Lech Sean Szporer is a trans-regional multidisciplinary conceptual artist, film producer, and community organizer focused on the interplay between art, social change, public scholarship, and community history.
Selected Press
States of Incarceration - “Incarceration Present and Past: 2015 and 1829”, by Julia Bowling, 2016.
Art Rabbit - “Burial for the Rebellion: Studies in Post-Criminality” 2015.
The New Yorker - “Confronting America’s Shameful Mass Incarceration With Performance Art” by Antwaun Sargent, 2015.
Vice - “An Artist Caged Himself In New York To Fight For Prison Reform” by Julia Lourie, 2015.
Artnet - “Artist Gets Arrested After Locking Himself in a Cage to Protest Mass Incarceration” by Brian Boucher, 2015.
Gothomist - “Artist Locks Himself In Cage In Front Of Manhattan Jail To Protest Prison System” photos by Lou Weinstein.
Voice Project - “Anatomy of an Effective Art Action: Lech Szporer’s Cage Project” 2015.
Calcalist - “Stopped The City” 2015.
A Blade Of Grass - “Why Make Gardens With People In solitary Confinement”, 2015.
The Marshall Project - “Lech Szporer”, 2015.
TVP - “Occupy Wall Street Protest Analysis”, 2011.
Gothomist - “Nobel Prize-Winning Former President Of Poland To Visit Occupy Wall Street”, Oct, 2011
Business Insider - “The Guy Who Brought Down Communism In Poland Is Coming To Occupy Wall Street”, Oct, 2011.
Signal V Noise - “Give Kids Your Instruments”, 2011
Action Direction - “Lost In The Art Church”, 2008.
AM New York - “New Yorkers Take The Hard Way”, AM New York, 2009.
Hyperallergic - “Maximum Perception” .
Mutual Art - “Maximum Perception”, English Kills Art, 2008.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 - Survivors - upcoming solo exhibit, Madrid, Spain.
2021 - Identity Crisis of the Post-Colonial War Machine - private viewing, Madrid, Spain.
2016 - Portfolio Retrospective - public presentation, The New School for Social Research, NY, USA.
2016 - Martin Luther King Day - public presentation, La Mama Theater, NY, USA.
2015 - Panel on Post-Criminality - panel discussion, Y Gallery, NY, USA.
2015 - Burial for the Rebellion - solo exhibit, Y Gallery, NY, USA.
2014 - Songwriting Workshops - Give Kids Your Instruments, NY, USA.
2012 - Free Bed Stuy: School Against Prisons - Von King Park, NY, USA.
2011 - Songwriting Workshops - Give Kids Your Instruments, NY, USA.
2010 - Vestibule Aviary - group show, The Flux Factory, NY, USA.
2010 - Girly Horse Hoof - theatrical production, Junto Gallery, NY, USA.
2008 - The Becoming - co-curator, Sanctuary of Hope, NY, USA.
2008 - The Witnessing - co-curator, Sanctuary of Hope, NY, USA.
2008 - The Awakening - co-curator, Sanctuary of Hope, NY, USA.
2008 - The Revival - co-curator, Sanctuary of Hope, NY, USA.
2007 - Empire - group show, NYReps Gallery/ Miami Basel, Florida, USA.
2007 - Maximum Perception - group show, English Kills Gallery, NY, USA.
2005 - The Death of Romance - film screening, The New York Film and Video Festival, NY, USA.
Education
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) - 2022
The New School for Public Engagement - Arts and Education 2011-2013.
The School of Visual Arts - Studio Arts 2003-2005.
Pratt Insistute - Creative Writing, 2000-2001.
Berklee College of Music - Music Composition, 1999.
Languages - English (fluent), French (decent), Spanish (beginner), Wolof and Luganda (beginner).
Filmography
Kids In Crisis - 2022-2024, in Production.
The Maelstrom/Mame’s Prayer - 2018-2023, in Post-Production.
The Interventionists - 2017-2023, in Post-Production.
Voina Means War - 2017, in Post-Production.
Gambiana - 2020-2024, in Production.
We Are The World - in development.
Catastrophe Tour - in development.
Congratulations, You Are A Winner - in development.
Selected Publications
Survivors - art catalogue: art therapy for people emerging from conflict (Haiti, The Gambia, Uganda, India) - in production 2024.
Identity Crisis of the Post-Colonial War Machine - art catalogue: Selected Socio-Aesthetic Interventions (2009-2023) - in production 2024.
Fish Cut With Cigarettes - art catalogue: Selected Drawings - in production 2024.
Blame The Poet, Not The Politician - Blame The Poet, Issue #1 - in production 2024.
Pedagogical Interventions - Selected Essays on Education - manuscript 2016.
Staging Dilemmas: Tactical Aesthetics - Selected Essays on Art - manuscript, 2010-2015.
Girly Horse - Selected Plays - manuscript, 2010.
I Smoke American - Selected Poems - manuscript, 2010.
I Like The Idea Of Eating Flowers - Selected Poems - manuscript, 2006.
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