2023

Respini, Eva, ed. Simone Leigh. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2023.

2019

The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2019.

Hockley, Rujeko, Jane Panetta, and Ramsay Kolber, et al. Whitney Biennial 2019. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019.

2018

Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa. Simone Leigh. New York: Luhring Augustine, 2018.

Thompson, Susan, ed. The Hugo Boss Prize 2018. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2018.

Cafritz, Peggy Cooper. Fired Up! Ready to Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2018.

Ngcobo, Gabi, and Abbe Schriber. We Don’t Need Another Hero: 10th Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst. Berlin: DISTANZ, 2018.

2017

Burton, Johanna, and Natalie Bell, eds. Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017.

Elderton, Louisa, and Rebecca Morrill, eds. Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art. London: Phaidon, 2017.

2016

Burton, Johanna, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon, eds. Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.

2014

Barliant, Claire, Liz Linden, and Amy Fung, et al. As We Were Saying. Art and Identity in the Age of "Post." New York: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2014.

2013

Brooks, LeRonn P., and Uri McMillan. Njideka Akunyili and Simone Leigh: I Always Face You, Even When It Seems Otherwise. London: Tiwani Contemporary, 2013.

Olivier, Valerie Cassel, ed. Radical Presence. Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2013, ill.

2012

Sussman, Elisabeth, and Jay Sanders, eds. Whitney Biennial 2012. New Haven: Yale University Press; New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012, ill.

2010

Willis, Deborah, ed. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot.” Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.

2005

Clark, Vicky, and Sandhini Poddar. Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures. New York: Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management; Richmond: University of Richmond Museums, 2005.

Relics and Remnants: Contemporary Reinterpretation of African-American Images. New York: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 2005.

Watershed Kiln Gods. Baltimore: Gallery 1448, 2005.

2001

Wacks, Debra. SMIRK: Women, Art and Humor. Garden City, NY: Firehouse Gallery, 2001.

2024

Nersessian, Anahid. “Refusing the Eye.” The New York Review, August 8, 2024.

Griffin, Jonathan. “Simone Leigh’s Five-Year Ascent Reaches a Pinnacle in L.A., but the Journey Is Not Over.” Ocula Magazine, June 11, 2024.

2022

Mitter, Siddhartha. “A Time to Share Her Inspirations With the World.” The New York Times, April 17, 2022, pp. AR 1, 12–13.

Tomkins, Calvin. “Monumental.” The New Yorker, March 28, 2022, pp. 46–55.

2021

Johnson, Cyrée Jarelle. “The Privacy to Heal.” Art in America, September/October 2021, pp. 64–69.

Peterson, Vanessa. “‘Embodying Anew’ Is A Symphony of Black Subjectivity.” Frieze, June 24, 2021.

2020

Greenberger, Alex. “How Simone Leigh’s Sculptures Centering Black Women Brought Her to the Venice Biennale.” ARTnews, October 19, 2020.

Gonzales, Erica. “Sculptor Simone Leigh Makes History as the First Black Woman to Represent U.S. at the Venice Biennale.” Harper’s Bazaar, October 15, 2020.

Sheets, Hilarie M. “At Venice Biennale, A First for the U.S.” The New York Times, October 15, 2020, p. C3.

Greenberger, Alex. “Sculptor Simone Leigh Picked to Represent United States at 2022 Venice Biennale.” ARTnews, October 14, 2020.

Canning, Susan. “Simone Leigh.” Sculpture Magazine, January 8, 2020.

2019

Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. “Suspended Munition: Mereology, Morphology, and the Mammary Biopolitics of Transmission in Simone Leigh’s Trophallaxis.” E-Flux Journal, December 2019.

Leigh, Simone, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, and Jenna Wortham. “‘I Want to Explore the Wonder of What It Is to Be a Black American.’” The New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2019.

Golden, Thelma, Simone Leigh, and Zendaya. “Zendaya and Simone Leigh Are Going Beyond Beauty.” Garage Magazine, September 7, 2019.

Parker, Rianna Jade. “‘What We Carry in the Flesh’: The Majestic Bodies of Simone Leigh.” Frieze, June 4, 2019.

Kenney, Nancy, and Simone Leigh. “Simone Leigh, now in the spotlight, contemplates the theme of invisibility.” The Art Newspaper, April 24, 2019.

2018

Pogrebin, Robin, and Hilarie M. Sheets. “An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream.” The New York Times, August 29, 2018.

Molesworth, Helen. “Art is Medicine.” Artforum 56, no. 7, March 2018.

Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa. “For Her Own Pleasure and Edification.” In The Hugo Boss Prize 2018. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2018.