EDUCATION
2015 M.F.A. Fine Arts, Parsons, The New School, NYC
2007 B.A. Dance and B.S. Biology, summa cum laude, University of Washington, Seattle
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Museum of Visual Art in Leipzig, Virtual Normality – Net Artists 2.0
2017 Castor Gallery, NYC: Last Night
Roman Fine Art, NY: Art On The Edge
HDLU, Meštrović Pavilion, Croatia: Screen Present Tense, curated by Sandra Sterle & Klaudio Štefančić
Spring Break Art Show, NYC: The Celebrity Project, Year 2, curated by Kristin Sancken
Untitled Space, NYC: Secret Garden,
Novella Gallery, NYC, Bad Sex Bad Sex
Spring Break Art Show, NYC: Milk And Night, curated by Coco Dolle
2016 Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY: Summer Fling
Miami Beach Cinema Gallery, FL: Glitter Peach (solo)
Andreas Schmidt Gallery, Berlin: Adult Material
Superchief Gallery, NYC: The Celebrity Project, Year 1 (2 person)
Blogfabrik, Curated by Girls, Berlin: Digital_Luv<3
White Circle Gallery, Brussels: Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit / Out of Nothing, Nothing Comes
UT Gallery, Knoxville, TN: Persona, Process Portraiture
Untitled Space, NYC: In The Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude, curated by Coco Dolle and Indira Cesarine
Center For Performance Research, Brooklyn, NYC: Beaver
Superchief Gallery, NYC: The F-Word Immersive
2015 The Kitchen, NYC, Off Pink, curated by Tina Kukielski
New Hive, online: Life Glitch, curated by Lindsay Howard (solo)
Gallery Sensei, NYC: Foursome, curated by Coco Dolle
Stream Gallery, NYC: The Male Gayze, curated by Monica Mirabelle (solo)
Distillery Gallery, Boston: Second Selves, curated by Alexis Avedisian
2014 Bruce High Quality Foundation, NYC, Under the Seams Runs the Pain: A Musing on Artists Who Make Other People
Bronx Art Space, NYC: Synthetic Zero, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi
25 East Gallery, The New School, NYC: FE:BODY
NARS Foundation, NYC: Actions & Intent: Documentations in Performance, curated by Peter Gynd
2012 Chashama Gallery, NYC: Google Part I
Hotel Americano, NYC: Am I not Art/Ist, (solo)
2010 The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA: Pretty | Whatever, curated by Joseph Roberts (solo)
SELECTED PRESS
Highlighted:
ArtForum, Johanna Fateman, “Women on the Verge: Art, Feminism, and Social Media,” April 2015, print (view pdf)
Forbes, Adam Lehrer, “On Sex Positive Selfies, Instagram Fame, and Naked Therapy,” 2017
Time, Alexandra Genova, “Exploring the Blurred Lines between Celebrity, Sex and Art,” 2017
Monopol, “Extreme Body,” March 2016, print cover
Artinfo, Benjamin Sutton, “Nude Art Controversy Raises the Question: Is it Art, Or is It Naked Therapy?” 2012
More:
Glamour, Kate Friedman, “Meet Leah Schrager, Our Summer of Sex Artist-in-Residence,” 2017
Elephant, David Evans, “The Borrowers: Copyright and its Discontents,” Spring 2017, print
The Art Gorgeous, Centerfold, Issue #1 Spring 2017, print
RUSSH, Edwina Hagon, “Rise of the Fourth Wavers,” Feb/March 2017, print (pdf)
Glamour, Summer of Sex Story Lead, July 2017, print
Hestetika, Marco De Crescenzo, “L’Esperienza Del Nudo,” April 2017, print
Dazed and Confused, Anna Freeman, “How to Create a Famous Instagram Alter-Ego,” 2016
Konbini, “How I Became an Instagram Model,” 2016
Huffington Post, Priscilla Frank, “These Women Are Their Own Damn Muses,” 2016
Purple, Interview and Music Video Premiere, 2016
Vice, Rachel Rabbit White, “Hot Girl Art,” 2016
Galore Magazine, Ashley Uzer, “Artist Ona on Why Sexy Selfies are Actually High Art,” 2016
The Creator’s Project, Alyssa Buffenstein “20 Female Artists’ Perspectives on the Nude” 2016
Huffington Post, Priscilla Frank, “Who’s Afraid of the Female Gaze?” 2016
Bustle Magazine, Kristen Sollee, “Sex Positive Feminist Artists To Know,” 2016
Art Slant, Christian Peterson, “Artist of the Week: Leah Schrager,” 2016
Widewalls, Lorenzo Pereira, “Radically sexual feminist art we need to remember,” 2016
Inside Art, “The Selfie as a form of power,” 2016
Art Report, Adriana Pauly, “Leah Schrager Confronts Sexuality in Feminist Art,” 2016
Dazed & Confused, Charlotte Jansen, “Meet the trailblazing women producing disruptive online and real life art, all of which is making more of an impact than you think,” 2016
Furtherfield, Eric Zepka, “Synthetic Selves: Mediated Body Art,” 2015
Elephant Magazine, Charlotte Jansen, Girl on Girl, On Nipples, 2015
Konbini, DJ Pangburn, “Life Glitch: An Artistic Exploration of Our Lives as Digital Archives,” 2015
Slutist, Kristin Korvet, “THOT-Provoking “Profit-Positive Pu$$y,”” 2015
Dazed & Confused, Ashleigh Kane, “Instagram is a new gallery space for these US female artists” 2015
Rhizome, Josephine Bosma, “Sabotaging Big Daddy Mainframe, via Online Exhibition,” 2015
Animal NY, Prachi Gupta, “Artists Reclaim Their Bodies in New Online Exhibit,” 2015
Spook Magazine, Emma Marie Jones, “Reclaiming the Female Nude,” 2015
Dazed & Confused Magazine, Charlotte Jansen, “Body Anxiety and a new wave of digifeminist art,” March, 2015
TopicalCream, Yasmin Guerts, “Digi-Feminism,” 2015
Dazed and Confused, Monique Todd, “The Digital Artists to Keep Your Eye On,” 2015
Vice, Sean J Patrick Carney, “I Went To Naked Therapy™,” 2014
Psychology Today, David J. Ley, Ph.D., “Naked Therapy: Believe it or not, this Naked Therapist has things to teach psychology,” 2014
Animal New York, Marina Galperina, “Artist’s Notebook: Leah Schrager,” 2014
Bullett Media, Whitney Mallett, “Exclusive: Artist Leah Schrager Comes Out As the Naked Therapist,” 2014
Culturebot, Jeremy Barker, “Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution?” 2012
DNAInfo, Huffington Post, Matthew Katz, “‘Naked Therapist’ Exhibit Booted from West Chelsea Art Festival,” 2012
NY Magazine, Noreen Malone, “Is ‘Naked Therapy’ Art or Commerce?” 2012
Further ONA press viewable here.
Further Sarah White press viewable here.
CURATORIAL
2017 Nu Matr-E-archs, online, view at numatrearchs.com
2016 ArtGirlTV, Snapchat
2015 Body Anxiety, online, curated with Jennifer Chan, view at bodyanxiety.com
2011-2012 The Home Of Art Series, Brooklyn, NY
WRITINGS & PUBLICATIONS
Self-Made Supermodels / On Being an Instagram Model as a New Form of DIY, Digital, Feminized Performance, Published in Rhizome, by Leah, 2016
The Naked Rockstar by Ona, 2016
Pay the Nipple by Ona, 2015
The Female Painter by Leah, 2015
The Ona Generation, 2014
Am I Not Art/Ist by Sarah White, 2012
“SXSW: Online Therapy… Naked? Post-Mortem,” PsychCentral.com, March 18, 2012
Naked Therapy by Sarah White, 2010
ETC
Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze, Charlotte Jansen, Lawrence King Publishing, 2017, (book)
Artist or Pornographer with Dr. Lisa Levy, March 10, 2016 (radio)
The F-Word, featured artist, screened at Dallas Contemporary in conjunction with Black Sheep Feminism, the Guerilla Girls Twin City Takeover, MOCA North Miami, Art Basel 2016, Franklin Street Works, and more, 2016, (documentary)
“Artist as Curator” panel at Swiss Institute, April, 2015 (panel)
Body Anxiety Comments Section, BHQFU, 2015 (panel)
This Week In Sex, The Museum of Sex, NYC 2015 (talk)
Feminist Urgent Roundtable, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, 2014 (panel)
Jeff Probst Show, hosted by Jeff Probst, “Sex for Success,” January 11, 2013 (TV)
SXSW panel with Dr. Grohol called “Online Therapy, Naked?” 2012 (panel)
Fox Business News, hosted by Tracy Byrnes, “Wiener: Rehab or Resignation?” with co-panelists Andrew Breitbart and Kimberly Guilfoyle, June 14, 2011 (TV)
Sirius XM Stars Radio, hosted by Judith Regan, Roundtable on topic of sex, with co-panelists Susie Bright and Charlotte Shane, March 30, 2011 (radio)
PERFORMANCES (in others’ works) + DANCE
2015 Hello, Selfie!, Pulse Art Fair Miami Basel (with Kate Durbin)
2014 Hello, Selfie!, Transfer Gallery, NYC (with Kate Durbin)
2013 Carwash, Cutlog Art Fair, New York, NY (with the Fantastic Nobodies)
2012 Revenge of the Fantastic Nobodies, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Eve Democracy, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY (with Andrea Stanislav)
2011 Live After Birth, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (with the Fantastic Nobodies)
2011 Smoke The New Cigarette, Bowery Poetry Project, NY, NY
2009 Ghost Siege, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (with Andrea Stanislav)
2009 Firecracker, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY (with The Fantastic Nobodies)
2009 Lasagna, or: How I learned to stop slipping towards the prison of permanent darkness, On The Boards, Seattle, WA (with Linas Phillips and Jim Fletcher)
2009 Get Me Out of Here, Yin Yue, Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Duo Theater, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
2009 Rough, Rough, Ready, Catherine Slusher, Koln & Weisbaden
2007 Floor of the Forest, by Trisha Brown, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (reconstruction)
2005-7 Dance for Seven, Zvi Gotheiner; Sky Light, Laura Dean; Chronicle, Martha Graham; Tensile Involvement, Alwin Nikolais; Liebe, Dore Hoyer; There is a Time, José Limón; Brahms Waltzes, Charles Weidman; Primitive Mysteries, Martha Graham; Chamber Dance Company, Meany Hall, Seattle, WA (reconstructions)