Lenny Gerard

I’m a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. My work is about taking familiar images and objects, changing them, and using them to talk about identity, memory, and the world around us. I often physically alter photographs and everyday objects through cutting, stitching, stapling, painting, and assemblage, turning familiar materials into something new.

I studied photography at Parsons School of Design in New York and went on to work as a creative producer and art director for clients including Netflix, Polaroid, Universal Music Group, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. My work has appeared in more than 40 exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and internationally. A piece from my Day vs. Night Polaroid series is held in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In 2026, I presented my solo exhibition, POLAROIDS AND SHRINES: Archives and Artifacts of American Life, in Los Angeles. My public art includes Botanical Currents, created for St. Vincent's Medical Center in Los Angeles.

After a serious accident in 2022, three spinal surgeries, and a year of extensive IV medications, I had to relearn how to walk three times. That exper...

Parsons School of Design, New York City, Photography & Cinematography (BFA) 2010-2015

The New School University, New York City, Liberal Arts Studies (BA) 2010-2015

A Poco Art – Culver City, CA (Oct 2026–Jan 2027)

Tech Week, Beamlink Headquarters – Los Angeles, CA (Oct–Nov 2026)

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library – La Jolla, CA (Jul–Oct 2026)

Lucky Cat Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Aug 2026)

Avenue 50 Studio – Los Angeles, CA (Jun–Jul 2026)

Oceanside Museum of Art Alliance, Woodward Contemporary – San Diego, CA (Apr 2026)

Unscripted Spaces – La Jolla, CA (Apr 2026)

Fold Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Mar–May 2026)

Dorado 806 – Santa Monica, CA (Mar 2026)

BG Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Nov 2025–Jan 2026)

Works of Art – Los Angeles, CA (Dec 2025–Jan 2026)

18th Street Art Center – Santa Monica, CA (Nov–Dec 2025)

TAG Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Nov 2025)

Los Angeles Center for Photography – Los Angeles, CA (Oct–Nov 2025)

The Los Angeles Makery – Los Angeles, CA (Sep–Oct 2025)

The Other Art Fair, Barker Hangar – Santa Monica, CA (Sep 2025)

Echo Park Art Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Jul–Aug 2025)

Barnsdall Arts Center – Los Angeles, CA (Jun–Aug 2025)

Art Share L.A. – Los Angeles, CA (Dec 2023–Feb 2024)

Gallery 787 – Pasadena, CA (Nov–Dec 2024)

Kline Academy of Fine Art – Los Angeles, CA (Nov 2024)

Los Angeles Art Walk – Los Angeles, CA (Oct 2024)

Emerging Gallery – Los Angeles, CA (Feb–Ma...