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LEAH TINARI
Lives and works in New York, NY


EDUCATION

1998 BFA, painting, Rhode Island School of Design
1997 Semester at Instituto de San Miguel de Allende, Mexico


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Leah Tinari, NuLu Gallery, Louisville, KY (forthcoming)
Wet Paint, EO Gallery, Chester, CT

2007 Leah Tinari, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
We Could Definitely Run for the Presidency, Mixed Greens, New York City

2006 Summer Space, Henri Bendel, New York, NY
Cliques and Corsages, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005 Lovely Days and Rowdy Nights, Mixed Greens, New York City

2003 Leah Tinari: New Work, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York City
Leah Tinari, Fishtank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2007 Hit Me With Music, District Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

2006 Seeing is Believing, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Witch Hunt: From Salem to Guantanamo, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, Bronx, NY

2005 Group Show, CVZ Contemporary, New York City
Group Show, Benevento, Italy

2004 Ice Cream Social, Mixed Greens, New York City
Scope Artfair with Mixed Greens, New York City
CMYK, Price Cave, New York City
Heroes, Villains and Ordinary Joes, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, New York

2003 Motion and Memory: The art of silence, New Yorker, New York City
Wildlife, 77 White, New York City

2002 Friends and Family, Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York City
Modern Living, Minima, Philadelphia, PA
Modern Living, Paint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Field Trip, School House Gallery, Croton Falls, NY

2001 Leah Tinari, solo show, Bingo Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Postcards from the Edge, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City
Collaboratory, GAle GAtes et al, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, Broome Street Gallery, New York City

2000 Live Painting Show, Shine, New York City
Group Show, 601 West 26th Street, New York City

1998 The Arts America, Creativity and Controversy, List Art Gallery, Providence, RI


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 May, Whitney, "Leah Tinari Could Definitely Run for The Presidency," NY ARTS, Vol. 12 no 5/6, p. 12-13.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art: Demystifying the Process of Finding, Appreciating, and Buying Contemporary Art on Any Budget, Harper Collins, New York, 2007
“Leah Tinari at Mixed Greens,” Jameswagner.com, February 6, 2007
“Art Review: John Currin, John Wesley, Leah Tinari and Sam Gibbons- Contemporary Paintings,” NYC.COM, January 24, 2007
“The AI Eye: Editor’s Picks of Art for Sale,” ArtInfo.com, January 2007

2006 “Passport to the Art World,” The New Yorker, November 2006

2005 “Voice Choices,” Village Voice, November 9-15, 2005, p. 86

2003 “Arts and Crafts: Painter Leah Tinari’s Ever-Changing Canvas is Her Color-Filled Wardrobe,” Elle Magazine, July, p. 37
Flesh, Henry, “Pastel Princess,” Paper Magazine, April, p. 56
Spence, Rebecca, “Arts and Crafts,” L Magazine, July, p. 37
“Urbanists: A Life of Colour,” Mini International Brooklyn, March, p. 22
“Lucky Girl,” Lucky Magazine, March, p. 64

2002 Rudolf, Peter, “A Life of Colour,” Mini International, Volume 6

2001 Hamburger, Susan, “Leah Tinari,” Waterfront Week, Volume 12-10
Laub, Gillian, “Leah Tinari in Ho Ho Kus, NJ,” New York Times Magazine, August 19
Kula, Marisa, “Imitation of Life,” Spin Magazine, July 2001