http://ace-lehner.com/news daily 0.75 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1544402126192-WC0I2D8EEZSTU4A92FAU/Screenshot+2018-12-09+19.30.29.png News/Press http://ace-lehner.com/news/2025/2/19/a-queer-anti-valentines-day-healing-rteel monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1d29df0c-944f-413c-af36-4d414a52d24b/Screenshot+2025-02-19+at+1.36.26%E2%80%AFPM.png News/Press - A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing (Feb. 14th Washington Square Park, NYC) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://ace-lehner.com/news/2025/2/19/barbershop-the-art-of-queer-failure-in-feral-fabric monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/b87f14d5-06e8-4dac-a6d3-e626b5d8f772/Screenshot+2025-02-19+at+4.56.21%E2%80%AFPM.png News/Press - Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure in Feral Fabric - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://ace-lehner.com/news/2022/6/15/call-for-papersprojects-trans-new-media-art-as-embodied-practice monthly 0.5 2023-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/08abe051-37f6-4031-9176-9c0de8f2fbfa/SPE.jpg News/Press - Make it stand out MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND HERE ON THE SPE WEBSITE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655304880030-RVW2G0CZKKVVNE5JNLED/media_n_open_call_5_22_v4.png News/Press - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://ace-lehner.com/news/2022/1/8/the-trouble-with-the-trans-tipping-point-a-critical-look-at-trans-visual-culture-today monthly 0.5 2022-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1641681042264-RTJ7QXT5LRIJ832393TH/Laverne+Cox+Time.jpg News/Press - The Trouble with the "Trans Tipping Point" - A Critical Look at Trans Visual Culture Today - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://ace-lehner.com/news/2022/1/8/my-special-issue-of-art-journal-on-trans-visual-culture-dec-27-2021 monthly 0.5 2022-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1641680352291-JJEN7LNBWMMG31PITIIV/Art+Journal+Cover+jpeg.jpg News/Press - My Special Issue of Art Journal on Trans Visual Culture (Dec. 27, 2021) - Make it stand out Cover image featuring artist NIC Kay who is one of the discussants in my Roundtable article. http://ace-lehner.com/news/2019/3/7/i-will-be-giving-a-talk-at-icp-march-13th-630pm-8pm monthly 0.5 2019-03-07 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2019/1/14/i-will-chairing-an-upcoming-session-at-college-art-association-in-nyc-feb-15th monthly 0.5 2019-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1547444484369-CDYFFF92Q5TYQ8KPE2SV/CAAIMAGE2019.jpg News/Press I will chairing an Upcoming Session at College Art Association, in NYC Feb 15th! "Trans Representations: Intersectional Gender Identities in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture" brings together work made by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and visual culture producers across a variety of media and approaches. Mainstream representations of trans people may shift over time, but they primarily demonstrate which trans constituencies are impermissible, narrowly present acceptable ways of being trans, and sideline the majority of actual trans experiences. In North American and European contexts, for instance, mainstream culture regularly forward trans representations that reflect dominant cultural ideals embracing cis-normative, heteropatriarchal, and white-supremacist ideologies. Because of this reductive trend in mainstream culture trans, and gender-nonconforming self-representations play a vital role in the negotiation of identity formations. Trans representations as a field confound how we have come to think of gender binary and fixed), representations (fixed stand-ins for the person imaged) and identity constituencies (essentialized and static). When trans and gender-nonconforming people self-represent new ways to conceptualize identity, gender and representation emerge. Drawing together a diversity of scholarly and artistic methods to explore in depth nuanced practices interrogating trans and gender-nonconforming experiences this panel considers the complexity of trans and gender-nonconforming representation today. This panel reveals that there are a plethora of ways of being trans and gender-nonconforming, that gender is a malleable matrix, intersecting with racialization, class and various other identity categories. Bringing together a diversity of representations and approaches, this panel seeks to engage the shared commonalities and various specificities of trans and gender-nonconforming self-images and politics across media geography, gender, class, and racialization. http://ace-lehner.com/news/https/wwwwassaicprojectorg/artists/artist-profiles/list/ace-lehner monthly 0.5 2018-12-10 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2018/12/9/ace-lehner-interviewed-by-d-k-broderick monthly 0.5 2018-12-10 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2018/11/9/queer-concordia-graduates-make-their-mark-in-the-world monthly 0.5 2018-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1541792212867-45DIJ0H74WLO3MEHGNIS/LehnerA.jpg News/Press - Queer Concordia graduates make their mark in the world http://ace-lehner.com/news/2018/11/9/ace-lehner-awarded-uc-presidents-dissertation-year-fellowship-for-their-research-on-trans-and-non-binary-representations monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1541791737293-D6L3JFF8HIGLG36W6N5Y/Screenshot+2018-11-09+14.28.27.png News/Press - Ace Lehner Awarded UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship for their research on Trans and non-binary representations! http://ace-lehner.com/news/2017/9/25/freedom-17-featured-in-outlook-opens-oct-6th monthly 0.5 2017-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1506378644581-AMWTC1MO0BVCLRSUNCWA/Screenshot+2017-09-25+18.29.01.png News/Press - Freedom '17 featured in OUT/LOOK opens Oct. 6th!!! http://ace-lehner.com/news/2017/7/22/research-and-writing-featured-in-art-journal-opens-bookshelf monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500754269837-H0HHOUSVB6HSX2N0JRQH/image-asset.jpeg News/Press - Research and writing featured in Art Journal Open's Bookshelf http://ace-lehner.com/news/2016/2/22/selfies-self-portraits-and-social-media-april-14-16-2016 monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1541794368475-49JQ47IFSYRL0A3B9J3E/Ace_Selfies-1.png News/Press - Selfies, Self-Portraits, and Social Media April 14-16, 2016 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2015/11/29/gangsters-revisited-opens-december-5th monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1541794503971-JKDUCUODYG55U7807U3K/gangstersinthegrass.jpg News/Press - GANGSTERS REVISITED opens December 5th http://ace-lehner.com/news/2015/8/10/essay-commissioned-for-ernests-wapato-jail-social-practice-project monthly 0.5 2018-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1541794658744-M2NZNSWQ9QCWYFSHVX25/1-duhFkEcQjpPbqKKozUCTEA.jpeg News/Press - Essay Commissioned for ERNEST's Wapato Jail Social Practice Project http://ace-lehner.com/news/2015/1/17/i-will-have-current-research-published-in-vjic monthly 0.5 2015-07-28 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2015/1/17/currently-ernest-has-work-on-view-in-oakland monthly 0.5 2015-07-28 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2015/1/17/recently-participated-in-symposium-at-uc-berkeley monthly 0.5 2015-01-18 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2014/5/26/body-body-bodies-nqaf-exhibition-june-728-2014 monthly 0.5 2014-05-27 http://ace-lehner.com/news/2013/12/30/upcoming-exhibtion-january-2014 monthly 0.5 2013-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1388441524153-8NR9FKRMUWQ9ET0A7WLW/webinvite_75years.jpg News/Press - Opening Friday, January 17, 2014 6:00pm - 8:00pm http://ace-lehner.com/once-called-home daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1388703077550-2ZNPNS8T11ZPAJLC9FVB/housefront1.jpg Once Called Home - Once Called Home I grew up in a series of small towns in the Hudson River Valley region of New York. My parents bought their first home when I was in Middle school. My parents and I lived on one half, and they rented out the other half. Since I moved out, the last tenant also left, and instead of finding new tenants, my mom slowly moved into the other half of the house. The division of the house and the decay that the structure began to undergo over the last decades become a visual symbol of my parent's crumbling marriage, struggle to try and stay in the middle class, and battles with addiction. In the more recent past, my mom moved to San Francisco to spend her final days with her old hippy friends in Haight Ashbury, and my dad left alone, lost the house and his life to addiction. My inheritance is documented in the objects left behind and included here in photographic form, creating an object portrait of my father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1388703077550-2ZNPNS8T11ZPAJLC9FVB/housefront1.jpg Once Called Home - Once Called Home I grew up in a series of small towns in the Hudson River Valley region of New York. My parents bought their first home when I was in Middle school. My parents and I lived on one half, and they rented out the other half. Since I moved out, the last tenant also left, and instead of finding new tenants, my mom slowly moved into the other half of the house. The division of the house and the decay that the structure began to undergo over the last decades become a visual symbol of my parent's crumbling marriage, struggle to try and stay in the middle class, and battles with addiction. In the more recent past, my mom moved to San Francisco to spend her final days with her old hippy friends in Haight Ashbury, and my dad left alone, lost the house and his life to addiction. 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I've worked with artists, fashion designers, musicians, promoters, museum engagement and more. With over fifteen years of experience I have a commitment to excellence and enjoy working with people to get the best images possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421481334058-GA7ZXFTSTOFLEIV279YK/anima_found_30920120308_0415.jpg Editorial Work As an editorial photographer I bring my expertise and vision from my artistic practice to bear on whatever story needs to be told. I've worked with artists, fashion designers, musicians, promoters, museum engagement and more. With over fifteen years of experience I have a commitment to excellence and enjoy working with people to get the best images possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421481665555-QI90MN679ZXP1NFKODWL/Screenshot+2015-01-17+00.00.25.png Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421482068860-F6MF7QCD312GN900KNP1/light_table_film_process.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421482117311-S78N2GMAEJ3S028X8Q5U/muralroom.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421482285077-1Z20GN8WATEH2O32ONIW/photo_lighting_studio_phase_one.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421553828809-0474L671GHHH058UARDN/OMCA+DOD_2.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421566886075-M0DVUKFYX8YHGZ65WXIS/OMCADayofDead3.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1421553695843-V7CZZHXK0YXRIKWRDYDL/OMCA_DOD.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504816280853-D7BE8IHUSCLPO1NJJ7DT/GetRealSurfaces-121.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504816240590-9BZVAPVGY92C08HB6SW2/GetRealSurfaces-112.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504816263199-3DFTJDQLSFWY2FZZTJUQ/GetRealSurfaces-122.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504816314039-SHRKL1LHOXDIN2QQ1W4S/GetRealSurfaces-113.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504816290976-IHBC74DK2Z2S9N3DKBXQ/GetRealSurfaces-116.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952616232-O7H100LPHXAKD7Q3IDHF/eyeballsandlightning001-14.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952720991-YXDNUDFVVLIM89NZFN8Q/20160820_0125.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952624291-EW0JYHZBDGZ9KHZ7U7KZ/eyeballsandlightning001-15.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504892862726-XTLUINQMF2IYDAD4MG71/partylamb.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952361244-1JV4OXJB1ZELP9DE27H9/Petitfelts_20160716_0042.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504892394710-QJES96K0NVPLWUHGU7XK/Petitfelts_20160716_0169.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952308386-ZGSNVDL3J82YA98B455U/Petitfelts_20160716_0003.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952490914-RU8MMIIMPHENY5GC3PL8/Petitfelts_20160716_0177.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504892854536-FJQBV2M3E8X9NS6TUABJ/chicken.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500952448631-752XZXGY8HVZY9MCZDIL/Petitfelts_20160716_0153.jpg Editorial Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1504892368695-E6M7ATDFPW335F7BG21G/Petitfelts_20160716_0152.jpg Editorial Work http://ace-lehner.com/gender-is-a-drag daily 0.75 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520453230144-ONOFXB609V18E6L6M31H/Lehner+Dia+Staff+Show.jpg Gender is a Drag - Gender is a Drag (Triptych) From the series, Gender is a Drag, a photo and video based work that explores and expands the space of non-binary gender. These photograph are part of a body of work comprised of videos and stills documenting the transformations I undergo due to taking hormones. There are also videos in which I discuss various topics related to gender in general, gender theory, my own experience and concepts that I am researching in conjunction with this work. Being white, able-bodied and often viewed as masculine, allows me to remain relatively safe as a non-binary person. I am in a position where I can use my privilege to make more space for non-binary and gender non-conforming people. With the increasingly popularized use of “they” as a non-binary gendered singular pronoun, people are becoming aware that not everyone fits neatly under the pronoun she or he. Rather than being excited by the possibility of new ways of being, when met with expansive forms of self-expression (i.e. people who are gender non-conforming and/or non-binary, and/or non-binary trans) most people are frightened and / or enraged by the existence of people who present identities that have not been authorized by dominant culture. We see this regularly in with the rights for trans bathroom bills, with the murder of gender non-conforming people and violence and hate crimes perpetrated against non-binary people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520453230144-ONOFXB609V18E6L6M31H/Lehner+Dia+Staff+Show.jpg Gender is a Drag - Gender is a Drag (Triptych) From the series, Gender is a Drag, a photo and video based work that explores and expands the space of non-binary gender. These photograph are part of a body of work comprised of videos and stills documenting the transformations I undergo due to taking hormones. There are also videos in which I discuss various topics related to gender in general, gender theory, my own experience and concepts that I am researching in conjunction with this work. Being white, able-bodied and often viewed as masculine, allows me to remain relatively safe as a non-binary person. I am in a position where I can use my privilege to make more space for non-binary and gender non-conforming people. With the increasingly popularized use of “they” as a non-binary gendered singular pronoun, people are becoming aware that not everyone fits neatly under the pronoun she or he. Rather than being excited by the possibility of new ways of being, when met with expansive forms of self-expression (i.e. people who are gender non-conforming and/or non-binary, and/or non-binary trans) most people are frightened and / or enraged by the existence of people who present identities that have not been authorized by dominant culture. We see this regularly in with the rights for trans bathroom bills, with the murder of gender non-conforming people and violence and hate crimes perpetrated against non-binary people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520457117388-L08TUIF4AVIIYRISCL1M/needleandvile.jpg Gender is a Drag - Needle and Vial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520458060431-47BPJWQK0IMVCGXDENLU/shot.jpg Gender is a Drag - Shot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520457269808-NGHK4ZR9B4PBT8STGLMZ/boobs2008.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520457283170-4N51SV5BRE0XTCQCZT3I/chest.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520457458580-Z23MOCJFYK0EJX34QI2R/Lehner-11.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1546833812119-MCR4TKA8P7AEU32XOIZT/WassaicShot.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1546833839315-77JFSN3VEQ8CW8NGSN18/WassaicInjection.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520458086588-B7AM18MXXRTMCL6UH7Q6/Lehner-2.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520458104127-E3P3PU03XCQ5KNHUSE3R/Lehner-25.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520458117119-TNHOFDLFY58B8ATUQAGU/Lehner-31.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1520457542744-FYI4SLK55KRW79IP9KHF/Lehner-9.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1506968626785-YOFTRSV8EY0FSFVYRRZ5/selfie.jpg Gender is a Drag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1546833215649-RZYCWCBB87XTSWPF4MB1/Screenshot+2019-01-06+22.53.23.png Gender is a Drag - Gender Is A Drag (Rough Cut) http://ace-lehner.com/barbershop daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586474187394-ONC47GYE3XFJGGRSU2T3/image-asset.png Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure - Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586405511717-LKSMHD5RRGF0YT12TC58/Wassaic2019_TT-1239.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure embraces the ethos of queer failure as a productive way of proposing alternatives rather than adhering to traditions of barbershops, which under the guise of giving haircuts, often reinforce notions about heteropatriarchal masculinity. The installation itself resembles a barbershop, but, rather than using the aesthetics found in a cis-normative, hetero patriachal barbershop, Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure, which debuted at the Wassaic Project in 20192 is comprised of loud patterned textiles, images of queer icons giving haircuts, it’s robustly textured, with pompoms, tinfoil, fuzzy fabric, faux fur, sequins, and much more. Glitter curtains mark the entrance; the walls are adorned with juxtapositions of multi-colored fabric stretched over plywood and staple gunned much the same way one would stretch a canvas or upholster furniture. Strings of multi-colored pompoms appear throughout, and Andy Warhol’s factory is referenced by the use of aluminum foil on the walls. A playful mix of various queer musical outfits punctuates the air, while party lights, a disco ball, and a faux zebra rug all adorn the space to create an ambiance that is akin to a queer club coupled with a campy parlor. The project has appeared at numerous venues around the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586474187394-ONC47GYE3XFJGGRSU2T3/image-asset.png Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure - Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739996249756-ANPQ7Z476HUBHLU1OR0M/AceinBarbershopSpringBreak.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure - AceinBarbershopSpringBreak.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739996310805-HD3MXQWKNWXVZR79YT0Z/AceinBarbershopSpringBreaksm.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1740001557573-2IOCGE61VF27ANATIZFY/Wassaic2019_TT-1239.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure embraces the ethos of queer failure as a productive way of proposing alternatives rather than adhering to traditions of barbershops, which under the guise of giving haircuts, often reinforce notions about heteropatriarchal masculinity. The installation itself resembles a barbershop, but, rather than using the aesthetics found in a cis-normative, hetero patriachal barbershop, Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure, which debuted at the Wassaic Project in 2019 is comprised of loud patterned textiles, images of queer icons giving haircuts, it’s robustly textured, with pompoms, tinfoil, fuzzy fabric, faux fur, sequins, and much more. Glitter curtains mark the entrance; the walls are adorned with juxtapositions of multi-colored fabric stretched over plywood and staple gunned much the same way one would stretch a canvas or upholster furniture. Strings of multi-colored pompoms appear throughout, and Andy Warhol’s factory is referenced by the use of aluminum foil on the walls. A playful mix of various queer musical outfits punctuates the air, while party lights, a disco ball, and a faux zebra rug all adorn the space to create an ambiance that is akin to a queer club coupled with a campy parlor. The project has been presented at numerous venues around the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1566320744794-DH968183L3Q04PY1IQ76/Barbershop.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure This poster is hand-drawn and then screen printed in the style of iconic barbershop posters, but instead of showcasing various versions of hetero-patriarchal, cisnormative, masculinity masquerading as haircuts this poster images queer and trans culture producers, artists, and scholars of various sexual and gender orientations that all have short, barbered hairstyles. The poster is for sale and part of the proceeds go to the Transgender Law Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1740001648564-5L2XJ9U6UIO0L7JLOVZE/LAT_7967_090+copy.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1740001715711-4P3OO3LGHPB9OKD8E005/LAT_8140_111+copy.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586405484660-49HR3VZ2JED5M5EOHCRI/Wassaic2019_TT-1233.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure embraces the ethos of queer failure as a productive way of proposing alternatives rather than adhering to traditions of barbershops which under the guise of giving haircuts often reinforce notion about heteropatriarchal masculinity. Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure, fails to reinforce masculinity and instead gives any barbershop style haircut to anyone of any gender who is willing to engage in an act of queer world-making. IN exchange for a queer failure haircut participants agree to engage in an act of queer world-making before their haircut grows out. The exchange associated with your haircut will be negotiated before or during your haircut. Some suggested acts of queer world-making in exchange for your hair cut can be found posted in the installation. Haircuts will be given by artist the artist, Ace Lehner who is not a trained barber but who has been cutting hair outside of sanctioned barber channels for over a decade. hence part of the ethos of queer failure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739997719628-FADOA47SJDO0291SUF15/Adam.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739996797213-9L1JUYK38UC9O491F2IR/BarbershopPolaroidsTable.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739997943429-Z6JGBKWXW8OD1S24CL7I/Lauren.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1740001686971-8AR24501JQXD2GFOL5AI/LAT_7991_096+copy.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1739997632268-N9W642YCX0P086WFQUG2/comb.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1573782143791-PSN3DBB6U5R4T1M3Y1NX/DSC_7192.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1575498171597-XW6URQYH9F2JMQJD36JL/Barbershop.png Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1566321407356-JAV1IC6EIBK6PHCK01GT/IMG_5880.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1656554315934-R1J69ZVMHZQTUZI3IYJC/Screenshot+2019-08-20+13.30.49.png Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1566321388407-QQNWQ09FAUEMD4B5COEE/IMG_5869.JPG Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1566321394513-6OOYAVWM67T2I14WWG7W/IMG_5876.JPG Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure - Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure (currently on view at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586405426318-OMRXLGQPGLXDYBVNPYM0/Wassaic2019_TT-1229.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1566322289248-TL97USSA47F0AWEF7WMH/Screenshot+2019-08-20+13.30.33.png Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586444195322-NOPEXN79KC84SAVR2R7V/barbershop+%281%29.jpg Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure http://ace-lehner.com/freedom-17 daily 0.75 2021-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500749352183-U6P2HG0LLYH4KAFYJN7E/Screenshot+2017-07-18+19.49.12.png Freedom '17 - Freedom '17 (video still) Made in collaboration with E.G. Crichton's curatorial project Out/Look the birth of the Queer, Freedom '17 playfully reflects on how much has changed in the U.S. since 1990 (the year that my inspirational issue of OUT/LOOK was published). My project playfully opens up critical refection on issues both within and outside of LGBTQ+ communities including gender, whiteness, performativity and how they intersect with issues around patriotism, and nationalism particularly during our current political climate. For more about the exhibition see: http://www.glbthistory.org/museum/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500749352183-U6P2HG0LLYH4KAFYJN7E/Screenshot+2017-07-18+19.49.12.png Freedom '17 - Freedom '17 (video still) Made in collaboration with E.G. Crichton's curatorial project Out/Look the birth of the Queer, Freedom '17 playfully reflects on how much has changed in the U.S. since 1990 (the year that my inspirational issue of OUT/LOOK was published). My project playfully opens up critical refection on issues both within and outside of LGBTQ+ communities including gender, whiteness, performativity and how they intersect with issues around patriotism, and nationalism particularly during our current political climate. For more about the exhibition see: http://www.glbthistory.org/museum/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500749326073-YVYXMU35T76ZPFBHMHEQ/IMG_2124.JPG Freedom '17 - OUT/LOOK issue 7 In perusing the winter 1990 issue of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian & Gay Quarterly I was struck by how much has changed within the LGBTQ+ community over the past decades. For example several of the works in issue 7 express anxiety about ascribing to, and performing within narrowly defined sexual identities. Today LGBTQ+ culture is engaged in making space for non-binary genders and we understand sexuality and gender as independent from one another, and ultimately self-defined. While outside of LGBTQ+ communities nationalism, patriotism, racism, homophobia and transphobia seem to be continually enmeshed and invested in policing identities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1500950551891-206ZIONLTTJKGEXHX5TH/Screenshot+2017-07-18+19.49.12.png Freedom '17 - Freedom '17 Freedom ‘17 Digital video Dimensions variable 6:38 (looped) Performed to George Michael's Freedom '90 http://ace-lehner.com/artwork daily 0.75 2025-09-07 http://ace-lehner.com/kissing daily 0.75 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655399580692-71UJ88GQS3WW6Z7BTSI8/_MG_9381.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. - K.i.s.s.i.n.g. on view at the International Center of Photography in New York, NY Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale curated by David Campany How big can a photograph be? From postcards to giant billboards, they are almost any dimension, but what happens when they are the very same scale as their subject matter? A photo of a bus the size of a bus? An actual-size image of Muhammad Ali’s fist? Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale is a playful yet philosophical exhibition that offers viewers a diverse group of images that all share the same dimension as life itself. Conceived especially for ICP’s unique double-height gallery, it is a rethinking of the fundamental qualities of this perplexing and elastic medium. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Jeff Wall, Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Aspen Mays, Tanya Marcuse, and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers. In 1946, the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges described a society that wanted a map of its land so detailed that it eventually covered the land itself. Of course, the map was useless, and the inhabitants took to living on it as it disintegrated. Actual Size! is an homage to Borges’s wild but serious idea, showing us new ways to consider what a photograph is, and what it can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655399580692-71UJ88GQS3WW6Z7BTSI8/_MG_9381.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. - K.i.s.s.i.n.g. on view at the International Center of Photography in New York, NY Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale curated by David Campany How big can a photograph be? From postcards to giant billboards, they are almost any dimension, but what happens when they are the very same scale as their subject matter? A photo of a bus the size of a bus? An actual-size image of Muhammad Ali’s fist? Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale is a playful yet philosophical exhibition that offers viewers a diverse group of images that all share the same dimension as life itself. Conceived especially for ICP’s unique double-height gallery, it is a rethinking of the fundamental qualities of this perplexing and elastic medium. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Jeff Wall, Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Aspen Mays, Tanya Marcuse, and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers. In 1946, the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges described a society that wanted a map of its land so detailed that it eventually covered the land itself. Of course, the map was useless, and the inhabitants took to living on it as it disintegrated. Actual Size! is an homage to Borges’s wild but serious idea, showing us new ways to consider what a photograph is, and what it can be. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/62aa20edbd172e26d65c7cb7/62aa34fe5bfa712f70e0626f/1655396624127/ K.i.s.s.i.n.g. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655321898881-YPI1MMH7HUUL2FE69GNO/_MG_9397.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. - K.i.s.s.i.n.g. is a ten foot tall photo installation that extends onto the gallery on the floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655396354363-B2MENPQRUYK8MSQ7K3YR/May182009_0373.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655321896414-57IWVQF174G2IK5PEJYU/_MG_9370.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1516836653969-IZUQYXRVYCMU22MPWTUF/k.i.s.s.i.n.g..jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655321897421-Q9GY2TSPG74L9HFJF9YK/_MG_9381.jpg K.i.s.s.i.n.g. - K.i.s.s.i.n.g. on view at the International Center of Photography, in New York, NY Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale curated by David Campany How big can a photograph be? From postcards to giant billboards, they are almost any dimension, but what happens when they are the very same scale as their subject matter? A photo of a bus the size of a bus? An actual-size image of Muhammad Ali’s fist? Actual Size! Photography at Life Scale is a playful yet philosophical exhibition that offers viewers a diverse group of images that all share the same dimension as life itself. Conceived especially for ICP’s unique double-height gallery, it is a rethinking of the fundamental qualities of this perplexing and elastic medium. Image makers of every kind, from fine artists to advertisers, have explored the strange magic that happens when the photograph becomes an uncanny double for the world it depicts. Works by Jeff Wall, Ace Lehner, Laura Letinsky, Kija Lucas, Aspen Mays, Tanya Marcuse, and others share the walls with anonymous posters, magazine spreads, and book covers. In 1946, the renowned writer Jorge Luis Borges described a society that wanted a map of its land so detailed that it eventually covered the land itself. Of course, the map was useless, and the inhabitants took to living on it as it disintegrated. Actual Size! is an homage to Borges’s wild but serious idea, showing us new ways to consider what a photograph is, and what it can be. http://ace-lehner.com/a-queer-antivalentines-day-healing daily 0.75 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741328890290-FO7121MNFH7H4CXV1VCS/DSC_8349e.jpg A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741328890290-FO7121MNFH7H4CXV1VCS/DSC_8349e.jpg A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741329016031-0YPQG0XWTGBT5TY4BAGB/DSC_8374b.jpg A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing Dr. Ace Lehner performing their “A Queer Anti-Valentine’s Day Healing” Feb. 14, 2025, in front of Ryan Van Der Hout's "To Reflect Everything,” in Washington Square Park, New York, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741329029662-9TBA2NMGZB2QZN3079DU/DSC_8524c.jpg A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing Dr. Ace Lehner (L) and artist Ryan Van Der Hout after Lehner's performance in Washington Square Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741328750657-87QYG6WJLE55BQBGW2W9/DSC_8484a.jpg A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing “A Queer Anti-Valentine’s Day Healing” began with Lehner moving around the orb chanting “Love and Justice!” while holding a snowball that held a stick of incense. Lehner explained their work, “We are living in a particularly trying time for LGBTQ+ people at the moment, and there is a lot of hatred being directed at queer and especially trans people. Currently, a lot of anxiety is felt within the LGBTQ community, and the need for love, healing, and transformative justice in queer and trans spaces is timeless and urgent. My piece was designed with all of this in mind.” Photos and article by Bob Krasner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741328810897-03IJMKHXZAGIDQS4A4NN/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+6.21.06%E2%80%AFPM.png A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1741328818475-M5JP14DWKN1KVRS6VN3M/Screenshot+2025-03-06+at+6.21.18%E2%80%AFPM.png A Queer Anti-Valentine's Day Healing http://ace-lehner.com/all-my-loves daily 1.0 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214597964-3CVI2U0R04ECT73AR7QX/B0000695.jpg All My Loves - All My Loves As a scholar and an artist, I have been formally invested in the study of portraiture for over two decades. Portrait photography has a problematic history in which the indexicality of the image has somehow been sutured to notions of truth. However, like all technologies, pictures are imbued with the ideologies of those who wield them. My new photographic portrait project, 'All My Loves,' provides a counterpoint to the colonialist pseudo-logics of portrait photography. All My Loves comes from an urge to use portrait photography as a means of expressing my gratitude to the people I hold dear in my life. Notably, each of these collaborators is also committed to making significant impact as cultural producers, scholars, and agents of positive change. Coincidentally, they do not visually appear to fit into any one reductive category, and this is also part of my aim with this work. While portrait photography has historically, in many respects, tended to engage in troubling traditions of categorizing people based on aesthetics, this project defies this reductive way of image-making, instead portraying people tied together by my love for them and shared commitments to making the world a better place. This new project comes from both personal and scholarly interests, while interrogating the limits and advantages of this type of collaboration and its challenges to power dynamics and histories of photographic portraiture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214597964-3CVI2U0R04ECT73AR7QX/B0000695.jpg All My Loves - All My Loves As a scholar and an artist, I have been formally invested in the study of portraiture for over two decades. Portrait photography has a problematic history in which the indexicality of the image has somehow been sutured to notions of truth. However, like all technologies, pictures are imbued with the ideologies of those who wield them. My new photographic portrait project, 'All My Loves,' provides a counterpoint to the colonialist pseudo-logics of portrait photography. All My Loves comes from an urge to use portrait photography as a means of expressing my gratitude to the people I hold dear in my life. Notably, each of these collaborators is also committed to making significant impact as cultural producers, scholars, and agents of positive change. Coincidentally, they do not visually appear to fit into any one reductive category, and this is also part of my aim with this work. While portrait photography has historically, in many respects, tended to engage in troubling traditions of categorizing people based on aesthetics, this project defies this reductive way of image-making, instead portraying people tied together by my love for them and shared commitments to making the world a better place. This new project comes from both personal and scholarly interests, while interrogating the limits and advantages of this type of collaboration and its challenges to power dynamics and histories of photographic portraiture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214597964-3CVI2U0R04ECT73AR7QX/B0000695.jpg All My Loves - Lamont, Winooski, VT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214463301-POB29AJ9NPXE7CLBMWR5/B0000790.jpg All My Loves - Emmett, North Adams, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214358447-4FR7GM7OTZNT9ODBXQBE/image-asset.jpeg All My Loves - Jalal, Syracuse, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214688600-HU7FZYJRAHVE5KBSW8M2/B0000608.jpg All My Loves - Lorenzo, Central Park, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214770645-XMROEJ6W26VDMBJLNG41/Ruth.jpg All My Loves - Ruth and Clyde, Rosendale, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757266897365-T43KILOYKBGHCX0VAQ9A/B0000815.jpg All My Loves - Emmett, North Adams, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214999597-1ICDRXP2KEB4F6H3N84M/KateandLorraine.jpg All My Loves - Kate and Lorraine, Pine Plains, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757215876663-6LU2M083EQ7GZ8CUROVV/mall.jpg All My Loves - Ais and Ramone, Rosendale, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757214914101-WI34A95Y8I7FZTBYH09L/Kurt%2Band%2BKenny+copy.jpg All My Loves - Kurt and Kenny, Chatham, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1763043831083-R6BJGW1BOVD3B34G6BA4/AceLehner13.jpg All My Loves - Andy, Kingston, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1757215437962-AOCBTEHTSUUSU3PGQMS9/B0000688Small.jpg All My Loves - Lamont, Winooski, VT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1763046438171-51FC4UAU0J2YU3JQXDF3/B0000912edit.jpg All My Loves - Tara, Wassaic, NY http://ace-lehner.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/71134e2d-97d6-4cce-996f-06755da46760/SelfieClementesummer2024.jpg ABOUT Self-Portrait, at the studio, Clemente, New York, NY, summer 2024 http://ace-lehner.com/talks daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1586403355978-I1KE4JFV2G4J7Z3PVP8I/Screenshot+2020-04-08+23.33.23.png TALKS & PRESS http://ace-lehner.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/1655403835714-WG8IZQZQDAM9I3YEK95I/headshotwithcamera.jpg CONTACT If you’d like to get in touch please complete the form below. http://ace-lehner.com/writing1 daily 0.75 2025-09-07 http://ace-lehner.com/writing1/selfie-as-self-love-coyote-parks-decolonizing-of-photography-in-us-history-in-15-photographs-1865-to-the-21st-century monthly 0.5 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5284105fe4b0089d8e2e6796/760a4446-f6bb-4433-9156-a81c7d59cc2b/Diptych+Selfie+Park.jpeg WRITING - "Selfie as Self-Love: Coyote Park’s Decolonizing of Photography," in US History in 15 Photographs 1865 to the 21st century. 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