LAURA BELL • SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
2021 "A View From the Easel," Hyperallergic feature
2021 "Drawing Challenge XVIII," Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
2021 "Transcendence," Local Project, LIC, NY. Curators: John Baber, Gabriella Mazza,
Carolina Peñafiel.
2020 "In Between," Local Project, LIC, NY. Curators: John Baber, Juan Hinojosa
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, paintings 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 New England Review, Volume 37, painting "Flyway" appeared as the cover
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, 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, “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
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 and LMCC, NYC
1984 “Body Memories,” BACA/Brooklyn Council for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
OTHER
2020 Bronx Council for the Arts BRIO grant in Painting
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
1998 Commission, Local 2110, installation commemorating 10 years of union organizing, Amalgamated Lithographers Building, NYC
1993 Artist-in-residence, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY
1992 Commission, Good Machine Productions, 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