Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. Modigliani’s work represents both the political potential and inequitable hardships of urban experience. She has made artwork that reflects upon eviction, cities destroyed by war and natural disasters, and urban protests against injustice. While often sculptural, her work also cites the form and history of photography, especially photography’s role in constituting and deconstructing historical narratives. Modigliani’s artwork has been exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Colby College Museum of Art, Maine; the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. Her work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Modigliani’s writing can be found in academic journals and contemporary art magazines such as Burlington Contemporary Journal.
