Isa Leshko

Isa Leshko (b. 1971) is a photographer living in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States, including solo shows at the Corden|Potts Gallery, the Galveston Arts Center, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Houston Arts Alliance Gallery, and the Richard Levy Gallery. Her work is in numerous private collections and has been purchased by the Boston Public Library, Haverford College, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their permanent collections.

Isa's work has been reviewed and published widely throughout the globe, including coverage in The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (SZ-Magazin), NPR, and Zoom Magazine. She has received four Prix de la Photographie, Paris Awards and was selected to participate in the 2010 Review Santa Fe Portfolio Review. She was named a Critical Mass Finalist in 2010 and 2011 and a finalist for the 2011 New Orleans Photo Alliance Clarence John Laughlin Award. She was recently nominated for the prestigious Santa Fe Prize for Photography.

Isa grew up in Carteret, an industrial town situated off the New Jersey Turnpike. She received her BA from Haverford College, where she studied cognitive psychology and neurobiology. Isa spent 13 years residing in Salem, MA and has also lived in Houston, TX, Portsmouth, NH, and Providence, RI. She spent the 1990s working for dot.com startups as a project manager and software engineer before she discovered her passion for photography.

Isa’s work is represented by the Corden|Potts Gallery in San Francisco, CA, the John Cleary Gallery in Houston, TX and the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, NM.

For more information: http://www.isaleshko.com.