Visiting Professor, M.F.A.

Studio Art | Printmaking

Department of Art & Art History

Website

lmakpl@aol.com

– Office: ART 1.208

– Phone: +1 512-471-0913

– Mail Code: – D1300

Leonard Lehrer is a painter and printmaker whose work is known internationally. His forty-seven solo exhibitions include showings in New York City, Philadelphia, throughout the US, Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy; he has had five museum shows. Museums that have collected his work include the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in NYC; the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris; the Sprengel Museum of Art, Hanover, Germany; and some ninety other public collections. His work is cited in various books, anthologies and catalogues and he has authored articles and catalogue introductions; he has also presented numerous papers and has participated in national and international symposia including the 1996 and 1998 “Dialogo Europa-America” conferences in Buenos Aires, the first International Conference of Fulbright Scholars, Delphi, Greece, 2000, and was invited to give the keynote address at the Fulbright Association Conference in Marrakesh, Morocco in 2006. Former Director of the School of Art, Arizona State University and Chair of the Department of Art and Arts Professions, New York University, Dean, School of Fine and Performing Arts, Columbia College Chicago, he is presently Visiting Professor and Director, Printmaking Convergence Program, College of Fine Arts and Department of Art & Art History, The University of Texas at Austin. Lehrer is a Founding Trustee of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY); he is on the Board of Directors of Apex Art Curatorial Program, NYC, and is Chair of the College Board's National Task Force on Arts in Education. 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; USIA Specialist Grant to the University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia; a 2001 Fulbright Scholar Program Grant in Printmaking to Greece and a Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant to engage Columbia College Chicago in the development of a contemporary collaborative art center with the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece, in 2003 – 2005. Lehrer was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking from the Southern Graphics Council International in 2009.