糖心原创

Through his work with experimental film and installation, Los Angeles-based artist and Art, Media, and Design assistant professor H. Leslie Foster II (he/they) uses experimental film, object-making, and installation art to create fleeting pocket universes and contemplative ecologies that explore Black and queer futurity through the lens of dream logic. Leslie completed his MFA in Design | Media Arts at UCLA in 2022 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture the same year. 

Leslie鈥檚 work, which was shortlisted for the Hopper Priz 2020, and awarded the LACE Lightning Fund in 2023, has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including two exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum, a show at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, and two solo shows. His work, which is designed to quietly subvert existing power dynamics while inviting viewers into turbulent space through the beautifully strange.  has also been exhibited at film and video art festivals around the world, including Outfest, where his four-channel installation Heavenly Brown Body, won a Grand Jury Prize.

Leslie is a Lucas Art Residency Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, CA and completed a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California in 2023, and is currently creating new work for an upcoming show with LA Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). He regularly daydreams about running away with a seafaring band of nomadic artists. 

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