Evelyn Leder (b. 1964, New Orleans) is a San Francisco–based artist working in photography, film, video, and electronic arts. Through a practice grounded in queer refusal and visual reorientation, Leder constructs an alternative gaze—one that circumvents dominant visual conventions and invites unfamiliar modes of seeing. In recent series such as The Objects and The Parts, they compose doubled, rotated images that suggest new bodily configurations and provisional identities. This strategy—of disrupting coherence to build something new—has become a dominant formal concern in their current and future work.
Leder’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Black and White Projects (The Objects, Kaddish for Lawrence, Kaddish for Irene) and featured at Minnesota Street Project, SOMArts, the Kinsey Institute, Root Division, the Startup Art Fair San Francisco, and Scope Art Fair NYC. Their moving image work has screened internationally at Frameline, Outfest LA, South by Southwest, the Sundance Channel, Tampere International Short Film Festival (Finland), Clermont-Ferrand (France), and Euro Underground (Poland), earning a Jury Award from the New York Expo of Short Film & Video.
They are a four-time recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission and have received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Leder is a founding member of the Artist Yacht Club and the Lesbianfilm Collective, and a member of A Simple Collective. They hold a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from the University of California, Davis.
