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LeDor is a photo-based artist whose work focuses on the roles and expectations of women in contemporary popular culture. The scenes and characters are based on life experiences of the artist and friends, people who navigate life as outcasts due to their sexuality and/or gender diversion. In their most recent series, Presumably Malevolent, popular cinema is targeted for its lack of representation of female villains. Despite lacking queer and female representation, popular cinema is a massive influence on youth and how they navigate the world. In this series LeDor criticizes the normative representation of women’s roles, and rejects such definitions by presenting re-constructed queer archetypes; thus politicizing the construction of the female performance through portraiture. 

EXHIBITIONS

  • Group exhibition, The States of Becoming in Montréal, Québec. April 4th – April 15th, 2018.

  • Group exhibition at the PRIME Gallery in Jersey City, NJ. March 3rd – May 3rd, 2018.

  • Group exhibition at the Glass Door Gallery in Montréal, Québec. October 27th, 2016.

  • Group show with Planet X at the Caelum Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY. June 24, 2016.

  • Group show at Space Ibiza with Pancakes and Booze, in New York City, NY. April 21, 2016. 

  • Group show with Yiara Magazine, Issue 4 launch, in Montréal, Québec. March 31, 2016. 

  • Group show at the Glass Door Gallery in Montréal, Québec, March 12, 2016. 

  • Group show at the Brooklyn Art Zone with CuratorCollective5, in Brooklyn, NY. February 13, 2016. 

  • Group show at the See | Exhibition Space in New York City, NY from July 25th – September 10th, 2013.

  • Group show at the Pentimento Gallery in Toronto, Ontario from November 29th – January 15th, 2012/13.

  • Group show at the Pentimento Gallery in Toronto, Ontario from June 7th – July 15th, 2012.

  • Group show at Studio 561 in Toronto, Ontario from January 8th – January 17th, 2011.

  • Group show at the Annex Theatre during the production of Wolfboy in Toronto, Ontario in July 2010.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Publication in Yiara Magazine Issue 4, March, 2016.

  • Burner Magazine, Issue Five.

  • "Who Am I?", Interview with PMC Magazine, December, 2011. 7-10PM.                                           http://pmc-mag.com/2011/12/le-dor-golightly/

  • V Magazine, Issue 69, 2011. 

  • Photo Life Magazine, Emerging Photographers 2009.

  • International Photography Awards, Best of 2009 Honorable Mention.

PRESS

For Alleged Moral Ambiguity: In their series of diptychs, LeDor engages with the word "whore" to confront the way gendered terminology is sytematically employed to degrade women and strip them of their social and political power. This word is especially significant because of its historical context as a term used in anti-sex work discourse and slut-shaming. While the first image of every pair shows a woman somehow on display and labeled by the word "whore," the second image shows the woman claiming agency over her pose and her sexuality, subverting the term and reclaiming it in an act of empowerment and nonviolent rebellion. Each diptych reflects on a different group or institution that opresses women, from the criminal justice system to the fashion industry, underscoring the insidious nature of institutionalized sexism.

          --Yiara Magazine, Issue 4, March, 2016. 

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