Solo Exhibitions
2016 Transfigure, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2015 Market Street Cinema, ONE Archives, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Transfigure, Highways, Los Angeles, CA
2012 (My) Queer (R)evolution, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Death Of My Daughter, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Death Of My Daughter, Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Death Of My Daughter, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA
2011 Death Of My Daughter, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Death Of My Daughter, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
2011 Death Of My Daughter, ACCEPT, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Death Of My Daughter, San Francisco LGBTQ Center, San Francisco, CA
2010 Death Of My Daughter, Still Above Ground, Oakland, CA
2005 Beyond Conviction- Women Ex Cons, Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Beyond Conviction- Women Ex Cons, Antioch University, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Autobiography, Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Ex-Cons, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Ex-Cons, Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Life Force, The Village at Ed Gould Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
1993 Memoirs to Alex, Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 The Market Street Cinema, EYE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Ghosts Within Us, Fobo Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Auto-da-fe, New College Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1986 Night Walk, Martin Weber Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Images on Which to Build, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
2023 Images on Which to Build, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York City, NY
2019 Art+ Positive, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 Round Hole, Square Peg, Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
2016 He, She, They, Ze, The Arcade Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2016 TRANS TIME 2, Somos Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 Fashionistas Fight Back, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2015 WE CAN BE HEROES, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2014 TRANS TIME, L’espace Créatif, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2014 ImageOut: personalpronouns, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2014 Trigger Warning!!, Highways, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Brought To You By The Letter T, Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
2012 A Night of Trans Activism, Highways, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Rose in Jupiter, Fluxco, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Out Sights, ONE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Max 10, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Retrospective, Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Beyond memories and symbols: Robert D. Farber Living Arts Project, The Village at Ed Gould, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Last Shot Photo w/ Hollywood Homeless Youth, Clean Needle Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
1991 C.U.N.Y., New York City, NY
1991 Sluts and Goddesses w/ Annie Sprinkle, New York City, NY & Los Angeles, CA
1991 Rutgers University, NJ
1991 P.S. 122 Gallery, New York City, NY
1991 Art Positive, New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC
1990 All But The Obvious, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
1990 A Day Without Art, New York City, NY
1989 Rated X Show, New York City, NY
“I saw it as a 20something punk, butch queer, and I experience it as a trans man,” he said. “These are real women, fierce and beautiful in their own way, and society doesn’t take well to empowered women, let alone sex workers. In fact, women in control are not something people to want to see, not then, not now.”
Leon Mostovoy, The Guardian
Film Screenings
Transfigure
2013 Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
Death Of My Daughter
2012 TLV Fest, Tel Aviv International LGBT Fest
2012 Brisbane Queer Festival, Australia
2012 Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film & Video
2012 Divergenti International Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
2012 Lesbian Film Festival, Freiburg, Germany
2012 Out In The Desert, Arizona
2012 Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival, Canada
2012 Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia
2012 26th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, London
2012 Torino LGBT Film Festival, Italy
2012 TLV Fest, Tel Aviv International LGBT Fest
2012 Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta
2012 North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
2012 XIX International AIDS Conference, Washington DC
2012 Adelaide Festival, Australia
2011 San Francisco Trans Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2011 22nd Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
2011 Boston LGBT, Boston, MA
2011 Frameline, San Francisco, CA
2011 Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Out In Africa, Cape Town, Johannesburg, South Africa
2011 Southwest Gay And Lesbian Film Festival, Albuquerque, NM
Multimedia Performances (Collaboration with artist Divianna Ingravallo)
1994 Criminal Lovers, Highways Performance Space
1993 Thru Our Blood/Women Living With AIDS
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Josie’s Cabaret, San Francisco, CA
1992 Naked Women
1991 National Women Festival, UCLA University, Los Angeles, CA
The Kitchen, New York City, NY
Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco, CA
1991 Gone Bad
1990 PS122, New York City, NY
Franklin Furnace, New York City, NY
La Mama, New York City, NY
Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Curator
2020 LGBTQ Heritage Show: Past, Present, and Future, ACCA Gallery, Carlos Benitez and The City of West Hollywood (Online due to Covid)
2019 LGBTQ Heritage Show: Past, Present, and Future, ACCA Gallery, Carlos Benitez, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Amelia Jones & Leon Mostovoy Present: Trans Feminism; A New Conversation, Renberg Theatre, Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Trigger Warning, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles
2019 LGBTQ Heritage Show Past, Present & Future, ACCA Gallery, Carlos Benitez, Los Angeles, CA
2020 LGBTQ Heritage Show Past, Present,& Future, ACCA Gallery, Carlos Benitez, The City of West Hollywood (Online COVID 2019)
Film Distribution
2011 Death of My Daughter, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
The focus of my artwork had always been the marginalized, the misunderstood, the others, queers, women, people with AIDS. As a convict, I experienced firsthand the deep ills of the prison industrial complex. Upon my release from prison, I felt the urgency to begin the photographic series and tell the personal stories of women caught in a system with no resources to educate or liberate themselves physically, mentally or spiritually. I use our stories to convey the injustices of the US prison system.
Leon Mostovoy
Not all exhibitions and performances have been included. Full list available upon request.