Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and cura­tor whose work focus­es on issues of phys­i­cal iden­ti­ty and the social­ly chal­lenged body. She is best known for rep­re­sen­ta­tions of peo­ple with impair­ments, and those whose sex­u­al­i­ty or gen­der iden­ti­ty have long been stig­ma­tized. A long­time fac­ul­ty mem­ber of the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chica­go, Riva Lehrer is cur­rent­ly an instruc­tor in med­ical human­i­ties at North­west­ern University.