SR Lejeune (they/them) was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné and a 2025 Windgate Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Purchase. They have additionally done residencies at the Dirt Palace, lower_cavity, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, WSW, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Their recent solo exhibitions include skylights, part of the CHAMBER series at lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA; witness marks, Jordan Schnitzer Gallery at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn; contributing structure, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC; and tilt, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase, NY. They have taught workshops at Penland School of Craft, WSW, Dieu Donné, SUNY Purchase, Bard College, and Yucca Valley Material Lab, and they co-facilitate an experimental paper school in the Hudson Valley with artist Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Lejeune received a BA with high honors from Oberlin College, was a Core Fellow at Penland, and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art. They are currently building out a manual machine shop in Pine Plains, NY.                 

SR Lejeune, yield, 2022, Low carbon steel (tie) wire and high carbon spring steel (music) wire, 40 x 34 x 36 inches and slowly sinking. Each panel variable height: 34 x 36 inches

 This piece is comprised of piled panels of handmade springs. The springs are knotted together in grids, similar to how upholstery springs are tied. The 34 x 36 in. panels are stacked on top of each other, the resulting form in a state of constant compression. Photograph by Natalie Ivis.