Trinity Lester is an artist and independent curator based in Brooklyn, New York who recently graduated with a BA from Columbia University in Art History and Visual Arts. Her practice focuses largely on exploring the magical symbolism that is embedded in every aspect of daily life through colorful interactions of pigments and layered drawing. Each painting and print works to immerse the audience into her visualizations of certain feelings, parts of her personal history, and sensory experiences. Most recently, she has been working through the mediums of watercolor painting and soft sculpture to come to terms with and process chronic pain as a result of a lifetime with scoliosis.

Prior to the global pandemic, she was a Student Printmaker at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies where she worked on professional fine art prints with established artists. Currently, she is a Co-Director of the online exhibition space Project Gallery V. She is also a former member of the Curatorial Department at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Recently, she was awarded the Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities and accepted as an independent curator for the SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2021 in NYC titled Heresy : Hearsay.

Her curatorial and artistic practice focus heavily on the impact of spiritual discovery upon abstraction and modern uses of the occult. This culminated in the completion of a thesis titled: Navigating the Sublime, the Spiritual, and the Self: A Reconsideration of the Grid through the work of Agnes Martin, Hilma af Klint, and Louise Bourgeois for the Columbia University Art History Department.

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