Leah Weinstein

Leah Weinstein is a Vancouver-based, interdisciplinary artist and educator, grateful to live and work on traditional and unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh lands. Working in sculpture, community art, illustration, textiles, set and costume design, her artistic practice investigates connections between material culture and the social ideals of a larger collective. Using everyday objects and readymade materials, she examines relationships between individuals and collectives, action and display.

Leah’s professional experience includes designing sets and costumes for contemporary theatre and dance companies including: Theatre Replacement, A Wake of Vultures and Company 605. She has also created wearable artworks and sculptures for artists: Andrea Zittel, Cindy Mochizuki, Kristina Lee Podesva, Elisa Ferrari and Veda Hille. Her illustration clients include: Kate Quinn Organic Baby Clothing, and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at University of British Columbia.

From 2016 to 2018 Leah founded and curated an itinerant, artist-run gallery in a converted school bus, titled SiteFactory: Mobile Art Platform. The mandate of SiteFactory was to bring art exhibitions and performances to unconventional sites throughout Vancouver, exploring a range of site-specific locations through this roaming venue. Leah curated and hosted 13 different artist and artist-collective projects in the SiteFactory bus, collaboratively presenting a wide range of public art projects, exhibitions and performances around Vancouver.

Leah completed a Masters in Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2014, and her work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, City of Richmond Public Art Commissions, Banff Centre, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, and Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art + History.