Harmon CV
Leonard D. Harmon
P.O. Box 850, Siletz, OR 97380
(703) 624-6467
Instagram: @leonardharmonfineart
Website: leonardharmonfineart.com
Educational/Artist Training
Leonard “Lenny” Harmon comes from a long line of artists and craftsmen, marshaling inspiration from his ancestors and Tribe, but is self-taught. He has always been involved in creative endeavors celebrating his culture through traditional crafts such as quill work and native dance. Born in 1983 in Philadelphia, PA, he grew up in Delaware and Washington, D.C. Leonard was influenced by his Uncle Leonard A. Harmon, an artist in his own right with paintings in private collections and the Heard Museum. Lenny’s creativity is diverse, expressed in pow-wow as a Men’s Traditional Woodlands style pow-wow dancer in addition to being a member of The Bronx Boys Rocking Crew celebrating break dancing culture and history.
Exhibitions
“Fragile Figures: Beings and Time” - 21cMuseum Hotel. Cincinnati, OH - September 2025 - September 2026
“ Survival “ Leonard Harmon Solo Show- Lincoln City Culture Arts Center. Lincoln City, OR August 2025
“Defend The Sacred” Wave Pool Welcome Center ( Foto Focus ), Cincinnati, OH - November 2024 “Life In The City” Front Street Gallery, Dayton, OH - August 2024
“Walking On Eggshells “ Where Waters Meet, Newport Visual Art Center, Newport OR - June 2024 - July 2024
“Manahahtaanung or New Amsterdam “ Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam Netherlands - May 2024 - November 2024
“Native Visions” Art After Dark. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH - April 2024 “ Guest Artist Spotlight “ - Salem On The Edge Gallery, Salem, OR - November 2023 “ Indigenous Peoples Day “ - 21cMuseum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH - October 2023
“ This Ones For You . Honoring Ancestors” - Leonard Harmon Solo Show - Newport Visual Arts Center, Newport OR May 2023
“ Truth in Three Colors “ Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT - April 2023 “Mini Earth Festival” 21cMuseum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH - May 2023
Featured artist at “Portal to Native Heritage” sponsored by Porthole Players Theatre Group, Newport, Oregon, November, 2022
“Refuge – Needing, Seeking, Finding Shelter” – 21c Museum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH, August 2022 – August, 2023
“Land Art Show” – Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, August, 2022
“Alpha Sacred Beings” – Group X Projects - Philadelphia Naval Yard, Philadelphia, PA, May, 2022
Pine Needle Medallion – Siletz Tribal Arts & Heritage Society (STAHS) – Indigenous Peoples Day, 2022 to present
“Indigenous People’s Day” – 21cMuseum Hotel, Cincinnati, OH, October, 2021 Nanticoke Indian Museum, Millsboro, Delaware, 5/29/2018 in perpetuity
Commissions / Curation
Commission: “Spekkoper” (works on paper) Amsterdam Museum - Amsterdam, NL 2025
Commission: “He Who Walks Around” Porcupine Quilled Woodland Tall Bonnet, Toledo Museum of Art - TMA - Toledo, OH - December 2024
Curation: “Ancestral Visions: Future Dreams” 21cMuseum Hotel / Contemporary Arts Center October 2025
Curation: “Native Resistance” 21cMuseum Hotel / Contemporary Arts Center - Cincinnati, OH October 2024
Curation: “ Where Waters Meet “ All Indigenous Show , Newport Visual Art Center - June 2024 Commission: Installation ( My Ancestors) - Collaboration with Amsterdam Museum - May 2024
Commission: 4ft x 8ft Painting - Collaboration with Urban Native Collective and Cincinnati Art Museum - April 2024
Commission: 4ft x 8ft Painting - Collaboration with 21cMuseum Hotel and Urban Native Collective - May 2023
Commission: Wampum Belt, Otter Turban, Woodland Tall Bonnet, and Pine Needle Medallion - Camden Historical Society Museum, Camden, New Jersey, 2020 in perpetuity
Commission: “Alpha Sacred Beings ( The Origin of Creation)” - Group Public Installation- Philadelphia Naval Yard - Philadelphia, PA June 2022
Commission: Porcupine Quilled – Woodland Tall Bonnet – Penn Treaty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2023 in perpetuity
Publications –
(Video, Internet and Magazine)
PBS The Art Show "Ancestral Visions Future Dreams" October 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gScL4KI0w
Art News Magazine " 25 Native American Artist to Know " November 2025
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/native-american-artists-to-know-1234762021/
Forbes Magazine, “18th Century Native American Artworks Return To Turtle Island At Toledo Museum Of Art”, “He Walks Around” (ayahpamskan)’, Quilled Woodland Tall Bonnet, Leonard D. Harmon:https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2025/04/14/18th-century-native-american-artworks-ret urn-to- turtle-island-at-toledo-museum-of-art/ - April 2025
“ Trance “ - Buckman Journal Portland Magazine _ Issue #14 - July 2025
Documentary – Works of Leonard Harmon - filmed in 2023 – Giovanni Sanchez on behalf of Penn Treaty Museum, Instagram -Indigeneyes_media
“Looks Through the Veil” – Leonard D. Harmon: www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2022/09/05/78426495/leonard-d-harmon-looks-through-the-veil, the Seattle Stranger Publication
“ Glassworks Apprentice “ Rowan University Masters of Arts in Writing - Cover Art for Issue Spring 2022 - Glassboro, NJ
“Where They Walk” – Leonard D. Harmon, Cover art for September, 2022 – Portland Mercury Publication
“Indigenous Artistry” – Leonard D. Harmon, 2021, National Park Service: www.nps.gov/articles/000/leonard-harmon.html
Teaching/Speaking Engagements
“ Quillwork Demo “ Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH - October 2023
“ Quillwork Workshop” - Urban Native Collective. Cincinnati, OH - September 2025
The Ethnography Museum of Stockholm - Stockholm, Sweden - June 2025
Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend (Quill work Demo), Toledo Museum of Art- Toledo, OH - October 2024
“ Quillwork Demo” Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH - October 2024
Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian, Indianapolis, IN - October 2023
Native American Heritage Month - KID Museum - Bethesda, MD - November 2023
Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend - Toledo Museum of Art - Toledo, OH - October 2023
Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend - Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian - Indianapolis, IN - October 2023
Healing & Harm Reduction through Art - Harm Reduction Conference – Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, 2021 & 2022
Native Youth Art Class – Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon, September 2022 and November 2022
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization: Rematriation and Preservation. Vera List Center / Parsons School of Design - New York City, NY - May 2023
Affiliations
Member of the Nanticoke and Lenape Tribes of Delaware and New Jersey Art Director / Curator - Urban Native Collective. Cincinnati, OH