David Julian Leonard
born in Memphis – 1962

solo exhibitions
2016 - 28 rue de la Roquette, Arles, France - Tender is the Light
2015 - ArtsMemphis Gallery, Memphis - Pain Perdu
2007 - La Maison sur la Place, Senlis, France - David Julian Leonard
2006 - Amber Roome Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh - David Julian Leonard
2005 - Askew Nixon Ferguson, Memphis - Selected, Resurrected, Almost Neglected
2004 - Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal - real pretty toast
2003 - Århus Kunstbygning/Galleri Image, Århus, Denmark - real pretty toast
2000 - photomemphis gallery, Memphis - A Bunch of Photographs
2000 - Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi - Enlightenment
1999 - The Photographers’ Gallery, London - Southern Exposures

group exhibitions
2012 - George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y. - The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection
2011 – Austin Peay State University Trahern Gallery, Clarksville, TN – The Urban Landscape: In & Out of the Margins (w/W. Eggleston, H. Foote & V. Pavlovic)
2008 – Power House, Memphis – Guiding Light: A Tribute to William Eggleston
2005 – National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh – Recent Acquisitions
2005 – Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee - From the Photography Collection
2004 – Gallerie Stanze, Paris - Arbres
2004 – Telfair Musuem of Art, Savannah, Georgia - From the Permanent Collection
2003 - John Stinson Fine Arts, New Orleans - Picturing Bill: Portraits of William Eggleston by American and European Photographers
2002 - Austin Museum of Art, Texas - People, Places & Things: Selections From the Permanent Collection
2000 - Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis - Visualizing the Blues (exhibition traveled to eight U.S. museums through 2004)
2000 - Cooper - Young Gallery, Memphis - 3rd Annual Invitational Show
2000 - Marshall Arts, Memphis - Art Farm
1999 - The Photographers’ Gallery, London - Memories
1997 - The Photographers’ Gallery, London - Conceived on Christmas

books & catalogs
2016 - Tender is the Light - Kehrer Verlag - Heidelberg - text by W.M. Hunt
2005 - Burnt Toast - Alpha Pop Press - Memphis
2004 – real pretty toast – catalog to exhibition at Museu da Imagem - text by Joachim Paiva
2002 - real pretty toast - Alpha Pop Press, Memphis
2000 - Visualizing the Blues - Dixon Gallery, Memphis - catalog to group exhibition - text by Peter Guralnick and John Grisham

articles/essays
“The Eye of the Storm”, Moira Jeffrey – The Herald – Scotland Mar. 11, 2006
“real pretty toast” La Fotografia Actual, Barcelona - portfolio - Nov./Dec 2004
“Vu des Cimes” Marie Arnould, Forêts Magazine – Meylan, France - Sept./Oct. 2004
“Pormemores Quotidianos no Museu da Imagem”, Elmano Madail, Jornal de Notícias, Portugal - Mar. 13, 2004
“Getting the Picture”, Michael Donahue, Commercial Appeal, Memphis - Sept. 15, 2000
“Glorious Mundane”, David Hall, The Memphis Flyer – Sept. 7-13, 2000
“Southern Comfort”, Helen Sumpter, The Big Issue, London – Oct. 25-31, 1999

public collections
Austin Museum of Art – Texas
Eschuela Argentina de Fotografia - Buenos Aires
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art – Memphis
Museu da Imagem – Braga, Portugal
Musée de la Photographie a Charleroi – Belgium
New Orleans Museum of Art - Louisiana
Ogden Museum of Southern Art – New Orleans
Scottish National Photography Collection/National Portrait Gallery - Edinburgh
Telfair Museum of Art – Savannah, Georgia
Museu de Arte Moderna - Rio de Janeiro

private collections
Berman Collection – Los Angeles
Francis Coppola – San Fransisco
William Eggleston – Memphis
W.M. Hunt – New York
Joaquim Paiva – Brazilia
Terry Richardson – New York