Christina Leslie is a lens-based artist from Toronto, who earned a B.F.A. from OCADU in 2006 and an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2022. Notable speaking engagements include SPE conference in Philadelphia (2010), Royal Ontario Museum's Position as Desired symposium (2011), and the McMaster Museum of Art (2022 and 2023).
Her work has appeared in prominent art journals such as MURZE art magazine, Divide Art Magazine, Art Seen Magazine, CAP Art Magazine, and Pitch Magazine.
Her most recent photographic series "Sugar Coat" received praise from Ain't Bad Magazine, Featureshoot.com, and PetaPixel.com, and was recently exhibited at BAND Gallery with support from the Honda Canada Foundation (2023), RIT City Art Space in Rochester, NY as part of the Homecoming Photo Biennial (2023) and at the Exposure Festival in Calgary (2024) and an upcoming solo exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in November 2024.
Leslie's photographs have been exhibited at various institutions across the globe, including The GAMU in Prague, Oakland University in Michigan, The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada's Pier 21, The Art Gallery of Windsor, The Caribbean Art Fair in Jamaica, The McMaster Museum of Art, Paris Photo art fair and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Toronto.
Her "Morant Bay" series was featured prominently at the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival and the Capture Festival in Vancouver, where three photos from the series were converted into billboards.
She is the 2024 curator of the exhibition SUMMA which is a 4th year undergraduate show at the McMaster Museum of Art.
Her "EveryTING Irie" series is part of Dr. Kenneth Montague's "The Wedge Collection" and is in the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Her art practice focuses on themes that delve into decolonization, identity, immigration, marginalization, history, memory, race, and her West Indian background, which she explores via various experimental photography methods and text.
Leslie is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.