeast region, garnering several awards in recent years. Solo exhibitions include Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge 2025. A full-time artist, her studio is located on Grounds For Sculpture. Residencies include Virginal Center For Creative Arts 2026; NJSCA Guest Artist Grant to Wheaton Art Glass Center 2025; Vermont Studio Center 2024; and NJSCA Grant for Guest Artist at Peter’s Valley 2023. She was awarded a 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts Finalist Grant for Painting and is listed in Women Artists of America National Directory. Her work is held in private, corporate, and institutional collections internationally.
Leni was recently awarded a 2024 NJ State Council on the Arts grant, received a Vermont Studio Center residency, and Peter's Valley Guest Artist residency. She is a Signature member of National Association of Women Artists and is listed in Women Artists of America National Directory. Her work is held in private, corporate, and institutional col...

BFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture

SOLO EXHIBITS
2025 Princeton University Art Museum "Extract/Abstract: Landscape and the Architecture of Memory"
2024 Kaufman Arcade, Garment District Alliance, NYC “Sky On Water”
2021 Mercer County Community College; Trenton, NJ
2019 Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ. “Shallows”
2017 Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton, NJ “Atmosphere, Place and Time”
1998 Johnson & Johnson, New Jersey Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ. “Drawings”
1997 Passaic County Community College, Paterson, NJ
1995 Program in Women’s Studies Gallery, Princeton Univ., NJ “Oasis Series”
1992 Rutgers University, South A&B Gallery, “Sculpture and Drawings” (post-graduation)

Recent Group:
2024 The Art Project at The Oxford, Jersey City, NJ
2024 Gallery On Grant, Deal, NJ; A Scenic Stroll (invitational)
2023 Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Big Small Drawing Show (juried)
2023 Trenton Public Library, Trenton, NJ; Patterns and Rhythms (invitational)
2023 Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ; Water Stories (juried)
2023 One Art Space Gallery, Tribeca, NY; NAWA 134th Annual (Award)
2023 NAWA "From Landscapes to Mindscapes" (juried, online)
2023 Noyes Museum, Hammonton, NJ; NJ Arts Annual: Mot...