Lex Brown (artist)

Lex Brown is a contemporary video and performance artist born in 1989 in Oakland, CA. Brown grew up in Northern Virginia and attended Princeton University for her A.B. in visual art and archaeology where she graduated summa cum laude. Brown is currently completing her M.F.A. at the Yale University sculpture program. Brown is best known for her performance work which deals with self reflection, politics, and design. While in undergrad Brown participated in several artist residencies including Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, Skowhegan School of Painting, in Skowhegan, ME, and Yale-Norfolk School of Art in New Haven, CT, where she worked on sculpture, painting, video, and performance. She has been accepted to the Paul Klee residency program in Switzerland for summer 2016. Upon graduating from Princeton University Brown lived and worked in Los Angeles where her performance work was widely shown at art spaces in the city including REDCAT, Wilding Cran Gallery, and Monkey Town. Brown has shown work at the New Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park and International Center for Photography in New York, NY, the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, LA, and VIA Music Festival in Pittsburgh, PA as part of their Women in Sound series. In 2015, Brown published a short novel entitled My Wet Hot Drone Summer, as part of BadLands Unlimited's "New Lovers," a series of erotic fiction. Brown is also included in Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Project publication.