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Toby Lee Greenberg is a New York based mixed media, conceptual artist whose work focuses on the interplay between current social and political issues in American culture and the criminal legal system. From the start, her art has explored issues of injustice, beginning with a focus on gender norms and stereotypes. In 1995, she began to consider the subject of the death penalty and has been immersed in the topic of our criminal legal system ever since. Her current work on wrongful conviction and the brutality of the death penalty, pushes people out of their comfort zones, bringing viewers’ attention to an unpleasant topic, the sanctity and fragility of life and one’s own mortality. Greenberg hopes her art promotes conversation and brings awareness to wrongful convictions, the death penalty, incarceration, and the criminal legal system overall.
Greenberg is originally from the Philadelphia area and holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a fellowship from the Whitney Museum’s Whitney Independent Study Program. She is a recipient of The New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship (NYFA), as well as an ARTISTS SPACE, NY Individual Artist Grant. Greenberg’s work has been in numerous group shows throughout North America and Europe. Her most recent solo exhibition was in 2025 at City Gallery, New Haven, CT. Her work is in permanent collections, including Yale University, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, BANFF Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada, the University of Wisconsin’s Artists’ Books Collection, Kohler Art Library, and more. Her work has been included in numerous publications and reviews.
