in New York. The display consisted of an angel and fourteen demons, each displayed in their own plexiglass vitrine. The figures were made from paradichlorobenzene and this necessitated LeKay wearing a gas mask while he worked on the sculptures. The show also went to the University at Buffalo art gallery and similar work was in The Monster Show in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami.
In 1996, LeKay exhibited with the Kenny Schachter at the third annual Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair. Described as all and rather forbidding, he arrived with a large carton containing a head made from paradichlorobenzene.
In January 2005, LeKay started the heyoka magazine.com website, which campaigns against native American poverty and environmental pollution as well as featuring interviews with, amongst others, Buffy Saint Marie, Sarita Choudhury and Alex James. Damien Hirst accusations
Yin and Yang #1 by John LeKay, 1990, ready made, purchased from Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogue
In 2007, when Damien Hirst exhibited For the Love of God, a platinum cast of a skull with the surface covered with diamonds, LeKay accused Hirst of copying his idea: “When I heard he was doing it, I felt like I was being punched in the gut. When I saw the image online, I felt that a part of me was in the piece. I was a bit shocked.” LeKay has stated that he was a friend of Damien Hirst between 1992 and 1994 and shared a mixed show with him. LeKay also stated that Hirst had got other ideas for his work from a arked-up duplicate copy of a Carolina Biological Supply Company catalogue, which he had given him. One example was Hirst work Mother and Child, Divided a cow and calf cut in half and placed in formaldehyde: “You have no idea how much he got from this