She lives and works in Berkeley, CA. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA and her BA from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. She is currently an MFA candidate in the School of Art at San Francisco State University.
Her work has been featured at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY; the Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Design Week, and The Future Perfect, Brooklyn, NY. In 2020 she co-founded Deep Time Press︎︎︎, an independent publishing imprint that focuses on concepts of time and place, with photographer Justin James King.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Leah Koransky: 100 Days, Morningtide, Albany, CA, October 5 – November 5, 2018
Seawitches Artist-in-Residence Show, Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, California, December 9–15, 2017
SITE-SPECIFIC PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
Wanda 2.0—SF Design Week, John Maher Alley, San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2017
Wanda, John Maher Alley, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 2016
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
So Far So Far, MFA Thesis Show, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, April 26 – May 16, 2024
Wonder, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, January 31 - September 30, 2024
2023 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, September 15–October 6, 2023, SOMArts San Francisco
Pyramid Scheme, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2023
Tuna fish sandwich (Yoko Ono), Public Performance curated by Mike Arcega, Art Market San Francisco at Fort Mason, April 20, 2023
Neighboring Sounds, the first-year MFA show at San Francisco State University, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA, January 30 – February 3, 2023
under a rock, along the shore, form & concept, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 15 – January 28, 2023
Light Breaking Open, LABA Bay Area Exhibition, Berkeley, California, December 3, 2022
Comment, JCC Taube Center for Jewish Peoplehood, San Rafael, CA, September 12, 2022 – January 4, 2023
that space, that garden, curated by Madeline Cass, Wallspace-LNK, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 8 – July 30, 2022
Between Here and Now, in conjunction with Vantage Points, New York, NY, May 6 – 15, 2022
Ephemeral Existence, in conjunction with Teleportal, Satchel Projects, New York, NY, January 12 – 29, 2022
Silver-Iron-Light, The Mildred Complexity, Narrowsburg, NY, November 2021
TSA_PDF x SVA: The Artist Residency Project, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, April 2 – 30, 2021
Members Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, January 1 – 31, 2020
All Gold Turns 3, All Gold, Oakland, California, June 29 – July 31, 2019
East Bay Open Studios, Firehouse Collective, Berkeley, California, September 22, 2019
Berkeley Women’s Center Fundraiser Show, All Gold, Oakland, California, December 8, 2018
Creating the Illusion: Psychic Echoes, Gristle Gallery, Brooklyn NY, January 30 – March 9, 2015
Greenpoint Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York, September 8–12, 2012
Hue Are You? The Future Perfect, Brooklyn, New York, March 20–April 30, 2008
Senior Thesis Exhibition, The Nave, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2008
ARTIST RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2023
Cadogan Contemporary Art Awardee
Leo D. Stillwell Jr. Graduate Student Scholarship
2022
Kala, Artist-in-Residence: Photography (film)| Alternative Photographic Processes, and The Digital Lab
LABA East Bay, Visual Arts Fellow
2021
Mildred’s Lane, Fellow, June 2021
SVA Artist Residency Project, February – March 2021
PUBLICATIONS (AS AUTHOR)
2022
Drawing Trees (contributing writer, illustrator, and designer), edited by Sara McKay, Published by Princeton Architectural Press
PUBLICATIONS (AS DESIGNER)
Nancy Grace Horton: Photographs, published with funding from New Hampshire Council for the arts, 2021
Giants Cave, Justin James King, Published by Deep Time Press, 2020
Salt and Dust, Justin James King, Published by Deep Time Press, 2020
Yearbook, Paolo Arao, Published by Paolo Arao, 2018
Seawitches, A Zine for Waterpeople, Published by Other Side of Surfing Press, 2017–2021
Paula Hayes, Paula Hayes and Richard D. Marshall, Published by The Monacelli Press, 2015
TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Advanced Photography (experimental and alternative processes), Spring 2023
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Graphic Design Undergraduate Thesis Advisor, 2018–2020
California College of the Arts Extension, San Francisco, CA Lecturer, Graphic Design, 2018–2020
UC Berkeley Extension
Guest Lecturer, Graphic Design, 2018
GRAPHIC DESIGN & ART DIRECTION EXPERIENCE
2008 – Present
Leah Koransky Design
Freelance Designer
2015 – 2018
Landor, San Francisco, CA
Senior Designer
2013 – 2015
Language Dept., New York, NY
Senior Designer
2011 – 2013
Laird & Partners, New York, NY
Designer
2008 Pentagram, New York, NY
Junior Designer
EDUCATION
MFA (Expected 2024), Interdisciplinary Fine Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
BFA, Graphic Design, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BA with a Concentration in Printmaking/Painting, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Semester Abroad in Printmaking/Painting, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
Summer Study in Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL