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Exhibitions & Awards Leonard Lehrer is a painter and printmaker whose work has been seen internationally for several decades. He has had forty-seven solo exhibitions; these include shows in New York City, Philadelphia and extensively throughout the US, Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy, including five one-person museum exhibitions. Museums that have collected his work include the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Butler Institute of American Art: Gangsnung Art Cultural Center, Korea; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; the Sprengel Museum of Art, Hannover, Germany; and some one hundred other public collections. Lehrer has curated international exhibitions including Large Scale American Prints, a part of art multiple dusseldorf, and Modern American Printmaking, which traveled through Germany and Spain. His work is cited in various books, anthologies and catalogues and he has authored articles, catalogue introductions and book reviews in The Art Journal; The Tamarind Papers; The College Board Review; the Journal of the Print World; Jules Heller: A Printmaker’s Monotypes (Arizona State University); The Big Print (EA Quensen, Lamspringe, Germany); WP Eberhard Eggers (Bundesbank, Germany); The Art of the Book Arts Press (Logan Elm Press), et al. He has also presented numerous papers and has participated in national and international symposia including the First International Conference of Fulbright Scholars, Delphi, Greece, 2000, the College Art Association, “Jornadas Internacional de la Crítica, Dialogo Europa-America,” Buenos Aires, et al. His numerous awards include the Grand Prize of the Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany, Gold Medal Award of Distinction of the National Society of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Scholar Program Artist-in Residence Grant followed by a second Fulbright Senior Scholar AIA Grant, both in printmaking, to Greece, et al. Lehrer presented the keynote address at Fullbright's International meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco. He is a trustee of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY); Board of Directors, apexart Gallery, New York; trustee of the International Centre for Culture and Management (ICCM), University of Salzburg, Austria. He was awarded the Silver Star Alumni Award by the University of the Arts and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking by the Southern Graphics Council International. “For Lehrer, art is the cumulative effect of the mind as one seeks to imagine the world. Through art, the traceries of life’s experiences reveal the shape of oneself. The fusion of opposites extends to his style as a whole which is simultaneously spontaneous and controlled, fluid and precise, descriptive and stylized. It is less a puzzling paradox than a complete expression of a truly integrated human vision.” Carol Donnell--Kotrozo “Leonard Lehrer” Art International |
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