Daniel Lefcourt

Daniel Lefcourt (New York, 1975) lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his MFA from Columbia University and is a member of the faculty of Rhode Island School of Design. His artistic practice engages the discipline of painting through the lens of scientific, industrial and military imaging technologies. His current areas of research focus on generative systems, chance, and procedural design.

Lefcourt’s work is part of the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; of The Dia Art Foundation, New York; of the V-A-C Foundation, Moscow; of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; of The Rachofsky Collection / The Warehouse, Dallas and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Lefcourt has had severals solo exhibitions, including Strata at Campoli Presti, Paris (2019);Terraform at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2018); Tête at Campoli Presti, Paris (2015); Anti-Scansat Campoli Presti, London (2015); Daniel Lefcourt at Blum and Poe, Los Angeles (2015); A Moveable Feast – Part VI at Campoli Presti, Paris (2014); Cast at Campoli Presti, London (2014); Art Statements with Campoli Presti at Art Basel, Switzerland (2013); Debris Field at Campoli Presti, Paris (2012).

His work has also been featured in several group shows, the most recent being Peinture : Obsolescence déprogrammée at Musée de l’Abbaye, Sainte-Croix (2020); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at the Whitney Museum, New York (2015); Radiance: Art from the Michael Ovitz family collection at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Montana (2014); Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection at de Young Museum, San Francisco (2012); Dispatch Superimpose at MoMA P.S.1 (2011); Knights Move at the Sculpture Center, New York (2010); Subject Index at Malmö Konstmuseum (2008); Day Labor at the Swiss Institute, New York (2005).