b. 1982, San Diego, California Lives and works in Utah leilanibascom@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2022 MFA, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2006 BFA, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Laie, HI
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Statewide Annual UT ‘24 by Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Ogden, UT (People’s Choice Award) BYU Faculty Show, The Weight Room, Provo, UT
2023 Statewide Annual by Emily Larsen, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, Bountiful, UT
2022 Return, Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, UT (solo exhibition) Dish Vision by Brian Christensen, Orem Public Library, Orem, UT Boxed by Gary Barton, Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, UT
2021 Safely Kept by Rachel Stallings Thomander, Neighborhood Art Center, Provo, UT Riverworks 2021 collaboration by BYU + MCLA, Hoosic River Watershed Association, Williamstown, MA 35th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah by Dr. Rita R. Wright and Jean Erwin, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT I Feel It In My Bones, Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, UT (solo exhibition) The 2020 Favorite Photo Exhibition by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, Online
2020 Female In Focus by Lisa Volpe, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Incubation Period by PARC Collective, Granary Arts, Ephraim, UT Vera Hinckley Mayhew Visual Arts Contest, BYU Harris Fine Arts Center, Provo, UT
WORK EXPERIENCE
2025 Adjunct Faculty, BYU Department of Art, Provo, UT 2021 Graduate Student Instructor, BYU Department of Art, Provo, UT 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, BYU Department of Art Lecture Series, Provo, UT 2019 Graduate Teaching Assistant, BYU Department of Art, Provo, UT 2012 Production Assistant for filmmaker Nathaniel Hansen, Boston, MA
TRAVEL-BASED EXPERIENCE
2022 Graduate Student Instructor, BYU International Study Programs, Madrid, Spain 2021 Participant in BYU Department of Art Experiential Learning, North Adams, MA 2019 Participant in BYU Department of Art Experiential Learning, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS + COLLECTIONS
Exponent II Magazine, Vol. 43 No. 3, Winter 2024 Return, Thesis/Dissertation, BYU Scholars Archive, 2022 Inscape Journal, No. 41.2, Fall 2021 Exponent II Magazine, Vol. 37 No. 2, Fall 2017 Why We Stay: Windsor, Vermont, July 2011 Snapdragon Inn Collection, Windsor, VT, 2010-2023
AWARDS
People’s Choice Award, Statewide Annual UT ‘24, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Jan 2025 Film & Digital Media Funding, BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications, Fall 2021 Film & Digital Media Funding, BYU Department of Art, Fall 2021 Open Studios Award, BYU Department of Art, Fall 2021 Open Studios Award, BYU Department of Art, Winter 2021