Collection: Leidy Churchman

Leidy Churchman (born 1979, Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American painter whose work absorbs image culture, mysticism, queer history, abstraction, neuroscience, and digital circulation into a single pictorial structure. Working across painting, video, and performance, Churchman produces layered compositions in which fragments of text, symbolic forms, diagrammatic space, birds, thresholds, and painterly atmospheres coexist without stable hierarchy — information, memory, spirituality, and reproduction treated as equally weighted pictorial material.

Churchman became increasingly significant during the post-internet and post-conceptual return to painting of the 2010s and 2020s, exhibiting internationally at institutions and galleries including Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Their practice resists easy categorisation, drawing on sources as varied as Buddhist iconography, early computing, queer community history, and the history of abstraction.

This collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to Churchman’s practice and institutional presentations.