Aleah Chapin Catching Light, 2024

Aleah Chapin (b. 1986) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around Western culture's representations of the body in art. Described by Eric Fischl as "the best and most disturbing painter of flesh alive today," Chapin's work has explored aging, gender, and beauty, influenced in part by the community within which she was raised on an island in the Pacific Northwest.

More recently, Chapin's work has taken a radically inward shift, expanding her visual language in order to better express the turbulent times we are living in. Consistent throughout her career, Chapin's work asks the question: What does it mean to exist within a body today?