Thrills and Chills

Isa Leshko grew up in Carteret, an industrial town situated off the New Jersey Turnpike. She received her BA from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where she studied neurobiology and cognitive science. She spent the 1990s working for dot.com startups before she discovered her passion for photography. Isa has exhibited her work widely throughout the United States, including at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; the Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA; the Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; Soho Photo Gallery, NY, NY; the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA; the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, MA; and the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. Isa's work can purchased through the John Cleary Gallery in Houston, TX and Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has received two Prix de la Photographie, Paris Awards, an honorable mention for the Houston Center for Photography 2010 Fellowship Competition, and was nominated for a Black and White Spider Award in 2008 and 2009. To view her work, visit: http://www.isaleshko.com