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Claire Lerner - Bio

 

Claire Lerner was born and raised in New York, New York, and holds both a BFA and an MFA in Fine Art from the State University of New York. Since 2002, she has maintained her studio practice in Santa Cruz, California.

Lerner’s work has been exhibited nationally, including the Artists & Mentors group exhibition at The Painting Center in New York City. She is the recipient of the First Place Award in the Exemplary Contemporary exhibition at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery (UC Santa Cruz) and an Award of Distinction from the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California.

In addition to her studio practice, Lerner taught at Monterey Peninsula College for ten years and served for many years as Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California. She was also one of three art educators selected nationwide for the inaugural Golden Artist Colors Educators Residency at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts in Upstate New York.

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Her artwork is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Monterey Museum of Art, Visa Corporation (Redwood City, CA), Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz, PMI Corporate Headquarters (Walnut Creek, CA), Kaiser Permanente, and the Community Hospital of the Monterey