Lauren Halsey


 
Lauren Halsey, Untitled, 2021, Hand carved gypsum on wood, 241.3 x 181.6 x 7 cmLonglati Foundation Collection 

Lauren Halsey, Untitled, 2021, Hand carved gypsum on wood, 241.3 x 181.6 x 7 cm

Longlati Foundation Collection 

 

 
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b. 1987 in Los Angeles, CA, US

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, US

EDUCATION

2014 

MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2012 

BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

SELECTED SOLO / TWO EXHIBITIONS

2022 

Serpentine Galleries, London, England

Swiss Institute, New York, NY

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2021 

The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Banner Project, curated by Akili Tommasino, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA

2020 

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019 

Open Space #5: Too Blessed 2 be Stressed!, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2018 

we still here, there, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014 

Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2012 

Thesis Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 

The Beatitudes of Malibu, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Social Works, curated by Antwaun Sargent, Gagosian, New York, NY

Otherwise/Revival, curated by Jasmine McNeal and Cara Lewis, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Feedback, organized by Helen Molesworth, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY

Pushing the Margins: A Survey of LA Artists, curated by Charles Gaines, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway

Shattered Glass, curated by Melahn Frierson and AJ Girard, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA

Social Works, Gagosian, New York, NY

ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE, curated by Nana Bahlmann, organized by Villa Aurora, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA

Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

The Earth, That is Sufficient, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY

Our House: Selections from MOCA’s Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2020 

Untitled, 2020, Pinault Collection, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Muna Elfituri, and Thomas Houseago, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

Semblance | Sunshine, curated by Joshua Hashemzadeh and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

It’s Urgent!, Luma Arles at the Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France

100 Drawings from Now, curated by Claire Gilman, Laura Hoptman and Rosario Guiraldes, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Dial World, Part II: Stars of Everything, David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY

Visions in Light: Windows on the Wallis, created by Torie Zalben and Liana Weston, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, CA

2019 

It’s Urgent!, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018 

*Made In L.A. 2018, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, curated by Sekou Cooke, Center for Architecture, New York, NY

Greater Than LA, Desert Center, Los Angeles, CA

Sidelined, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY

2017 

California Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, curated by Senator Holly J. Mitchell, Sacramento, CA

Black Is A Color, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Fire Season, Mauve-Vienna, Vienna, Austria

WE: Visual Reflections on the American Experiment, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

1992: An Examination of the Iconography from the ‘92 Rebellion, Residency Art, Inglewood, CA

Re-Imagine Justice, Community Coalition South L.A., Los Angeles, CA

2016 

PopRally Ten, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

*Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler, The Armory, Pasadena, CA

And Who is My Neighbor: Stories From the Margins, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Intro (The Writings on the Wall), Slide Space 123, Oakland, CA

SouthLand, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, HOME, Manchester, UK

Diaspora Calling!, curated by Ms. Lauryn Hill and Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, King’s Theatre, Brooklyn, NY

What A Time To Be Alive, Sunday, Los Angeles, CA

2015 

Everything, Everyday: Artists in Residence 2014 - 2015, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY

Coney Island Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Coney Island, NY

2014 

Yale Sculpture 2014, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY

13 Artists, 24/6 Gallery, Yale University

2013 

MFA 2014, 1156 Chapel Street Gallery, Yale University

2012 

Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY

Authenticity?, Untitled Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2011 

Drawing: A Verb, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Woman House, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Sloppy Seconds, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2010 

1st Year BFA Show, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2009 

Advanced Printmaking, El Camino Community College, Torrance, CA
Sculpture: Bronzecasting, El Camino Community College, Torrance, CA

Digital Art, El Camino Community College, Torrance, CA

2008 

Digital Art, El Camino Community College, Torrance, CA

2006 

Printmaking, El Camino Community College, Torrance, CA

GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2021 

Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight | Jacob Lawrence Prize, Seattle, WA

Jacob Lawrence Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2020 

Harvard University Committee on the Arts Award, Cambridge, MA

2019 

Painters and Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY

Frieze 2019 Artist Award, Frieze, New York, NY

2018 

The Mohn Award

Los Angeles Athletic Club, artist-in-residence, Los Angeles, CA

Art Matters fellowship grant

2017 

The Main Museum Residency, Los Angeles, CA

The William H. Johnson Prize

Los Angeles Design Festival, Edge Award

2016 

The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

Recess Art Residency, Brooklyn, NY

2015 

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Los Angeles Emerging Artist Grant

2013 

Alice Kimball English Travelling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2014 The Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-In-Residency Program, Harlem, NY

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency, Madison, ME

2011 

The Beutner Family Award for Excellence in the Arts, California Institute of the Arts