Leslie Putnam studies: 1990 BACHELOR OF FINE ART, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec: 2000 BACHELOR OF EDUCATION, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 2025 Apr-May Center [ 3 ] for Artistic + Social Practice with Kevin Andrew Heslop of and 24/25 Travelling Breakthrough Plus Newmarket, Art Gallery of Burlington, Clay and Glass Gallery Waterloo 23/24 Travelling Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove - North Bay, Timmins, Toronto 2022 Toronto ON Broken Forests High Park Polypore founts 2022 London ON. 100 Kellogg's Lane ArtComp Ceramic Installation 2022 Waterloo ON Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery National Exhibition, Confined 2019 London ON Museum London - Pushing Paper 2018 London ON Here See Feel What Centre 3 Hamilton, VFL London ON 2017 London ON Strand Fine Art Services with David Bobier - Field Guide for the Moment 2017 London ON Museum London - Sounds Assembling: Communication and the Art of Noise 2015 Meaford ON Electric Eclectics Festival - Soundpods installation 2015 Toronto ON Hard Twist 10 Memory - The Gladstone Hotel 2014 Chatham ON re: inhabit - o’honey collective Thames Art Gallery (May- June 2014) 2014 Hamilton ON Farmers Market Public Art Call- Shortlisted 2014 London ON Queen's Park Public Art Call- Shortlisted 2014 London ON Winter Spectacular with Paulina Szczesny @ VibraFusionLab London ON 2014 North Bay 150 West Studio Gallery 2014 London ON Westland Gallery- The Creative Age 2013 London ON Sweet Magic London - Performance - Gentle Souls Hand-Crank Orchestral Balladeers 2013 London, ON big city dwellers - Strand Fine Art Services (solo) 2013 Sarnia, ON JNAAG Juried Art Show 2011 Toronto, ON Nuit Blanche Gladstone Hotel Fly By Night (o'honey collective) 2010 London, ON Selected- Tolpuddle Martyr’s Monument with David Bobier 2010 London, ON This Other Place - Strand Fine Art Services (solo) 2009 Toronto,ON Toronto Transit Commission- Lansdowne Sculpture Project with David Bobier - Shortlisted 2009 London, ON Juried Jass Museum London Honorary Chair's Award- Eric Aitkinson Chair 2009 Toronto, ON Propeller Gallery Group show 2007 St. Thomas, ON Alternate Route - St.Thomas - Elgin Public Art Gallery 2006 London, ON OpenAir III in conjunction with McIntosh Gallery UWO 2005 London, ON Faith at the Molecular Level - Lalaland Studios (solo) 2005 Ottawa, ON Art Against War Cube Gallery 2005 London, ON McIntosh Gallery UWO - Future Creatives 2005 London, ON Guildhouse Gallery - Lalalandscapes 2004 London, ON Intuition and Memory – 700 Contemporary Art (solo) 2004 Ottawa, ON Gallery 101 - Art Vs. War 2004 London, ON 700 Contemporary Art Group Show 2003 London, ON Old East Street Festival, Installation 2002 London, ON Forest City Gallery – Show and Tell 2002 Portugal,Tavira The Frankenstein Project 2002 London, ON Michael Gibson Gallery – Miniatures 2 2001 Luxembourg 19 Rouge - Group Show – Othello 2001 London, ON Michael Gibson Gallery – Miniature Show 2001 London, ON Open Air Market Square – Canoe Mclntosh Gallery – Bike-Ride for Mr C 2000 Luxembourg An 2000 - Jour Zero, Esch sur Alzette 1999 Luxembourg Presentense – 19 Rouge 19, rue St Ulric (solo) 1999 Metz, France Salon, Galerie de L’Arsenal 1998 Luxembourg VII Quinquennale d’Art Moderne 1998 Luxembourg Minimal Art Discount Du Vague a l’Art 1998 Luxembourg Salon 98 CAL 1991 Montreal, PQ Exhibition for The Old Brewery Mission 1990 Montreal, PQ Street Performance, rue St. Laurent 1990 Montreal, PQ Powerhouse Gallery, Student Performance Video
Teaching/Grants/Articles/Catalogues
2024 On View Residency, Sulphur Studios Savannah Georgia, with David Bobier ; o'honey collective 2024 Canada Council Travel Grant Awarded 2024 Residency Costa Rica Mauser Foundation for work on Wild Alchemy and the Global Grove 2023 OAC Grant Awarded Multi and Inter Arts Projects Vibrotactile Poetic Sculptures with Poets Kevin Heslop and Roxanna Bennett 2022 Twixtlab Athens Greece, Artists Residency/Presentation of Vibrotactile Ceramics 2022 OAC Grant Awarded Craft Projects- Multi Sensory Vibrotactile Hand Held Ceramic Sculptures 2022 Catalogue: Confined. Text: P. Flannery, D. Longchamps, Abisola Oni, Akycha Surette 2017 Art/Science at Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School 2016 Teacher Facilitator - Moving Forward: Identities, sexting, schooled bodies and the curriculum that frames us. With Dr. Michael Kehler, Western University, Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School Grade 12 Students TVDSB. 2015 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant - Hard Twist 10 2014 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant- Electric Eclectics Installation 2014 Re-inhabiting Ourselves: Reflections on the Advent of o’honey - Dermot Wilson 2011 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant -Nuit Blanche ‘Nest(ing)' 2011 Hands Come Together- The Tolpuddle Martyrs Monument, London Free Press 2010 GLIER, University of Windsor, Green Corridor-Art Education Consultant 2008 TVDSB/Museum London - Artist/Educator, (MACC) Making Art,Creating Communities. Artist/Workshop Facilitator 2007 Artscape Magazine - The Fine Art of Questioning 2007 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant STEPAC , this other place 2005 OAC Exhibition Assistance Grant 1998 Artists of the Schleiffmillen, Documentary Film, RTL Productions, Germany 1989 Prototype book, Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker
Member Forest City Gallery, London Ontario CARFAC Ontario College of Teachers
