Leslie Kerby is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. She works in a variety of media to thematically interlinked bodies of work. She focuses on issues related to how we lead our lives personally, as individuals. And, to how our personal lives are variably connected to, and changed by, the broader networks and communities within which we live and interact. Kerby exhibits widely in galleries and art spaces in the United States and Europe. She has received commissions from Norte Maar Collaborative Projects in the Arts (2018), BRIC Arts | Media (2018) and Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (2018) and awarded residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council New York (2022), American Academy in Rome (2021), Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Virginia (3 years) and Auvillar, France ( 2023) and the School of Visual Arts, New York. Art fairs include Verge, Spring Break and AQUA Miami. In 2023 Kerby was featured on artsy.net's 2023 “Women Artists to Watch.” She has been reviewed in hyperallergic.com, and Two Coats of Paint, interviewed for BRIC Radio, BRIC TV, and blogs Artist Planet, Art Spiel and Vasari 21and her work discussed on CBS News. She has received grants in support of her work from the Joseph Robert Foundation, 2022 and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) 2026. Permanent collections include Columbia University, New York; Arkansas State University, Arkansas; Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens Greece. She is also a Co-Director at Project: ARTspace gallery in Manhattan.