1996	Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1976-80	University of Cincinnati, OH

2004	Circle Stories, Chicago Cultural Center, IL
2001	Bella Incognita, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999	Circle Stories, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Then & Now, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1996	Patterns, Isis Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
1995	Trace Marks, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993	Embodied Memory, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992	The Transparent Bed, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

2005	Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN
	State of the Art 2005 Biennial Watercolor Invitational, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2004	Drawings VII, Koplin del Rio Gallery, W. Hollywood, CA
2002	To Kiss the Spirits: An Artist Homage to Hollis Sigler, Artemesia, Chicago, IL
	Contemporary Drawing Salon, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
	The Perception of Appearances: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
	Harboring Beauty, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	eMotion Pictures: Orthopedics in Art, The United Nations, New York, NY
2001	SnowGlobe Invitational, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	eMotion Pictures: Orthopedics in Art, Chicago Cultural Center, IL
	Illinois Women Artists, Champaign, IL and Quincy, IL, traveling exhibit (see 1999)
	Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
	Color By Number, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
	Narrative Sampler, Lyonswier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000	Self Portraits, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
	The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
	New Visions, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Shaking the Coat, North Park University, Chicago, IL
	Moments of Grace: New Regional Painting, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
1999	Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium, traveling exhibit (spring 1999-2001)
	Treatment: Womens' Bodies and Medical Science, Dinnerware Gallery, Tuscon, AZ
	Images of Silence, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
1998	Portrait Show, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
	What We Have Seen, Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, IL
	Artists of the Midwest, Northern Michigan University Art Museum
	Parallel Visions, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1997	A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, traveling exhibition
	Art That Heals, Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO
	Fire and Ice, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
	Narrative Flow, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
	Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
	Poetic Images, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1995	Chicago Women Artists, Fine Arts Gallery Bldg., Chicago, IL Sponsor: Chicago Advisory Council on Women
	Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield , CT
	Small Paintings Big Shoulders, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
	Obsession, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Figuratively Speaking, Condesso-Lawler, New York, NY
	At the Other End of Winter, Deson-Saunders, Chicago, IL
	Day to Day, Holy Covenant UMC, Chicago, IL
	Salon, Lyonswier & Ginsberg Contemporary Art, Chicago,IL
	Self-Portraits: A Group Exhibition, Lyonswier & Ginsberg Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Traveled: Hinsdale Cultural Art Center, Hinsdale, IL
1994	Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
	Growing Up Female, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
	Selected Artists, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1993	Deluge: Invitational Exhibition Works on Paper, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
	The View from the Bed: Personal Experiences of Illness and Disability, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
	Summer Salon, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Women Facing Self, Crazy Ladies Center, Cincinnati, OH
	Schoharie National Small Works Show, Cobleskill, New York, NY
1992	Chicago Women's Caucus for Art: Member's Work, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
	They Came By Boat: A Celebration of Discovery, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
	Schoharie National Small Works Show, Cobleskill, New York, NY
	Gallery Artists Show, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Face to Face, Self Portraits by Chicago Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, IL

2003	Stein, Lisa. Artist Depicts the Disabled - With No Punches Pulled, Chicago Tribune, March 13
2001	eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopedics in Art, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
	Fries, Kenny. Risky Encounters: Riva Lehrer's Circle Stories, New Mobility, August
2000	Fries, Kenny. Riva Lehrer, WeMedia, August
	Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian Art in America
	Sundell, Ivy. The Chicago Art Scene 2000, Crow Woods Press
	Circle Stories, Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, University of Maryland
	Stein, Lisa. Art Elicits Mixed Emotion, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 6
1999	New American Paintings, No. 23, Open Studios Press
	Reed, Bill. Spiritual Chronicles, Muskegon Chronicle, December 19
	Benard, Alan G. Many Faces of the Portrait, Elmhurst Press, October 30
	Ciezadlo, Janina. A Woman's Place, Chicago Reader, June 18
	Stein, Lisa. Lehrer's Art Gets Physical, St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 17
	Jones, Gwen. Retrospective Exhibit Includes New 'Circle Stories,' Daily Herald, May 31
	Hawkins, Margaret. Meaning's More Than Skin Deep, Chicago Sun-Times, April 6
	Ganim, Barbara. Art and Healing, Three Rivers Press
1995	Anderson, D. and M. Strauss. Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraits, Aldrich Museum
	Jennings, Kate F. Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture, Art New England, Dec./Jan
1994	Capasso, Nick. Body & Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, DeCordova Museum
1993	Swartz, Mark. Critical Condition, Chicago Reader, December 17
	Isaacs, Deanna. Riva Lehrer, Body and Beyond, Chicago Reader, September
	McCracken, David. Lehrer Paints Women in Dreamlike Context, Chicago Tribune, March 26
1992	Pollack, Jill. Sharing Subtle Pains and Triumphs, Windy City Times, February 13

1999	Chicago Artist's Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
	Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council
1998	Honorable Mention, Portrait Show, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
1996-97	Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts
1994	Scholarship, Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass, CO
1993-95	The Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
	First Prize, Schoharie National Small Works Show, Cobleskill, NY
1992	Honorable Mention, Schoharie National Small Works Show, Cobleskill, NY
1988	Third Prize, The Intimate Eye, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL

	GAEA Foundation, Washington D.C.
	Sandy Besser, Santa Fe, NM
	Howard A. Tullman, Chicago, IL

Present	Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
	Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
	Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
	University Club, Chicago, IL
	Educator: Working Artist Program, Golden Paints, New York. NY