Leslie Hickey (b. 1983) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She holds BA degrees in Studio Art and English from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and is currently part of the International Summer School of Photography (ISSP) Masterclass 2019/2020. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include What We See and What We Know (HOLDING Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2020) The Future Has an Ancient Heart (Edel Extra, Nuremberg, Germany, 2018) and Beyond the Sea (Jules Maidoff Gallery, SACI, Florence, Italy, 2014). Group exhibitions include If a tree falls (HOLDING Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2020), Let’s try listening again (13th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2019), and Some Other Place (Palazzo dei Cartelloni Gallery, SACI, Florence, Italy, 2018). In 2019, she founded an exhibition space, Rubus Discolor Project, that hosts occasional artist-led shows in a hundred-year-old house. In 2017, she was awarded a fellowship through The Civita Institute based in Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy. She has also been awarded grants through the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission. She is a founding member of SCALENO, an international photographic collective established in 2015.

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