Leah Wilson

Visual artist Leah Wilson creates place-based paintings that address changes within environmental ecosystems over time. Both process and finished paintings reflect an engagement with ecology and environmental engineering through observation and data. In addition to drawing attention to natural cyclical changes, many of her paintings tell stories of landscapes that have been exploited and manipulated for their natural resources, and reveal the results of ongoing habitat restoration projects.

Leah Wilson’s recent work is centered at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest located east of Eugene, Oregon. The Andrews Forest is one of 26 Long-Term Ecological Research sites in the world, making it ideal for extended place-based projects informed by ecological changes, and for cultivating of a sense of place through the creation of long-term projects.

MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2003
BFA, Painting & Drawing, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA, 1995

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

Leah Wilson: Ambient, Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg, OR (Solo), 2015
The Structure of Nature, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR (Two Person), 2014
Leah Wilson: Distillations of Place, Cascade Gallery, Portland, OR (Solo), 2013
Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR (Two Person), 2010
Tropes, Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Eugene, OR (Solo), 2009
Shifting Landscapes, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA (Two Person), 2006
Yuba Songs, Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City, CA (Solo), 2006
Love Poems to the Yuba, 560, Nevada City, CA (Solo), 2005 Internal, Howard Rice, San Francisco, CA (Solo), 2002
New Works, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA (Solo), 2000

Selected Group Exhibitions

Rot: The Afterlife of Trees, The World Forestry Center, Portland, OR, 2016 (Upcoming)
Rot: The Afterlife of Trees, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, 2016
The Art of Plankton, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, 2012
Green, Green the Color of New, David Joyce Gallery, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR, 2012
Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival, Nevada City, CA, 2008
Below the Surface, Fl...