Hugh Leeman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, teaching art history and technique in English and Spanish. Leeman’s artwork and projects focus on community collaboration and social interaction. While living...
Hugh Leeman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, teaching art history and technique in English and Spanish. Leeman’s artwork and projects focus on community collaboration and social interaction.
While living in the Caribbean at a young age, Leeman imagined himself remaining there for the rest of his life. Yet, as a teenager, he began to meet visiting cruise ship passengers from the Americas and Europe. Their stories would change the course of his life, inspiring a multi-year journey. He worked his way around the world and ended up teaching English in China. Leeman moved to the United States from the Middle East and settled in San Francisco where he lives and works.
The artist first collaborated on a self-empowerment project with the homeless in San Francisco. He co-founded Aetatribes.org to bring clean water projects to the indigenous Aeta Tribes of the Philippines. Now he is creating impasto paintings and sculptures. They address environmental destruction, mythology, and the history of inequality.
Leeman has exhibited his artworks at the de Young Museum, the Museum of Mexico City, the Masur Museum of Art, and the Arlington Contemporary Art Center. He was awarded an Artistic Mastermind Grant. His artwork and projects are published in The Outlaw Bible of American Art.
Left Coast Annual, Sanchez Art Center, 3/21 - 5/21, Pacifica, CA - Juror, Christine Koppes, curator San Francisco ICA
The 58th Annual, Masur Museum of Art, 2/21 - 5/21, Monroe, LA - Juror, Dr. Kelli Morgon, curator Indianapolis Museum of Art
The de Young Open, The de Young Museum, 10/20 - 1/21 San Francisco, CA - Juror, Timothy Anglin Burgard
New Works, 111 Minna Gallery 2/14 San Francisco, CA
South x Southwest Mural Project, SXSW Festival 3/13 Austin, TX
ctrl + P, Arlington Contemporary Arts Center 6/12 - 9/12, Arlington, VA Jurors, Julie Chae, and Kristina Bilonick
Picks of the Harvest, Thinkspace Gallery, 3/12 Los Angeles, CA California Academy of Sciences, 3/12 SF, CA
Entrance Mural to Fountain Art Fair, 12/11 Art Basel Miami, FL Fountain Art Fair, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery 12/11 Miami, FL Fountain Art Fair, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery 10/11 Los Angeles, CA
International Beethoven Festival, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Chicago Urban Art Society 9/11 Chicago, IL
SF Weekly Artopia, Artistic Masterminds Grant Winner, Public Works 2/11 San Francisco, CA
Living Walls, MLK Historic District Mural 8/10 Atlanta, GA
Draw Show, Museum Of Mexico City 6/10 Mexico City, Mexico - Juror Miguel Calderon