Leesa Streifler
Leesa Streifler is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and art professor who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her works have been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally, and appear in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Career
Streifler was born in Winnipeg and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree from the University of Manitoba in 1980 and a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in 1983. She lived in New York from 1980 to 1986. She began teaching in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Regina in 1986, teaching painting and drawing. She retired from teaching in 2019 and is a professor emerita.Work
Streifler is known for producing art through a variety of media including photography, acrylic painting, drawing, and performance; her works are often centered around feminism and explore themes such as illness, aging, family, body image, mental health, death and identity. Her artwork has been exhibited across Canada in the Canada Council Art Bank, National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Kenderdine Gallery. Streifler has also self-published a book entitled Kin, which contains drawings supplemented by fiction from Jeanne Randolph.Streifer's works are part of permanent collection of National Gallery of Canada Contemporary Mythology: Compassion a large-scale painted-over gelatin silver print was acquired by the National Gallery in 1993, Contained: Untitled '''', Contained: Candy Apple Pin-up and Contained: X-Ray Bunny , three series of four 4 framed chromogenic prints, were purchased by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2005.