about
Lex Brown is an artist working in visual and performed verse.
She has performed and exhibited work at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the New Museum, the Kitchen, the High Line, the International Center of Photography, and Recess in New York; the M.I.T. List Center, REDCAT Theater and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; The Baltimore Museum of Art; and at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
She was a 2021 recipient of the USA Fellowship and is a 2025 Rome Prize Winner. Her first short opera, Tati (composed by Kyle Brenn), premiered in the Washington National Opera’s 2024-25 season at the Kennedy Center.
Brown holds degrees from Yale University (MFA) and Princeton University (BA). She is the author of My Wet Hot Drone Summer, a sci-fi erotic novella that takes on surveillance and social justice, first edition published by Badlands Unlimited.
Consciousness, a survey of Brown's work spanning the past 8 years, was published by GenderFail. Containing documentation from 46 different videos and performances, as well as 33 original song lyrics performed in artist-run spaces, museums, music venues, and galleries it has been acquired by the collections of the Met, MoMA, Whitney, and SFMoMA museums amongst other notable collections.
Brown has taught in the Visual Arts program at Princeton University. and in Art, Film, & Visual Studies and Theater, Dance, & Media at Harvard University.
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She has performed and exhibited work at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; the New Museum, the Kitchen, the High Line, the International Center of Photography, and Recess in New York; the M.I.T. List Center, REDCAT Theater and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; The Baltimore Museum of Art; and at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
She was a 2021 recipient of the USA Fellowship and is a 2025 Rome Prize Winner. Her first short opera, Tati (composed by Kyle Brenn), premiered in the Washington National Opera’s 2024-25 season at the Kennedy Center.
Brown holds degrees from Yale University (MFA) and Princeton University (BA). She is the author of My Wet Hot Drone Summer, a sci-fi erotic novella that takes on surveillance and social justice, first edition published by Badlands Unlimited.
Consciousness, a survey of Brown's work spanning the past 8 years, was published by GenderFail. Containing documentation from 46 different videos and performances, as well as 33 original song lyrics performed in artist-run spaces, museums, music venues, and galleries it has been acquired by the collections of the Met, MoMA, Whitney, and SFMoMA museums amongst other notable collections.
Brown has taught in the Visual Arts program at Princeton University. and in Art, Film, & Visual Studies and Theater, Dance, & Media at Harvard University.
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press
Washington Post: At WNO’s American Opera Initiative, an Age of Anxiety Raises its Voice by Michael Andor Brodeur
PBS WETA: A Conversation About a Bioengineered Whale: An Opera in One Act by Nicole Lacroix
Hyperallergic: Lex Brown’s Mythical Characters Confront Earthly Problems by Maya Pontone
New York Times: Apocalypse Anxiety, The Musical by Kim Cordova
New York Times: Tribeca Gallery Guide by Will Heinrich
Hyperallergic: New York Art Guide for November by Cassie Packard
C Magazine: Consciousness review by Cason Sharpe
Wallpaper*: Art in a Virtual Reality by Harriet Lloyd-Smith
Cura. Magazine: Portrait by Margot Norton
Princeton University: Lewis Center Alumni POV
Recess Art: Just Out of Hand, Just Out of Reach by Tavia Nyong’o
Art in America: Identity Binge: How Lex Brown Makes Television by Kerry Doran
New York Times: Spring Gallery Guide
Artforum: Animal Static reviewed by Wendy Vogel
The New Yorker: Animal Static reviewed by Andrea K. Scott
AQNB: Lex Brown on the elastic reality of cartoons, clowning + subverting the economy of emotion: interview with Selby Nimrod
CAR.LA: Soul Recordings at Luis de Jesus by Matthew Lax
Artforum: Immortal Duck Critics’ Pick by Lauren O’Neill Butler
Humor and the Abject: podcast interview with Sean J. Carney