SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 SHED Projects, Siege, Cleveland, OH
2023 Foothill Galleries, Isolated Objects, Cleveland, OH
2019 Jack Fischer Gallery, Unravel, San Francisco, CA
2018 Foothill Galleries, Industry Unraveled, Cleveland, OH
2017 University of Akron, Emily Davis Gallery, Altered States, Akron, OH
2017 sindikit, Brick by Brick, Baltimore, MD
2016 Seiberling Gallery, Walking and Looking, Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Peninsula, OH
2014 Dose Projects, the comfort of rocks, Brooklyn, NY
2011 ampersand international arts, Looking After, San Francisco, CA
2008 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Aggregate, University of California, Davis, CA
2008 California Academy of Sciences, The Butterfly and the Tsunami, San Francisco, CA
2008 Gallery 16, When Hell Freezes Over, San Francisco, CA
2007 ampersand international arts, Dominion, San Francisco, CA
2005 Gallery 16, as if…, San Francisco, CA
2002 The Lab, Ultra-marine: the workshop for alternative aquatic taxidermy, San Francisco, CA
2000 Gallery 16, Practical Taxidermy, San Francisco, CA
2000 vitra, working like a beaver, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Site: Brooklyn, Contemporary Realism, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Foothill Galleries, Eclipse the Photosphere, Cleveland, OH
2023 Ohio Arts Council-Riffe Gallery, Interwoven, Columbus, OH
2022 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022, Fort Wayne, IN
2021 Fuller Craft Museum, Hand Eye Coordination, Brockton, MA
2021 Ohio Arts Council-Riffe Gallery, Shift: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, Columbus, OH
2020 Transformer Station, ONE: Unique Photo-Based Images, Cleveland, OH
2020 Blank Space Gallery/Viewing Room Exhibition, Loose Thread, New York, NY
2020 photo-eye Gallery, Fractured, Santa Fe, NM
2019 NIAD, Fiberful, Richmond, CA
2019 Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes University, Rust Belt Biennial, Wilkes Barre, PA
2019 The Print Center, 93rd International Print Competition, semifinalist with online exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Denison University, Cleveland in Newark, Newark, OH
2018 Yards Project Space, Permanent Collection Exhibition, Worthington Yards, Cleveland, OH
2017 The Sculpture Center, Objections and Connections: Fiber Artists Talk Back, Cleveland, OH
2017 North Seattle College, Artifact & Interpretation, Seattle, WA
2017 Ohio University Art Gallery, Where I Come From, Alternatives 2017 Photo Biennial, Athens, OH,
2016 Bay Arts, Pattern & Design, Bay Village, OH
2016 University City Science Center/Esther Klein Gallery, Methods of Collection, Philadelphia, PA
2015 SPACES, The People's Museum of Revisionist Natural Itstory, Cleveland, OH
2015 Forum Art Space, It's All Been Done Before, Cleveland, OH
2014 c2c project space, Abstraction Naturally, San Francisco, CA
2014 ampersand international arts, Shoebox Orchestra, San Francisco, CA
2012 Bedford Gallery, Captured: Specimens in Contemporary Art, Walnut Creek, CA
2011 La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, CaliforNoyers, Noyers Sur Sureine, France
2010 SFMOMA, ShadowShop Project, San Francisco, CA
2010 Soap Gallery, so many products, so little time, San Francisco, CA
2009 Y2Y Gallery, non-mart, San Francisco, CA
2009 Gallery 16, Let’s leave it at that …, San Francisco, CA
2009 Nurture Art, Interface: Nature, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Urban Idiom, San Francisco, CA
2009 de Saisset Museum, Natural Blunders, Santa Clara, CA
2009 The Lab, Plan B, San Francisco, CA
2008 Gallery 16, these are the people in your neighborhood, San Francisco, CA
2008 Bedford Gallery, Art of the Diorama, Walnut Creek, CA
2008 Oakland Museum at the Oakland International Airport, Artists as Collectors, Oakland, CA
2007 Intersection for the Arts, Don’t Try This at Home: Obsessively Reshaping the Ordinary, San Francisco, CA
2007 David Cunningham Projects, Strange Weather, San Francisco, CA
2007 Blank Space Gallery, Work a Day, Oakland, CA
2007 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Cultivating Creativity, San Francisco, CA
2007 The Headlands, Close Calls, Sausalito, CA
2006 Islip Art Museum, Animal House, Long Island, NY
2006 Gallery 16, here’s the thing, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Headlands, Close Calls, Sausalito, CA
2005 Gallery 16, Instant Messaging, San Francisco, CA
2005 Mission17, The Diorama Show, San Francisco, CA
2005 mixedUse Gallery, Better than Real, San Francisco, CA
2005 Gallery 16, a group of mostly unrelated things, San Francisco, CA
2005 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Thirty Something, San Francisco, CA
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art/Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Cross Pollination, Santa Rosa, CA
2004 Oakland Museum of California, Points of View: Selections from the Museum Collection, Oakland, CA
2004 Geek-tique Road Show, Build, San Francisco, CA
2003 The Exploratorium, Animal Magnetism, San Francisco, CA
2003 Medical Research Symposium Exhibition, From Research to Action, presented by University of California Medical School, San Diego, CA
2003 Bedford Gallery, The Big Tree Project, Walnut Creek, CA
2003 The Lab, Q: Where are you at?/Q: Where is your drawing at?,San Francisco, CA
2000 Calumet Photographic Center, Polaroid Processes/Is It Photography?, San Francisco, CA
1999 Bedford Gallery, Bow Wow, Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1998 The Carriage House, Project Space at the Islip Art Museum, Site Specifics ’98, Long Island, NY
1997 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California Photography, CA Museum Purchase Award
1997 CEPA Photographic Gallery, Small Wonder, Buffalo, NY
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2024 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Artist-in-Residence
2023 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM, Artist-in-Residence
2022 The Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA, Artist in Residence
2021 Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award
2020 New York Center for Photographic Arts, Decay, Corrosion, Rust, Grand Prize Winner
2019 MASS Moca, Artist in Residence
2018 The Print Center, 93rd Annual Exhibition, semifinalist
2017 Peripheral Visions Fellowship awardee
2017 Visiting Curator Award, MOCA Cleveland
2017 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2015 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2014 Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Award, MOCA Cleveland
2011 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Artist in Residence
2011 La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers, France, Artist in Residence
2008 California Academy of Sciences, Artist-in-Residence
2007 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Irvine Foundation Fellowship
2006 Creative Capital/Headlands Professional Development Award
2004 SFMOMA SECA Finalist
2002 Artist-in-Residence with solo exhibition, The Lab, San Francisco
1998 Artist-in-Residence exhibition, The Carriage House, project space at the Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
1997 Museum Purchase Award, Triton Museum of Art
1993 Drawing Award, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 ecoartspace, “The New Geologic Epoch”, published book by ecoartspace with work selected by Mary Mattingly
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2020 Litt, Steve, “Transformer Station explores “unique objects” made from photographs and lush nocturnal landscapes of Cleveland”, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 27
2020 Abatemarco, Michael, “Breaking the Mold: Fractured”, Santa Fe New Mexican, February 28, 2020
2019 Stirling, Dana, RUST BELT BIENNIAL, Lenscratch, September 20
2019 Seikaly, Roula, “Unravel: Lauren Davies & Kirsten Stolle at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco”, Photograph Magazine, June
2018 Gilsdorf, Bean, “With Regard to Cleveland”, SFMOMA Open Space, September 27
2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation, “Emerging Artists Grants” catalog with essays
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2015 Bouthillier, Rose, " It's All Been Done Before", ArtHopper.org, February 3
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2014 Baker, Kenneth, “Two Galleries with New Tomorrows”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 3
2014 MAKE8ELIEVE, “Mountain”
2008 Gannon, Victoria, “Art Review: Lauren Davies, Dog Models”, KQED Arts, November 8
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2008 Harmanci, Reyhan, “Cool Globes challenge: Getting stuff to stick to a giant ball”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 4 with video on SFGate.com
2008 Harmanci, Reyhan, “Faux Taxidermy: When Hell Freezes Over”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24
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2007 Andrews, Brian, exhibition essay for Dominion at ampersand international arts
2006 Van Proyen, Mark, “Close Calls 2006 at Headlands Center for the Arts”, ArtWeek, April
2005 Buckner, Clark, “Thirty Something”, SF Bay Guardian, July 6
2005 Whiteside, Amber, “Lauren Davies, As if at Gallery 16”, ArtWeek, June
2004 Buuck, David, “The Drawing Room at Kala Art Institute”, ArtWeek, April
2003 Westbrook, Lindsey “Animal Magnetism at The Exploratorium”, ArtWeek, October
2003 Johnson, Leigh, “ Breeders Project: An artist finds her medium in fur”, Bark Magazine, Fall
2003 Ford, Dave, “Art exhibit gives new meaning to stuffed animals”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 25
2003 Westbrook, Lindsey, “Wood Should”, East Bay Express, June 25
2003 Koppman, Debra, Previews: “The Big Tree Project”, ArtWeek, July-August
2002 Westbrook, Lindsey, ”Critics Choice: Ultra-Marine”, SF Bay Guardian, February 7
2002 Dayton, Todd “Fish Tales”, SF Weekly, January 16
2000 Van Proyen, Mark, “San Francisco: Lauren Davies at Gallery 16”, Art Issues, Summer
2000 Ladewig, Carol,“San Francisco: Lauren Davies and Carol Selter”, Art Papers, July/August
INTERVIEW
2020 Interview at Transformer Station in conjunction with exhibition, “One: Unique Photo-Based Images”
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
CARTA, Cleveland, OH
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Dalad Collection, Cleveland, OH
MerryMeeting Group, Independence, OH
EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, BFA
San Francisco Art Institute, MFA Sculpture