This major exhibition devoted to the artist June Leaf (1929–2024)—whose enigmatic, beguiling, and often irreverent work is both endlessly experimental and uncategorizable—will draw from the artist’s vast archive along with loans from select private and institutional collections. The most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in more than three decades, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will consider the breadth of Leaf’s 75-year career. Arranged thematically, Leaf’s enchanting and provocative sculptures, both kinetic and stationary, paintings, and works on paper will be intermingled and placed in dynamic conversations across media, revealing the artist’s sustained engagement with such motifs and themes as theater and performance, the human drama, dance, gender, motion, urban life, mythology, and interpersonal relationships.

Accompanied by a significant scholarly publication co-published by the co-organizers and Rizzoli Electa, the exhibition will debut at the Addison Gallery of American (March 15–July 31, 2025) before traveling to the Grey Art Museum at New York University (September–December 2025) and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College (January 27–May 24, 2026).

Header image: June Leaf, Untitled, 1966, Watercolor on paper. Gift of Joel Press, 1992.58