Leslie Hickey is a visual artist, focused primarily on photography. She is a 2025 fellow in the Picture Collection at the New York Public Library. She was a member of the 2024/2025 Outer Voice time-based art alliance in Portland. She recently published an image and text book, “The Most Strange Telephone, and Other Memories,” a 160-page softcover book pairing 50 solicited telephone memories from family, friends, and artists with photographs from her archive. Hickey has exhibited in the US as well as Italy, Germany, and Russia. Beyond her primary art practice, she co-founded an experimental exhibition space, Rubus Discolor Project (2019 - 2023), that hosted occasional artist-led shows in a hundred-year-old house. For the closing show at RDP, she curated “Chicxulub,” featuring photographic interpretations of the end of the world. Images were printed on thin paper and wheat-pasted to the walls, where they will remain until the house is demolished at an unknown future date. In 2025, the Rubus Discolor Project relaunched as a billboard project.

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