About

Kellie Lehr is a visual artist working between painting and sculpture. Using raw canvas as both surface and structure, she folds, stains, inks, and reworks the material, allowing gravity, pressure, and time to become part of the painting's formation. Her abstract paintings and soft sculptural wall works explore how materials hold the traces of their making, transforming acts of folding, erasure, and intervention into records of change.

Drawing from Supports/Surfaces, Color Field painting and textile traditions, Lehr approaches painting as both material inquiry and embodied process. Her work has been exhibited nationally at museums, universities, and galleries, including The Painting Center (NYC), MASS MoCA, Manifest Gallery (Cincinnati), and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. She has received recognition from the National Museum of Women in the Arts and was an artist-in-residence and fellow at MASS MoCA in 2026.