Background
Leidy Churchman was born in 1979, in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States.
Leidy Churchman was born in 1979, in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 2002, Leidy obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst. Later, he continued his education at Columbia University, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2010.
Churchman's work has been the subject of various institutional exhibitions, including those, held at Kölnischer Kunstverein (2017) and Boston University Art Gallery. Also, his works were shown at the important group exhibitions, such as "Greater New York", at MoMA PS1, New York City (2010), "Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age", at the Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015), "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon", at the New Museum, New York City (2017-2018) and "One day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art", at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018-2019).
In addition, during the period from 2011 till 2012, Churchman acted as a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Currently, he lives and works in New York City.
Leidy Churchman is a well-known painter, who is known for his works, that explore the question of how images are perceived and processed in the modern world.
Leidy is a recipient of the Hampshire College Threshold Grant for Continued Study. His works are kept in the collections of different museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and Mumok.
Leidy Churchman explores the way images are perceived and processed in modern times. Within this context, he produces paintings, based on pre-existing images from the "extraordinary junkyard' of visual formulations. Thus, the artist copies the works of other artists and uses logos, book covers or advertisements as sources or makes references to Far Eastern religions or art, related to folklore. For this reason, the pictorial universe, that confronts viewers in Churchman’s presentations, often seems familiar, even if the paintings differ from their sources to a greater or lesser extent.
