Elizabeth Leader

Elizabeth grew up on the north shore of Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Massachusetts College of Art, she moved to Rochester, New York to earn her MFA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She fell in love with the landscape of Upstate New York and found work as an art instructor, graphic designer and artist, first in Rochester and then in Buffalo. Since 2009, she has been working full-time on her art and has had solo shows from Buffalo, NY, to Provincetown, MA. Leader has also been in numerous international group exhibitions including the recent ‘TONY, The Other New York’ statewide biennial and ‘GYRE, the Plastic Ocean,’ at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. She is also the author/illustrator of the popular children’s book, ‘Buffalo Snow’. She can be reached at Studio 507 at the Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY and online through www.elizabethleader.com