Leah Garnett has exhibited in Canada, the US, and Germany, and attended residencies at the Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin), MacDowell (Peterborough, New Hampshire), the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Struts Gallery (Sackville, NB). She received her B.A. Honors from Brown University, her B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and her M.F.A. from the University of Guelph. Originally from the coast of Maine, she now lives in Sackville, New Brunswick where she is an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University.
At MacDowell, she worked on a series of large-scale drawings and small sculptures. Her work had been recently shown in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Toronto, Canada.