full CV available upon request
EDUCATION
2021 BFA, Fine Art Photography, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
RESIDENCIES
2026 Pollinator (virtual)
2025 kala, Berkeley, CA
2025 KUNSTRAUM, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Chateau d'Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
2024 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2023 The LINE Residency, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2022 Future Front Texas Creator Residency, Austin, TX
2022 LATITUDE, Chicago, IL
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Film Photo Award, Finalist
2023 Nexus Grant, City of Austin
2023 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist
2023 Emerging Artist Grant, Chateau d'Orquevaux
2022 Fotofilmic Class Scholarship
2022 Puffin Foundation Grant
2022 Hohlt and Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship, Houston Center for Photography
2021 Honorable Mention, 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize
2021 Honorable Mention, Texas State School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Curator: Christopher Blay
2021 Names Family Foundation Scholarship, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
2020 Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Honors College, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2020 Honorable Mention, Third Coast Biennial, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX, Curator: Rigoberto Luna
2019 Honorable Mention, enGENDERing Change, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, Curators: Alan L. Woods & Ann Alaia Woods
2019 Best in Show, Texas State School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, Curator: Jenny Gheith
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 [Forthcoming] Chantal Lesley and Ana Treviño, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2025 The Moon Knows Your Name, Ariana Gomez and Chantal Lesley, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2025 As I Lay It All To Rest, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
2025 Every Crossing Leaves A Ripple, Sabinal Gallery, San Marcos, TX
2024 Meaningful Disruption, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
2024 Thicker Than Water, shedshows, Austin, TX
2023 One Day We Will All Be Golden, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
2023 Window Dressing XXVI: When You've Stopped Staring At The Sun, ICOSA, Austin, TX
2022 En Medio de la Nostalgia, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 [Forthcoming] 43rd Center Annual, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX, Curator: Asha Iman Veal
2026 Lost and Found, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX, Curator: Yvette Mayorga
2025 Party Line, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Greenville, NC
2025 Red Dot Art Spree, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2025 Letting the River Spill, Texas State Galleries, San Marcos, TX, Curator: Rebecca Marino
2025 “RV” — Remote Viewing / Recreational Vehicle, Throughline, Houston, TX, Curator: Erin Dorn
2025 LENS 2025, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL, Curator: Hamidah Glasgow
2024 Red Dot Art Spree, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2024 Beyond Likeness, NOT REAL ART, Curator: Kirsten Bengtson-Lykoudis, link
2024 Summer Break, ICOSA, Austin, TX, Curator: Kevin Ivester
2024 Lathe, Mothership Studios, San Marcos, TX
2023 Austin Studio Tour, Big Medium, Austin, TX
2023 Red Dot Art Spree, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2023 40th Center Annual, Houston Center of Photography, Houston, TX, Curator: Lisa Volpe
2023 Hold Up Half The Sky, Dallas Center for Photography, Dallas, TX, Curator: Aline Smithson
2023 Invasive Species, ICOSA, Austin, TX, Curators: Alexis Hunter & Jacqueline Overby
2023 San Marcos Studio Tour, MotherShip Studios, San Marcos, TX
2023 Conceptual Photography, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO, Curator: Mark Sink
2023 un(SEEN), The Nesbitt Gallery, Chickasha, OK, Curator: Aunj Braggs
2023 Altered Images, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, Juror: Lisa Volpe, link
2022 LATITUDE'S 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL, Curator: Asha Iman Veal
2022 Parallax - Women's Photography Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Liz Faust
2022 Feminist Biennial, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curator: Ashley Wynn
2022 Emerging Latinx Artists 26: Histories of Transformation/Historias de Transformación, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, Curators: Isabel Cervantez, Luisa Fernanda Perez
2022 CCAN 2022: Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Competition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX, Curator: Colette Copeland
2022 Delivery Systems, Joseph Gross Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Curator: Lydia See
2022 A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA, Curator: Erin Dunn
2022 What Freedom?, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN Curator: Rainn Jackson
2021 What we’ve found: Generational Spirit, Aint-Bad, Curator: Toby Kaufmann, link
2021 Summer Show, The Curated Fridge, Curator: Michael Behlen, link
2021 School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX, Curator: Christopher Blay
2021 Contemporary Practice ‘21, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2021 Rising Eyes of Texas, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport,TX, Curator: Rigoberto Luna
2021 La Frontera: A New Latinx Lexicon, Humble Arts Foundation, Curator: Erick Guzman, link
2020 US: What divides us and what unites us?, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, Curators: Kimberli Gant, Kristen Hileman, Frauke V. Josenhans, Miranda Lash, Karen E. Milbourne, Gabriel Ritter
2020 Sensibility: Revealed Truths, Tensions, and Vulnerability, Art Room, Fort Worth, TX, Curator: Taylor Barnes
2020 Third Coast Biennial, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX, Curator: Rigoberto Luna
2020 New Texas Talent XXVII, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, Curator: Giovanni Valderas
2020 School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX, Juror: Ed Schad
2020 Drowned Neon Rose, I Like Your Work Juried Show Winter 2020, Juror: Kristin Lamb, link
2020 35th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas, Tyler, TX, Juror: Leslie Moody Castro
2019 The Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum at East Tennessee University, Johnson City, TN, Juror: Sue Coe
2019 enGENDERing Change, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University, Alamosa, CO, Jurors: Alan L. Woods & Ann Alaia Woods
2019 Solo Show [Down], Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, Juror: Christina Rees
2019 School of Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, TX State Galleries, San Marcos, TX, Juror: Jenny Gheith
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2023 Top Five: June 1, 2023, Invasive Species, Glasstire, June 2023, link
2023 Meet Austin's 2023 LINE Residency Artists, Glasstire, January 2023, link
2023 The LINE Residency 2023 Artist Announcement, Big Medium, January 2023, link
2022 Gallery Roundup: Alberto Cavalieri’s Have & Have-Not at Catalyst Contemporary, Parallax at the Gormley Gallery, and Abstraction at the C. Grimaldis Gallery, November 2022, link
2022 One Year Later: The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize Winners, July 2022, link
2022 May 2022 Artist in Residence: Chantal Lesley, LATITUDE, May 2022, link
2022 A Photographer Contemplates Her Family's Cross-Cultural History "In The Midst of Nostalgia", Humble Arts Foundation, January 2022, link
2021 En Medio de la Nostalgia, Deep Red Press, October 2021, link
2021 Codifying a Multifaceted Identity: Chantal Lesley - En Medio de la Nostalgia, PhMuseum, September 2021, link
2021 Chantal Lesley: The Lenscratch 2021 Student Prize Winner Honorable Mention, July 2021, link
2021 The 2021 Lenscratch Student Prize: 26 Photographers to Watch, link
2020 Photographer of the Day: Chantal Lesley, PhMuseum January 15, 2020
LECTURES, TALKS, & PRESENTATIONS
2025 Artist Talk: The Moon Knows Your Name, Ariana Gomez and Chantal Lesley moderated by Barry Stone, ICOSA, Austin, TX, December 18, 2025
2025 Alumni Discussion Panel featuring Alexander Kamelhair, Chantal Lesley, Jacqueline Overby and Ryan Runcie, [TXST] Galleries, San Marcos, TX, November 5, 2025
2025 Podcast Interview: OC3 Frequencies, Episode 30, Dallas, TX, August, 2025, link
2025 Artist Talk: Every Crossing Leaves a Ripple, Sabinal Gallery, San Marcos, TX, February 13, 2025
2024 Artist Talk: Meaningful Disruption, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR, November 19, 2024
2023 Fresh From The Studio, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, September 7, 2023, link
2022 ELA Conversations #1: Reimaginado Espacios / Reimagining Spaces, Mexic-Arte, Austin, TX, November 2, 2022, link
2022 Artist Talk: Chantal Lesley - En Medio de la Nostalgia, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Austin, TX, August 24, 2022
2022 Open Studio: Chantal Lesley, LATITUDE, Chicago, IL, May 20, 2022
2021 Artist Talk: Chantal Lesley, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. March 9, 2021
2020 Artist Talk: Chantal Lesley, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C. September 18, 2020, link
2020 Artist Talk: Chantal Lesley, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX September 5, 2020, link
COLLECTIVES
2024-Present ICOSA Collective, Austin, TX
