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Clay Lohmann (born 1950) is an artist with a studio practice grounded in painting, who now uses a treadle sewing machine to create large-scale fabric installations.

Bio
Clay Lohmann was born in Marfa, Texas. He grew up and attended the reservation school in Osage County, Oklahoma. Lohmann has a BFA in lithography from Wichita State University, with graduate hours in sculpture.

CamoCubes, a room-sized fabric installation curated by Danielle Knapp, was recently shown a the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon. Lohmann's first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon, Treadle to the Metal, was held at The Portland Pataphysical Society (Pata PDX) in late 2015. Earlier that year, Lohmann's work was included in a group show, Found/Made, at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, curated by Roderick Kiracofe.

Lohmann lives in Corvallis, Oregon with artist and wife, Julie Green.

Awards
Lohmann was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2014.