Artist and Author Riva Lehrer with Jamie Thome

On December 10th, 2020, we spoke with artist and author Riva Lehrer! 

Ms. 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. 

Ms. Lehrer’s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Yale University Art Gallery, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Arnot Art Museum, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Frye Art Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the State of Illinois Museum. 
Awards include the 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship for writing, 2015 3Arts Residency Fellowship at the University of Illinois; the 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges; the 2009 Prairie Fellowship at Ragdale Foundation. 

Grants include the 2009 Critical Fierceness Grant, the 2008 3Arts Foundation Grant, and the 2006 Wynn Newhouse Award for Excellence, (NYC), as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the University of Illinois, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published by the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House in October 2020. Ms. Lehrer is represented by Regal Hoffman & Associates literary agency, NYC. 

Ms. Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University. 

To find out more about her and her work, please visit her website at rivalehrerart.com 

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