Solo Exhibitions
2025 Circa 2025, Los Angeles, California
2025 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
2015 Lesile Lohman Museum, Transfigure, New York, New York
2015 ONE Archives; Market Street Cinema, Los Angeles, California
2014 Highways, Transfigure, Los Angeles, California
2012 Beyond Baroque, (My) Queer (R)evloution, Los Angeles, California
2012 Beyond Baroque, Death Of My Daughter,Los Angeles, California
2012 Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Death Of My Daughter, Los Angeles, California
2012 University California Santa Barbra (UCSB), Death Of My Daughter, Santa Barbra, California
2011 Temple University, Death Of My Daughter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Death Of My Daughter, Los Angeles, California
2011 ACCEPT, Death Of My Daughter, Bucharest, Romania
2011 San Francisco LGBTQ Center, Death Of My Daughter, San Francisco, California
2010 Still Above Ground, Death Of My Daughter, Oakland, California
2005 Antioch University, Beyond Conviction- Women Ex Cons, Los Angeles,
2005 Antioch University, Beyond Conviction- Women Ex Cons, Santa Barbra, California
2005 Hatch Gallery, Autobiography, Los Angeles, California
2000 Advocate Gallery, Ex-Cons, Los Angeles, California
2000 Highways Gallery, Ex-Cons, Los Angeles, California
1998 The Village at Ed Gould Gallery, Life Force, Los Angeles, California
1998 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland
1993 Highways Gallery, Memoirs to Alex, Los Angeles, California
1989 EYE Gallery, The Market Street Cinema, San Francisco, California
1989 Fobo Gallery, Ghosts Within Us, San Francisco, California,
1988 New College Gallery, Auto-da-fe, San Francisco, California
1987 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
1986 Martin Weber Gallery, Night Walk, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2024 Vitam Picturarum, West Hollywood, California
2024 The Fluidity Show, Los Angeles, California
2024 I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, Kayrod Gallery, Detroit
2024 I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, Sacrab Club, Detroit
2024 I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Detroit
2024 I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit
2024 I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit
2023 Images on which to build, Leslie Lohman Museum, NYC
2023 Images on which to build, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
2019 Art+ Positive, Iceberg Projects, Chicago
2014 L’espace créatif, TRANS TIME, Montreal, Quebec, Can
2014 ImageOut, Personal Pronouns, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester New York
2014 Highways, Trigger Warning!!, Los Angeles, California
2014 Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Brought To You By The Letter T, LA, California
2012 Highways, A Night of Trans Activism, Los Angeles, California
2007 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 Fluxco, Rose in Jupiter, Los Angeles, California
2004 ONE Gallery, Out Sights, Los Angeles, California
2004 Highways Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2002 Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, California
2001 Max 10, Los Angeles, California
1999 Highways Gallery, Retrospective, Los Angeles, California
1998 The Village at Ed Gould, Beyond memories and symbols: Robert D. Farber Living Arts Project, LA
1997 Clean Needle Exchange, Last Shot Photo w/ Hollywood Homeless Youth, LA Ca.
1992 Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Los Angeles, California
1991 C.U.N.Y., New York City, New York
1991 Sluts and Goddesses w/ Annie Sprinkle, NYC, New York; LA, Ca.
1991 Rutgers University, New Jersey
1991 P.S. 122 Gallery, New York City, New York
1991 Art Positive, New York, Philadelphia, PA; Washington DC
1990 L.A.C.E., All But The Obvious, Los Angeles, California
1990 A Day Without Art, New York City, New York
1989 Rated X Show, New York City, New York
“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
1999 Highways Gallery, Retrospective, Los Angeles, California
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.