Hugh Leeman is an artist and lecturer. He guest lectures regularly at Johns Hopkins University and Duke University. Leeman's lectures focus on the historical power of art to influence beliefs and behaviors and the future of images' ability to re-engineer contemporary social constructs. His first social art project was a five-year collaboration with unhoused individuals. More recently, he used his art and community activism to co-found aetatribes.org. Currently, he is developing an oral history project in Spanish within Spanish-speaking communities, using artificial intelligence, storytelling, and narrative art-making to preserve cultural memory and foster human connection. Leeman has exhibited his artwork and projects at the de Young Museum, the Museum of Mexico City, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and the Masur Museum of Art.
