Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University. Lehrer has shown nationally and internationally at places such as the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the United Nations. Lehrer has won numerous awards for both art and writing, and her memoir, Golem Girl, was published by the One World imprint of Penguin/Random House in 2020.

THE ZOOM PORTRAITS: Sharrona Pearl, 2021
Charcoal, Nero pencil, graphite, colored pencil, acrylic and collage on Mylar and illustration board
22 inches x 60 inches