Lex Brown (born 1989) is an American video and performance artist. Brown's performance work deals with self-reflection, politics, and design. Brown has shown work at the

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, The Kitchen,

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and

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in New York City, the Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, and VIA Music Festival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of their Women in Sound series.

Early life and education

Brown was born in

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. She grew up in

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and attended

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for her A.B. in visual art and archaeology where she graduated

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. Brown received her M.F.A. at the

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sculpture program. Brown has participated in several artist residencies including Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, New York,

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, in Skowhegan, Maine, and Yale-Norfolk School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut and the Paul Klee residency program in Switzerland for summer 2016.

Work

Brown's work examines the personal and emotional ranges as a form of engaging with social and economic systems. Brown has created experimental TV shows that has challenged televisions conventions by focusing on human to human interactions. Her work raises questions by "skewering YouTube makeup tutorials, Big Data, pop-up shops, pop-up windows, and the entertainment-industrial complex." In 2015, Brown published a short novel entitled ''My Wet Hot Drone Summer'', as part of BadLands Unlimited's "New Lovers," a series of erotic fiction. Brown has also published their first monograph, ''Consciousness'' (2019), with GenderFail Press in 2019. Brown is also included in

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's Gramsci Project publication. In 2024 Brown was awarded the

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in Visual Arts at the

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''The Inside Room'', Recess Art, New York, 2019 *''Animal Static'', The Kitchen, New York, 2019 *''They Flew to Nova'', Kate Werble Gallery, New York, 2020

Exhibitions and performances

*''Lex Brown Town'',

, New York, 2017 *''C.E.'' (Performance) with Aaron Fowler, New Museum, New York, 2018

Publications

*''Wet Hot Drove Summer''. Badlands Unlimited, 2015. *''Consciousness''. GenderFail, 2019.

References

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