Leah DeVun

Leah DeVun (born 1973) is a Brooklyn-based author, professor, and artist whose work focuses on gender, LGBTQ communities and the politics of the body. DeVun has been featured or interviewed in Artforum, New York Times, HuffPost, People MagazineHyperallergic, Out, Art Papers, Feature Shoot, Redbook, and Slate, and venues presenting her work include Baxter Street Camera Club, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Blanton Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Leslie-Lohman Museum, the ONE Archives Gallery and Museum at the University of Southern California, Royal Photographic Society, Stonewall National Museum and Archives, and Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. Her most recent series, “Resemblance,” was selected for Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 50 and the New York Portfolio Review, and it will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Mrs. Gallery in New York this spring. DeVun is also a professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University.