Ace Lehner is an artist, writer, art educator and curator living and working in Oakland, CA. Lehner has exhibited as well as produced projects internationally including London, Montreal and Port-Au-Prince, and nationally from the Bay Area to New York. Lehner's work has recently been exhibited at PPOW Gallery in Chelsea, as part of the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and in the exhibition Chronotopia, part of the National Queer Arts Festival at SOMARTS Gallery in San Francisco. In March 2010 Lehner presented Visual + Critical Studies thesis work at California College of the Arts' 10th annual thesis symposium. Lehner has lectured at the University of San Francisco, the Urban School and Mills College. In the Spring of next year Lehner will be presenting work at the Univeristy of California Santa Cruz in the visual studies department. Lehner primarily uses photography, drawing and installation but has also worked with web-based projects, intervention and other strategies of artistic production. Lehner's work often embraces collaboration and deals with the ethics of looking in relation to misreading and disidentification within visual culture.

 

Lehner has taught art through the San Francisco Boys and Girls Club, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oakland School for the Arts, California College of the Arts and most recently Southern Exposure.

 

Lehner holds a BFA, with distinction, from Concordia University, in Montreal, 2003 and an MFA in Photography and an MA in Visual + Critical Studies from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, 2010.

acephotoz@gmail.com
www.acelehner.com