Mark Leonard trained as an artist until deciding to pursue a career in paintings restoration. He began his work as a restorer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then moved to Los Angeles where he spent twenty-six years at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Beginning in 2009, he returned to working full-time as an independent artist, until, in 2012, he was invited by the Dallas Museum of Art to become the museum’s first Chief Conservator. In 2017 he returned to California and resumed his focus on his own works.
Museum Exhibitions
2012 - 2013
Reflections on Constable’s Cloud Studies: Paintings by Mark Leonard
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Museum Collections
The Yale Center for British Art
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Intersections / Recent Work: Mark Leonard
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2018
Mark Leonard: Myths and Old Masters
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2011
Gallery Selections
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2016
TWO X TWO for Aids and Art
Rachofsky House
2017
Gallery Selections
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
2018, 2019
Artists Council Juried Exhibitions
Palm Springs Art Museum
2021
TWO X TWO for Aids and Art
Rachofsky House
October, 2021
Dallas Art Fair
November, 2021
Intersect Palm Springs
February, 2022
Dallas Art Fair
April, 2022
TWO X TWO for Aids and Art
Rachofsky House, Dallas
October, 2022
Intersect Palm Springs
February, 2023
Dallas Art Fair
April, 2023
A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
January, 2024
Dallas Art Fair
April, 2024
Press
Art Daily, “Louis Stern Fine Arts opens exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Mark Leonard,” October 3, 2018
Janice Kleinschmidt, “Palm Springs Art Conservator Mark Leonard Makes Masterpieces of His Own,” Palm Springs Life, February, 2023, pages 37-39.
Sylviane Gold, New York Times, February 24, 2013
Art in America, February 12, 2013
Patrick Bahners, Frankfurter Allgemine, February 5, 2013
Amy J. Barry, Shore Publishing, December 15, 2012
Lilly Wei review, Art News, December 2012
Steve Doherty, Outdoor Painter, November 12, 2012
Daniel Grant interview, Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2012
Charlotte Eyerman, Intersections / Recent Work
Jeanne Willette review, ArtScene, July, 2011
Christopher Knight review, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2011
Mark Leonard is represented by
Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Intersections: recent work Mark Leonard, June 25 - August 6, 2011
Mark W. Leonard, Myths and Old Masters, June 9 - July 14, 2018