Joanne Leonard is an American artist renowned for her transformative and expanded conceptual photographic practice which developed into new forms of photo-collage to explore the overlooked spaces, conditions and moments within women’s working and parenting lives. She has made a series on heterosexual desire and its tragedies, Dreams and Nightmares, loss in pregnancy and loss of memory as seen in dementia patients. She has also created images of the strange and often disturbing beauty of modern domestic appliances and kitchen spaces. Leonard’s work was hailed early by American feminist critic Lucy Lippard in her collection From the Center (1976) and she is widely studied for intermedial work text and image in an artwork book form, Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir (2008). Leonard’s photographs have been collected by and featured in exhibitions at major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her works have been both collected and will be exhibited (until Autumn 2023) by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.