Leslie Bostrom received her BA from the University of Maine, Orono, and her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she lived in San Francisco, making and showing her art. 

Bostrom has exhibited her work in solo shows in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Paul, Philadelphia, Seoul, South Korea, and Sydney AUS, and has been represented in group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and the New Yorker. Her most recent show was a one person show in the Main Gallery at University of Rhode Island, where she exhibited large paintings that were “combination” images on stretched canvas and sheets of plywood. Bostrom is interested in the interaction of words and images and for most of her career she has been making works that engage political topics such as environmental degradation, human migration, feminism, and LGBQTIA issues.  

Bostrom has lectured about her work in over 30 universities and museums, most recently at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China.