New York, NY
www.leacetera.com
EDUCATION
2012 Columbia University, School of the Arts, Visual Arts, MFA
2005 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, School of Art, BFA
2003 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Study abroad, summer program
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2017 The Light House Works Public Art Commission, Fisher’s Island, NY
2016 Socrates Sculpture Park, Emerging Artist Fellowship, Long Island City, NY
2015 New Commissions Grant, Art in General, New York, NY
Kala Art Institute Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
2014 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, New York, NY
2011 Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, PA
2005 Elliot Lash Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sculpture, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2001 Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Chassis, Phillida Reid, London, UK
2018 Expanding Brain, Southard Reid, London, UK
2017 Threshold, Frieze New York Art Fair, with Southard Reid, Randall’s Island, NY
2015 Transference,Southard Reid, London, UK
2014 Observational Comedy, Southard Reid, London, UK
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2019 Fish House 2.0, Alumni Art Installation at the Stuyvesant Fish House,
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Anecdotes on Origin, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, Italy
2018 She sees the shadows, DRAF AND MOSTYN Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
Pond and Waterfall, curated by Julia Trotta, Michael’s Santa Monica, Los Angeles
2016 Emerging Artist Fellows Grant, Socrates Sculpture Park
Tarantallegra, curated by Nicoletta Lambertucci, Hester, New York, NY
Efficient Frontier, curated by Chris Dorland, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2015 Surface Support, curated by Amanda Schmitt, Signal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2014 In Response: Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2013 Double Life: Sculpture Center’s In Practice program, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Where 1, Where, Brooklyn, NY
Ajar, Reverse Space, Brooklyn, NY
We Seem to Still be Moving, Simone Subal, New York, NY
Coded Conduct, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2012 High Desert Test Sites, Andy’s Gamma Gulch Parcel, Joshua Tree, CA
New Wight Biennial 2012, New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fischer Landau Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
2011 First-Year MFA Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2010 PortugalArte ’10 Biennial, Freedom of Expression, Portuguese Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 On From Here, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, NY
2006 Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Speed Limit, A participatory history in Women’s Art, LMCC, New York, NY
2005 The North Face, work by Lea M. Cetera, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
SELECT FILM SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2015 The Drawing Center, “OBE (Outer Body Experience)”, New York, NY
2014 Disjecta Contemporary Art Space, “OBE (Outer Body Experience)” Portland, OR
2011 Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union Alumni Film Festival, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2010 Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers NY Festival, New York, NY
Millennium Film, Debut of Vibrant Futures: Episodes Two and Three, New York, NY
2009 The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Friday Night Series, New York, NY
2008 Guild and Greyshkul Gallery, Screening of Vibrant Futures, New York, NY
Friday Night Series: The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Cartharsis, New York, NY
2006 Theater for the New City, Adventures of the Aesthetic, New York, NY
Galapagos Art Space, Hell is Other Artists, New York, NY
VISITING ARTIST AND LECTURE SERIES
2016 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2015 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
2014 Åredalens Folkhögskola, Östersund, Sweden
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, School of Interrelated Media, Boston, MA
School of the Damned, Good Job Gallery, London, UK
2006 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
SELECT CURATORIAL/PROJECTS
2018 Destruction of Pleasure, Agency, Brooklyn, NY
–Organized and curated group show including artwork by Alisa Baremboym, Sascha Braunig, Lea Cetera, Ivy Haldeman, Lena Imamura, Avery Singer and Pinar Yolacan.
2011 Cooper Union Alumni Film Festival, Rose Auditorium, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2006 The Last Show, Hewitt Building, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
- Organized and co-curated an exhibition of alumni student work from the Cooper Union School of Art. Included were never-before exhibited student works by alumni that ranged from Eva Hesse, Tom Wesselman, Doug Ashford, Art Club 2000 and more.
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS
2019 Shankar, Avantika “A group exhibition in Venice examines where we all came from (and whether it even matters)”, Architectural Digest: India, October 12, 2019, online article, https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/exhibition-venice-nature/#s-cust0
2017 White Zinfandel, Issue VII: Offal 2017 (in print magazine publication)
2016 Campo, Daniel “The Enduring Outlier at Hallet’s Cove”, Urban Omnibus, a publication of the Architectural League of New York, December 1, 2016, online article, https://urbanomnibus.net/2016/12/socrates-30/
MARFA Journal 5, Lea Cetera in conversation with India Salvor Menuez, Spring 2016 (in print magazine publication)
2015 Herriman, Kat “A Trio of Art Shows that Inspires Double Takes”, New York Times Style Magazine, online review http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/t-magazine/art/trompe-loeil-art.html?_r=0
Burke, Sarah “Beyond the Horizon”, East Bay Express, online review http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/beyond-the-horizon/Content?oid=4443556
D’Agostino, Paul, “Screw You: Surface Support”, Brooklyn Magazine, online review http://www.bkmag.com/2015/07/29/screw-you-surface-support/
Disser, Nicole “Surface Support”, Bedford + Bowery, online review http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/07/surface-support-the-show-for-artists-who-are-smashing-the-screen/
2013 Adams, Abraham “Ajar”, Critics Picks, Artforum.com http://artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=43848&view=print
Chappa, Kristen “Double Life”, Catalogue, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY http://issuu.com/sculpturecenter/docs/ip_doublelife_publication-final-web
2009 Smith, Roberta “A Gallery Goes Out In A Burst Of Energy.” New York Times 7 February 2009: C5 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/07/arts/design/07clos.html