Leah Gore is a visual artist and chef working across food, image, and material.

Her multidisciplinary practice moves between painting, culinary arts, baking, sculpture, and creative direction. Across these forms, she explores texture, composition, transformation, flavor, and the relationship between the handmade and the contemporary, approaching food and art as interconnected forms of material and sensory practice.

Originally from Appalachia, Leah has lived and worked across Cape Town, Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Cape Cod, and Appalachia, developing an evolving practice shaped by movement between places, cultures, and creative disciplines. Her work is informed by landscape, craft, experimentation, and a deep attention to the physical qualities of materials and the experiences they create.

Her culinary career includes experience in Michelin kitchens around the world such as Noma, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Alinea, The Greenhouse, alongside founding Jack, an independent microbakery exploring the intersection of baking, design, and creative production. She has worked across private and personal dining, pastry, and culinary events, bringing a fine-art perspective to the way food is conceived, composed, and experienced.

Alongside her culinary practice, Leah has maintained an active visual arts career since 2017. Her work has been presented in solo, group, juried, and pop-up exhibitions, and she has created commissioned works for private collectors, authors, musicians, and creative clients.

Her multidisciplinary work has been featured across print, podcasts, interviews, and broadcast media, including Charleston Gazette, The Herald-Dispatch, Tri-State Living, Holler Space, Peon Magazine, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

Leah holds honor degrees in both the Culinary Arts and the Fine Arts, with additional intensive culinary arts studies at the Culinary Institute of America.

Now based in Berlin, Leah works independently across visual art, private dining, culinary consulting, and creative projects. Her practice is ultimately concerned with transformation: how raw materials become objects, images, flavors, and experiences, and how those experiences can create connection, atmosphere, and a sense of place.