Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
LAURA CHASMAN
laura.chasman101@gmail.com
BORN: Brooklyn, New York, 1946
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Gallery Kayafas, A Shrewdness of Apes, Boston, Ma
2021 Gallery Kayafas,Willard and Curtis, Boston, MA
2019 Gallery Kayafas, Barely Visible, Boston, MA
2010 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2005 Allston Skirt Gallery, Those Around Me, Boston, MA
2003 Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Allston Skirt Gallery, Allston, MA
1999 New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Johnson Gallery, Glen Urquhart School, Beverly Farms, MA
1998 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA
1987 Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
1982 Lopoukhine-Nayduch Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 PULP Gallery, (2 person show) Holyoke, MA
2022 George Marshall Store Gallery, Compendium, York,Maine
2022 Gallery Kayafas, Our Choice, Our Voice, Protest Poster Pop-Up fundraiser for Planned
Parenthood, Boston, Ma
2021 Fitchburg Art Museum, “Uncovering the Human Condition, The Arthur S. Goldberg Collection,
Fitchburg, MA
2021 Portraiture 1: Others, Mostly Painting, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 We Are All Contagious, juror: Nato Thompson, University Art Gallery, UMass Darmouth College
2020 University of Texas, 35th Annual International Exhibition, Tyler, Texas
2019 Gallery Kayafas, Project Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Room 83 Spring Gallery, “Goodbye Hello”, Watertown, Massachusetts
2018 Clark University, Likeness/Contemporary Portraits, Worcester, MA
2017 Room 83 Spring Gallery, (3 person show) “Life: from life”, Watertown, Massachusetts
2016 The Painting Center, “The Retrieval of the Beautiful”, New York City, N.Y.
2016 Salve Regina University, “Go Figure”, ( 3 person show) Newport, Rhode Island
2015 New Britain Musem of American Art, “Director’s Favorites:1999-2015, New Britain, Conn.
2015 Concord Center for the Visual Arts, “Revealing Identity”, Concord, Massachusetts
2014 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York, “New Directions 2014”
2013 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institutution, “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013
2012 Drive-By, “Portraits”, Watertown, Ma
2011 MFA,Boston bathroom, Renegade “Best of Boston 40-ennial”, curator Greg Cook, Boston, MA
Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, “Simmons Collects: Celebrating Women Artists”Boston, MA
2009 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, “Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009 “,
Washington, D.C.
Clark Gallery, “Salon Show”, Lincoln, MA
BK Projects and OH&t Projects, “Lobby Show”, Watertown, MA
2008 Clark Gallery, Invitational Group Show, Lincoln, MA
2008 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, Red Dot Art Fair, New York, NY
2007 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, Aqua Art Miami, Miami, Florida
2006 Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Aqua Art Miami , Miami, Florida
2006 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, Bridge Art Fair, Miami , Florida
2005 Bergdorf Goodman, “Eploding Plastic Inevitable, 40 Fun Galleries”, New York, NY
ArtSpace, “Painting Now:Selections Mass. Cultural Council Artist Grant Awards”, Maynard,MA
2004 Allston Skirt Gallery, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, Miami, FL
2003 Allston Skirt Gallery, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA)) Art Fair, Miami, FL
2003 Danforth Museum of Art, “Small Works from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection,Framingham,MA
2002 Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, “Portraits:Yesterday and Today”,Worcester, MA
L.F.L. Gallery, Flat Flies, New York City, NY
Horn Gallery, Babson College, “Seen and Remembered”, Babson Park, MA
2001 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, “Simmons Collects”, Boston, MA
2000 New Art Center, “Alone Together”, Newton, MA
Hanna Gallery, Desisto School, “50th Anniversary Invitational”, Stockbridge, MA
New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, “10 Artists, 10 Years”, Boston, MA
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, “The Drawing Show”, Boston, MA
1997 Exhibit at 125 Summer Street, Creiger Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
Berkshire Museum, “Works on Paper”, Pittsfield, MA
1996 Bernard Toale Gallery, “Pet Paintings”, Boston, MA
1995 Berkshire Museum, “Works on Paper”, Pittsfield, MA
1994 Harriet Tubman Gallery, Boston, MA
AAMARP Gallery, “Invitational Exhibition”, Jamaica Plain, MA
1993 Gallery Absinth, curated by Charles Guiliano, Boston, MA
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, “The Drawing Show”, Boston, MA
1990 Harbor Gallery, University of Massachusetts, “Artists’ Self-Portraits”, Boston, MA
1989 Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1998 Cohen Art Gallery, Tufts’ University, SMFA Faculty Show, Medford, MA
1988 Arthur B. Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College, “Mused Furniture”, Framingham, MA
1987 Artists’ Foundation Gallery at CityPlace, “Wild, Wild Wit”, Boston, MA
1984 Berkshire Museum, “Works on Paper”, Pittsfield, MA
1983 Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA
AWARDS and HONORS
2018 Vermont Studio Center residency, fellowship award, Johnson, Vermont
2016 Artist Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Great Barrington, MA
2016 Vermont Studio Center residency, fellowship award, Johnson, Vermont
2013 National Portrait Gallery, Smitsonian Institution, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
2009 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Outwin BoocheverPortrait Competition,.
Finalist, Artadia Awards 2009 Boston
Nominee, “ MA Women to Watch”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2006 Artists’ Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Great Barrington, MA
2004 , Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Finalist Painting
2001 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,MA , Eighth Annual Maud Morgan Prize,
Artists’ Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Great Barrington, MA
1996 Regional Fellowship in Painting, Massachusetts Cultural Council/ New England Foundation
for the Arts
1990, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Finalist Painting
VISITING ARTIST
2018 Clark University, Worcester, MA
2012 Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
2008 Arsenal Center for the Arts, “Text and Context”, Watertown, MA,
2002 Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
2000 Addison Gallery of American Art, “Alice Neel and the Contemporary Portrait”, Panel discussion and slide presentation, Andover, MA
1997 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, “Survival Skills for Artists”, Boston, MA
1996 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Exhibition and slide presentation, Boston, MA
PUBLICATIONS
Smith College Museum of Art, recorded and transcribed interview, Northhampton, Ma, March 7th, 2023
Art Beyond Quarantine, April 22 2020, Gratitude:Laura Chasman
Cook, Greg, Wonderland, Laura Chasman’s Painting of the Unwelcoming Architecture of Art Galleries,
McQuaid, Cate, Boston Sunday Globe, The Ticket, March 24, 2019
New American Paintings, No.140, Northeast Issue, March, 2019
Hyperallergic, A View from the Easel, September 18, 2018
BostonVoyager, Artist interview, june 11, 2018
National Portrait Gallery, Face to Face blog:, Portrait of an artist:Laura Chasman, Nov. 2013
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/18/boston
Boston Globe: Bathroom Art Takes Over the MFA, June 15, 2011
New American Paintings, Juried exhibitions in print. Vol.92, Open Studios Press, February, 2011
Hill, Shawn, Art New England, Feb-March, 2010
Finkelstein, Alix, Fine Art Connoisseur, New Directions in Children’s Portraiture, Nov.-Dec.2009
New American Paintings, Juried exhibitions in print, vol.68, Open Studios Press, February, 2006
Artist’s Resource Trust, The first ten years, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, April, 2006
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, Calendar, Gallery Pick, September 22, 2005
artMatters, School of the Museum of Fine Artts, Boston, Summer, 2004
Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe, Painters past and present evoke spirit of childhood in their times”, May 26, 2003
Gibbs, Charlotte, Art New England, “Portraits Yesterday and Today”, April/May, 2003
Beem, Edgar Allen, Yankee Magazine,“Six to Watch.” September, 2002
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “ Artwork draws on nuances of puberty”, December 5, 2001
Silver, Joanne, The Boston Herald, “Pictures Perfect”, December 3, 2001
McCarthy, Joan E., Art New England,,October/November, 2001
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Boys, girls drawn into adulthood”, June 7, 2001
New American Paintings, volume 32, The Open Studios Press, February, 2000
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Women artists celebrate friendship in portraits”, June 29, 2000
Sherman, Mary, The Sunday Herald, “Drawing the Line”, May 7, 2000
Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe, “Winners in BCA drawn, but not by chance”, May 24, 2000
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Striking portraits at three Boston venues”, July 22, 1999
Leonard, Tara, The South End News, February 13, 1997
McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, February 9, 1997
Grimm, Ellen, The Boston Globe, September 25, 1994
Temin, Christine, The Boston Globe, November 26, 1987
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fidelity,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma,
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Ct.
Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston, Ma,
Simmons College, Boston, Ma
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston,Ma
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Ma
EDUCATION
1979 Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, Masters in Social Work
1969 Boston Museum School in affiliation with Tufts’ University, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Science in Art Education