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Refractions, 2024
I take photographs of myself and then modify them through a digital production chain that includes Stable Diffusion, Photoshop, Painter, and other programs. I then
Shows
A selection of images from my solo booths at Scope Art Fair in NYC and Miami (which sold out) as well as some works from
Leah – An American Dream
Standing seductively and defiantly at the hyper-contemporary crossroads of politically problematic social media performance, secretive art world patronage arrangements, and en vogue academic resistance to
Nu Matrearchs
This essay was originally published as part of the online art show “Nu Matrearchs” as part of The Wrong Biennial. The Instagram Model as Art
Glamour Commission
The following images were commissioned by Glamour Magazine for their Summer of Sex 2017 series.
Self-Made Supermodels
On Being an Instagram Model as a New Form of DIY, Digital, Feminized Performance September 8, 2016 Click here to read the essay on Rhizome
Glitter Peach, 2016
The black censor bars in the photographs are attached as a removable and optional sticker.
Ona Artist – 5M Instagram
Schrager’s celebrity-as-art-practice project is called ONA, and ran from 2015-2020. She started the project with the question: Is it possible to create a celebrity as
Body Anxiety
Body Anxiety is an online exhibition that opened January 24, 2015. It made an unexpectedly strong impact and was highly discussed. See below for “The
The Ona Generation, 2015
Essay on identity, authorship, and the emergence of the social media artist Introduction Written in the early years of Instagram—before I was even on the
Sunset Blvd, 2015
This series consists of self-photographs that are digitally manipulated in Photoshop. Unlike earlier works that relied on physical alterations of printed photographs, these images exist
Barcode, 2014
These works begin with printed self-photographs that are physically manipulated before their final production. The prints were placed in plastic garment bags, folded, or sprinkled
Onas
During my MFA program I developed a series of conceptual websites for online personas, including Escart Girl, Devotology, ArtSexyStudio, Free Girl, Painted O, and Art
Multimedia Works, 2013
These are my first multimedia works. Images from the Ona persona websites I developed during my Parsons MFA program were printed on my home printer
Am I Not Art/ist?
On April 19, 2012, I was accepted as an artist into the West Chelsea Artists Open Studios. On May 1, 2012, I was removed from
Stolen, 2012
My only time experimenting with appropriated images or text. Princesses Porn Intermixd The Young Girl
My Modeling Portfolio, 2011
Wanting to try my hand at making art out of my modeling images, I reached out to some photographers requesting co-copyright of our images and
The Google Project
“The Google Project” began as an artistic interaction and documentation of the “web” and “image” results from Googling “Leah Schrager” in response to her online