John Lehr


ARTIST'S CV

Born in 1975 in Baltimore, MD, John Lehr graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1998 and received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2005. He currently lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA.

Lehr has held eight solo exhibitions, including: The Island Position, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Selections from “The Island Position,” Kate Werble Gallery Project Space, New York, NY (2016); If there was, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2015); Low Relief, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2013); Stet, Kunsthalle at M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2011); Gibberish: John Lehr, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA (2011); Stet, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2010); and White Noise, MARCH, New York, NY.

His work has been shown in various galleries and institutions, including The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; KLEMM’S, Berlin, DE; Yale University Art + Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC; 83 Pitt Street, New York, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; and the Pratt Institute, New York, NY, amongst others.

Lehr has received reviews in publications such as Artforum, The New York Times, Art in America, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Yale Daily News, The Guardian, Photography Magazine, Aperture, Artinfo, The Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, ARTNews, and The New York Photo Review.

His work is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; and The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.