Michael Lent (visual artist)

Michael Lent is a British–American visual artist, academic, curator and researcher. He studied at Tyler School of Art of Temple University where he received a BFA, and earned his MFA at Goddard College supervised by sound artist Andrea Parkins, and his PhD at the University of Lincoln.

Michael Lent utilises drawing, installation, text, and video in his visual art, which often focuses on a documentation of ephemeral spaces, landscape, and conceptual spaces in studio. Lent’s work has been described as: “a daring blend of text, sound and image,” in the journal TriQuarterly, which summarized his approach with:

This notion of the difficulty of representing experience is recurring in Lent’s work, and is also prevalent in much of his research as an interest in alterity and an investigation of an experience of the world alongside perceptions of the world as Other.

Michael Lent has exhibited internationally; recently on display at Bluecoat in Liverpool, MASS MoCA in Massachusetts, and Albright–Knox Art Gallery in New York City. He has also been the recipient of various awards including funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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