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Stephanie Brody-Lederman

Currently on view in the Skylight Room at ino.

Brody-Lederman is a New York–based artist whose paintings have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally, including presentations at the Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Musée Bourdelle, and the Centre Pompidou. Her work has also appeared in publications such as The Paris Review and has been featured on its cover.

Over the course of her career, she has received numerous grants and awards, including support from New York Foundation for the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, among others. Her paintings have been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, and Hyperallergic, and have been the subject of solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, and across the United States.

Artist Statement

Brody-Lederman’s work explores the poetic texture of everyday life, bringing together memory, romance, and the language of contemporary experience. Her paintings often incorporate fragments of text—idioms, direct phrases, and familiar expressions—that both reveal and obscure meaning.

The surfaces of her works are frequently distressed and layered, evoking the patina of old walls and the passage of time. These textures function as metaphors for memory, history, and the accumulation of lived experience.

Through a balance of visual clarity and emotional resonance, her paintings aim to evoke moments when life feels most vivid—quietly engaging the viewer within the rhythms of daily life.

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