LEE PAEHLER

Born 1992 in Vienna, Austria

EDUCATION

2014-2025 – Art and Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna / AT

WRITING LIFE

June 2025 — Disquiet International Literary Program, Lisbon, Portugal

March 2025 — “Weatherworn”, Honorable Mention, CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize

Since October 2024 — Prose Reader, The Chestnut Review

2024-2025 — Semi-Finalist, Kerouac House Writing Residency

June 2024 — Juniper Summer Writing Institute, UMass Amherst, Massachussetts, USA

PUBLICATIONS

forthcoming: “Weatherworn”, Foglifter Magazine, October 2025

EXHBITIONS

2025 The World Somehow Still Wondrous, thesis show at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2023 I’d like to be the kind of person who buys flowers every tuesday, Semperdepot, Vienna, AT (solo)

2018 Glass Things, Bücherei Augasse, Vienna, AT

2018 A Dead Flamingo on the Side of the Road, Rauchsalon, Vienna, AT  (solo)

2017 Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, Studio Lehargasse, Vienna, AT

2016 Echo, Ateliertheater, Vienna, AT (with Sophie Thun)

2016 Dialogue between Photography and the Fine Arts, Aula am Schillerplatz, Vienna, AT

2016 Horizontale 1, Herr Leutner, Vienna, AT 

2015 Barthes, 100, Eikon Schaufenster, Vienna, AT

2014 VIP Program Paris Photo Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US

2014 Young Austrian Photography, Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington DC, US 

2014 Building Blocks from Life, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT