Marla L. McLeod (b.1981, CA), is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. She has most recently shown work at Mighty Real Queer Detroit in 2024. In 2023 as the Aminah Robinson Resident Artist she opened her first solo museum exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. Her work has been exhibited in spaces such as the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the 2022 deCordova Museum Triennial, the Boston Globe, and Black Portraitures at NYU.

She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Southern Connecticut State University in CT.

McLeod holds a B.S. from Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), and a M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA).

Marla L. McLeod’s three-year BCA Studio Residency is supported by Wagner Foundation.