BIOGRAPHY Artist. Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Owner/Publisher, El Moro Etching Editions, Los Osos, CA.
EDUCATION M.A. in Art, California State University, Fullerton
B.A. in Art, University of California, Irvine
SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2023-4 Mementos of Six Millennia, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2023 Diary of a Pandemic, Cuesta College Library, San Luis Obispo, CA
2015 What the Others Taught Me, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2011 Exhibition in Balcony Cases, Brooklyn Public Library, New York.
2009 Galaxy, Firefly Gallery: Paso Robles, California CATALOGUE
2008 Phases of Saturn, Arts Space Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
2006 Leslie Sutcliffe: The Galaxy, Wunderkammer and Index Paintings, CSU Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
2000 Textual, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
1995 Page as Picture, Mary Renzi and Leslie Sutcliffe, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2011 Prints: Leslie Sutcliffe, etchings printed and published by Leslie Sutcliffe. Compact Gallery San Luis Obispo, CA
2010 Pairs ,Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2009 Mixed Media: Lost and Found, Brand Library Galleries, Glendale, CA
2007 Women in Printmaking, La Sierra University, Riverside, California
2006 Exchange Show, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Curator’s Choice, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
2004 Abruptly Opinionated, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
2003 Ink and Clay 29, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
2001 Words and Images: Women’s Narratives, Sheila Laidlow-Radford, Barbara Milman, Leslie Sutcliffe, Angela Berg, University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota
New Space, Cuesta College Studio Art Faculty Show, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California
1999 Traditions/ Innovations, Invitational Print Exhibition, Art Cennter, San Luis Obispo, California
1998 California Small Works Exhibition, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA. HONORABLE MENTION
Pacific Prints, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA.
Palm Springs Desert Museum Artists Council National Juried Exhibition, Palm Springs, CA. AWARD WINNER
1995 Between the Lines: Contemporary Artists Books, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, (One of five artists and curator)
1993 Small Images Show, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
1991 Proofs in Time: Charles Garabedian, Max Cole, Richard Shaffer, Leslie Sutcliffe, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
PUBLICATIONS
AGNI 64 Fall 2006 Edition of AGNI Magazine Published by Boston University, Boston, MA
Wunderkammer & Index, 2005 Catalogue
Simple Success, New Times, June 17, 2004 (reviewer)
Mapping Dreams, New Times, February 19, 2004 (reviewer)
Words and Images: Women’s Narratives, Catalogue, University on Minnesota, Morris, 2001
Between the Lines, Catalogue, University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1995
PRESS-TELEGRAM, Review by Peter Frank, Long Beach, CA, April 16, 1995
TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE, Article, San Luis Obispo, November 3, 1990
TEACHING Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, California 1987 to 2015
University of California, Santa Barbara, California 1993
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, 1983, 1986, 1989
California State University, Fullerton, California, 1978 to 1979
Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, 1977
AWARDS Peter and M’May Diffley Award for Faculty Excellence, Cuesta College 2004