Lera Lerner was born in Leningrad. She graduated from the Faculty of Soil Biology at St. Petersburg State University (2012) and the PRO ARTE Foundation’s Young Artists’ School (St. Petersburg, 2015). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, including Not a Museum. Laboratory of Aesthetic Suspicions (Novaya Industriya Art Space, St. Petersburg, 2014), Life of the Living (Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod; National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, 2016–2017), Intervention: Follow Instructions or Don’t (General Staff Building, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 2018), Bureau des transmissions (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2019), and Open Borders (Ploshchad Mira Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, 2019). She is the founder of the Imaginary Museum of Displaced Persons.
