b. 1982 · Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2027Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (forthcoming)

2026Open Heaven, Galerie PJ, Metz, France

2025Solarium, Picture Theory, New York, NY

2024Love Feast, Picture Theory, New York, NY

2023Threshold Drawings, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

2022Phantom Stair, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

Persephone, Bosse & Baum, London, UK

Escher's Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich, KDR305, Miami, FL (two-person)

2020Tread, Riser, Passage, Bosse & Baum, London, UK (via Vortic VR)

While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

Trellis, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA

2019QUBE, collaboration with Peter Halley, Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia (two-person, catalogue)

2018Windows and Walls, New York, NY

Porthole Portico, with Jaime Bull, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA (two-person)

2017Field of the Knower, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCAD, Denver, CO

2015Shushumna, Pinnacle Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2009Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2008Wakeup Dreary Dreamers, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Nameless Namer, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026Would you dream of electric sheep? Château d'Aubenas, Aubenas, France (forthcoming)

Saturated, Curated by Casey Jex Smith, Stellarhighway, Brooklyn, NY

2025Open Sesame!, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico

FRIENDS, Main Projects, Richmond, VA

Collecting the Past, Curating the Future, Stand in Line, Cyprus

2024Vagabond Shoes, curated by Benjamin Klein, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

2023Maybe the People Would Be the Times, Picture Theory, New York, NY

Home Works, Chart, New York, NY

2022Jung Lovers, curated by Jennifer Sullivan and Jack Arthur Wood, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Night Birds, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico

2021The Shoo Sho, curated by Julie Curtiss, WINDOW, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2019Cenotaph, 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, during the 58th Venice Biennale

Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY

2017The Glorious Object, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY

2016Monochromatic, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY

2015Pick One, (harbor) / Regina Rex, New York, NY

2012Rainbow 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

2011PaperWork, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

2009Living and Dreaming, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue)

Twin Infinities, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

Public & Site-Specific Installations

2024The Traveler, Hermès, Singapore

2021Bookstore, Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY

2018Reclining Colonnade, Arts Brookfield, One New York Plaza, New York, NY

2017Collaborative installation with Peter Halley, Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea

2016The Cithara and The Aulos, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Collections

Museum & Public Collections

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM

Deji Museum, Nanjing, China

Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Artist book held in Museums & 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

Selected Commissions & Corporate Collections

Hermès

Awards & Residencies

2026Virginia Groot Foundation Grant

2021–22Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Roswell, NM

2020Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant

2019Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2008–09Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY

AIM Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

2006–07Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship

Selected Lectures & Visiting Artist Talks

2022Artist Lecture, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

Artist Lecture, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

2021Artist Lecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Artist Lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

2020Artist Lecture, Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, VA

Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2019Visiting Artist Residency and Lecture, Printmaking Department, University of Texas at Austin, TX

2017Artist Lecture, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

Politicizing Space, panel discussion, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

2016Trajectories: A Conversation with Three Working Artists, panel discussion, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

2015Intellectual Property Law, panel discussion, Art Papers, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

Artist Lecture and Panel Discussion, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Education

2007MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2004BFA, 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

Threshold, Monograph, New York, NY, 2023.

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.