LAURA BELL • SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS
2023 "Wild Muse," Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, in association with the Smithsonian Institution, Solomons, MD
2023 "Local Champion," Local Project, LIC, NY
2023 “Exquisite Codes,” World of Moco Gallery, Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, Bridgeport, CT
2023 “Synthetic Zero,” BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
2023 “Entry Point,” Odetta Digital/SHIM Art Network, on Artsy
2022 "Exquisite Codes," Aqua Art Miami, Odetta Gallery/SHIM Art Network, Miami Beach, FL
2022 "Trash," Local Project, LIC, NY
2022 "Unleashed," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "Viva la Memento Mori," AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2021 "A View From the Easel," Hyperallergic feature, "Pandemic Cemetery"
2021 Tiny Spoon, Issue 7, "Collaboration," selections from collage collaboration "The Corpses"
2021 "Every Woman Biennial," Copeland Gallery, London
2021 "Drawing Challenge XVIII," Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
2021 "Transcendence," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Bronx Recognizes Its Own" (BRIO) grant in painting, Bronx Council for the Arts
2020 "In Between," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Night and Day," Local Project, LIC, NY
2020 "Explore: Found Objects," Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2019 "Every Woman Biennial," La Mama Galleria, NYC
2019 Otoliths, paintings and selections from collage collaboration
2018 "The Freak Show," Local Project, LIC, NY
2018 Unlikely Stories, 20th-Anniversary Issue, selections from collage collaboration
2018 A5 Magazine, Portfolio 14, U.K., selections from collage collaboration
2018 "Et Tu, Art Brute?" Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC
2017 "Metro 31," City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2017 "Animalia," Local Project, LIC, NY
2017 "From Here to There," Camaradas El Barrio, Harlem, NY
2017 "What Goes Round," Jemez Gallery, Jemez Springs, New Mexico
2016 New England Review, Vol. 37, painting "Flyway" appeared as the cover
2016 "International," Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
2016 Shadowgraph Quarterly, selections from collage collaboration
2016 “Materials,” MFTA gallery, Materials for the Arts, LIC, NY
2016 “The Food Show,” Local Project, LIC, NY
2016 "Recycled, Repurposed, Recovered," A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
2015 Offcourse Literary, selections from collage collaboration
2015 Superstition Review, selections from collage collaboration
2014 AMP Gallery, paintings and selections from collage collaboration, Provincetown, MA
2014 MadHat Lit, selections from collage collaboration
2013 “Big Queens Drawing Show,” Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY
2011 Fogged Clarity Arts Review, selections from collage collaboration
2011 Creative Arts Workshop installation, New Haven, CT
2010 “BYOA,” X Initiative, NYC
2010 “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2009 Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
2008 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
1990 Individual Artist’s Grant, Artists Space, NYC
1990 “Brooklyn,” Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1985 “Downtown,” Caidoz Gallery, NYC
1985 Solo installation, “Imagine You Can Dance,” Windows on White, sponsored by LMCC, NYC
1984 “Body Memories,” BACA/Brooklyn Council for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
OTHER
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 for “Disciplined Spontaneity,” Zone: Contemporary Art, NYC
2010 Talk and workshop, “The Corpses,” Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT
2005 Artist in residence, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1998 Commission, Local 2110, installation commemorating 10 years of union organizing, Amalgamated Lithographers Building, NYC
1992 Commission, Good Machine Productions, paintings and drawings for Ang Lee’s film The Wedding Banquet
EDUCATION
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Graduate study, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont