Warren Lehrer
Warren Lehrer is a writer, designer and book artist known as a “pioneer of visual literature and design authorship.” His books and multimedia projects capture the shape of thought and reunite oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling in books, animations and performance. Awards include: The Brendan Gill Prize, IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Innovative Use of Archives Award, International Book Award for Best New Fiction, three AIGA Book Awards, Media That Matters Award, grants and fellowships from NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, QCA, Rockefeller, Ford, Greenwall Foundations. He is a 2016 Honoree of the Center for Book Arts and the 2019 Ladislv Sutnar Prize laureate. His work is in many collections including MoMA, Getty Museum, Georges Pompidou Centre, Tate Gallery. A frequent lecturer and performer, Lehrer is the Leff Distinguished Professor at SUNY Purchase, a founding faculty member of SVA’s Designer As Author MFA program, co-founder with Judith Sloan of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, NY.
