Born in Albany, New York
Lives in Providence, Rhode Island

Leigh Tarentino is an artist who makes paintings, works on paper and digital prints constructed from photographs of the built landscape. She received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Stas Namin Centre, Moscow, Russia; Bank Gallery, Los Angeles; the University Art Museum, State University of New York at Albany; and The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, among others. Her work has been included in Scope New York, London, Miami and Hamptons. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner grant in 2008. She shows with Black and White Gallery in New York and Adam Gallery in London. She has had solo shows at Black and White gallery in 2004 and 2006, and a three-person show in 2009. Leigh had a solo exhibition at the Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, in March 2010, and was included in a group show at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado, in October 2010. She received Residency Fellowships at the Ragdale Foundation in May 2010, and the Hambidge Center in June 2010. She will have a solo exhibition in June 2012 at Space Inno, Seoul, South Korea.