Jake Lahah is an artist, educator, and designer that interrogates topics on labor, queerness, human ecology, and their intersections. His work explores it through printmaking, craft, design, and queer studies discourse. His work is built on the foundation that the materials holding images inform our social construct, and that unpacking it opens new poetic ways of exploring the human condition through queer methodologies. He also considers himself an amateur historian.
Lahah’s work has been included in exhibitions at: ICA Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Bond Millen Gallery, Richmond, VA; ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA; Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH; and Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA. He received his BFA from George Mason University (2017) and an MFA in Print from Tyler School of Art + Architecture at Temple University (2024) where he was a Project Completion Grant fellow. Lahah is a recent Gay Cultural Studies Creative Research Grant recipient via Old Dominion University, where he is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor within the Foundations and Drawing/Painting Department at Old Dominion University.