ACE LEHNER
artist bio
ace lehner
Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist specializing in critical engagement with identity and representation; history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art; visual studies; photography theory, queer and trans theory, critical race studies, and issues of representation. Lehner’s artistic practice often embraces collaboration and primarily utilizes photography, video, and installation.
Lehner is the 2020 recipient of the College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship and was a Presidents’ Dissertation Year Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz, which facilitated the completion of Lehner's dissertation Trans Representations: Non-Binary Visual Theory in Contemporary Photography.
Lehner has chaired and participated in panels at the College Art Association conference has spoken about their research and artistic practice at the International Center of Photography and has been published in Art Journal, REFRACT, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, and The Journal on Images and Culture. Lehner’s work has recently been exhibited at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), and will be featured in a solo exhibition at Practice Gallery in Philadelphia in 2020. Lehner currently serves as the editor of a forthcoming book, From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age, published by MDPI Books, Switzerland. Lehner's social practice installation piece Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure will be featured in a forthcoming issue of Feral Fabric.