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 attended the International Summer School of Photography (ISSP) Masterclass from 2019 - 2022. She is a current member of the Time-Based Arts Alliance, Outer Voice (2024 - 2025). In 2024 she self-published a book, The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories, that combines 50 solicited telephone memories from family, friends, and other artists with photographs from her archive. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include It’s about time (PPSTMM, Portland, OR, 2024), 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). From 2019 - 2023, she co-directed an exhibition space, Rubus Discolor Project, that hosted 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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