Leila Heller Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Leila Heller Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Eduardo Perez-Cabrero “Silent Day”
Eduardo explores life from his epidermis, captures vibrations and transmits them to his pieces directly. His work is refreshingly free and unconstrained by convention. In his new show at Leila Heller Gallery,...More »
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Reza Derakshani “The Shadow of a Fig Tree Quiets My Soul”
FIGS scent of a fig tree thick in summer air, shadows of her beautiful hands, like shiva, kneading the darkness, dancing. drops of sweet white juice on the way back from school in the summer...More »
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Nick Moss “Steel Shapes”
Leila Heller presents STEEL SHAPES, an exhibition of new work by New York–based artist Nick Moss. The exhibition marks the artist’s second solo show at Leila Heller New York. Moss’s new body of work...More »
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“Arthur Carter in conversation with Modern and Contemporary Masters” Exhibition
Arthur Carter’s exhibition features sculptures that have never been seen or exhibited. His new works integrate patinas into his bronze sculptures, adding an extra element to articulate a balance between...More »
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“Double Vision” Exhibition
Leila Heller presents the opening of her new show, titled DOUBLE VISION, curated by Jane Holzer. DOUBLE VISION features a collection of artworks by world-renowned and established artists exhibited as juxtapositions...More »
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“KILN” Exhibition
The exhibition program is dedicated to showing critically relevant art in an unconfined manner and within the immediate context of contemporary art history. The exhibition focuses on the kiln - the...More »
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“Pop Sculpture / Pop Culture” Exhibition
Pop Sculpture / Pop Culture marks the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades” of 1914, which influenced the entire school of Pop and inspired artists thereafter to further develop the themes...More »
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“Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present” Exhibition
The exhibition, titled “Look at Me … Portraits: Manet to the Present” is organized by Ms. Heller as well as Paul Morris, the founding director of the Armory Show, and Beth Rudin DeWoody, a curator and...More »
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Elizabeth Thompson "Stories from the Everglades"
Inspired by the unique beauty of this extraordinary “river of grass” unique to North America, Elizabeth Thompson moved from New York City to a small town in Florida in 2006 after becoming an artist in...More »
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Marcos Grigorian "Earthworks"
Marcos Grigorian: Earthworks is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York City since 1985 and marks the first solo show of the artist's work since his death in 2007. The exhibition is accompanied...More »
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Al Braithwaite "Twinned Towers"
“Art is the one place for us to go, for all this stuff to be shored up. The stuff of 9/11 is too big to carry in silence. It has to be summoned up and detoxified. To have the conversation after ten years,...More »
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"Summer Group Exhibition"
Featuring works by LTMH Gallery artists [Image: Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi "Spring" (2007 - 2008) Acrylic on canvas with video projection 50 x 89 in.]More »
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"Encyclopædia Iranica Exhibition of Iranian Art" Exhibition
Premiere viewing of the Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation's collection of magnificent work by four generations of Iranian artists, who, for many years now, have enthusiastically supported the Encyclopaedia...More »
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Shahram Karimi "The Rose Garden of Remembrance"
Born in Iran, and now living between Germany and New York, Karimi’s work explores the dilemma of his seemingly opposing identities. Using Western techniques and approaches to painting, Karimi re-imagines...More »
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Julia Mandle and Gayle Wells Mandle "Game"
Both artists unceasingly question the world through a lens focused on power struggles in the Middle East through their painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper. Both are American artists,...More »
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Roya Farassat "A Mirror Has Two Faces"
The first ever solo exhibition of work by Iranian-born, New York-based artist Roya Farassat, A Mirror Has Two Faces, will present Farassat's large-scale steel sculptures, exhibited alongside intimate paintings...More »
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Shirin Fakhim "The Tell-Tale Tart"
In this series of new life-size sculptural work, Fakhim depicts the streetwalkers of Tehran, often driven to their trade by poverty or abusive domestic situations. Exposing the hypocrisy of the sex industry...More »
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Soody Sharifi "Of Miniature Serenades and Maxiature Moments"
Of Miniature Serenades and Maxiature Moments is the artist’s first solo show in New York City. In the works from the Maxiatures series, which make up the largest part of this exhibition, the artist has...More »
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Kezban Arca Batibeki "Pulp Fiction: The Sequel"
In her new body of work, Batibeki depicts women in various states of undress or completely covered by the veil. The exhibition title refers to the popular magazines and books published in the first half...More »
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Afsoon "The Fairytale Continues"
The Fairytale Continues, new mixed media prints from Afsoon's Fairytale Icons series that explore the complicated fantasy of happily-ever-after endings through playful tableaux, will be on view in the...More »
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Pouran Jinchi "Entropy"
An exhibition of 12 new paintings by Pouran Jinchi that explore chaos and disorder will be on view at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery. The work, from Jinchi’s Entropy series, is composed of...More »
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"Illuminations (After Arthur Rimbaud)" Exhibition
Illuminations(After Arthur Rimbaud)is an exhibition by 16 well-known and emerging artists who work with light. Creating a revealing dialogue between artists living and working in the East and West, Illuminations(After...More »
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"Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now" Exhibition
Istanbul Cool! What’s Happening in Contemporary Turkish Art Now will offer the work of 27 artists living in Turkey, as well as the U.S. and Europe, and will include painting, sculpture, works on paper,...More »
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Shoja Azari "Icons"
"Icons", the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City, will feature six new video works, which examine the role of saints and heroes in modern society. A fully illustrated catalogue with essays...More »
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"Beyond the War: Seven Expatriate Iraqi Artists" Exhibition
A rare exhibition focusing on the work of prominent and emerging Iraqi artists will be on view at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery. The artists were selected for their similar, yet unique, abstract...More »
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"Tehran - New York" Exhibition
"Tehran- New York" surveys work by 40 well-known and emerging contemporary Iranian artists – including artists living in New York and the United States such as Shoja Azari, Shiva Ahmadi, Negar Ahkami,...More »
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Shiva Ahmad "Reinventing the Poetics of Myth"
Ahmadi has created a dynamic visual language inspired by Persian miniatures and Islamic art and architecture that she uses to explore social and political issues affecting both the Middle East and the...More »
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"Peace" Exhibition
In the new decade, the world needs reminding in these unsettling times to live through art, inner reflection and freedom of expression. More »
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"In Stitches" Exhibition
"In Stitches" focuses on both well-known and emerging artists who incorporate stitching and thread as prominent features in the concept and structure of their work. The artists' process includes wrapping...More »
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Roya Akhavan "Nexus"
Roya Akhavan "Nexus" features 13 new paintings and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by curator Sam Bardaouil. Roya Akhavan’s canvases of bold color and infinite patterns are populated...More »
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Darius Yektai "All I Know About Love at Thirty-Six"
This exhibition will include over 15 portraits and landscapes focusing on intimate scenes of the artist’s everyday life. Using camera snapshots as reference, Darius Yektai vigorously covers wood panels...More »
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"Selseleh/Zelzeleh" Exhibition
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"Superstars: Who's Who in Contemporary Iranian Art" Exhibition
This exhibition explores important contemporary Iranian artists from the 1960s through today and the dialogue between their differing generations. [Image: Charles Hossein Zenderoudi "Untitled" (2000)]...More »
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Arnaud Rivieren "The Hatching"
The Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery will be the site of the fourth solo exhibition of sculptor Arnaud Rivieren, a Belgian who has been residing in Dubai for six years. The artist will present a collection...More »
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Georg Gerster "Paradise Lost: Persia From Above"
For the first time ever, 29 breathtaking aerial photographs of Persia by award-winning Swiss photographer Georg Gerster, taken in the immediate years before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, will be on exhibition...More »
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Negar Ahkami "Pride and Fall"
The immigrant home rests precariously in that space in between memories of a mythical past and the chimeric dreams of possible futures. Raised by immigrant Iranian parents in America, the artist Negar...More »
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Elizabeth Thompson "The Everglades"
The artist will present 26 oil and watercolor paintings, which explore the hidden glories of the swamps, sloughs, strands and hassocks of the Florida Everglades. It is the third time that the artist returns...More »
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Raza Derakshani "Migration"
On view at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery is the solo exhibition of Iranian artist Raza Derakshani. Featured in the exhibition will be several works from the artist's Pomegranates and Migration...More »