Leon Finley is an interdisciplinary artist and queer, trans person born in Seattle, the traditional land of the Coast Salish including the Duwamish People past and present. His work moves between performance, sculpture, drawing, sewing, writing, and many places in between. His work is created from his experience having a physical and spiritual body and explores relationships between all kinds of bodies: human, animal, plant, object, sound, energy, and the unseen. Leon is a Tarot Card and Akashic Records reader; he understands both practices as interwoven into his work as an artist. Leon received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2009 and his MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2012.  Leon’s work has been presented at The Alice, Oxbow, and the Jacob Lawrence gallery among others and he has performed in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art as a part of Kevin Beasley’s Public Programs in Sonic Masses and Movement Research as a part of the Open Performance Series.  Leon has taught at Cooper Union, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Montclair State University. He currently lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

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