Niki Lederer is a sculptor and installation artist working in a wide range of materials from ceramics, cardboard to sandcast glass. Of late Lederer has been working with post-consumer repurposed plastics in an attempt to draw the viewer’s attention back to these discards and take a moment to notice their qualities. By bringing attention to these materials, she suggests a humorous approach to the futility of mass consumption and the material resources in contemporary life.

Lederer’s work has been shown at many venues including the 1285 Ave of the Americas Gallery, ILLE Arts, White Columns, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Gallery Aferro, and the Internationale Sonderausstellung, Künstlerhaus Dosenfabrik, (Germany). Solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, Rogue Gallery and Open Space in Victoria, B.C. as well as Washington Square Windows, NYU. Lederer’s work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The Globe and Mail and The New York Times, among others. Most recently her sculpture was published in Die Verschränkung von Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit, (Wabl, Ans), as one of five featured artists exploring art and sustainability. 

Lederer was awarded a merit-based scholarship at Urban Glass and was selected to participate in the Kingston Sculpture Biennial. She was invited to exhibit in the Portal Art Fair, the 9th Annual Governors Island Art Fair as well as the Outdoor Sculpture Biennial at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY. 

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