Leah Dalton


Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Degree

Leah Dalton is a queer artist whose work draws on the capacity of and engagement with the body as a form of identity activism, plasticity exploration, and the body as a form of storytelling and reimaginings. Dalton’s work explores the intersections of gender, body politics, and the poetics of materiality within the expanded field of Sex Ecologies. Dalton often incorporates their own body in performance, and works with others archiving their stories, specifically women and those in their LGBTQIA2S+ community.

Recent projects include; Garden of Earthly Delights group exhibition at Coop Gallery, Nashville TN, Down There group exhibition at Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Director and Curator at 109 Gallery, Chickamauga, GA, Ox Bow Residency, Saugatuck MI, 2023, Curator of Sex Ecologies: Becoming Plastic, Stove Works Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, May 2023, Board Member of Women’s Eco Art Dialog, Berkeley, CA, Artist Workshop in collaboration with Anna. L. Georgie Ph.D. Vice President of Conservation Science and Education Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, TN (March 30 -2023), All Voices Heard Poetry Publication, Something Left to Say group exhibition at Wick Monet gallery, Pittsburgh PA, and Artist Talk Art-A-Nooga, Dry Ice gallery, Chattanooga TN, artist in residency with Kriti Contemporary Gallery, Varanasi India, and artist in residency in Oaxaca Mexico. Dalton received their BFA degree from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a MFA degree in the Low-Residency program from the Art Institute of Chicago.