LAUREN PACKARD
B. 1978, California Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
website: www.laurenpackardart.com Instagram: @laurenpackardart
email: lauren@laurenpackardart.com phone: 917.318.7207
Lauren Packard is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. After undergoing brain surgery in 2014 and again in 2023, she turned to paint to express what words couldn’t. Lauren’s work explores and abstracts ideas and memories of queer identity, nostalgia, and femininity through the use of materials and intuitive marks; a push-pull in exploring the visceral. She disorients and disrupts through a combination of marks, textures, and material, referencing punk and the domestic.
EDUCATION
2019- 2023 NYC Crit Club
2019 European Cultural Academy: Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
2003 M.E., Pace University, New York, NY
2000 B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2021 ChaNorth, Chashama North Residency, Pine Plains, NY
2021 Dear Artists with Anxiety, Finalist
2020 Starry Night Residency, Truth or Consequences, NM
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Field Projects x Mother-In-Law Gallery, Muskeg
2024
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Salon des Refusés
Bone Springs Art Space, Dark Sky Land
2023
Create Magazine, Fresh Paint Show
Collar Works, Eat Me
Birdhouse Brooklyn, A Light Exists In Spring
Uprise Art x Paradice Palase, Lullabies for a daydream
2022
Monrovian University, Manifold Global, Reflected Existence
Housing Works Auction Gala on Artsy
One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Chashama, Re-imaging Rural
Norfolk Library, Lightning is my Girl, Solo Show
Studio 9D x NYC Crit Club, Group Show
Bailey House Auction and Gala
2021
Paradice Palase, Flux
5-50 Gallery, Material X
Site: Brooklyn, Painting 2011-2021
Queer Art Collective, When the Colors Fade: A Queer Riot Against Corporate Pride
Starta Arta, Title To Be Determined
Art Fluent, Abstracted
Isadore and Dunn, Markings
Milcon Gallery, Mending, Solo Show
Viridian Artists, 31st Annual Int’l Juried Exhibition
2020
Wedge Studio Gallery, Inaugural Catalog
2019
Local Gallery, West Elm Chelsea
La Bodega Gallery, RE:RE:RE:patterns
Venice Biennale Lithuanian Pavilion, Sun and Sea, performance artist
LIC Arts Open, Spring Pop-Up Show
2018
Plaxall Gallery, LIC Fall Arts Open
2015
Williamsburg Historical Society, Queer WAH
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Really Affordable Art Show
EISELE GALLERY OF FINE ART, Cincinnati Art Club’s ViewPoint 47 Art Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Spring Double Decker Salon Show
Williamsburg Historical Society, Bridges Self
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Bold Journey Magazine
2024 Hyperallergic, “An Art Exhibition That Makes Rejection Look Good”
2022 I Like Your Work, Winter Edition
2021 Lesbians Are Miracles, Issue #11, “Nostalgia”
2021 Milcon Gallery, Artist Interview, May 21, 2021
2017 Makers Magazine, Issue 3: The Blues Issue, https://makersmovement.ca/shop/products/issue-3-the-blues
2017 Houseweaving, Woven Paint Collection #2, www.houseweaving.com
2016 DIY and Craft, Interview, August 31, 2016 http://diy.myfeed.info/brain surgery- and-equallove-inspired
2015 Fresh Paint Magazine, International Issue #10, curated by Danielle Kyrsa, www.freshpaintmagazine.com