Leah Schrager is a contemporary artist who explores what it means for a woman to make art from her own image. Her image forms the basis of all her artwork, from her Photoshop-liquified selfies of 2010 to her Stable Diffusion img2img creations of 2026. Working across performance, social media, photography, AI, and painting, she acts as artist, model, and photographer, using her biography as source material.

Schrager is known for developing the online persona as a form of durational performance art, constructing identities that become consequential beyond the artist herself through platforms, audiences, intimacy, attention, censorship, and exchange. Her long-term projects include Sarah White (The Naked Therapist); Ona Artist, which reached more than ten million followers across social platforms; and An American Dream.

Alongside these performances, she has developed a distinctive digital-painterly visual language. Through layering, distortion, and color, she transforms photographs of herself into images that move between photography and painting. Her current work includes an AI art agent trained on her archive and new self-portraiture made in the Sonoran Desert.

Schrager received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2015. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Francisco Carolinum Linz, and has been exhibited with Johannes Vogt Gallery, Roman Fine Art, and Gruin Gallery, among others, and shown at Fotografiska in Stockholm, New York, and Berlin; the Museum of Sex in New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. She has been featured in publications including Artforum, Monopol, Vice, The Huffington Post, and Playboy, and has appeared on programs including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Joe Rogan Experience, CBS News, Fox News, and ABC News.