Leah Schrager’s work explores the individual and societal gaze on women across different stages of life, using her own biography as source material. She is the model, photographer, artist, and marketer of her own image. Her visual works apply a painterly aesthetic to bodily forms and often draw their material from her conceptual online performance practice. These performances include Ona Artist (Instagram, 5 million followers, 2015) and Sarah White (The Naked Therapist, 2010), situating her work at the intersection of female (in)appropriateness, celebrity, and commercialism. In recent years 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, and Gruin Gallery, among others, and her work has been presented at Fotografiska (Stockholm, New York, and Berlin), the Museum of Sex (New York), and the Museum of Visual Art Leipzig. Her work has been discussed in relation to artists including Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, and Laurel Nakadate, and has been featured in publications including Artforum, Monopol, The Huffington Post, Vice, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News, ABC News, New York Daily News, and Playboy.