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 the precision of architectural software. Her work pulls from a wide variety of references, from modern technology to the paintings of the Flemish Primitives. Having worked for many years in the worlds of publishing and curation, Lehmann co-curated, with Ann Temkin, “Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; co-authored the anthology Artists Who Make Books (Phaidon/PPP Editions); and wrote “Color Goes Electric,” a widely read history of standard test images and the digitization of color, for Triple Canopy. A former editor at Cabinet and a contributor to Artforum, Lehmann received a BA from Harvard College in Visual and Environmental Studies (1998–2003). Lehmann’s debut public exhibition took place at David Lewis in New York, NY in 2021.
