faculty
Ace Lehner
faculty
Ace Lehner
Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary photography-based artist and scholar specializing in photography history and theory; critical engagement with identity and representation; history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art; queer and trans visual culture and theory; and critical race studies. Lehner's artistic practice primarily utilizes photography and video to mine the complex relation between representations and the constitution of identities.
Their work has been exhibited internationally and has recently appeared at el Museo del Barrio in New York, SOMArts in San Francisco, The Wassaic Project in Wassaic NY, and opening in January of 2022 will be featured in the exhibition Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale at the International Center of Photography (on view through May 2nd, 2022).
Lehner's work has appeared in Art Journal, REFRACT, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, The Journal on Images and Culture, and Feral Fabric, and appeared in several anthologies on contemporary art and visual culture.
Lehner recently edited the book From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age published by MDPI Books (Switzerland) and put together the first-ever issue of Art Journal dedicated to trans visual culture. This March, Lehner will be chairing a panel on trans visual culture at the 110th Annual College Art Association conference and speaking about their research at the Mattress Factory's symposium Queer Afterlives in Artist Archives in April of 2022.
Lehner holds an MFA in Fine Art Photography from California College of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Their work has been exhibited internationally and has recently appeared at el Museo del Barrio in New York, SOMArts in San Francisco, The Wassaic Project in Wassaic NY, and opening in January of 2022 will be featured in the exhibition Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale at the International Center of Photography (on view through May 2nd, 2022).
Lehner's work has appeared in Art Journal, REFRACT, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, The Journal on Images and Culture, and Feral Fabric, and appeared in several anthologies on contemporary art and visual culture.
Lehner recently edited the book From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age published by MDPI Books (Switzerland) and put together the first-ever issue of Art Journal dedicated to trans visual culture. This March, Lehner will be chairing a panel on trans visual culture at the 110th Annual College Art Association conference and speaking about their research at the Mattress Factory's symposium Queer Afterlives in Artist Archives in April of 2022.
Lehner holds an MFA in Fine Art Photography from California College of the Arts and a Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.