Catherine LeComte Lecce is a Burlington, MA–based interdisciplinary artist and curator exploring motherhood, identity, and feminist perspectives through photography and mixed media. She holds a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Her work has been exhibited across Boston and beyond. Catherine was a 2025 Creative Entrepreneurship Fellow via the Greater Boston Arts and Business Council and received the 2025 Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals. Additionally, she founded and manages the Burlington Micro Gallery, a mobile exhibition space dedicated to making the arts more accessible. She is Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the Photographic Resource Center, overseeing exhibitions, artist talks, and community programming.
Education
2021 - 2023 MFA Photography, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2010- 2014 BFA Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design
Exhibitions
Upcoming
2025 Risks, Rituals, and Ruptures, Machines with Magnets
Providence, RI
Past
2025 MOM*, Arts at the Armory
Somerville, MA
2025 11th Annual Juried Show, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts
Providence, RI
2025 Body Politics, Gallery263
Cambridge, MA
2025 Those Who Tend, Warnes Contemporary Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
2024 Speak up III, New England Art Center
Boston, MA
2024 Heirloom Convoy, MassArt x SoWa
Boston, MA
2024 Looking Back Looking Forward, Doran Gallery
Boston, MA
2024 Rebirth/Reimagine, The Substation
Roslindale, MA
2024 Two-Person Exhibition, Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood, The Umbrella
Arts Center
Concord, MA
2024 Matrescence, MassArt x SoWa
Boston, MA
2024 MCAfest, Mother’s Institute for Collaboration and
Art
Northampton, MA
2023 Homecoming, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
2023 Contemporary Abstraction, Gallery263
Boston, MA
2023 University Student Show, MyPhotoLounge
Philidelphia, PA
2022 Portraits Without Faces, PH21 Gallery
Budapest, Hungary
2022 A Long Line, Gallery 263
Cambridge, MA
2022 Tender Age, Panopticon Gallery
Boston, MA
2022 Vantage Point, Griffin Museum of Photography
Boston, MA
2022 “One eye sees, the other feels” Curated by Zone Mag
Daste Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2022 Fresh Faces 2022, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery,
Boston, MA
2022 Photo, But Not Photo, Float Magazine
2021 Womanhood, London Photo Festival,
London, England
2020 3rd Annual Women Artists - 15th Quarterly
2019 Utterance, International Shenzhen Artist
Forum, Shenzhen, China
2019 Borders, Shenzhen Photographers
Association, Shenzhen, China
2018 Transient in Motion, International Shenzhen
Artist Forum, Shenzhen, China
2014 ArtWalk Festival, Riverwalk Cafe Featured Artist
Nashua, NH
2014 SCAD Silver & Ink, Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
2013 Sicky Nar Nar Gallery
Savannah, GA
Curation
My Grandmother is an Altar
May 30 - July 5, 2025
Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
PHOTO / FACULTY
April 4 - May 17, 2025
Photographic Resource Center, Cambridge, MA
TEND
October 21 - December 29, 2024
Atlantic Wharf Gallery at Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA
Matrescence
June 1 - July 14, 2024
MassArt x SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA
Awards
2025 Grant for Creative Individuals
Mass Cultural Council
2025 Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship
Greater Boston Arts & Business Council
2022 Anderson Ranch Graduate Recipient
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2014 Photographer’s Forum via Nikon
4th Place in Best of College Photography
Residencies
January 2024 - June 2024
Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, MA