Art Community Responds to Zoe Leonard’s “I Want a President”

Zoe Leonard’s text piece “I want a president” was written over 25 years ago, at a moment of political and cultural upheaval with chilling contemporary resonance.  Her words aren’t a call for civility or a plea to find common ground. They unapologetically demand equality and empowerment for groups that have been long been discriminated against and excluded from positions of leadership in the US.

Zoe Leonard, “I want a president” (1992) (© Zoe Leonard, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth)

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