Mira Lehr was born in Brooklyn, New York and lives in Miami Beach, Florida. She studied painting with Zoltan Hecht, James Brooks, Robert Motherwell, and James and Nieves Billmyer. In Miami, she co-founded the Continuum Gallery, the first all women art co-op in the Southeast.
As an abstract artist she was greatly impacted by the teachings of Hans Hofmann. Working closely with Buckminster Fuller and landscape architect Dan Kiley inspired her to focus on nature, as well as on form and structure. Her work incorporates images from the natural world in dialogue with layers of color and geometric shapes. Using nature as subject matter, each painting progresses by breaking down nature's elements and reorganizing them in a structural, yet poetic manner.
Lehr says, “My art is a tool for self discovery, and could be described as a spiritual landscape. In a time of psychic overload and visual fragmentation, the centering and quiet of my work is important. My paintings are fuel for the vitality of the inner life. Others can look at them and feel they know that place, too.”
Her paintings are in museums and private collections worldwide, including Tel Aviv, Israel, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and New York.