Sarah Leuchtner

Sarah Leuchtner is a Chicago-based and Portland, Maine-based contemporary artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture and large-scale collage. Born and raised in Chicago, she draws inspiration from city life and her surroundings, as well as iconography, contemporary culture, vintage signage, processing life events and repetition. Leuchtner’s imagery includes an alphabet of imagined or found shapes and varying interpretations of the grid. 

Leuchtner received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016. A selection of her recent exhibitions in Chicago include; Lawrence and Clark Gallery, Hans Gallery, and Bianca Bova Gallery, as well as Northeastern Illinois University. She showed at NADA Chicago in 2020 and EXPO Chicago in 2022. Leuchtner was included in a museum show at The CICA Museum of Contemporary Art in South Korea in 2020. She has also exhibited in New York at Below Grand Gallery (formerly Superdutchess Gallery) and at the International Centre for the Arts in Monte Castello, Italy. She had a solo exhibition, Midnight Mirage, at Belong Gallery (Chicago) at the end of 2022. Leuchtner recently had a solo exhibition, Sequential Escapes, at Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago) in 2023, and exhibited at EXPO Chicago in 2023. She had a solo exhibition, Processing Skies Past, at OS Projects (Racine) in 2024. Her work is being permanently featured in L7 Chicago and the United Club ORD Collection. 

Image: Sarah Leuchtner, from a cue, 2022, mixed media on collaged paper, 82 x 60 inches