Leah Schrager is a contemporary artist whose work explores female self-authorship as the technologies governing identity change around her. Working across performance, social media, photography, AI, and painting, she uses her own biography as source material and acts as artist, model, and photographer.

Schrager is known for developing the online persona as a form of durational performance art, constructing identities that acquire public lives through platforms, audiences, intimacy, attention, censorship, and exchange. Her long-term projects include Sarah White (The Naked Therapist); Ona Artist, which reached more than ten million followers across social platforms; and An American Dream.

Schrager has also created a distinctive digital-painterly visual language from her own image, from Photoshop-liquified selfies made in 2010 to Stable Diffusion img2img works created in 2026. Through layering, distortion, and color, she transforms photographs of herself into images that move between photography and painting. Her current work includes an AI art agent trained on her archive and new self-portraiture made in the Sonoran Desert.

Schrager received her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2015. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Francisco Carolinum Linz and has been exhibited with Johannes Vogt Gallery, Roman Fine Art, and Gruin Gallery, among others, and shown at Fotografiska in Stockholm, New York, and Berlin; the Museum of Sex in New York; and the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. She has been featured in publications including Artforum, Monopol, Vice, The Huffington Post, and Playboy, and has appeared on programs including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Joe Rogan Experience, CBS News, Fox News, and ABC News.