Born in Liberty, New York, 1961
| 2009 | Zoe Leonard, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna Zoe Leonard, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
| 2008 | Zoe Leonard, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid Zoe Leonard, Dia: Beacon, New York Zoe Leonard, Derrotero, Dia at the Hispanic Society of America, New York Zoe Leonrad, Galleria Pepe Cobo, Madrid |
| 2007 | Zoe Leonard. Photographs, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur Zoe Leonard. Analogue, Villa Arson, Nice Zoe Leonard Analogue, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio |
| 2006 | Zoe Leonard, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 2003 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin |
| 2002 | The Agency for Contemporary Art, London Fae Richards Archive, Tate Modern, London |
| 2001 | Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Raffaella Cortese, Milano |
| 2000 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Micheline Szwajczer Gallery, Antwerp Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Gallery Anadiel, Jerusalem Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1998 | Centre National de la Photographie, Paris Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City |
| 1997 | Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Galerija Dante, Umag, Croatia Vienna Secession, Vienna Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami |
| 1995 | Le Casa d'Arte, Milan Photographs and Objects, at artist’s studio, presented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia |
| 1993 | The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago |
| 1992 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1991 | Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles; California University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 1990 | Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne |
| 1985 | Greathouse, New York |
| 1983 | Hogarth Gallery, Sydney |
| 1979 | Fourth Street Photo Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Augenschmaus – Vom Essen im Stillleben, Bank Austria Forum, Vienna Mixed Use: Manhatten, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid MOCA's first 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles DB Photography Price, Photographers Gallery, London; travelling to C/O Gallery in Berlin and to Deutsche Börse Headquarters in Frankfurt The Surreal House, Barbican Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Photography, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Pivot Points 3, Museum of Cpntemporary Art, Miami Locus Solus, Yvonne Lambert, Paris Fashion Room (Fotografien der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach The Female Gaze. Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York Elles @ Centrepompidou. Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris Espèces d'espaces, Yvonne Lambert, New York En todas partes. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela Galaxy, BAM/ PFA, Berkeley, California out of the blue, Gallery Bergen, Paramus, New Jersey Nouvelles Collections III, Sammlung Jocelyne & Fabrice Petignat, Centre PasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’art, Biel, Switzerland |
| 2008 | Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel, Berlin Drawing a Tension – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Calouste Gulbenkian Cultural Centre, Lisbon After Nature, New Museum, New York listen darling ... the world is yours, Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal Soziale Diagramme / Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York L’Argent, Le Plateau, Paris Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, New York Public Library, NY Reality Check, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Versus inversus, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
| 2007 | Blind Date, Deutsche Bank Kunst und Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul documenta XII, Kassel dolls, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan KISS KISS BANG BANG. 45 Years of Art and Feminism, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Works from the True Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Oh Girl, it´s a Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich Normal Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin BODYPOLITCX, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
| 2006 | Around the Corner: Zoe Leonard and Peter Wunderlich, Orchard, New York |
| The heartbeat of fashion, Sammlung F.C. Grundlach, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg | |
| Das Achte Feld, Museum Ludwig, Köln | |
| Fliegende Kühe und andere Kometen - nicht nur komische Dinge in der Kunst, Villa Merkel und Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen | |
| Vija Celmins, Liz Deschenes, Zoe Leonard, Tracy Williams. Ltd, New York | |
| 2005 | Zoe Leonard, Christopher Williams, Mai 36, Zurich The New City: Sub/urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Femme(s), Musee de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2004 | Infinitely Specific, Montserrat College of Art Galleries |
| Open Proposition: Artists for the Bill of Rights, The Proposition Gallery, New York | |
| Cave Birds, Raffaella Cortese, Milan | |
| Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York | |
| Possessed: the things we own and the things that own us, Western Bridge, Seattle | |
| Les enfants terribles - The Language of Childhood in Art - 1909-2004, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano/Switzerland, curated by Marco Franciolli, Helmut Friedel, Giovanni Iovane | |
| 2003 | Eric Hattan, Zoe Leonard, Michel Francois, Swiss Institute, NY |
| Recent Acquisitions – Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Works from the Sammlung Schurmann, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen | |
| Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz/Austria | |
| Yankee Remix, Mass MoCA, Boston | |
| The tale of the thread: Embroidery and sewing in contemporary art, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, | |
| Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K., Ghent | |
| Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York | |
| In Nature: 10th International Biennial of Photography, The Italian Foundation of Photography, and Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino | |
| A Clear Vision – Photographic works from the F.C. Gundlach collection, International House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg | |
| Lei. Donne nelle collezioni italiane, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by F. Bonami | |
| 2002 | RE: ACTION 2002, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City |
| Recent Accessions: Photography, MFA Houston | |
| American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York | |
| De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Sergio Risaliti | |
| Prophets of Boom – Werke aus der Sammlung Schürman, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, travelling exhibition. | |
| Mask & Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | |
| Sie träumt von Ihrem Lieblingsstar. Er spricht mit einer fremden Sprache. Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus in Dusseldorf | |
| Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris | |
| Le Regard de l’Autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen | |
| Photographier – to Photograph, Collection Lambert, Musée d’art Contemporain, Avignon | |
| My Marilyn, Liljewachs Konsthall, Stockholm | |
| Galerie Praz-Devallade, Paris | |
| Visions from America Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| The Photographic Impulse, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle | |
| With and Without You: Re-visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney | |
| Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel | |
| In Focus: display within the Collection 2002, Tate Modern, London | |
| Group Show, The Agency, London | |
| Disturbance, Raffaela Cortese, Milan | |
| 2001 | Full Frontal, Photographic Portraits, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas |
| From Real to Ideal, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro | |
| Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna | |
| Parkett Collaborations, Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
| Outart 2001: Stand Fast Dick and Jane, Project, Ireland | |
| Double Life, Generali Foundation, Vienna | |
| Sex – Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, curated by Rosemarie Trockel | |
| The Surreal Woman: Femaleness and the Uncanny in Surrealism, Kunsthalle Bielefeld | |
| Magic/Object/Action, Site Gallery, Steffield, England | |
| 2000 | Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Alexander and Bonin, New York |
| Cross Female, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin | |
| Brave New World, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| Kwangju Bienial, Kwangju, Korea | |
| The Wounded Diva, Kunstverein München, Munich | |
| Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia | |
| Positions to a political discourse, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria traveled to Nieuw Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp | |
| Lignes d’horizon: Acquisitions récentes du FRAC Haute-Normandie, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Haute-Normandie, Rouen | |
| Voilà: Le Monde Dans la Tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | |
| Sensitive, Le Printemps de Cahors, France | |
| Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France | |
| The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, traveling to The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida | |
| Others Worlds, curated by Erika Belle, New York | |
| Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore | |
| 1999 | A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris |
| The Sentiment of the Year 2000, Milano Triennale, Milan | |
| Persona II, Carousel Gallery, Paris | |
| Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| Larmes Blanches, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Rouen | |
| Sleuth, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales; travelling to Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; Barbican Gallery | |
| A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia | |
| The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, | |
| New York; travelling to The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | |
| Dramatis Personæ, The Photographic Resource Center, Boston | |
| Skin Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| in passing, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, | |
| Annandale-on-Hudson, New York | |
| Les Fleurs du Mal, Galerie Seitz - von Werder, Berlin | |
| Gender Trouble, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen | |
| Exhibition of Visual Art 1998, EVA, Limerick Corporation, Limerick, Ireland | |
| Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott & David Teplitzky, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado | |
| 1998 | Crossroad, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| Three Generations Patricia Faure Gallery, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
| Fast Forward (Body Check), Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg | |
| Some Like it Hot, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York | |
| Jardin d’artistes: De mémoire d’arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris | |
| L’Hypothèse du tableau vole, la Fondation Mamco et le Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva | |
| Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum | |
| Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| Sculpture - Figure - Woman, Upper Austrian Regional Gallery, Linz, travelling to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz | |
| The Precious Image: Contemporary Platinum Photography, University Art Gallery, Montclair State University, New Jersey | |
| 1997 | Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent zu Gast im Kunstverein Schwerte |
| Still and Moving: Contemporary Photography and Video, Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, | |
| Miami Short Cuts: Links to the Body, Deutsche Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Dortmund, | |
| The Veiled Face (Transvestism and Identity in Art): The 80’s and 90’s, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Exhibition Gallery, Donostia-St. Sebastian, Spain | |
| Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia | |
| The Matrix of Geography, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia | |
| 1997 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| The Leisure Sector, Annika Sundvik Gallery, New York | |
| Skin Deep, Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris | |
| Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York | |
| Gothic, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | |
| Fashion Moda, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland | |
| Veronica’s Revenge: Oeuvres Photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; traveled to Casino Luxembourg and Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg; and to Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark | |
| 1996 | Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York |
| The Wild Good; Lesbian Photography and Writings on Love, A Different Light Bookstore, New York | |
| Embedded Metaphor, traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators International, New York; Curated by Nina Felshin | |
| Groninger Museum’s Collection and Proposals for Future Acquisitions, Groninger Museum, Groningen | |
| Nudo and Crudo: Sensitive body, Visible body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan | |
| Black and Blue: Eight American Photographers, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| Passage à l'acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris | |
| Vija Celmins, Zoe Leonard, Jorge Pardo, Joe Scanlan, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp | |
| Points of View: Photography from the Collection, Gallery 2, University Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkely | |
| Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo | |
| L'Evidence, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva | |
| Sosie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, | |
| Push Pause, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago | |
| 1995 | In a Different Light, University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley |
| Zoe Leonard and Mauri Formigoni, Sangamon State University Visual Arts Gallery, Springfield, Illinois | |
| Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | |
| L'immagine riflessa: una selezione di fotografia contemporanea dalla collezione LAC, Svizzera, Museo Pecci, Prato | |
| Fashion Moda, Entwistle Gallery, London, curated by Lisa Marie Marks | |
| Feminin/Masculin: Le Sexe de l'Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | |
| Nature Studies II, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
| Obliquely, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica | |
| Passion Privées: Collections particulières d’art moderne et contemporain en France, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | |
| 1994 | The Art of Seduction, The Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami |
| The Use of Pleasure, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco | |
| Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; travelled to: Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Le Capitou, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Frejus, France; Stadische Galerie, Goppingen, Germany; Massimo de Carlo, Milan; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; curated by Robert Nickas | |
| Sum of the Parts, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| Sosie, Herve Mikaeloff, Paris | |
| Sea Sights, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, New York, curated by Nessia Pope | |
| Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 1993 | Saints and Survivors in a Time of Plague, Lowinsky Gallery, New York |
| 1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; travelled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| Dissent, Difference & The Body Politic, Otis Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles | |
| Art & Aids in New York, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich Stadtbibliothek Hannover, Hannover | |
| 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art / The First World, New York | |
| Rewriting History: The Salon of 1993, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
| Coming To Power: 25 Years of Sexually Explicit Art by Women, David Zwirner Gallery, New York | |
| The Uncanny, Sonsbeek Exhibition, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Arnhem | |
| Eau de Cologne: 1983 - 1993, Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne | |
| Robert Gober, Zoe Leonard, Fawbush, New York | |
| Nulle Part et Partout, Espace Paul Boye, Sète, France | |
| Imaginaries, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, New York | |
| Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Independent Study Program, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| What happened to the institutional critic? American Fine Arts-Colin de Land, New York | |
| The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York; travelled to: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The Foundation for Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico; The Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, California; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Kunstverein Kippenberger Kassel, Museum Fridericianum Kassel | |
| Gent de Gast in De Beyerd Breda: De Keuze Van Jan Hoet, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium | |
| 1992 | Zoe Leonard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kiki Smith, Robert Gober, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco |
| Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany | |
| 1991 | From Desire: A Queer Diary, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, New York |
| Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne | |
| On Kawara, Zoe Leonard, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York | |
| 8th Annual Day of the Dead / Dia de los Muertos, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California | |
| Nancy Brooks Brody, Paula Hayes, Zoe Leonard, Jack Pierson, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Shooter's Hill, AC Project Room, New York, New York | |
| Act Up Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 1990 | Luhring Augustine, New York, New York |
| The Köln Show, Cologne, Germany | |
| Wendy Jacob and Zoe Leonard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Ponton Temse, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Survey of Gay and Lesbian Artists, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Act Up Auction For Action, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 1989 | Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York |
| First Amendment Show, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, New York | |
| War Resisters' League Benefit, New York, New York | |
| The Center Show, Lesbian and Gay Community Center, New York, New York | |
| Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, New York | |
| AIDS Timeline, An Installation by Group Material, University Art Museum/ Pacific Film Archives, University of California, Berkeley, California | |
| 1988 | Selections from the Artists' File, Artist Space, New York, New York |
| 1987 | Consonance, ISD, New York, New York |
| 1986 | The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| Simon Cerigo Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Myth, Greathouse, New York, New York | |
| New Math Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 1985 | Getting Off, Civilian Warfare, New York, New York |
| 1984 | Soon to Be A Major Motion Picture, Greathouse, New York, New York |
| Just Appearances, New Math Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 1983 | Twenty Nine Downtown, Piezo Electric, New York, New York |
| 1982 | Times Square Show, Times Square, New York, New York |
| 1980 | Club 57, New York, New York |