William Leavitt was the subject of a retrospective curated by Anne Goldstein and Bennett Simpson at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2011. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Orange County Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He has been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship, J. Paul Getty Fellowship, J. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a United States Artist Fellowship.
