Leah Gauthier
Leah Gauthier (Born Chicago, Illinois) is an intermedia artist living and working in Maine.
Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and alternative spaces in the U.S. and abroad. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Eyebeam and The Burren College of Art and has received awards and grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Puffin Foundation and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Leah earned an M.F.A from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts University and her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Artist Statement
I make wild inspired embroidered paintings, living sculpture, and often edible community works exploring food as an agent of social change.
