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Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum and the Chicago Cultural Center.
Awards include the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship, 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship, 2006 Wynn Newhouse Foundation Grant, Illinois Arts Council Grants, and National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Lehrer’s memoir, Golem Girl (October 2020, One World/ Penguin Random House) won the 2020 Barbellion Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Lehrer was a longtime faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an instructor in Medical Humanities at Northwestern University. |
