Leah Schrager is an artist whose work explores the relationship between women and images. Working across performance, photography, social media, AI, and painting, she uses her own biography as source material. She is the model, photographer, artist, and marketer of her own images.
Since 2010, her practice has unfolded through a series of long-term projects including Sarah White (The Naked Therapist), @OnaArtist (Instagram 5M, 2015), and An American Dream (2018). These projects explored female (in)appropriateness, celebrity, commercialism, and the evolving role of images in contemporary culture. More recently, she has incorporated AI into her practice, turning toward landscape, the body, and new ways of making images.
Schrager received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2015. She has exhibited with Johannes Vogt Gallery, Roman Fine Art, and Gruin Gallery, among others, and her work has been shown at Fotografiska (Stockholm, New York, and Berlin), the Museum of Sex (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.