Leonora Hamill is an artist based in London and New York who works primarily in film and photography. She has just graduated from the Royal College of Art.
Born in Paris in 1978, Leonora trained as an art historian at the Courtauld Institute in London, and then as a post grad student at Oxford University. She graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York in 2003.
Leonora has exhibited in Britain, New York, Spain, Italy, France and Poland. Her work has just been featured in LOOP’08, the video art festival in Barcelona and she will be part of a group show in Sweden in January 2009.
Selected Exhibitions:
2008
LOOP, FRÁGIL - curated by Maitte Lorés and Keith Patrick, Espai Ubu, Barcelona
2007
Incorrect, Leica Prix 2007, Galerie of the University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld
Photoespana, Descubrimientos, Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid
Photo Month in Krakow, Failure / Success - curated by Nigel Rolfe, Teatr Laznia Nowa, Krakow
2006
Through the Looking Glass, Abstracting Reality, CVZ Contemporary, New York
Rencontres d’Arles, Photo Folio Gallery, Atelier de la Chaudronnerie, Arles
Bearings: The Female Figure - curated by Allen Frame, PS122 Gallery, New York
2005
Arsep, Christie’s Paris
Group show, CVZ Contemporary, New York
95 Canal Project: Out of Our Element, New York
2004
Photo Month in Krakow, Photo Show, Camelot, Krakow
The Image-World - curated by Bernie Yelounis, International Center of Photography, New York
2003
Cambodge Interprétations - Photographies de Leonora Hamill, Galerie Ecouter Voir, Nancy
Cambodge Interprétations - Photographies de Leonora Hamill, Orangerie du Château de Haroué, Lorraine
S’abbia sabbia, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan
2002
Arsep, Christie’s, Paris
Ebenis, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan
Les Photographes nous offrent leur monde, Galerie Cazeau- Béraudière, Paris
Il Corpo Immaginato, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan
Awards:
Man Group Photography Prize 2007, Shortlisted, London
Its#Six International Talent Support, Finalist, Trieste
Photo Espana 2007 Descubrimientos, Finalist, Madrid
Leica Prix 2007, Finalist, Bielefeld
Flash Forward 2007, Honourable Mention, Magenta Publishing for the Arts, Toronto
Rencontres d’Arles 2006, Photo Folio Gallery Award Laureate, selected by Marloes Krijnen, director of FOAM, Museum of Photography, Amsterdam
Bibliography:
Incorrect, PRIX LEICA 2007, Bielefeld Leipzig, Kerber Verlag, 2008
“La mirada detallada de Leonora Hamill”, Allen Frame, Fahrenheit Arts Magazine, June/July 2007 (cover)
Flash Forward, Emerging Photographers 2007, Magenta Publishing for the Arts
“World of Women", Charlie Finch, ARTNET magazine, April 2006
Inaugural Show CVZ Contemporary, Joyce Korotkin, The New York Art World, March 2005
“Underexposed”, Pictured issue 06, November 2003
“Images du Cambodge à l’orangerie d’Haroué”, L’Est Républicain, 20 July 2003
“Concerts, chasse au trésor: deçus des festivals, il vous reste les châteaux”, Paris Match, 17-23 July 2003