Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially-challenged body. She is known for representations of people with impairments, and whose sexuality or gender identity has been stigmatized. She has been on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an instructor in medical humanities at Northwestern University. Ms. Lehrer’s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published in 2020.