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Half Native American, Leyba is a 'Sexpressionist'. His works have been collected by, the Vincent Price Archive, William S. Burroughs Archive, Stephen King, Clive Barker, David Cronenberg, H.R. Giger, Cornell University, A.I.M. (American Indian Movement), and the Black Panther Party among others. Internationally known for being controversial, Leyba is extreme, and makes no apologies for it. His mixed media canvases, containing everything from oil paint, and traditional tribal beadwork, to his own blood and body fluids, are as different an art to behold, as they are thick in texture, color, and the statements of who he is. Very graphic in their depiction of body parts, as in his portrait series, 'SexGoblins', and often politically charged, this 'Tribal Trickster' may be an acquired taste, but one who'll you will never see imitated.
The Artist’s medium is Oil over Acrylic over Collage.
Selected Exhibitions
2005
• Sex & the Muse, Photographs & collaborations w/Rik Garrett, Art @ Large, NYC
2003
• Skin Walker, Art @ Large, New York City
2002
• Museum of Pornography, Zürich Switzerland
• Group Sex II, Art @ Large, New York City
• U.S. PATRIOT ACTS, Studio Z/ Transmission Theater, San Francisco CA
• Addressing The Corporate Fascist State, A.K. Press, Oakland CA
• For and Against America, Balazo/Mission Badlands Gallery, San Francisco CA
2000
• Pages from Book IV, My American Indian Movement, The Giger Museum, Zürich Switzerland
• Ten Years and 170 pounds of books, 848 Community Space, San Francisco CA
1998
• Critical Resistance: Beyond The Prison Industrial Complex, University of California, Berkeley CA
1997
• Fuck You America, Themes on 21st Century America by Comtemporary Native American Artists, Kimo Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1994
• Ghost Dance, Reinterpretations by Comtemporary Native American Artists, Cooper Union Humanities Gallery, New York City
1993
• The Invisible People, American Indian Community House Gallery/Museum, New York City
Selected Collections
Vincent Price Archive
William S. Burroughs Archive
Stephen King
Clive Barker
David Cronenberg
H.R. Giger
Charles Gatewood
Lydia Lunch
Fakir Musafar
Tom of Finland Foundation
Church of Satan
Cornell University
Musee d'art Contemporain Pornographique in Lausanne, Switzerland
members of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement)
members of Black Panther Party
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STEVEN JOHNSON LEYBA
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LEYBA / GARRETT
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