LAURA BELL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2020 Bronx Council for the Arts BRIO grant in Painting
2020 "Unknowing," Fossik Gallery, Instagram exhibit during quarantine
2020 "Night and Day," Local Project, LIC, NY. Curators: Carolina Peñafiel, John Baber
2020 "Explore: Found Objects," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2019 "Every Woman Biennial," La Mama Galleria, NYC
2019 Otoliths, Issue 53, paintings, works on paper, and selections from collage collaboration "The Corpses"
2018 "The Freak Show," Local Project, LIC, NY. Curators: Carolina Peñafiel, John Baber 2018 Unlikely Stories, 20th-anniversary issue, selections from "The Corpses"
2018 A5 Magazine, Portfolio 14, U.K., selections from "The Corpses"
2018 "Et Tu, Art Brute?" Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC
2017 "Metro 31," City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2017 "Animalia," Local Project, LIC, NY. Curator: Julian Calderon
2017 "From Here to There," Camaradas El Barrio, Harlem, NY
2017 "What Goes Round," Jemez Gallery, Jemez Springs, New Mexico
2016 Painting "Flyway" appeared as the cover of New England Review
2016 "International," Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2016 Shadowgraph Quarterly, selections from “The Corpses”
2016 “Materials,” MFTA gallery, Materials for the Arts, LIC, NY
2016 “The Food Show,” Local Project, LIC, NY. Curator: John Baber
2016 "Recycled, Repurposed, Recovered," A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina
2015 Offcourse Literary, selections from “The Corpses”
2015 Superstition Review, selections from “The Corpses”
2014 AMP Gallery, summer show, paintings and selections from “The Corpses,"
Provincetown, MA
2014 MadHat Lit, selections from “The Corpses”
2013 The Drunken Boat, selections from “The Corpses”
2013 “Big Queens Drawing Show,” Jamaica Center for the Arts, Jamaica, NY
2011 Fogged Clarity Arts Review, selections from “The Corpses”
2011 Creative Arts Workshop, installation of “The Corpses,” New Haven, CT
2010 “BYOA,” X Initiative, NYC
2010 “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2009 Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
2008 Inaugural Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
2007 “Anonymous Drawings 6,” Blütenweiss, Berlin
2005 A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2003 “Oil,” Lowe Gallery, NYC
2000 “Perimeters: Painting,” LICK Gallery, LIC, NY
1996 “Beyond Abstraction,” Doshi Center, Harrisburg, PA. Juror: John Ravenal,
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1996 “Personal Visions,” Art Place, Chicago.
1990 “Brooklyn,” Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1985 “Downtown,” Caidoz Gallery, NYC
1985 Solo installation, “Imagine You Can Dance,” Windows on White, NYC
Sponsored by LMCC
1984 “Body Memories,” BACA/Brooklyn Council for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
OTHER
2020 Bronx Council for the Arts BRIO painting grant
2016 WPKN radio, interviewed by Richard Hill on collage collaboration “The Corpses,”
with poet Ian Ganassi
2010 “Illuminating the Text,” gallery talk and poetry reading in conjunction with “Disciplined Spontaneity” exhibition, Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2010 Presentation on “The Corpses,” Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
1998 Commissioned by Local 2110 to create installation commemorating 10 years of union organizing, Amalgamated Lithographers Building, NYC
1993 Artist-in-residence, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1992 Commissioned by Good Machine Productions to create paintings and drawings for
Ang Lee's film The Wedding Banquet
1990 Individual Artist’s Grant, Artists Space, NYC
EDUCATION
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Graduate study, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont