b. 1982 · Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2027 Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (forthcoming)
2026 Open Heaven, Galerie PJ, Metz, France
2025 Solarium, Picture Theory, New York, NY
2024 Love Feast, Picture Theory, New York, NY
2023 Threshold Drawings, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
2022 Phantom Stair, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Persephone, Bosse & Baum, London, UK
Escher's Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich, KDR305, Miami, FL (two-person)
2020 Tread, Riser, Passage, Bosse & Baum, London, UK (via Vortic VR)
While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Trellis, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019 QUBE, collaboration with Peter Halley, Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia (two-person, catalogue)
2018 Windows and Walls, New York, NY
Porthole Portico, with Jaime Bull, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA (two-person)
2017 Field of the Knower, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
2015 Shushumna, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2009 Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Wakeup Dreary Dreamers, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Nameless Namer, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Château d'Aubenas, Aubenas, France (forthcoming)
2025 Open Sesame!, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico
FRIENDS, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
Collecting the Past, Curating the Future, Stand in Line, Cyprus
2024 Vagabond Shoes, curated by Benjamin Klein, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2023 Maybe the People Would Be the Times, Picture Theory, New York, NY
Home Works, Chart, New York, NY
2022 Jung Lovers, curated by Jennifer Sullivan and Jack Arthur Wood, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Night Birds, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 The Shoo Sho, curated by Julie Curtiss, WINDOW, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Cenotaph, installation within Peter Halley's Heterotopia I, Magazzini del Sale, Venice, Italy, presented by Flash Art and the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, curated by Gea Politi, in conjunction with the 58th Venice Biennale
Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2017 The Glorious Object, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Monochromatic, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Pick One, (harbor) / Regina Rex, New York, NY
2012 Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Makeup on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
The Sum of the Parts, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2011 PaperWork, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
2009 Living and Dreaming, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue)
Twin Infinities, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
PUBLIC & SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS
2024 The Traveler, Hermès, Singapore
2021 Bookstore, Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY
2018 Reclining Colonnade, Arts Brookfield, One New York Plaza, New York, NY
2017 Collaborative installation with Peter Halley, Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea
2016 The Cithara and The Aulos, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
COLLECTIONS
MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Artist book Subtle Body held in the collections of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Yale University, New Haven; Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge; The New York Public Library, New York
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Deji Museum, Nanjing, China
Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Hermès
Meta
Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea
Pretium Partners, New York, NY
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2026 Virginia Groot Foundation Grant
2021–22 Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell, NM
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2008–09. Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
AIM Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2006–07. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship
SELECTED LECTURES & VISITING ARTIST TALKS
2022 Artist Lecture, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2021 Artist Lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Artist Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2020 Artist Lecture, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA
Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2019 Visiting Artist Residency and Lecture, Printmaking Department, University of Texas at Austin, TX
2017 Artist Lecture, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Politicizing Space, panel discussion, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY
2016 Trajectories: A Conversation with Three Working Artists, panel discussion, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2015 Intellectual Property Law, panel discussion, Art Papers, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
Artist Lecture and Panel Discussion, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2004 BFA, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kaplan, Will. "Lauren Clay's Organic Sanctums." Two Coats of Paint, December 11, 2025.
Cambe, Pameyla. "Interview: Lauren Clay."Grazia, October 2024.
Jasman, Asri. "ESQnA with Lauren Clay for Hermès." Esquire, October 2024.
Wang, Xuezhu Jenny. "To the Dreamy Otherworld: A Conversation with Lauren Clay."Impulse Magazine, July 2024.
Featured work. Forever Magazine, Issue 06, Spring 2024.
Klett, Maddie. "Artists Are Launching Cutting-Edge Residencies Outside New York City." ARTnews, May 30, 2023.
Poizat, Céline Sabari. Featured work. NONFICTION, Volume 04, Paris, 2023.
Robertson, Michelle. "Lauren Clay." Hi-Fructose, Volume 64, September 2022.
Harper, Rhiannon. "Persephone: A Conversation with Lauren Clay." Spring Journal, UK, April 2022.
Komjathy, Borbala. "Lauren Clay's Architectures of the Psyche." Ocula, March 2022.
Zeiba, Drew. "The Marbled Approximations of the Artist Lauren Clay." PIN-UP, January 2019.
Rivera, Steve. "Lauren Clay Picks Up the Baton and Makes a Statement." The Great Fires, December 15, 2018.
Coleman, Charity. "Lauren Clay at Asya Geisberg Gallery." Artforum, Critics' Picks, November 2018.
Featured work. Ambit Magazine, Issue 233, August 2018.
Flamming, E.C. "Myth and Metaphor: Jaime Bull and Lauren Clay at Camayuhs."Burnaway, May 3, 2018.
Gitlen, Ariela. "6 Artists Pushing the Limits of Paper." Artsy, April 23, 2018.
Geha, Katie. "Jamie Bull and Lauren Clay at Camayuhs." Artforum, Critics' Picks, April 2018.
Goodman, Jonathan. "Politicizing Space at Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery."Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2018.
Goodman, Wendy. "To Do: The Glorious Object." New York Magazine, December 10, 2017.
Kwon, Mee-yoo. "." The Korea Times, May 2017.
Halley, Peter. "Artist Portfolio: Lauren Clay." BOMB Magazine, February 10, 2016.
Johnson, Paddy. "UNTITLED's Strongest Showing Yet." Art F City, December 4, 2015.
Wallace, Paula. "Miami's Most Wanted." W Magazine, December 4, 2015.
Smith, Roberta. "Rays of Light and Menacing Shadows." The New York Times, December 15, 2013.
Straus, Michael. "." The Brooklyn Rail, October 27, 2013.
O'Sullivan, Michael. "Art in Focus: 'The Sum of the Parts.'" The Washington Post, March 8, 2012.
Maliszewski, Lynn. "Procedural Musings: Lauren Clay." BOMBLOG, September 29, 2010.
Kim, Youngshin. "Space Odyssey." Vogue Girl Korea, Issue 75, May 2008.
BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Buskirk, Martha. Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.
Soyer, Barbara, and Sophie Toulouse, eds. The Drawer, Volume 21: Wall Drawings. Paris, Spring 2022.
Politi, Gea, Cristiano Seganfreddo, Elena Sorokina, Heterotopia I, Flash Art, Milan, October 2019
Klanten, Robert, ed. High Touch: Tactile Design and Visual Explorations. Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2012.
Lee, Sasha M. "Interview: Lauren Clay." Psychonauts, Beautiful/Decay Book 5, Winter 2011.
Giovannotti, Micaela. Living and Dreaming. AIM 29 exhibition catalogue. Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2009.
SELECTED INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS
More Light, podcast interview, episode 37, October 11, 2025.
Strand Podcast, interview, July 2024.