Born in Oakridge Tennessee, Leslie Thornton is an acknowledged pioneer in media whose early works first addressed the interplay between cinema, video, installation and improvisation in a manner that prefigured many contemporary media strategies. Best known for her 26 year long serial Peggy and Fred in Hell, she has exhibited worldwide at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the WhitneyMuseum, Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern, PS.1, and many others. Her numerous prizes and accolades, including the Maya Deren Lifetime Achievement Award, three Rockefeller Fellowships, the first Alpert Award in the Arts for Media and she has been nominated for the Hugo Boss Award. As a teacher at Brown University, Thornton has been instrumental in building one of the most progressive media arts programs in the United States, and has influenced a whole generation of younger artists. She is represented by Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea, New York and is in the permanent collections of MOMA, NY, Jeu de paume, Centre Pompidou, and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, among others. She has had retrospectives at MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, NY, and the San Francisco Cinematheque.
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