Born	1960 Seattle, WA Lives and works in New York
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2010-2011	“Charles LeDray: workworkworkworkwork,” Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA, 16 July – 17 October 2010; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 18 November 2010 - February 2011; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, June – September 2011
2009-2010	“Charles LeDray: MENS SUITS,” An Artangel Commission, London, England, 28 May – 28 August; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 21 November 2009 – 10 January 2010
2007	Sperone Westwater, New York, 20 February - 24 March.
2004	Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, 22 October – 4 December.
2003	Sperone Westwater, New York, 30 January – 1 March
2002-2003	Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 18 May - 14 July 2002; The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 15 September - 30 November 2002; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 25 January - 6 April 2003; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 25 April - 27 July 2003 (catalogue)
1996	Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, 8 June - 6 July
	Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, 6 April - 11 May
1994	Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco 6 January - 2 February
1993	Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, January - February.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010	“Size DOES Matter,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, 19 February – 27 May 2010 (catalogue)
2009	“In Stitches,” Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, 12 November – 19 December 2009 (catalogue)
	“The Endless Renaissance,” Bass Museum of Art, Gertrude Silverstone Muss Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, 17 April – 16 August 2009
	“On the Body: Selected Work from the Rachofsky Collection.” UNT Art Gallery, Denton, TX, 20 January – 21 February 2009 (brochure)
2008-2009	“Human Nature(s),” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 15 November 2008 – 15 February
2006-2007	“Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art,” selections from the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 10 November 2006- 11 February 2007.
	“Contemporary, Cool, and Collected,” The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, 20 October – 30 December (catalogue, p. 78)
2005	“Sculpture,” The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT, 14 October – 5 December 2005.
	“Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1 October – 15 November 2005.
	“Past Presence: Childhood and Memory,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 7 July- 13 October 2005.
	“One of a Kind: In Homage to ‘Snowflake’ Bentley,” New York Academy of Sciences, 17 June – 31 August 2005.
2004	“Symbolic Space,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Spring 2004.
	“Endless Love,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, 7 January – 7 February.
2003	“Thinking about Sculpture,” The Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, 2003 – 2004.
	“family ties: a contemporary perspective,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, June 21-September 21
2002-2003	“Mask or Mirror: A Play of Portraits,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 6 October 2002 – 26 January 2003 (catalogue)
	"Rapture: art’s seduction by fashion since 1970,” Barbican Art Gallery, London, 10 October –31 December 2002
2001-2002	"Alterations," James Graham & Sons, New York, 21 June - 30 August 2001 "Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art," Curated by Independent Curators International, Tacoma Art Museum, 8 July - 17 September 2000; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 6 October - 14 January 2001; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, 4 February - 8 April 2001; Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, 26 April - 8 July 2001 (catalogue); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 30 August - 4 November 2001; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, 24 November - 20 January 2002; Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, 6 September - 10 November 2002
2001	"Postcards from the Edge," Sara Meltzer Gallery, 18 November
2000	Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, 27 June - 24 September
1999-2000	"I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century," Curated by Sean Mellyn and Jonathan VanDyke, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 2
	December 1999 - 24 February 2000 (catalogue)
	"Bodies of Resistance," organized by Visual AIDS, Real Artways, Hartford, CT, 1 December 1999 - 30 January 2000; NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 2-20 July 2000 (catalogue)
1999	"Matter of Time," curated by Andrew Perchuk, Dorsky Gallery, New York, 7 September - 23 October (brochure)
	"Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 12 September - 21 November (catalogue)
	"Summer Group Exhibition," Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, 19 June - 30 July
	"Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999," curated by Jessica Morgan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 31 March - 28 May (catalogue)
	"Recent Acquisitions," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998	La Biennale de Montréal 98: "Dreamcatchers," Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada, 27 August - 18 October
	American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1997-2000	"At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996," curated by Ralph Rugoff, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca;
	Meyerhoff Galleries, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
	"Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 3 December -
1997	"Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 13 September - 13 January 1998 (catalogue)
	"The View from Denver," curated by Dianne Vanderlip, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 4 July -
	"La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII International Art Exhibition," curated by Germano Celant, Corderie Building, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
	"As Time Goes By: History, Memory, and Sentimentality," The Whitney Museum at Champion Plaza, Stamford, CT, 6 June - 20 August
	"Art on the Edge of Fashion," curated by Heather S. Lineberry, Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ, 2 February - 27 April (catalogue)
1996-1997	"Biennale di Firenze: Art & Fashion, 1900-2000," curated by Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Fort Belvedere, Florence and Prato, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York (catalogue)
1996	"Intermission," organized by Toland Grinnell and Matthew Ritchie, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, 9-19 July
	"Labor of Love," curated by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
	"Configura 2: Dialogue of Culture," City of Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)
	"Fetishism: Power, Desire and Displacement," Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, England; Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England; Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich,England (catalogue)
	"Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe," The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
	"Division of Labor: Women's Work," curated by Lydia Yee, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
	"Woodworks," Michael Klein Gallery, New York
1994	"Toys/Art/Us," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle
	"Guys Who Sew," University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
	"Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson
	"Family Ties," P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
	"Lest We Forget/On Nostalgia," Takashimaya, New York
	"Le Temps d'un Dessin," Galerie de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, Lorient, France
1993	"Anxious Art," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
	"Mr. Sterling's Neighborhood," Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
	"Fall from Fashion," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
	"Charles LeDray/Siobhan Liddell," Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
	"Le Principe de Realité," Villa Arson, Nice, France
	"Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?" Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
	"Bodyguard," Hohenhal und Bergen," Münich
1992	"Vital Perfection: Sylvie Fleury, Gotscho, Charles LeDray," Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
	"The Anti-Masculine," Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
	"Structural Damage: Charles LeDray, Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons," Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
1991	"Sweet Dreams," Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
	"Forbidden Games," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
	"workworkworkworkwork," Astor Place at Cooper Square, New York
AWARDS
2002	International Art Critics Association
1998	Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1997-1998	Gorham Phillips Stevens Visual Arts Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
1993	The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
	The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
	Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
	The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
	The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009	"On the Body: Selected Work from The Rachofsky Collection," exhibition brochure. Texas: University of North Texas Art Gallery, 2009, illustrated.
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2007	Yablonsky, Linda. "Charles LeDray, Sculpture," exhibition catalogue.New York: Sperone Westwater.
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2005	Yablonsky, Linda. “Why Small is Big,” Artnews, December 2005, pp. 121-127.
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2004	“Charles LeDray,” Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf.
2003	Bing, Alison, “A Little, Fresh Perspective,” San Francisco Chronicle, 14 March 2003.
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2002	Camper, Fred, “Charles LeDray,” Chicago Reader, 1 November 2002
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2001	Retorno al País de las Maravillas, El arte contemporáneo y la infancia, exhibition catalogue, (Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa", 2001) p. 71.
2000	Thea, Carolee, "Dispatch: 5th Lyon Biennale," Sculpture, December 2000, p. 82.
	Celant, Geramano, L'Espresso, November 2000.
1999	I'm Not Here, exhibition catalogue, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1999.
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	Perchuk, Andrew, Matter of Time: Jim Hodges, Charles LeDray, Michelle Segre and Jonathan Seliger, exhibition catalogue, Dorsky Gallery, New York, 1999.
1998	Grundberg, Andy, "Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, SFMoMA," Artforum, p.87.
1997	Helfand, Glan, "Just a moment...Nine Artists Quietly Endure Millenium Tension," San Francisco Bay Examiner, 24 September 1997, p. 65-67.
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	Zimmer, William, "Yes, there does exist a place for the sheerest of sentiment," The New York Times (CT edition), 27 July 1997.
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	Tully, Judd, "At the Edge...Seven Contemporary Collectors Talk," interview with Robert J. Schiffler, Art & Auction, May 1997, p. 132.
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	Smith, Roberta, "Serious Side of an Infatuation with Fashion," The New York Times, 14 March 1997, C28.
	Zimmer, Elizabeth, "It's Genius!: Artists Cheer the Best of the Year," contribution by LeDray, p. 24-26.
	Adams, Brooks and Liebmann, Lisa, "Nothing Left Undone," Young Americans 2, exhibition catalogue, Saatchi Gallery, London, 1997.
	Vanderlip, Dianne Perry, The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art fromthe Denver Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Denver Art Museum, 1997.
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	Mileaf, Janine, "The House that Carrie Built: The Stettheimer Doll's House of the 1920's," guest edited by David A. Greene, Art & Design: Art & the Home (London), issue #51, November/December 1996, (reproduction)
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	Taplin, Robert, "LeDray's Microcraft," Art in America, September 1996, p. 84-87.
1996	Rugoff, Ralph, "Little Feats: Charles LeDray's Expansive Miniatures," L.A. Weekly, 21-27 June 1996, p. 41.
	Kandel, Susan, "Exquisite Miniatures of Sizable Seduction," Los Angeles Times, 22 June 1996, F14.
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1995	Cotter, Holland, "Feminist Art, 1962 until Tomorrow Morning and International," The New York Times, 17 March 1995.
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1994	Raven, Arlene; Wallace, Michelle; Yee, Lydia, Division of Labor: Women's Work, exhibition catalogue, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, 1995.
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	Bonetti, David, review, San Francisco Examiner, 20 January 1994.
1993	Hagen, Charles, "In Connecticut, Clothes, Photos and a Yale on Yale," The New York Times, 23 July 1993.
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1991	"Galleries," The New Yorker, 24 June 1991.
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