b. 1982
From Atlanta, Georgia
Lives and works in NYC
SOLO 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, Dallas, TX
2022 Phantom Stair, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
Persephone, Bosse & Baum, London
2020 While Sleeping, Watch, Cris Worley, Dallas, TX
Trellis, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA
2017 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Denver
2015 Shushumna, Pinnacle Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2009 Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Nameless Namer, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Chateau d’Aubenas, France, (forthcoming)
Saturated, Curated by Casey Jex Smith, Stellar Highway, Brooklyn, NY
2025 Open Sesame!, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico
FRIENDS, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
2024 Vagabond Shoes, McBride Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
2023 Maybe the People Would Be the Times, Picture Theory, New York, NY
Home Works, Chart, New York, NY
2022 Escher’s Lovers: Lauren Clay & Nicholas Moenich, KDR305, Miami, FL (two-person)
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, NY
2019 QUBE, Collaboration with Peter Halley, Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia (two-person)
Peter Halley’s HETEROTOPIA I, Academy of Fine Arts, Magazini del Salle, Venice, Italy
Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center New York, NY
2018 Gangs of New York, Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
Porthole Portico, with Jaime Lee Bull, Camayuhs, Atlanta, GA (two-person)
2017 The Glorious Object, Patrick Parish Gallery, New York, NY
Staccato, Sometime Salon, San Francisco, CA
2016 Monochromatic, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
Reference/ Material, Towson University, Baltimore, MD
2015 Quite, Fairly, Rather, Curated by Brent Birnbaum & Jenni Crain, Topless, Rockaway, NY
Pick One, (harbor) / Regina Rex, New York, NY
2014 Material Way, Shirley Fitterman Art Center, New York, NY
2012 Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
Rear View Mirror, Curated by Jennie Lamensdorf, 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
2008 Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS & COMMISSIONS
2024 The Traveler, Hermès, Singapore
2021 Artist Bookstore, Permanent Installation, Walter Elwood, Amsterdam, New York
2019 Meta Offices, New York, New York
2018 Reclining Colonnade, Arts Brookfield, One New York Plaza, New York, New York
2017 Collaboration with Peter Halley, Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea
2016 The Cithara and The Aulos, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
ARTIST BOOKS HELD IN THE COLLECTIONS OF:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library
The Whitney Museum of American Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The Walker Art Center
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Yale University
Harvard University, Houghton Library
New York Public Library, Artist Book Collection
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Anderson Museum, Roswell, New Mexico
Deji Museum, Nanjing, China
SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND CORPORATE COLECTIONS
Hermès
Meta
Paradise City, Seoul, South Korea
Pretium Partners, New York
Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, New York
Savannah College of Art and Design
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2026 Virginia Groot Foundation Grant
2021-22 Residency and Fellowship, Roswell Artist in Residence, Roswell, New Mexico
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 Visiting Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado
2010 Alumni Award, Savannah College of Art and Design
2008-09 Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York, New York
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kaplan, Will. "Lauren Clay's Organic Sanctums." Two Coats of Paint, December 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, 2024.
Featured work. Forever Magazine, Issue 06, Spring 2024.
Poizat, Céline Sabari. Featured work. NONFICTION, Volume 04, Paris, 2023.
Robertson, Michelle. "Lauren Clay." Hi-Fructose, Volume 64, September 2022.
Featured work. The Drawer, Volume 21: Wall Drawings, Spring 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.
Coleman, Charity. "Lauren Clay at Asya Geisberg." Artforum, Critics' Pick, November 2018.
Rivera, Steve. "Lauren Clay Picks Up the Baton and Makes a Statement." The Great Fires, December 15, 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 Camayuh’s." 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. "Art Gives Final Touch to Casino Resort." The Korea Times, May 2017.
Halley, Peter. "Artist Portfolio: Lauren Clay." BOMB Magazine, February 10, 2016.
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." BOMB, September 29, 2010.
Kim, Youngshin. "Space Odyssey." Vogue Girl Korea, Issue 75, May 2008.
MONOGRAPH AND SELECTED BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Lauren Clay: Threshold, monograph, New York, NY, 2023.
Buskirk, Martha. Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest. University of California Press, 2021.
Sorokina, Lena, Heterotopia I, exhibition catalog, Flash Art, Milan, 2019.
Lee, Sasha M. "Interview: Lauren Clay." Psychonauts, Beautiful/Decay Book 5, Winter 2011.
Giovannotti, Micaela. Living and Dreaming. Exhibition catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2009.
EDUCATION
2007 MFA, Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University
2004 BFA, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design