Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, Tennessee) lives and works in New York. Her group and solo exhibitions and screenings include Begin Again, Again, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2021); Metabolic Rift, Krafwerk Berlin (2021); The Big Sleep, 4. Biennale, Haus der Kunst, München (2021); New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, MoMA, New York (2021); Ground, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2020); SPEED (with James Richards), Malmö Konsthall, Malmö (2019); SPEED (with James Richards), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2018); Crossing (with James Richards), Secession, Vienna (2018); Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Crossing (with James Richards), Rodeo, London (2016); FemCine, Chile (2015); Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London (2013); Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2013); On Photography, SFMOMA, San Francisco (2012); 53 Museum, Guangzhou, China (2011); Radical Light Program, MoMA, New York (2011); Tate Modern, London (2010); dOCUMENTA (12), Kassel (2007).