Join us on Saturday, September 28th at 2pm for Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer.

Artist, author, critic, and educator Anne Harris will lead a discussion with Riva Lehrer exploring the ambitions of her current exhibition, The Monster Studio. Harris and Lehrer will trade perspectives on a variety of topics that have informed Lehrer's work for more than 30 years, including embodiment, cultural depictions of disability, contemporary portraiture, art as activism, and much more.

Coffee, pastries, and light refreshments will be served.

Words of Art: Anne Harris in conversation with Riva Lehrer

Saturday, September 28th @ 2pm

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery | 325 W Huron St, Chicago, IL 60654
Contact Brian Gillham | 312-944-1990 | info@zollalieberman.com

Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Her work has been exhibited in venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum and the Chicago Cultural Center.

Awards include the 2020 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 2017 3Arts MacDowell Fellowship, 2014 Carnegie Mellon Fellowship, 2006 Wynn Newhouse Foundation Grant, Illinois Arts Council Grants, and National Endowment for the Arts Grant.  

Lehrer's memoir, Golem Girl (October 2020, One World/ Penguin Random House) won the 2020 Barbellion Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Lehrer was a longtime faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an instructor in Medical Humanities at Northwestern University.

>Learn More: Riva Lehrer - The Monster Studio