Leigh Ledare (b. 1976), lives and works in New York. Leigh Ledare uses photography, archival materials, text and film to explore human agency and social structures, social and psychological relationships, taboos and the unconscious, raising questions of agency, intimacy and consent. Ledare’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, and is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.