b. 1982, Brookhaven, Mississippi · Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

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

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

2020While 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)

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

2018Windows and Walls, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY

2009Hootenanny, Larissa 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

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

Home Works, Chart, New York, NY

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

2012Rainbow of Chaos, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2011PaperWork, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

2009Living and Dreaming, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY

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

2006–07Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship

Selected Lectures

2022Artist Lecture, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Coleman, Charity. "Lauren Clay at Asya Geisberg Gallery." Artforum, Critics' Picks, November 2018.

Flamming, E.C. "Myth and Metaphor: Jaime Bull and Lauren Clay at Camayuhs." Burnaway, May 3, 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.

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.

O'Sullivan, Michael. "Art in Focus: 'The Sum of the Parts.'" The Washington Post, March 8, 2012.

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.

Selected Interviews & Podcasts

More Light, podcast interview, episode 37, October 11, 2025.

Strand Podcast, interview, July 2024.