LEAH GORDON, born Ellesmere Port, UK in 1987, is an artist, curator, and writer. Her work explores the intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Enclosure Acts, and the creation of the British working-class. Gordon’s work amplifies ‘histories from below’ and recognises the role of carnival, folk traditions, and grassroots religion in both performing and sustaining radical histories. 

Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak’art Biennale and the National Portrait Gallery, UK. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; was co-curator of ‘Kafou: Haiti, History & Art’ at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; and 'PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince' at Pioneer Works, NYC.

Gordon’s book KANAVAL was published in 2021 and her award-winning feature documentary Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti, was shown in cinemas and on BBC 4 in 2022. She has exhibited at documenta fifteen, Kassel; MOCA, North Miami; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; and in group shows at Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, and Musée du quai Branly, Paris. Her works were recently acquired by the Kadist Collection and the Royal Museums Greenwich.

In 2025 Gordon is exhibiting her new work, 'Monument to the Vanquished Peasant', at the Herbert Museum as part of the Coventry Biennial, with an accompanying book, Common People, co-authored with Stephen Ellcock.