leslie dylan boyd (they/them) is a queer agitator, educator, and artist whose practice sites itself on the body. Their research interests include cultural appropriation, social practice, gender, and US political identities/affiliations. leslie’s most recent work explores the passage of queer bodies through "wilderness" spaces and is expressed through object making, performance, and video.

leslie studied Metalsmithing + Jewelry at the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA) and Pratt Institute (BFA).
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leslie has exhibited throughout the US and in venues abroad such as Ghost Gallery in New York, the super+Centercourt Gallery in Munich, Germany, and at Object Rotterdam in Holland. leslie lives in Denver, CO, the ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Ute, and Arapaho peoples. They are an Associate Professor of Art and the Jewelry Area Coordinator at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
 
leslie is a founding member of the JV Collective, a national group of contemporary jewelry artists based in South Philadelphia.