LAURA BELL
lauraelizbell@gmail.com
SOLO, COLLABORATIVE, and SPOTLIGHT EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Laura Bell: Shorelines/Mutable Gardens," Jennifer Baahng Gallery online
2025 "Thunderspangle," Bell and Ganassi collage collaboration "The Corpses," Jennifer Baahng Gallery online
2024 "Poetic Prose: Sue, Laura, and Sally," Jennifer Baahng Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea
2024 "Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi: The Corpses," Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY
2014 "Ian Ganassi & Laura Bell," selections from "The Corpses" and paintings by Laura Bell, AMP Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 "The Corpses," Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
ART FAIRS
2025 "Color's Healing Force, By Any Means Necessary, " Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week, Odetta Gallery/SHIM Art Network, Miami Beach
2024 "Postcards to Miami, " Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week, Odetta Gallery/SHIM Art Network, Miami Beach
2023 "Exquisite Codes," Aqua Art Miami, Miami Art Week, Odetta Gallery/SHIM Art Network, Miami Beach
2009 Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, NY
2008 Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 "Habitat," Lichtundfire, New York, NY
2026 "The Sacred and the Profane," Jennifer Baahng Gallery online
2025 "Muster Point Show," Icebox4 Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2025 "Memory," LIC Arts Open, LIC, NY
2024 "Transpacific: Perfect Lovers/Love Difference," installation of collage collaboration "The Corpses," Jennifer Baahng Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea
2024 "Postcards to Venice," Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy
2023-24 "Nature's Way," Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, on Artsy
2023 Madison Avenue Art Walk, selections from "The Corpses," Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY
2023 "Pink," Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY
2023 “Exquisite Codes Berlin,” Bla-Bla Projektraum, Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, Berlin
2023 "Beyond the Horizon: Explorations of Landscape," Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2023 "New Painting," SITE: Brooklyn, online exhibition
2023 "Wild Muse," Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2023 “Synthetic Zero,” selections from "The Corpses," BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
2022 "Trash," Local Project, LIC, NY
2022 "Unleashed," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "Viva la Memento Mori," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "Every Woman Biennial," Copeland Gallery, London
2021 "Drawing Challenge XVIII," Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
2021 "Transcendence," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Night and Day," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Explore: Found Objects," selections from "The Corpses," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2019 "Every Woman Biennial," La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2018 "The Freak Show," Local Project, LIC, NY
2018 "Et Tu, Art Brute?" selections from "The Corpses," Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 "Metro 31," City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2017 "Animalia," Local Project, LIC, NY
2017 "From Here to There," Camaradas El Barrio, Harlem, NY
2016 “Materials,” selections from "The Corpses," Materials for the Arts, LIC, NY
2016 "Recycled, Repurposed, Recovered," selections from "The Corpses," A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
2013 “Big Queens Drawing Show,” Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY
2010 “BYOA,” X Initiative, New York, NY
2009 “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2007 “Anonymous Drawings 6,” Blütenweiss, Berlin
2005 A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS / TALKS / OTHER
2021 "A View From the Easel," Hyperallergic feature on the "Pandemic Cemetery" series
2020 "Bronx Recognizes Its Own" (BRIO) grant in painting, Bronx Council for the Arts
2016 WPKN radio interview on "The Corpses" and publication of collage collaborator Ian Ganassi's poetry collection Mean Numbers
2010 “Illuminating the Text,” gallery talk and poetry reading for exhibition “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2010 Talk and workshop, “The Corpses,” Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
1995 Artist in residence, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Tiny Spoon, Issue No. 7, "Collaboration," selections from "The Corpses"
2019 Otoliths, paintings and selections from "The Corpses"
2018 Unlikely Stories, 20th-anniversary Issue, selections from "The Corpses"
2018 A5 Magazine, Portfolio No. 14, U.K., selections from "The Corpses"
2016 New England Review, Vol. 37, painting "Flyway" appeared on the cover
2016 Shadowgraph Quarterly, selections from "The Corpses"
2015 Superstition Review, selections from "The Corpses"
2014 MadHat Lit, selections from "The Corpses"
2011 Fogged Clarity Arts Review, selections from "The Corpses"
EDUCATION
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Graduate study, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont