Leah Schrager

Leah Schrager is an artist living between the internet, NYC, and the Sonoran Desert. She is the model, photographer, artist, and marketer in/of her images. Her visual works apply a painterly aesthetic to bodily forms and often draw their material from her conceptual online performance practice. With these performances, Schrager situates her work in a contemporary hotbed of female (in)appropriateness, arousal, celebrity, fandom, and commercialism. She seeks to explore female biography and labor in today’s global society. 

Schrager has been compared by journalists and critics to such seminal figures as Marina Abramovic, Marcel Duchamp, Laurel Nakadate, Diane Fossey, and Sigmund Freud. She and/or her work has been profiled in 1000′s of media outlets, including Art Forum, Monopol, The Huffington Post, Vice, Viceland, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News, ABC News, The NY Daily News, and Playboy. She has exhibited with Johannes Vogt Gallery, Castor Gallery, Roman Fine Art, and others; her work has been on view in notable museums such as Fotografiska, Museum of Sex, and the Museum of Visual Art in Leipzig; and her pieces and performances have been purchased by collectors world-wide.

2016 MFA Fine Arts, Parsons, The New School, NY
2007 BA Dance & BS Biology, summa cum laude, University of Washington, Seattle

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibitions
2022 OnaArtist (Top 50 Reels), Gruin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Manifestations, Roman Fine Art, East Hampton, NY
2019 Angles on a Woman, Montauk Beach House, East Hampton, NY
2016 Glitter Peach, Miami Beach Cinemateque Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 The Male Gayze, Stream Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Am I not Art/Ist, Hotel Americano, New York, NY
2010 Pretty | Whatever, The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

Group Exhibitions
2022 Nude, Fotografiska, Stockholm, NYC, Berlin
2020 Cam Life, Museum of Sex, New York, NY
2020 Link in Bio, Museum of Visual Art, Leipzig, Germany
2019 A Doll’s House, Goethe-Institut, Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Virtual Normality – Net Artists 2.0, Museum of Visual Art, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Last Night, Castor Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Art On The Edge, Roman Fine Art, East Hampton, NY
2017 Screen Present Tense, HDLU, Meštrović Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Summer Fling, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2016 Adult Material, Andreas Schmidt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016 The Celebrity Project, Year 1, Superchief Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Process Portraiture, UT Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2016 In The Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude, Untitled Space, NYC
2016 Beaver, Cent...