Zoe Leonard

Zoe Leonard is an American artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, and text. Her work engages questions of visibility, loss, queer history, and the politics of representation. I Want a President, written in 1992 during the AIDS crisis and circulated through activist and queer networks, remains one of the most widely reproduced and enduring political texts to emerge from that period. Leonard’s publications and printed matter circulate through artist-led presses, independent editions, and institutional contexts in equal measure.

  • Cover of Zoe Leonard, I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017, showing the title in large dark brown sans-serif type over a risograph-printed heart on a vivid orange wrapper, with the author name Zoe Leonard below and C¿MI colophon at lower left. Interior spread of Zoe Leonard, I Want a President, Gato Negro, 2017, showing white sans-serif text on black pages reading "someone who cross dresses and has done drugs and been in therapy." on the left and "I want someone who has committed civil disobedience." on the right, with visible hand-sewn binding at centre.

    Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017

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    Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017

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