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, including Strata at Campoli Presti in Paris (2019);Terraform at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York (2018);Tête at Campoli Presti in Paris (2015); Anti-Scansat Campoli Presti in London (2015); Daniel Lefcourt at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles (2015); A Moveable Feast – Part VI at Campoli Presti in Paris (2014);Cast at Campoli Presti in London (2014); Art Statements with Campoli Presti at Art Basel in Switzerland (2013); Debris Field at Campoli Presti in 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 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 in New York (2010); Subject Index at Malmö Konstmuseum (2008); Day Labor at the Swiss Institute in New York (2005).