Lex Brown

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Lex Brown is a multimedia artist who creates allegorical narratives about the Information Age. Working fluidly between installation, film, opera, painting, and sculpture, her work addresses spiritual experience within contemporary situations using humor and satire. Brown has exhibited work at the Kennedy Center, MIT List Center, New Museum, the High Line, The Kitchen, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Munch Museum. Her films have been presented at e-flux Screening Room, New York; Transmediale, Berlin; and the East End Film Festival, London. Brown received her undergraduate degree in visual art from Princeton University and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. She is the author of My Wet Hot Drone Summer—an erotic sci-fi novella published by Badlands Unlimited in 2015—and Consciousness, an artist book anthology of 46 videos and performances published by Genderfail in 2019. Consciousness has been collected by the libraries of the Met, MoMA, and Whitney museums amongst other notable institutions. Brown has taught as a faculty member at Harvard University and Princeton University, and she has lectured widely. She was a 2021 United States Artist Fellow and is the 2025 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Winner.

On the heels of her first solo show at The Kitchen in NYC, artist Lex Brown discusses her current artistic practice that combines video installation, drawing, live performance — and her love of food.

Lex Brown Named 2021 USA Fellow in Visual Arts | United States Artists, February 2021

“Lex Brown ’12 is Teaching the Value of a Multimedia Approach to Art” | Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 11, 2022

Exhibition: Carnelian on view April 4-July 16, 2023, at MIT List Arts Center, 20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15, Cambridge, MA.

Residency: Celebration Barn, staging “Carnelian” for the Celebration Barn Jamboree, Aug. 25-26, 190 Stock Farm Rd, South Paris, ME.

Lex Brown Wins 2024-25 Rome Prize in Visual Arts | American Academy in Rome, April 25, 2024

Visual arts lecturer Lex Brown and historian Lucas Ramos awarded Rome Prize | Princeton University News, October 2024