info- bio and cv
Education
Lauren Was
2004
-Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Art: Sculpture with Honors
-Brown University, Sheridan Collegiate Teaching Certificate
1999
-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelors of Fine Arts: Sculpture
Adam Eckstrom
2005
-Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Painting with Honors
-Brown University, Sheridan Collegiate Teaching Certificate
1998
-University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, BFA Sculpture and Photography
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2023
-Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, Fl
2021
-International Studio & Curatorial Program, Alumni Residency
2020
-Cross Sectors Residency, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2018
-Facebook Artists in Residence
-College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, spring artists-in-residence, Collegeville, MN
-Artist Resource Trust Grant
2017
-Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-In-Residence Program New Orleans
2016
-Business Accelerator Grant, The Clark Hulings Fund
-International Studio & Curatorial Program, funded by The Pollock- Krasner Foundation
2014
-Process Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 5-month A.I.R., Governors Island, NY
2013
-Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
-Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
-Jerome Foundation Grant
-La Napoule Art Foundation, funded A.I.R., Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
2012
-Smack Mellon, year long funded studio program
-New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grant
-Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, three-month funded A.I.R., Omaha, NE
2011
-Hot Picks, Smack Mellon Brooklyn, NY
-Wassaic Project Artist Honorarium, Funded by Dutchess County Arts Board NY
-Voted top installation at Art First, Corriere Di Bologna
2010
-Vierter Stock Projektraum, Berlin, Germany 2-month A.I.R. Funded by US Embassy
2009
-The Young Masters Art Prize, Young Masters and AXA Insurance, London, UK
-IAAB, six-month funded A.I.R., Basel, Switzerland
2008
-Artist Projects, RISD, Material grant and student labor to make an installation.
-Oxbow Fellowship re-granted from The Joan Mitchell Foundation
-City Sol, Material Grant
-D.U.M.B.O. Improvement District, Material Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2022-
-Aligned by the Sun (connections)
Site specific full surround installation in the departure hall at Penn Station as part of Art at Amtrak, New York, NY September 30- January 8, 2023
-If this is paradise... Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY, through October 2 2022
2021-
-Aligned by the Sun (through the revolution) Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC through July 2023
2020
-Yesterday is Here MAAM (MassArt Art Museum) Boston, MA, through February 2023
2018
-Statistics of Hope Collaborative exhibition with artist Jen Dalton, 601 Artspace, New York, NY
-I'll be with you when the deal goes down, STANDARD SPACE, Sharon, CT
2017
-At a Loss, For Words LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
-A Devil to Pay CES Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
-Falling From Paradise Satellite Art Show, Miami, FL
-When the Smoke Clears: The Fair Housing Project Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2015
-A Good Run of Bad Luck Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
-Gone the Sun Galerie Paris Beijing, Paris, France
2013
-Day is Done, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)
-Collapse of Promise Zadok Gallery, Miami, Florida
2012
-Forever, Almost Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
-Remember When Tomorrow Came Colorado Springs Fine Art Center Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
-Sky’s the Limit Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
-Our Favorite Pastimes MCC Gallery, Omaha, NE
2011
-we spend our lives as we spend our days Gallerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen,Denmark
-Everybody Wants Some Heaven Art First, Santa Maria Della Vita, Bologna, IT curated by Julia Draganovic.
2010
-The Price of Happiness Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing, China
-One in a Million Vierter Stock Projektraum, Berlin, DE
-Future Perfect The Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA
-This is it Volta 6 New York, Cynthia Corbett Gallery
2008
-Ghost of a Dream Space at Alice Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
-Masked Vigilantes Poster House, New York, NY though February 12, 2023
2021
-shh, it's a secret Postmasters Roma, Rome, Italy
-Imagining Data Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA 2021
-Decoding Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, curated by Mary Birmingham
-Sunrise Sunset Albany International Airport
2020
-MESS (Marker Emblem Symbol Signal), Standard Space Gallery, Sharon, CT
-Coming Soon, Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY
2019
-Mediums of Exchange, Fiterman Art Center, Brooklyn, NY curated by Lisa Panzera
-Division of Labor, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
-Baseball Show, Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York, March 29- May 5th, 2019
-Dot Conference, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY
2018
-Change of State, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
-Facebook acquisition and permeant installation, New York, NY
2017
-Vagabond Time Killers, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
-State of the Art Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
-State of the Art Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee
-State of the Art The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina
2016
-20th Anniversary exhibition, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
-The City & The City, Denny Gallery, NY, NY
-Summercamp, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
-State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
-State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
-Be My Guest, No Longer Empty, NY, NY
-Sessions, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
-It’s Funny Because It’s True, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
2015
-HERE THERE NOWHERE, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels Belgium
-Makers Mark, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, NY curated by Gingrow and Scoggins
-And I feel Fine…, The ReInstitute, Millerton, NY
-In Praise of Folly, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY curated by Jin Hwang Coleman
-Deep End, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
-The Ecstasy of Influence, Spring Break, NY, NY curated by Progress Report
2014
-State of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
-Artist Ball, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
-Summertime, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
-SHINE, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto Ontario
-Wish Meme, at Old School for The New Museum’s Festival of Ideas, NY, NY
-Homeward Found, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
-Debris Field, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
-Creative Time’s Sandcastle Competition, Rockaway Beach, NY
2012
-How Much do I Owe You? No Longer Empty, LIC, NY curated by Manon Slome
-Summertime, Gallerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
-Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
-HOPELESS, DUMBO Arts Festival, DUMBO, NY
-Trash Talk, Spattered Columns Art Connects, NY, NY
-COME AND GET IT, Hendershot Gallery, NY, NY 2011
-Art Prize, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
-A Strange Attraction, Hendershot Gallery NY, NY, curated by Maureen Sullivan
2010
-Exhibitionism-The Art of Display, The Courtauld Institute, London, England
2009
-Fly By’s, Galleri Cristoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
-Young Masters, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
-Will it Happen, Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, NY
-Word Up, Broadway Gallery, NY, NY
2008
-In other Words, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
-This is not New York, This is Berlin, Salon Mastul e.V., Berlin, Germany
-Suckers and Biters, Chashama Gallery, NY, NY (catalogue)
-Devotion Reconstructed, Broadway Gallery, NY, NY
Curatorial Projects
2015-Present
-Founded and run the curated artists exchange program ArtForArtists
2017
-For Words, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2015-16
-Co-founded of an annual 1-month artist-residency in northern Italy ArtGarda
2015
-Day becomes Night, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY
2013
-AKA, Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY
-In the Details, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2012
-Another Side, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY
Visiting Artist Lectures
2022
-Visiting Critic- Brown University, Providence, RI
2020
-Visiting Artist- MAAM Museum, Boston, MA (Virtual)
2019
-Visiting Artist- Saint Johns University, MN
2018
-Visiting Critic- School of Visual Art, New York, NY
-California State University Fullerton
2017
-Visiting Artist- Indiana University School of Art, Bloomington, IN
-Visiting Critic- School of Visual Art, New York, NY
-Visiting Artist- Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
-Visiting Artist- Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
2016
-Visiting Critic- School of Visual Art, New York, NY
2015
-Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ
-Binghamton University, SUNY, Binghamton, NY
2014
-California State University, Northridge, CA
-Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK
-Visiting Critic- School of Visual Arts, May, November and December NY, NY
-Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
-School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
-Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013
-Brolab Panel Discussion at UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, FL
-Henry Clews Foundation, La Napoule, France
-Smack Mellon, DUMBO, NY
2012
-Visiting Critic- School of Visual Art, New York, NY
-Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE
-Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
-Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2011
-Festival Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
-School of Visual Arts New York, NY
2010
-Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA
-Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
2009
-Miami University, Miami, Ohio
Bibliography
2018
-Collection & Collage: in the Studio with Ghost of a Dream, a short documentary by Southern
Foodways Alliance in partnership with 21C Museum Hotels
-The Green Cube, Canadian Art, September
-Betting on the American Dream in Statistics of Hope, Filthy Dreams, March 29
2017
-A Devil To Pay- Ghost of a Dream at CES Gallery, Art and Cake, February 23
-State of the Art at Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte Magazine, May
-‘State of The Art’ Compiles Cream of the Contemporary Scene, USA Today, January 27
2016
-Considering the Environmental Damage Done by Art Fairs, Hyperallergic, October 18
-Covering the Waterfront, ArtFCity, October 6
-Ghost of a Dream’s New Installation at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, BlouinArtinfo, September 15
-The Art of Interiors, Galerie Magazine, Fall issue
-A Door Shattering Breakthrough at Denny Gallery’s Pop Up, ArtFCity, July 8
-9 Must-See Summer Group Shows, Artnet News, June 30
-When Innovative Art Meets Traditional Surroundings, Huffington Post, April 26
-Leftover Lottery Tickets Turned Into Stunning Art, Good Morning America, April 22
-‘Be My Guest: The Art of Interiors’ exhibit transforms, The Editor at Large, April 20
-Empty Manhattan Apartment Transformed Into Work of Art, Architectural Digest, April 20
-What Happens When Artists Take Over an Upper East Side Mansion, W Magazine, April 5
-Be My Guest: The Art of Interiors- Seven Artists, ArtfixDaily Artwire, March 21
-New Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibit is all-American road trip, Star Tribune, February 19
-New Jepson Center Exhibit Celebrates Contemporary American Artists, Savannah Morning News, February 20
2015
-5 Female Artist Break the Glass Ceiling at ADAA, ARTSY, February 25
-The Wassaic Project: A Festival, Beautiful Flood, and Now Art, New York Times, March4
-Desires, Dreams, and Excess, ARTFILE MAGAZENE, February
-Emission de la Semaine #58, TCQVAR, February 16th
-Ghost of a Dream. Gone the Sun, a la Galerie Paris-Beijing, France Fine Art, February 8
2014
-Ghost of a Dream. Gone the Sun, Anti-Utopias, December 22
-Pulse Dives Into New Waters in Miami Beach, Blouin ARTINFO, December 4
-Piecing Things Together at PULSE Miami Beach, HYPERALLERGIC, December 8
-Pulse launches 10th year with move to Miami Beach, Miami Herald, December 4
-Kim Rugg and Ghost of a Dream Stand Out at PULSE, NewYork Observer, December 4
-State of the Art at Crystal Bridges: Pure Pop for Now People, Artnet, September 23
-The State of ‘State of The Art’, The Wall Street Journal, September 17th
-Crystal Bridges unveils State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now,ARTFIX daily, September 11
-AMERICAN BEAUTY, Vogue Magazine, August issue
-BROOKLYN ARTIST BALL SETS THE TABLE, Interview Magazine, April 17
-At the Brooklyn Artist Ball, Gallerist/Observer, April 18
-The Brooklyn Artists Ball Had It All, Bedford and Bowery, April 17
-Highlights From The Brooklyn Artists Ball, ArtFCity, April 21
-Night at the Museum, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 17
-Ghost of a Dream, The Glamourai, March 26
2013
-Jour de Chance, Arts Libre, La Libre Belgique, Brussels, BE, December 20
-GHOST OF A DREAM, Le Soir, Brussels, BE, December 21
-HAUNTING AND COLLECTING, Agenda, Brussels BE, December 5
-Get Lucky, Marie Claire, Brussels, BE, December
-Cinquante degrés Nord, Arte Belgique, Brussels, BE, December 4
-Entre Triomphe et Tragedie chez Paris-Beijing, Brussels, BE, November 26
-Creative Time’s Sandcastles Return to Rockaway Beach, Art In America, Aug 13
-Creative Time Sandcastle Competition, Art F City, NY, NY, Aug 12
-Second Annual Creative Time Sandcastle Competition, Time Out New York, Aug. 12
-Creative Time’s Sandcastle Competition, W Magazine, Aug 12
-Lottery Ticket Sculptures ‘Ghost of a Dream’, Huffington Post, May 20
2012
-Seven Deadly Sins, Beautiful/Decay, Fall
-Recommended GO Brooklyn Studio: Ghost Of A Dream, ArtFCity, September 7
-London Show Draws Winners, The Independent, London, UK, January 19
-Watch the Birdie, The Metro, London, UK, January 18th
-In Your Dreams, Phoenix, London, UK, February issue #6
-Ghost of a Dream Remember When Tomorrow Came, Artlog, February 15
-Why Weren’t You in Wassaic This Weekend? hyperallergic.com, August 8
2011
-The Wassaic Project: Our Favorite Art, Village Voice Online, August 8
-Collectors Call, ARTFORUM online, May 6
-Giant Sculptures Made From Lottery Tickets, Wired UK, August 5
2010
-Luck of the Draw, City Weekend, Beijing, China, October 28-November 10
-Husband-and-wife 'found' art team's exhibition weighs The Price of Happiness,
Global Times, Beijing, China, October 12
-Dream Ticket, World of Interiors, July
-VOLTA NY: Ghost of a Dream, Whitewall Magazine, March 5
-The American Dream as Illusion, The Reading Eagle, Reading, PA, March 28
-Medium Voltage, ARTINFO, March
-The Art of Discarded Lottery Tickets, Yatzer.com, August 4
2009
-Award-Winning Artist Master Raphael and Durer, The Independent, London, November 13
-Young Masters, Art of England, Issue 63
-Scope Basel, Premier Art Scene Magazine, June
-Top 10 Artists at Art Basel, Volta and Scope, Satchi.com, June 10th
2008
-Time Out New York, NY, NY, December 18- 31
-Ghost of a Dream, Chief Magazine, Issue 13
-For Biennial Fans, Providence Journal, Providence, RI, March 6
-Dream Ride, Intersection Magazine, Spring Issue
-Lottery Tickets become Dream Car, Providence Journal, Providence, RI, March 18