Claire Lehmann

Born 1980 in Boston, MA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Born in Boston in 1980, Brooklyn based artist and writer Claire Lehman earned her BA from Harvard in 2003. She has written extensively about art through publishers including Phaidon, Park Books, MoMA and the New Museum, and for periodicals such as Artforum, Triple Canopy, and Parkett. In 2021 she had a well received solo show of new paintings with David Lewis Gallery in New York, and in 2013 cocurated an exhibition on Ileana Sonnabend at the MoMA with Ann Temkin.

Exhibitions

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July 29 - Sept 3, 2023

Education

2003
Bachelor of Arts, Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA

Solo

2021
Claire Lehmann
David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY

Press

2022
Claire Lehmann, Brainard Carey
Praxis (podcast) produced by WYBC, Yale University Radio, June 17
2021
Claire Lehmann’s Beautifully Wrong Realism, Lucy Ives
Frieze, December 15
Claire Lehmann’s Enigmatic Paintings... Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
ART News, November 15
Editors’ Picks, Claire Lehmann at David Lewis Gallery, Katie White
Artnet News, November 16

Curatorial

2013
Ileana Sonnabend, Ambassador for the New, cocurator with Ann Temkin
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Publications

2018
Custom Vanity, in House Tour
Park Books, Zurich
2017
Artists Who Make Books, coeditor and coauthor
Phaidon, New York
Photographic Memory, Claire Lehmann on the Collected Essays of Luigi Ghirri
Artforum, April 2017
2016
Color Goes Electric
Triple Canopy, May 2016
Fuck Seth Price, How the Sausage Gets Made
Parkett, June 2016
2013
Ileana Sonnabend, Ambassador for the New, coeditor and coauthor
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Timeline, 1993, in NYC 1993, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
New Museum Publications, New York
Paperwork, A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks
PPP Editions, New York
Zine Masters of the Universe
Printed Matter, New York