Lea Cetera (b. 1983, Brooklyn, New York) works in video, sculpture and performance to produce temporal installations that examine the space between object and body, public and private, the virtual and real. She utilizes techniques culled from theatre and filmmaking to address constructed identities and the psychological spaces we construct and operate within, engaging with the mediation of technology, the alienation of the human body, and the aura of the object fetish. 

Cetera has performed and shown work in the US and internationally at venues such as Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Drawing Center, Art in General, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Musem, The Jewish Museum, Queens Museum,  Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Phillida Reid (London, UK), Pilar Corrias (London, UK), Roberts Institute of Art (London, UK), Southbank Centre (UK), MOSTYN Contemporary Art Gallery (Wales, UK), Magenta Plains, Kai Matsumiya, Simone Subal, High Desert Test Sites, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church on the Bowery, Anthology Film Archives and more. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, 2012 and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, 2005. She is currently an adjunct professor of Sculpture and Three-Dimensional Design/3D Fundamentals at The Cooper Union School of Art and at New York University, Steinhardt School. She lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Phillida Reid, London, UK.

Image: Chassis, 2022, 43 x 44 x 36 inches, steel, hardware, gears, motor, roller chain, urethane resin, corn syrup, mineral oil, dye. Image courtesy the artist and Phillida Reid, London, UK.