RESUME

Lesley Bodzy is a sculptor and painter working in New York and Houston. Bodzy holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and has studied art at Hunter College, the Art Students League of New York, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).

Her work is represented by galleries in Saugerties, NY, Houston, TX, Williamsburg, VA, and Jersey City, NJ and it has been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Recent shows include: SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY);  ChaShaMa and Sculptors Alliance (New York, NY). Bodzy also exhibited a selection of her work at Holy Art Gallery (London, UK); Site:Brooklyn, Emerge Gallery (Saugerties, NY); the Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT); The Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg, PA); and Meadows Gallery (Tyler, TX).

Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, 2021
Hunter College Studio Art, Studied with Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain and Valerie Jaudon, New York, NY
New York University School of Law, JD, 1985
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, BA, Magna Cum Laude, 1975. History and Women’s studies.
 

Gallery Representation

The Painting Center, New York, NY

Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts, Houston, TX  

Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY 

Mana Decentralized Art, Jersey City, NJ 

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Lesley Bodzy: Levity and Depth, curated by Michael David, M. David & Co., New York, NY

2023 Lesley Bodzy: The Soft Embrace, curated by Anna Stothart, Chealsea, NY

2023 Relics , Gallery 200, curated by Yvonamor Palix, Houston, TX                                                                                     

2022 SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Leftover and Over, curated by Giovanni Aloi and Erica Criss,   New York, NY                     

2022 Folds of Desire, curated by Yvonamor Palix, Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts at Artique Gallery,   Houston, TX                         

2022 Lesley Bodzy: Artist of the Month, curated by Ginger Cochrane, Thought Art Magazine                                             

2021 Lesley Bodzy, curated by Evelyn Tsekoura, Holy Art Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, London, UK

2021 Choose & Frame: Watercolors by Lesley Bodzy, curated by Yvonamor Palix, Palix Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2020 Lesley Bodzy: Absence and Presence, curated by John Lee Matney, Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

2020 Lesley Bodzy: Plexiglass Works, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Lesley Bodzy: Wrapping and Unveiling, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

Two and Three Person Exhibitions

2024 Womanhood 102, curated by Erica Criss, Space 776 Gallery, New York, NY                                                                     

2022 Valentine, curated by John Holt, Incubator Studio Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Golden Desire, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

Group Exhibitions

2025 Off Kilter, curated by Abbie Knight, 5-50 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2025 Do Not Disturb, curated by Xuezhu Jenny Wang, Victoria Reshetnikov, and Meinzer, Impulse Magazine, Brooklyn, NY

2024 Phantasmagoria, curated by Abbie Knight, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2024 Mixmaster 2024, curated by Susan Eley, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2023 Tangential Splinters, curated by Rose Nestler, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Currents, curated by Alex Feim, Gallery at Morris Adjmi Architects, New York, NY

2023 Small Works Show, curated by Grace Freedman, Gallery 440, New York, NY

2023 Alchemy and Alchemist, curated by Maria Yoon, Bar135, New York, NY

2023 Memory Mirage, curated by Christina Massey, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY

2023 White on White, curated by Yvonamor Palix, Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2023 Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!, curated by Frances Melhop, Melhop Gallery 7077, NV                                             

2023 New Painting, curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Site: Brookly, Brooklyn, NY                                                                       

2023 The Big Show 2023, juried by Dr. Kanitra Fletcher, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX                                                   

2023 Alternate Side Parking, Starta Arta, New York, NY

2023 Visual Arts Alliance Exhibition, Juror Heidi Vaughn, Sabine Gallery, Houston, TX                                                       

2023 Out of Hand: Tradition meets Tech!, curated by Fabiola Delgado, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian

         Institution, Solomons, MD

2022 Dialogue, curated by Yvonamor Palix, Yvonamor Palix Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX                                                     

2022 Echoes of the Ancient, curated by Jacqueline Davis, presented by 14 artists of Paradice Palase, 56 Bogart St.,

Brooklyn, NY                                                                                                                                                                             

2022 Strange Paradise: A Window Into Surrealism!, curated by Ann Hyland, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian

         Institution, Solomons, MD                                                                                                                                             

2022 By Visceral Effect, Starta Arta, New York, NY                                                                                                                 

2022 Valentine, curated by John Holt, Incubator Studio Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

2022 Contemporary Color, curated by Chloe Wyma , Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY                                                               

2022 Something Blue II, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2022 Best In Show, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY                                                                     

2022 Art Celebrates the Story, curated by Cheri Randolph, Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX

2021 ChaShaMa: Fire and Ice, curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, One Brooklyn Place Park Gallery, Brooklyn NY

2021 Art Over Time, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Exhibition 2021, Flatfile Gallery, New york, NY                                                                                                                   

2021 8 x 8 Season 3, Flatfile Gallery, New York, NY                                                                                                                 

2021 Viridian Gallery Exhibition, curated by Susan Harris, New York, NY                                                                                 

2021 Facade, curated by Erika Hess, Arts to Hearts Project, New Delhi, India                                                                     

2021 The Dreamers, curated by Evelyn Tsekoura, Holy Art Gallery, Hackney Downs Studios, London, UK (3rd Place)

2021 Petit: Smaller Sized Art, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY                                                     

2021 The Next Big Thing 2021, curated by Peter Mays, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA

2021 Art House Sawyer Yards-Artist Installation, curated by Grace Zuniga, Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX

2021 6th Annual Waterscapes Exhibition, curated by Chris & Valerie Hoffman, Fusion Arts, LLC, Palm Springs, CA

2021 Graffiti – Art in the City, curated by Sara Ledbetter, The Garden Club of Houston, Houston, TX

2021 Mixmaster: Juried Members Exhibition, curated by Leslie Garrett, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2021 Catch Phrase, curated by Kristen Kendrick Bigley, CoLab Gallery, Denton, TX

2021 Something Blue, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Creating Joy, curated by Melissa Feldman, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2020 small works – BIG TALENT, curated by Lori McBride, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020 Spirit of the Season Small Works Exhibition, curated by Nikki Hung, Womens Work.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY

2020 5th Anniversary Art Competition, Fusion Art, Palm Springs, CA

2020 Fact vs. Fiction, curated by Sam Adams, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

2020 Little By Little, curated by Andy Burgess, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

2020 Water Media National Exhibition, curated by Christine Lucas, Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2020 re. fresh., curated by Kristen Kendrick Bigley, CoLab Gallery, Denton, TX

2020 Primar(il)y Red, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Petit: Smaller Sized Art, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Orange Juiced, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 In Black and White, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Isolation, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 The Next Big Thing, curated by Leah Ollman, Channel Islands Art Studios, Camarillo, CA

2020 Aptitude, curated by Robyn Parker Feehan, the gallery 8680, Frisco, TX

2020 4th Annual Skies Exhibition, curated by Valerie and Chris Hoffman, Palm Springs, CA

2020 Abstrakt, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 “Flight Of The Monarch” International Art Biennial, Houston, TX

2020 Art and Words, curated by Robert Langdon, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY

2020 Five Points Annex Small Works Exhibition, curated by Power Booth, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, CT

2020 Paris Rive Gauche *Three Person Exhibition, Yvonamor Palix Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2020 University of Texas Meadows Gallery International Exhibition, curated by Leslie Moody Castro, Tyler, TX

2020 Purple, Gold, and White: Reflections on Women’s Suffrage, Dallas Heritage Village, Dallas, TX

2020 Discovering Repeating Patterns Exhibition, Sawyer Yards, Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX                                       

2020 Gesture and Motion, curated by Margaret Carrigan, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY                                                           

2020 Blue Mountain Gallery Exhibition, curated by Martica Sawin, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY                         

2020  Art On The Wall, Flatfile Gallery, New York, NY2020 8 x 8 on paper, Flatfile Gallery, New York, NY                           

2020 Skies, Grey Cube Gallery, New York, NY HONORABLE MENTION                                                                               

2020 New York State of Mind Small Works Exhibition, insidesmall.com, New York, NY                                                         

2020 ChaShaMa: Art We Need Now, curated by Allison Green, One Brooklyn Place Park Gallery, Brooklyn NY                       

2020 Flux: Vita Mutata, curated by Natsuki Takauji, Sculptors Alliance, New York, NY                                                                

Collections

Commission for residential lobby by MARS Culture Houston, Texas

Chaffetz Lindsey Law Firm LLP, New York, NY

Mond at the Museums Residences, Houston, Texas

Private collections in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Hamburg, Germany, and Atlanta
 

Press

2025 Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela, "Cultbytes", Trio Show 'Off-Kilter' at 5-50 Gallery in On Point, January 26, 2025

2025 Deng, Qingyuan, "Cultbytes", In Limbless Fragments Contract and Intervene, January 11, 2025

2025 Wang, Xuezhu Jenny , "IMPULSE Magazine", Skin Deep: An Interview With Lesley Bodzy, January 3, 2025

2024 Deng, Qingyuan, "WhiteHot Magazine", Bodzy, Condron, and Topping Star in Dark Storytelling at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, June 2024

2024 Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela, "Cultbytes", To Deflate or Inflate? Lesley Bodzy and Katie Commodore Explore Femininity in 'Womanhood 102', May 25, 2024

2024 Chen, Yindi, "Art Spiel", Womanhood 102: Lesley Bodzy and Katie Commodore Challenge Gender Norms, June 4, 2024

2024 Israel, Alexandra, "Grit Daily", Beauty and Sex (Not Pornographic, it’s Feminist Art!) at Space776 in New York, June 9, 2024

2023 Wang, Jenny, "WhiteHot Magazine", Lesley Bodzy: In the Folds, October 15, 2023

2023 Benzine, Vittoria, "FAD Magazine", Lesley Bodzy Hugs a Three Year Chapter Goodbye, November 30, 2023

2023 "Barneby's Magazine", A Soft Embrace of Sculpture: Interview with Contemporary Artist Lesley Bodzy, November 29, 2023

2023 Israel, Alexandra, "Grit Daily", "At #704 and Morris Adjmi Architects, Sculptor Lesley Bodzy Innovates Materials", November 25, 2023.

2023 Herrera Valdés, Emireth , "Cultbytes", Lesley Bodzy’s Sculptures Unleash, Unfurl, and Embrace, Nov.17, 20232023 Ross, Mark, "Folds of Desire", Art Houston Magazine, issue 16, March 2023.

2022 Williams, Lilly, "Cultbytes: 5 Booths to Watch at Spring Break Art Show's 2022 New York Edition", Sept. 15, 2022.

2022 Keenan, Annabel, "Arte Fuse: Lesley Bodzy Explores Loss, Healing, and Desire as She Prepares for SPRING/BREAK", Sept. 12, 2022.

2022 Ekstrand, Anna Mikaela, "Art Spiel: Lesley Bodzy's Sculptural 'Paint Skins'", Sept. 2, 2022.

2022 Krysa, Danielle, "New Visionary", Arts & Culture Magazine, Issue 3, Summer 2022.

2022 Cochran, Ginger, "Thought Art'', Arts & Culture Magazine, Issue 6, Summer 2022.

2022 "Artsin Square", Arts & Culture Magazine, Issue 2, Summer 2022.

2022 Massey, Cristina. “All She Makes” Arts & Culture Magazine, Issue 4, Winter 2022.

2021 Cochran, Ginger. “Lesley Bodzy Artist.” Envision Arts Magazine, vol. 6., Summer 2021.

2021 Youngdahl, Jay, “A Gift Worth Seeing: a Review of Wrapping and Unveiling, at Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY.” December 1, 2020.

2019 Ramirez, Matthew. “Houston’s Ultimate Art Stroll Takes Over Sawyer Yards”, Paper City, April 24, 2019.

2021 Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Art and Design, Issue 56, Summer 2019.

2018 Fielding, Howard. “Wait, You Will Want to Drive to This ‘Mixmaster’.” Republican-American, February 14, 2018.