Career
She works in various media including sculpture, video installation and social practice. Leigh is the creator of the Free People"s Medical Clinic a social practice project created with Creative Time in 2014. The installation was located in a 1914 Bed-Stuy brownstone called the Stuyvesant Mansion, previously owned by notable African-American doctor Josephine English (1920-2011).
Leigh has exhibited internationally including: PS1/MoMA. The Walker Art Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Kitchen.
Tilton Gallery; Contemporary Museum of Art Houston.
SculptureCenter. Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. L’Appartement22 in Rabbat, Morocco.
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
And the AVA Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. Leigh"s work has been written about in many publications, including: Art In America, Artforum, Sculpture Magazine, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Small AxE and Nka:Journal of Contemporary African Art, and Bomb Magazine. In addition, she teaches in the Ceramics Department of the Rhode Island School of Design.
