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LESLIE GRAFF

EDUCATION

2001        MS, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

1996        BS, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT  

EXHIBITIONS

2023 86th Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2022 86th Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2022 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA

2022 12th International Art Competition, Salt Lake City, UT

2022 MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2021 Siloed, Center Gallery @ Lincoln Center, New York City, NY

2021 Certain Women Show, Anthony’s Fine Art & Antiques, Salt Lake City, UT

2021 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA

2021 Intersections (with James Rees), Third Space Gallery, Provo, UT

2021 85th Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2021 32nd Mass Art Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2021 Business Card Show (July), Love (February), JKR Gallery, Provo, UT

2020 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA

2020 31st Mass Art Auction, 2021 Arden Gallery, Boston, MA

2020-2021 Featured CMAI Artist, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

2019 11th International Art Competition, Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, UT

2019 84th Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2019 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2019 30th MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2019 A Woman’s Work, Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA

2019 Home Sweet Home, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

2018 In Living Color, Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, MA

2018 Artcetera 2018, AIDS ACTION, Boston, MA

2018 83rd Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA*

2018   29th MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2018   Domestic Affairs, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

2017   Gallery at North Hill, Needham, MA

2017   People Watching: Then and Now, Fitchburg Art Museum, MA 

2017   University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art, Hatiesburg, MS

2017    82nd Fitchburg Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA 

2017    Line, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, MA *juror award

2017    Future Fantasies, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

2017    Biennial, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA

2017    28th MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2017    Artrageous 31!, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2017    Nor'Easter 47th Annual Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2017    45th international Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Art, Brownsville, TX

2017    Freedom of Expression, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

2017    Women In Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2017    Just Desserts, Hanover Theater, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA (solo)

2016    Housed, Conant Gallery, Lawrence Academy, Groton, MA (solo)

2016    September Exhibit, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana

2016    81st Regional, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2016     Danforth Annual, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA

2016     Dayton Home, Wellesley, MA

2016     27th MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2016     Artrageous 30!, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2016     Now!, ArtsWorcester & Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

2015/2016        The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior; Domestic Series, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (solo)

2015        Volumes, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, MA (solo)

2015       Artcetera 2015, Boston, MA

2015        80th Regional Exhibit, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2015        Community of Artists, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA*

2015        Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA*

2015        Biennial, ArtsWorcester, Worcester,  MA

2015        26th MassArt, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

2015        Artrageous29!, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

2015        Domestically Speaking, 15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2014        15th Street Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT 2014

2014        Brownstone Gallery, Provo, UT

2014        Wellesley Society of Artists, 2014, Wellesley, MA *

2014        Baker Center, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

2013        Wellesley Society of Artists, Fall Show, Wellesley, MA

2013        Shenandoah Invitational, Falls Church, VA*

2013        Education Conference, Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA

2013        Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA *

2012        Wellesley Society of Artists, Wellesley, MA *

2012        Shenandoah Invitational, Falls Church, VA

2012        9th International Art Competition, Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, UT

2011        Massachusetts Conference for Women: Solo Exhibition, Boston, MA,

2011        Shenandoah Invitational, Falls Church, VA

2011        Solo Exhibition- Domestic Series, Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA

2011        Fulfill the Vision, Kensington, MD

2005        French Dressing Gallery, Providence, RI

2003        Woodland Tea and Spice, Uxbridge, MA

*show award

TEACHING

2017-present, Danforth Art Museum (child & adult studio painting classes, workshops)

LECTURES

Southern Virginia University, 2019

Wellesley Society of Artists, 2018

Lawrence Academy, 2016

Artist Talks, Danforth Museum, 2016

Convocation & Art Talks Speaker Snow College, Ephraim, UT October 2014

Education Conference, Southern Virginia University, June 2013

Pivot Boston, Boston, MA, October 2011

Education Conference, Southern Virginia University, June 2011 

Create! lecture - Exeter, NH April 2011

PRESS

Television: HGTV, Bargain Mansions, Season 3, Episode 14

Forbes.com Features, November 2014, April 2015

Books: Their Roaring Thirties by Denise Restauri,  2014; Biopoesis by Lois Barr

Newspapers: Boston Globe, Worcester Magazine, Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Blogs: Design Mom, Artsy Forager, Two Peas & Their Pod, The Strand Gallery, Shabby Apple, Wilson Kelsey Design, Caitlin Creer Interiors, Mudroom Boston, Two Lovely Spaces, Little Green Notebook, Whitney Johnson, 

Print Publications: Good Housekeeping, BYU Magazine, Create Magazine Issue V & VII, BYU Studies, Family Connections, Exponent II, Segullah.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Delta Airlines, Logan Airport, Boston, MA,

Delta Airlines, Salt Lake City Airport, UT

Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

Gallery at North Hill, Needham, MA

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Southern Virginia University, Buena Vista, VA

Beekman Wealth, New York City, NY

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Arden Gallery, Boston, MA

15th Street Gallery-- Salt Lake City, Utah

Four Square Art-- Mesa, Arizona