Leidy Churchman
Leidy Churchman is an American painter who lives and works in New York. Churchman's work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Mumok, among others.
Crocodile, Churchman's first US museum exhibition at Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, surveys more than sixty oil paintings dating from 2010 to the present. The accompanying catalogue, co-published by Dancing Foxes Press and CCS Bard, features essays by Ruba Katrib, Arnisa Zeqo and Alex Kitnick, as well as an interview between Churchman and curator Lauren Cornell. Churchman's work has been the subject of institutional exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein and Boston University Art Gallery, and also included in the important group exhibitions One day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York ; Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich ; and Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York.
Churchman received his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2010 and B.A. from Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, in 2002. From 2011–12, he was a resident artist at Rijksakademie van Beeldende in Amsterdam. The artist's work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum.
