Leslie Hickey

Leslie Hickey (she/her) is a visual artist, focused primarily on photography. She works in years-long series, gradually accumulating images over time that form a universe unto themselves; a universe composed of objects, chance encounters, and questions. She recently published an image and text book, The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories, a 160-page softcover book pairing 50 solicited telephone memories from family, friends, and artists with photographs from her archive. 

She has exhibited in the US as well as Italy, Germany, and Russia. Beyond her primary art practice, Hickey co-founded an experimental exhibition space, Rubus Discolor Project (2019 - 2023) that hosted occasional artist-led shows in a hundred-year-old house. For the closing show at RDP, she curated Chicxulub, featuring photographic interpretations of the end of the world. Images were printed on thin paper and wheat pasted to the walls where they will remain until the house is demolished at an unknown future date.