LAURA KARETZKY

CV

  • MFA in Painting, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
  • BFA in Painting, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2025
  • Upcoming exhibition, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2022
  • Kiss Off, La MaMa Galleria Vitrine, New York, NY
  • The Dallas Art Fair, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (two-person exhibition), Dallas, TX
  • 2021
  • Concurrence, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2019
  • Homing, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY
  • Ratio:Poems, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2017
  • Embedded, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2016
  • In-Communication/In-Transit, (collaboration with composer Manuel Sosa), BRIC|Arts Media House, Brooklyn, NY
  • SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024
  • Collapsed Narrative, (three-person exhibition) Dinner Gallery, New York, NY
  • Weighted Blanket, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, (traveling) Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI; D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield MA
  • Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, GA
  • 2023
  • The Outwin: American Portraiture Today (traveling), Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
  • EXPO Chicago, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
  • Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize, (traveling): Arnot Museum, Elmira, NY, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
  • 2022
  • Film Noir, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
  • Not Even Home Will Be With You Forever, Field Projects, New York, NY
  • The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2021
  • The Eyes Have It, Lehman College Art Gallery, The Bronx, NY
  • Painting The Narrative, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
  • 2020
  • Untitled Art Fair, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • From Dark to Light, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
  • On Being, Sculptors Alliance, New York, NY
  • 2019
  • Unloaded (traveling), Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (Portland, ME); Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN)
  • 2018
  • Tick Tock: Time in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • 2017
  • The Expanding Matrix, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY
  • 2016
  • Picturing The Unprintable, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
  • 2015
  • Between Us, The Lodge Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2007
  • Blue, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2006
  • The Outwin, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  • Public/Private, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY
  • Vital Voices: Women’s Visions, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

  • 2024
  • NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting, The New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
  • Artist in Residence, Associazione Il Borgo degli Artisti 2.0, Bienno, Italy
  • 2024 / 2014 / 2011
  • Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • 2023
  • Finalist, The Bennett Prize, The Pittsburgh Foundation, PA
  • 2022 / 2006
  • Finalist, The Outwin, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2022 / 2018
  • Cultural Space Subsidy Award, Two Trees, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2020
  • Mercedes Matter Award, New York Studio School, Miles McEnery, Miles McEnery Gallery
  • The artcritical Prize, for a New York Studio School Alumni, awarded by David Cohen; artcritical, New York, NY
  • 2017
  • Residency, Kaminsky Family Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ