CLAIRE LEHMANN

Claire Lehmann (b. 1980, Boston, MA) is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in Brooklyn,NY. Lehmann’s paintings represent scenes of meditative fantasy from contemporary life with theprecision of architectural software. Her work pulls from a wide variety of references, from moderntechnology to the paintings of the Flemish Primitives. Having worked for many years in the worlds ofpublishing and curation, Lehmann co-curated, with Ann Temkin, “Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassadorfor the New,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; co-authored the anthology Artists WhoMake Books (Phaidon/PPP Editions); and wrote “Color Goes Electric,” a widely read history ofstandard test images and the digitization of color, for Triple Canopy. A former editor at Cabinetand a contributor to Artforum, Lehmann received a BA from Harvard College in Visual andEnvironmental Studies (1998–2003). Lehmann’s debut public exhibition took place at DavidLewis in New York, NY in 2021.