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From Seeing To Witnessing | PLATFORM Event #4
SJSU Art Galleries
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Feb 2021
Memory/Cycle, Mirror/Echo/Tilt, The Breath of Empty Space
Representing vs Re-Presenting: Unpacking Methods of Visibility
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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Mar 2021
The Breath of Empty Space
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#23
Between Four Freedoms
Campeón
El Conquistador
I Can’t Breathe
Memory/Cycle
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Primitive Games
The Breath of Empty Space
The Eulogy
You Walk…
Your First Interaction…
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#23
Between Four Freedoms
Campeón
El Conquistador
I Can’t Breathe
Memory/Cycle
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Primitive Games
The Breath of Empty Space
The Eulogy
You Walk…
Your First Interaction…
Special: Recess Arts-Shaun Leonardo: Exploring the relationships between masculinity, sports, and race| Season 2: Episode 1
WNYE: Art Movez
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Apr 2022
Special: Art vs. Mass Incarceration
Center for Justice innovation
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Sep 2019
Special: “Scrimmage” art exhibit tackles the culture of football
CBS News
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Oct 2017
#23
Special: Arts Funders Forum 2020 Summit: Interview | Shaun Leonardo
Arts Funders Forum
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Dec 2020
Shaun Leonardo: a dialog on Policing, Performance, and the Question of Reform
Mitchell Center
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May 2021
Memory/Cycle, Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Imagining the Social: A Conversation
Guggenheim Museum
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Sep 2018
Primitive Games
Shaun El C. Leonardo interview
Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum
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Oct 2008
#23
Race, Art & Identity: A Conversation with Shaun Leonardo | MFTA Third Thursday
Materials for the Arts
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Jul 2020
Mirror/Echo/Tilt, Primitive Games, I Can’t Breathe, The Eulogy, The Breath of Empty Space
Shaun Leonardo: a conversation with Elwyn C. Lee and Marvin Pierre
Mitchell Center
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Apr 2021
Your First Interaction…, Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Critic and Artist Residency Series: Shaun Leonardo (Fall 2015)
Colorado State University Center for the Arts
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Jan 2016
El Conquistador, Campeón, #23
Special: Hesselbein Leadership Forum — Shaun Leonardo
Pitt GSPIA
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Mar 2021
Field Notes with Shaun Leonardo
Art for Justice
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Sep 2020
Memory/Cycle
Voices from the Frontlines with Shaun Leonardo
Art for Justice
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Sep 2020
Memory/Cycle
Shaun Leonardo on Shared Leadership
The Nonprofit Quarterly
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Apr 2021
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Art as an Act of Resistance: A Conversation With Shaun Leonardo, Dread Scott, and Clifford Owens
Artnet
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Jul 2020
Mirror/Echo/Tilt, Primitive Games, I Can’t Breathe, The Eulogy, The Breath of Empty Space
Special: Community Innovator: Shaun Leonardo Honored at Transforming Justice Together
Center for Court innovation
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May 2022
Shaun Leonardo’s ‘The Eulogy’ | BK Stories
BRIC Arts Media
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Apr 2016
The Eulogy
Shaun Leonardo draws awareness to experiences that can’t be articulated as much as felt
MASS MoCA
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May 2021
You Walk…
Keynote: Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo & Sable Elyse Smith present ” Mirror / Echo / Tilt”
Creative Capital
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Sep 2016
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
A Conversation with Artist Shaun Leonardo ’01
Bowdoin College
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Jun 2021
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Shaun Leonardo, Artist Talk
Brown University
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Oct 2018
Primitive Games
Special: The Freedom to Move: Shaun Leonardo
Art 21: New York Close Up
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Feb 2021
Keynote: Face to Face 2019 | Shaun Leonardo
NYC Arts in Education Roundtable
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Apr 2019
Primitive Games, Mirror/Echo/Tilt
Keynote: #YBCA100 SUMMIT 2015: Shaun Leonardo
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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Jun 2016
I Can’t Breathe
Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo & Sable Elyse Smith in conversation with Nicole R. Fleetwood
New Museum
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Jul 2019
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
An Evening with VECTOR
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Aug 2018
Mirror/Echo/Tilt
What Does Art Do For You? A Youth-Centered Conversation About Art And Possibility
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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May 2021
The Breath of Empty Space, Mirror/Echo/Tilt
“Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space” Walkthrough and Public Conversation
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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Feb 2021
The Breath of Empty Space
Keynote: The Brooklyn Conference–Shaun Leonardo
Brooklyn Museum
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Dec 2017
I Can’t Breathe, The Breath of Empty Space
Artist Shaun Leonardo Wants to Expand the Conversation on Police Brutality Through His Work
WNYC–The Takeaway
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Jul 2020
I Can’t Breathe, The Breath of Empty Space
NSE #83 | Shaun Leonardo with Sara Roffino
The Brooklyn Rail
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Jul 2020
The Breath of Empty Space
InSession: Nick Cave, Shaun Leonardo, Steve Locke, Xaviera Simmons, M. Carmen Lane, Dr. Kalima Young
Mass Moca
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Dec 2020
The Breath of Empty Space
Representing vs Re-Presenting: Unpacking Methods of Visibility
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
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Mar 2021
The Breath of Empty Space
From Seeing To Witnessing | PLATFORM Event #4
SJSU Art Galleries
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Feb 2021
Memory/Cycle, Mirror/Echo/Tilt, The Breath of Empty Space
Shaun Leonardo ’01 | Embodied Performance
Bowdoin College
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Oct 2021
Memory/Cycle, Primitive Games, I Can’t Breathe, The Eulogy, The Breath of Empty Space, Between Four Freedoms