jac lahav artist portrait

Born in Jerusalem Israel in 1977, Jac Lahav is among an influential cadre of contemporary American artists whose work employs a wide range of media to explore themes of art history, individual and shared cultural identities, personal narratives, literature, psychology, materiality, and familial structures.

Lahav received a BA in Psychology from Wesleyan University CT and studied for his masters at Brooklyn College NY. Lahav’s practice quickly expanded to embrace a wide range of media--including sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation--yielding a complex multidisciplinary practice that incorporates diverse materials rich with symbolism and personal history.

Lahav’s work is known for its narrative embedding of a pointed range of everyday materials and objects, often associated with his childhood and frequently referencing aspects of history and cultural identity. Many of Lahav’s more recent works delve into existential themes such as meditations on personal and collective anxiety, non-linear frameworks, and liminal space.




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