LESLIE BENDER
Da Vinci Way, New Paltz, NY 12561
845-670-2027
benderleslie@gmail.com
https//:www.lesliebender.com
 
Areas of Interest: Painting, Printmaking, Drawing, Murals, and Theater
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022     James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY One woman exhibition “White Magic”
2016     Miss Porters School Farmington CT                                                                       
2013     Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY                                                                                 
2012     Miss Porters School Farmington CT 
2010     The Doghouse Gallery Saugerties, NY Printmaking                                                   
2008     James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY                                                                     
1991     James Cox Gallery, Willow, NY                                                                     
2000     Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY                                                                                      
1998     R & F Encaustics, Kingston, NY                                                                                  
1997     Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY    

SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2014     Woodstock Artists Association Museum, Woodstock, NY   “Passage”                        
2009     Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz    MFA Show                            
2008     Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY                          
1995~8  New York State Museum, Albany, New York    Mohawk-Hudson Regional  
1998     Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia                                                                
1991     Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY      
“New York Series IX: Message to the Future”       
1988     Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY    “Committed to Print”                   
1988     Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada           “Committed to Print”                  
1988     Peace Museum, Chicago, Illinois                “Committed to Print”     
1988     New York State Museum, Albany, NY        “Committed to Print”     
1984     Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY “MetaManhattan”                     
            
SELECTED 2 – 3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023     Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY
2019     Riverside Art Galleries, Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY 
2006-12 Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY                                               
2011     BAG, Brooklyn NY Group Show                                                                                
2011     Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY                                                                                      
2006-09 Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY                                                                          
2006     Chase/Randall Gallery, Andes, NY                                                                                     
 
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2019, 2020 Kingston Annual, Kingston NY
2018     Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY “Circus! @The Howland, The Art of Balance”              
2018     Green Kill Gallery, Kingston, NY                                                                          
2017     “Reclaim! Remain! Rebuild! Posters on Affordable Housing, Gentrification & Resistance” Los Angeles, CA        (political Stencils from the Reagan protest era)                                                
2013     Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY “Cut & Paste”                                       
2012     Mad Dooley Gallery, Beacon NY                                                                            
2012     Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Rhinebeck, NY                                                                        
2011     Masters on Main, Catskill, NY “Earth Scrolls” Installation                                       
                        
EXHIBITS I CURATED                                                                          
2019     “Art Journeys Through Time”, Green Kill, Kingston NY                       
Exhibition addressing Domestic Violence by four senior women artists survivors
 
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
2022     PowerPoint presentations of my life’s artwork to public audiences in libraries in my county. I explain the meaning of the artworks, including the family violence which has affected my life.
This project was made possible through a Jumpstart Grant administered by Arts Mid-Hudson, funded by the Statewide Community Regrants Program of the New York State Council on the Arts  and supported by the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
 
MURAL PROJECTS: COORDINATOR, DESIGNER & TEACHER
2001     P.E.A.CE. Mural Project, Family Partnership Building, Poughkeepsie, NY, sponsored by Vassar College 
1981-’83 CityArts Workshop Inc, NYC                                                                                
1978-’79 CETA funded Murals Project, Middlesex County, New Jersey                                                                                                          
TEACHING and VISITING ARTIST EXPERIENCE 
2021     Private classes
2019     Ulster County Community College        Adult Education Art Instructor                             
2019     Mount Saint Mary’s College, L.I.F.E.         Adult Education, Newburgh, NY               
2012     Miss Porters School, Farmington, Ct      Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer                        
1985-’86 Artist-In-The Schools Program, NYC                                                               
 
PUBLIC and MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY
Fairview Art Museum, Springville, Utah
Dutchess Community College, Hyde Park, NY
Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted, Odense, Denmark
Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, NY
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli, NY
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, GRANTS
2022     NYSCA/NYFA Artist with Disabilities Grant 
2022     Jumpstart Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson
2016     NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Boot camp, Roxbury, NY                                           
2012, ’09 Spring Semester Prescott Visiting Artist, Miss Porters School, Farmington, Connecticut          
2007-’09 Sojourner Truth Fellowship, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2000     Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency                                                        
                                    
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
Roll Magazine 2014 “Leslie Bender Wows at WAAM”
Angry Graphics, Peregrine Books
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City 2009 
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art. 1986
New York Times, 10/7/82
 
Education:
2009     SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY MFA, Printmaking 
1975     Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY   BFA Fine Arts
1995     Cobalt Studios, White Lake, NY    Graduate degree, scenic painting  
1966-’75 Art Students League