Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
2025
Saya Woolfalk, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York
Saya Woolfalk, Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas
2023
Saya Woolfalk: The Heart of a Museum, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Saya Woolfalk: Field Notes From the Empathic Universe, NXTHVN, New Haven, Conn.
The Woods Women, Part II, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2022
The Woods Women and Other Works, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Woods Women, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, The Armory Show, New York
Floating World of the Cloud Quilt, The Rudin Family Gallery at BAM Strong, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2021
Field Notes from the Empathic Universe,The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, N.J.
Tumbling into Landscape, The Newark Museum of Art, N.J.
From Bones We Rise, The Empathics, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, N.J.
2020
Future Relics From a Landscape of Anticipation, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects at Independent, New York
2019
Empathic Cloud Divination, Tube Factory, Indianapolis
A Cabinet of Anticipation, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Augmented Visionary Reality Outpost, Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Expedition to ChimaCloud, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Visionary Reality Outpost, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2018
Hybrid Digital Home, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Lessons From the Institute of Empathy, Seattle Art Museum
2017
ChimaCloud and the Pose System, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Life Products and the ChimaCloud, Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, Mass.
2016
Saya Woolfalk: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
ChimaCloud, Times Square Midnight Moment
ChimaCloud, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
Saya Woolfalk: To Dream the Electric Dream, SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA
2015
The Pollen Catchers’ Color Mixing Machine, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, New York
ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization System, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
2014
Saya Woolfalk Videos: 2005 – 2014, WPA, Washington, D.C.
ChimaTEK: Hybridity Visualization Mandala (performance), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
ChimaTEK, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Saya Woolfalk, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Saya Woolfalk, Emerson-Dorsch Gallery, Miami
2013
Alcott Gallery, UNC Chapel Hill, N. Carolina
The Empathics, Flecker Gallery, SUNY Suffolk, N.Y.
The Empathics, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK
Chimera, Third Streaming, New York
2012
The Empathics, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.
2011
No Place, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, N.J.
2010
Institute of Empathy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.
The Institute for the Analysis of Empathy, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Mass.
2009
No Place, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, N.Y.
2008
Saya Woolfalk: Three Videos, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers, Newark, N.J.
2007
No Place: Wonders from that World, Zg Gallery, Chicago
2005
Jumble Patch: Transitional Love Objects, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York
Trousseaux: Love Object, SubCity, Chicago
2004
Lovescape, Zg Gallery, Chicago
Paradise Imagined, 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2024
Broken Boxes: A Decade of Amplifying Artists, Action, and Dialog, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
A Billion, Brilliant Points of Unity, Fridman Gallery, New York
Making Connections: Art, Place, and Relationships, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed, Science Gallery Melbourne, Australia
Women Reframe American Landscape: Contemporary Practices, Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, Wisconsin
Century: 100 Years of Black Art, Montclair Art Museum, N.J.
Artists as Cultivators, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
2023
New Eden, ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Women Reframe American Landscape: Contemporary Practices, New Britain Museum of American Art; The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, N.Y.
The Place We Once Remembered, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y.
Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
2022
Recent Acquisitions: Union College Permanent Collection, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
Psychedelic Landscape, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
Shapeshifting:Transformations on Paper, Baltimore Museum of Art
Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Rising Sun, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
Digital Combines, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Another World, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Women, Land + Art: Reframing the American Landscape, Thomas Cole National Historical Site, Catskill, N.Y.
2021
Abstracted Migrations: Ideas on Embodied Motion, The Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Transformed: Objects Reimagined by American Artists, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey
When Evening Has Passed and Tomorrow Comes, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine, Art Vault, Santa Fe, NM
Born in Flames: Feminist Futures, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2020
Future Texts: Imagining Utopia in a Time of Crisis and Change, SJ Weiler Fund, New York
Firelei Baez, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom, Saya Woolfalk, Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
No horizon, no edge to Liquid, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2019
A Legacy of Firsts: The Everson Collects, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, The Bronx, N.Y.
Embody, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, N.Y.
Pouring into an Array of Characters, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
New Age, New Age: Strategies for Survival, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Present Bodies: Papermaking at Dieu Donné, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
Furies, Fairies, Visionaries, Pen + Brush, New York
2018
In This Imperfect Present Moment, Seattle Art Museum
Parallels and Peripheries, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami
The Future Is Female, 21c Museum Hotel, Bentonville, Arkansas
hyphenative, SU Art Galleries, Salisbury, Maryland
In Times of Perseus, Sargent’s Daughters, New York
Next Art Tainan, Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2017
The Embedded Message, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Virginia
Color: Coded, The New Art Center, Newton, MA
Multiple Modernisms, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
(self), Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Works on Paper 2017, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N. Carolina
Dialogues in Drawing, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
2016
American Histories, Pi Artworks, London
Bedazzled, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx
Past Present Future, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
Sisters of the Moon: Feminism, Art, and Magic, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Lexington
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Brooklyn Museum
2015
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
Anthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor (The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation), New York
Les Oracles, XPO Gallery, Paris
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum
2014
Rockaway! MoMA PS1, Long Island City, N.Y.
Herland, 60 Wall Gallery, New York
Brides of Anansi: Fiber and Contemporary Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta
PaperWork: Drawings, Prints, and Collages, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2013
The Shadows Took Shape, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Approximately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Nu Age Hustle, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Masqueraders are the Ancestors of Protestors, IMC Lab + Gallery, New York
Space is the Place, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon
nowhere differentiable, Simon Center for Physics and Geometry, Stony Brook University
Metaphysical Interventions, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Interwoven: Art.Craft.Design, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, Virginia
2012
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Traveled to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, and Glenbow Art Museum, Clagary, Canada
Super HUMAN, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim, UT and Aljira Center for the Arts, Newark, N.J.
MIE: Portraits, Freight+Volume, New York
Journey of Peace, Concordia College, Bronxville, N.Y.
All Good Things Become Wild and Free, HF Johnson Gallery of Art at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2011
Bunny Redux, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (catalogue)
The February Show, Ogilvy and Mather, New York
Uncovered, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths
Playboy Redux, Copro Gallery, Los Angeles
2010
Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art, Craft and Design, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Threads: Senga Nengudi, Saya Woolfalk, Rashawn Griffin, and Shinique Smith, Eli Klein Fine Art, Beijing, China
The Sitting Room: 4 Studies, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia
Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Transhuman Conditions, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Losing Yourself, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore
Playboy Redux, Rotofugi Gallery, Chicago
Companion, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York
2009
AIM 29: Living and Dreaming, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Super Girl, Nexus Art Place, Baltimore
The Open, Deitch Studios, Long Island City, N.Y.
Losing Yourself, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Back to the Garden, Deutsche Bank Art Gallery, New York
More Art Less Filler II, Space 204 Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Playing Around, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Making It, Deutsche Bank Art Gallery, New York
2012+, The Drop Urban Art Infill, New York
Pulse, Taller Boricua / Puerto Rican Workshop, New York
Next Post,Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark, N.J.
If I Didn’t Care: Generational Artists Discuss Cultural Histories, The Park School, Baltimore
2008
New Intuitions: Artist-In-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
In Transit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York
Storytellers, Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore
Once Upon A Time, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York
2007
Simulasian, Asian Contemporary Art Fair, New York
Kazuo Ohno 101: Three-Week Butoh Parade, Japan Society, New York
Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, N.Y.
Yokohama Boogie: Under the Influence, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art, Zone Chelsea, New York
Young Sculptors Competition, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Whitney ISP, Artists Space, New York
2006
Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N. Carolina
Saya Woolfalk and James Fotopoulos, Momenta Art, Williamsburg, N.Y. (curated by Eric Heist)
Treemendous, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, N.Y.
Dead of Winter, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y.
Peace King Mother Nature, Second Gallery, South Boston, Mass.
YEA! Young Emerging Artists, Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, N.Y.
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA 2004 and 2005 Recipient Exhibition, CUE Art Foundation, New York
The Jaundiced Eye, Scope-NY, entrance installation
d'Afrique d'Asie, Artist Commune, Hong Kong
Chimaera, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
National Psyche, Lab Art Space, San Francisco
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York
2005
Greater New York 2005, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, N.Y.
Production of Escapism—a project by Rashid Johnson, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
Holiday Windows, Exit Art, New York
d'Afrique d'Asie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York
Working Process: a glimpse into the artist's studio practice, Zg Gallery, Chicago
Sinister, The Museum at the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University
2004
Scary/Cute, Flux Factory, Queens, N.Y.
Social Seduction, The Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Chicago 11, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida
Spring Fever, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
Unlucky in Love, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
2003
As Small As Possible, Zg Gallery, Chicago
December Group Show, G-2 Gallery, Chicago
Remark/Remarket, 1926 Halsted Gallery, Chicago
Project Room: Richard Levy Gallery, Scope Art LA, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, 2003, Stray Show, Chicago
Artwindows 2003, G'Bani, Chicago
Fieldwork; in honor of national women’s history month, 1926 Halsted, Chicago
2002
National Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York
unfoldingobject: critical selections. Miranda Fine Arts & Henaine Fine Art, Port Chester, N.Y.
EA50: HEREart’s 6th Annual Emerging Artists Show, HEREart, New York
Exhibition to Benefit Breast Cancer Research, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
2001
Annual Group Exhibition, The Museum at F.I.T., New York
Juried Exhibition, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Screening Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2015
B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2014
ChimaTEK: Hybridization Visualization Mandala, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
ChimaTEK: Dinner Party Upload, Brooklyn Museum
2013
Hybrid Cosmology, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, Oregon
2012
Empathetic Plant Alchemy, Newark Museum Dreyfuss Planetarium, Newark, N.J.
Ritual of the Empathics, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.
Lecture of the Artist: Empathetic Plant Alchemy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Hybrid Cosmology, Newark Museum Dreyfuss Planetarium, Newark
2010
Empathic Imaginaries, Harvestworks, Soho Gallery Night, New York
2009
Ethnography of No Place, Zoom in on the Blur, Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami
Ritual of the Empathics, Performa09, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2008
Ethnography of No Place, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Experimental Film div
2007
Coloring Book Cart featuring: The Cleaners, Kitchen Highline Block Party, The Kitchen, New York
The Cleaners, Resistance and the Law: Radicalism, Extremism, Legitimacy, Co-Optation,
Harvard Law School Conference, Cambridge, Mass.
2006
The Cleaners, Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York
Pessoa da Rua, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Pessoa da Rua, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
Love Monster, Metro Color Collision at Frisbee Art Fair, Miami
Terra de Lixo, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil
Winter Garden, Sculpture Space, Utica, N.Y.
2004
One Night Stand, Performing Art Chicago
The Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden, The King Center, Atlanta
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York
Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx, N.Y.
Metropolitan Transit Authority Percent for Art Program
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs School Construction Authority
Art at Amtrak, Penn Station, New York
Westfield World Trade Center & Art Production Fund
The Peninsula Hotels Art in Resonance, Paris
New York City Parks’ Creative Courts
Cincinnati ArtWorks & Contemporary Arts Center Mural
Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, New York
River to River Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City
2023
Anonymous Was a Woman Grant
Honoree, Bronx Children’s Museum, Bronx, N.Y.
2022
Artist in Residence, Pilchuck School, Seattle
2021
Honoree, Flux Factory
2019–22
Artist in Residence, Newark Art Museum, N.J.
2019
Honoree, Montclair Art Museum, N.J.
Artist in Residence, Creative Courts
2018
Artist in Residence, Civitella Ranieri, Italy
Artist in Residence, Kohler Arts and Industry Program, Ceramics
2017
Dreamtime Award—Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, N.J.
2016
Artist in Residence, Creative Courts
2015
Urban Video Project—Lightwork Artist in Residence, Syracuse, N.Y.
2013
Open Studio Fellow, Franconia Sculpture Park, Minnesota
Baltimore Museum of Art
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe
Chrysler Museum of Art
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Deutsche Bank, New York
Everson Museum of Art
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Fleming Museum of Art
The Ford Foundation Collection, New York
Hunter Museum of American Art
JP Morgan Chase Bank, New York
Mead Art Museum
Montclair Art Museum
Newark Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Seattle Art Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Tufts University
Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Zabludowicz Art Trust, London