Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work and research explores representation, intimacy and vulnerability often through the media of photography, drawing and performance. Lehner teaches photography at California College of the Arts and the ASUC Art Studio at the University of California at Berkeley and advises Visual Arts thesis students at Oakland School for the Arts. Lehner’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including The Bay Area, New York, NY, London, Montreal Canada and Port Au Prince, Haiti. Her writing has been published in the journal Sightlines, the Bay Citizen, the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and her teaching philosophy was published in conjunction with Identity Shifts an exhibition of student work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Lehner has given talks about her work, the work of other artists and reviews of exhibitions at institutions including California College of the Arts, The University of San Francisco, Southern Exposure, Solano College, Concordia University and Mills College. This March Lehner will be speaking about her own work and research at the University of California Santa Cruz. Lehner was a recipient of the Murphy and Cadogen Fellowship in the Fine Arts and recently Lehner’s work has appeared in BOOM at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, the Juried Annual at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland and at PPOW in Chelsea NY. Lehner has an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA and a BFA with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal Canada.

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EDUCATION
MA Visual and Critical Studies / MFA Fine Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BFA Studio Art/Minor Social Anthropology (Graduated with Distinction), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Artist Exchange, Middlesex University, London, England, UK

GRANTS + AWARDS
2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2009 Visual + Critical Studies Summer Research Grant, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010-2007 CCA Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010-2007 Graduate Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999-1998 Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
1998 Juror’s Selection: First Prize Portfolio Review, Sheffield Art League, Sheffield, MA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Libby’s Doublé Quinceñeara, performance project, Oakland, CA
2009 Something about Love, Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2003 The Trouble with Bed Sheets, Espace 808 Montreal Québec, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS and INTERVENTIONS
2010 Free the Hikers, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Say Something, E6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
BOOM, Southern Exposure Juried Annual, Selections by Astria Suparak, San Francisco, CA
Pro Arts Juried Annual 2011, selections by Paola Santoscoy, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Private Parts: The Art of Sensuality and Sexuality, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA
Art Auction to Benefit the Coalition on Homelessness, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Auction to Benefit Homeless Children’s Network, Kitsch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Chronotopia, SOMArts Cultural Center, in association with the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
Roll Call, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Ennial, Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2009 Ghetto Biennale: A Salon Des Refuses for the 21st century, Port -Au- Prince, Haiti
The UnSelfed Portrait, Graduate Writing Studios Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Capricious: Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards, PPOW Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, NY
Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Recipient Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Size Never mattered, size always matters, Million Fishes Arts Collective, San Francisco, CA
Cutter Photozine Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Erzatz Group Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
CAL JAM TOO, Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
MFA Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Love Songs for Radio Hell, mobile sound piece exhibition, Interstate 80 California to Nevada
Hear + Art Proposition, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sweet and matchless, Play Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 The Best Two-Man Show on Earth: Ace Lehner and Imin Yeh, The Annex Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Box News, collaborative intervention and world take over, multiple actions Bay Area, CA
Kiss in, Mormon Temple, Oakland, CA
Bail Out, Five Ten Studio, Oakland, CA
Code Switchers, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Queerity, Million Fishes Arts Collective, San Francisco, CA
Genderqueer, Rock Paper Scissors Gallery, Oakland, CA