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 in New York, of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami,of The Dia Art Foundation in New York, of the V-A-C Foundation in Moscow, of the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, of The Rachofsky Collection / The Warehouse in Dallas and of the Yale University Art Gallery.

Lefcourt has had severals solo exhibitions. The most recent one was on 2019 at Campoli Presti in Paris (Strata).Prior to this he exposed in 2018 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York (Terraform), in 2015 at Campoli Presti in Paris (Tête), at Campoli Presti in London (Anti-Scans) and at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles.In 2014 at Campoli Presti in Paris (A Moveable Feast – Part VI) and at Campoli Presti in London (Cast), in 2013 Art Statements with Campoli Presti at Art Basel in Switzerland and in 2012 at Campoli Presti in Paris.

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