Laeh Glenn

Laeh Glenn (born 1979) is an American visual artist. She is based in Sebastopol, California.^[1] Her work addresses the digital life of an image; namely, how repetition and sharing influence image quality and how painting has the ability to converse with damaged images.^[2]

Laeh Glenn
Born	1979 (age 45–46)
Alma mater	University of California Los Angeles (MFA) California College of the Arts (BFA)

Early life and education

Glenn received a BFA degree in painting from the California College of the Arts in 2008. She later earned an MFA degree in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012.^[3]

Career

Glenn often begins her work with source material found online. Her process involves a “translation…from jpeg to painting” in which Glenn flattens and extracts elements in broad strokes from the reference image.^[4] Her paintings recall image compressions that occur when a digital image travels from screen to screen––each painting shifts in tone, texture, or scale. Artforum describes Glenn’s work as “nostalgic yet eerily placeless”.^[5]

Key exhibitions

• 2020 Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA^[6]
• 2018 Tanya Leighton (Group Exhibition), Berlin, Germany^[7]
• 2018 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (Group Exhibition), New York, NY^[8]
• 2017 Roberts and Tilton (Group Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA^[9]
• 2016 Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno (Group Exhibition), Italy^[10]

Public collections

Glenn’s work is included in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Awards and residencies

• 2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant^[11]
• 2012 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship^[12]
• 2011 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship^[13]