About

Leah Schrager’s work explores the individual and societal gaze on women throughout stages of life, using her own biography as source material. She is the model, photographer, artist, and marketer in/of her images. Her visual works apply a painterly aesthetic to bodily forms and often draw their material from her conceptual online performance practice. These performances include @OnaArtist (Instagram 5M, 2015), Sarah White (The Naked Therapist, 2010), and An American Dream (as herself, 2018), situating her work within a contemporary intersection of female (in)appropriateness, celebrity, and commercialism. Since 2022, she has incorporated AI into her practice, turning toward the desert, motherhood, and new forms of representing the body.

Schrager lives between the internet, New York City, and the Sonoran Desert. She received her MFA from Parsons in 2015. She has exhibited with Johannes Vogt Gallery, Roman Fine Art, Gruin Gallery, among others, and her work has been shown at institutions including Fotografiska (Stockholm, New York, and Berlin), the Museum of Sex (New York), and the Museum of Visual Art Leipzig. Her work has been compared by journalists and critics to figures such as Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, Laurel Nakadate, and Sigmund Freud. She has been profiled in numerous media outlets, including Artforum, Monopol, The Huffington Post, Vice, Viceland, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News, ABC News, The New York Daily News, and Playboy.