Jack Leamy’s work deals directly with race politics and the ravages of a rapacious capitalist system while repositioning painting as a form of activism and meditation. His paintings uproot American ideological systems while deliberately evolving our understanding through art, connections between education, oppression and the disenfranchised.

Jack Leamy has received the Headlands Center for the Arts Tournesol Award, The San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) Irene Pijoan Painting Award for Painting, SOMArt’s Commons curatorial Residency, and was nominated for the SFMOMA SECA Award. Recently, Leamy has received the AIG Grant from VAPA/OUSD extending a culturally responsive pedagogy by engaging youth with higher education opportunities combining Elder narratives and film animation.