Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), and the National Portrait Gallery (London). Chapin has attended residencies at the Leipzig International Art Program (Germany) and MacDowell (United States).
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She is a recipient of the Willard L. Metcalf Promising Young Painters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), three grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), a Postgraduate Fellowship from the New York Academy of Art, and won the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery (London). She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (New York) and a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle). Chapin’s work has been published extensively, including New American Paintings, White Hot Magazine, Juxtapoz, Vice, ArtMaze Magazine, Huffington Post, BBC, The Sunday Times of London, The Seattle Times, and Schiffer Publishing. Aleah Chapin lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
